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Good morning, Playbookers. It's Tuesday. July 27th. I'm Ragumonovalin.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

This is going to be an all-around tough day for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,

and to a large degree, it's a self-inflicted predicament.

The House January 6th Committee makes its debut this morning. For the first time across

dozens of high-profile Trump-related oversight hearings, Republican leadership and allies will have

no voice on the panel. McCarthy's rather abrupt decision last week to pull his members from

the January 6th commission

means that Democrats and their two hand-picked GOP members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger,

will have free reign to set the narrative.

This is why several folks on McCarthy's own leadership team thought that pulling out was a bad idea.

Here's how this narrative is shaping up.

Uniformed police officers who put their lives on the line to defend Congress on January 6th

will testify about the horrors they endured that day.

Representative Benny Thompson, the chair of the panel,

previews their stories in a Washington Post op-ed that you can see in today's playbook.

Their testimony alone is a public relations disaster for Republicans.

The GOP likes to boast that they back the blue and are the party of law and order.

But after pulling out from the select committee,

McCarthy effectively brushed aside police from law enforcement to authorize the investigation.

Meanwhile, McCarthy

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