Good evening the House. It just passed legislation establishing a 9-11-style commission to investigate the attack on the Capitol.

It got just 35 Republican votes and now goes on to the Senate where it needs the supportive 10 Republicans to survive.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be one of those Republicans. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy voted no on the bill tonight in the House and went so far it's a lobby senators on it earlier today.

Seems both of them got the message from the man who incited the rioters themselves. The former president statement late last night reads, quote,

Republicans in the House and Senate should not approve the Democrat trap of the January 6 commission.

It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, New York are also going to be studied.

This discussion should be ended immediately. Republicans must get tougher and much smarter and stop being used by the radical left.

Hopefully Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are listening.

Well, they were. It was a call and response just over 12 hours after the former president sent out that statement, I guess.

McConnell said he'd oppose the commission if it made it to the Senate.

So today and tonight we witnessed two grown adults elected officials in positions of true power and responsibility bending to the whims of a twice impeached defeated former one term president and now golf course greeter and wedding crash or who could be a big step closer to criminal indictment.

We'll have more in that shortly.

And he's not just the one responsible for inciting the mob on January 6 or for spreading the big lie for months about the election. He is the one not so long ago who leaders McConnell and McCarthy blamed out loud in public.

So before we get into tonight's House vote, the limited Republican support for it. It slim prospects in the Senate and each leader's role in resisting it.

Here's a very quick reminder of what they sounded like when they were simply telling the truth.

The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.

The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.

Well, the top Republicans in the Senate and House back in January. That's what they said tonight. They're leading the charge against the legislation that passed the House this evening.

After careful consideration. I've made the decision to oppose the House Democrat slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th.

Is everybody surely knows I repeatedly made my views about the events of January the 6th. Very clear.

Well, he said law enforcement and existing committees already have the investigation well in hand. A commission, he said, is simply not needed.

He might just as well have said, check your local cable listings and good luck and as you consider all of that, take this and its new video, released today, of the thing that neither Senator McConnell or Leader McCarthy want to learn more about.

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