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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Republicans oppose their own January 6 commission

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Brian Tyler Cohen

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🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Republicans block the January 6 commission even after their own demands were met during negotiations. Brian interviews Congressman Tim Ryan about his viral speech debating the creation of this commission, as well as his US Senate run for the open seat in Ohio. And Brian chats with FOX LA host Elex Michaelson about the benefits of a $15 minimum wage.

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0:00.0

Today, we're going to talk about the January 6th Commission and why Republicans are blocking

0:04.8

it even after their demands were met.

0:06.9

I interview Congressman Tim Ryan about this very commission and his US Senate run for

0:10.7

the Open seat, Nohio, and I chat with Fox LA host Alex Michelson about why the benefits

0:15.3

of a $15 minimum wage far outweigh the arguments against it.

0:18.9

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

0:24.6

So we've now reached a point where even just investigating, even just looking into an

0:28.7

event connected with Republicans is now facing opposition from the right.

0:32.8

Legislation creating a January 6th Commission did pass the House, but with only 35 Republicans

0:36.9

voting for it and 175 voting against.

0:40.3

And those 35 who did vote for it did so in opposition to House Minority Leader Kevin

0:44.0

McCarthy who came out against the Commission.

0:46.6

And bear in mind, this legislation was crafted with Republicans.

0:50.4

The Democrats went into negotiations in such a good faith manner that they made almost

0:54.8

crippling concessions like splitting commission members evenly between Democrats and Republicans

0:58.7

and making it so that both sides need to agree when issuing subpoenas.

1:02.8

And beyond that, as if that wasn't far enough, just remember that Democrats did this with

1:08.3

the side that was responsible for the event that's being investigated.

1:12.2

Just the fact that Republicans were included in these investigations, much less that their

1:15.8

demands were met when it was the Republican Party itself that instigated the events of

1:19.9

January 6th is almost beyond comprehension.

1:23.3

But then the fact that they still bogged is all the proof you need that they never had

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