I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, July 26th.

Tomorrow, the Select House Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot will hold its first hearing. We will carry it

live here on WNYC. It's scheduled to start at 9.30 tomorrow morning. The committee as of now has

only two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kisinger, after House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy,

and Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn't agree on which other Republicans

would serve. Speaker Pelosi said this yesterday on ABC this week. Maybe the Republicans can't

handle the truth, but we have a responsibility to seek it, to find it, and in a way that retains the confidence of the American people.

But in this atmosphere, does Pelosi have confidence the committee's findings will be accepted

broadly by the American people?

My confidence is high. I do believe that the work of this committee, in order to retain the confidence of the

American people, must act in a way that has no partisanship. It's all about patriotism.

Speaker Pelosi yesterday on ABC this week. With me now on that, and more Monday morning politics is NPR

national political correspondent, Mara Liason. Thanks as always, Mara. Welcome back to WNYC.

Happy to be here. Can you give us a preview of what will happen in the committee hearing tomorrow?

Well, I can't tell you exactly what will happen, but we know that this is a committee

that the minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, is basically boycotting. There are no

Republicans that he's appointed on it because the two that he chose originally were Jim Jordan and Congressman Banks,

who Nancy Pelosi decided not to accept.

So then he pulled all the other Republicans that he had appointed off.

So now there are still going to be two Republicans on the committee,

but they are appointed by Pelosi.

That's Adam Kinsiger

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