Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York Show, the No-Chit Chat

Podcast.

Brought to you today by the Bradley Foundation, we'll talk about that in a little bit, but

we want to get right to it.

And what I want to get right to today is a really big issue here in Washington.

Why Republican leaders do not want a Capitol Riot Commission?

As you probably know, the Capitol Riot Commission proposal is hung up in Congress right now,

and it might stay that way forever, not entirely clear.

But even though 35 House Republicans voted to create a commission, and even though some

Republican senators also support the proposal, the top two Republican leaders, Kevin McCarty,

and the House Mitch McConnell in the Senate, they are solidly opposed to this idea, which

would create an independent commission to investigate the Capitol Riot.

And so the question is, well, why are they opposed to this?

Are they just freelancing?

Is it just their preference?

Well, they actually have reasons, and they're pretty good reasons for not wanting this.

Okay.

The foremost among those reasons is that there are already multiple investigations going

on into the January 6th Capitol Riot.

The Riot was a large, complex event, but there are three main areas to investigate.

And right now, each of them is the subject, or it has already been the subject, of a formal

investigation.

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