January 6 commission vote: Unlikely 10 Republicans go against McConnell

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

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The chances of 10 Senate Republicans going against Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and siding with the Democrats to establish an independent and bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 riot is looking unlikely. McConnell has already said he’s against the legislation. Democrats have the majority in the Senate and would need 10 members of the GOP to vote for the bill to pass. Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono tells AC360 any of her Republican colleagues who vote against the bill are “closing their eyes, ears, everything to what happened.” Plus, Ronald Greene’s family was told he died in a car wreck after a 2019 encounter with police. More than two years later, new body camera video obtained by the Associated Press shows Greene was kicked, dragged and tased by police. Charles Ramsey is the former Philadelphia Police Commissioner and Washington, DC Police Chief. He joins AC360 to discuss the new video and says it’s clearly “a case of excessive force.” Airdate: May 20, 2021 Guests: Sen. Mazie Hirono Charles Ramsey To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. Thanks for joining us. There is breaking news tonight. It sees fire between
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0:07.7	the news. We'll have live reporting on what went into it and what may come next in the
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0:15.6	CNN journalist. We also have new information about whether or not booster shots will be
0:19.8	needed for people who got the COVID vaccine. And if so, when, first week, though, we begin
0:25.3	with Republican lawmakers in their pursuit of herd immunity from the facts of January
0:29.4	6th. The Stampede grew today, which U.P. Senators voicing objections to the bill, the
0:33.6	House sent them to set up a bipartisan 9-11-style commission to investigate. As for House Republican
0:39.7	leader Kevin McCarthy, who's gone so far as to lobby senators against the bill, he spoke
0:44.3	out today. And because he's known to be about as hard to read as a flashing neon sign,
0:49.0	his answer is to reporters today are fascinating. For background, remember that his Republican
0:53.5	colleagues have been telling CNN that he's against January 6th commission, because at least
0:57.6	in parties afraid he'll have to testify in front of it, which he denies. Now, with that
1:02.3	in mind, listen to him today with the bill's Senate passage deeply in doubt.
1:05.4	Do you think it's a conflict of interest for members to be voting on a commission that
1:10.9	they might have to potentially be witnesses for and provide information on?
1:14.6	No, because who knows what they're going to do on the commission. So no, I don't think
1:18.6	so. Now, without reading too much into it, he sounds like Manit Ease fully expecting
1:23.8	the bill that he opposed to go nowhere. On the other hand, he was almost certainly not
1:27.7	at ease with the next question, which proved to be a conversation ender.
1:30.8	No, I don't think so.
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