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Liz Cheney: “The select committee was the only way we had to actually do…”

Featuring: Liz Cheney, Republican | Former U.S. House, Wyoming

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One-on-one with Liz Cheney _ Cap Times Idea Fest

Published | Video Starts at 40:46

I mean, and that's, you know, how do you not investigate an attack on the Congress. I don't know how you justify not investigating it, but they killed the idea of an outside bipartisan commission. And so The select committee was the only way we had to actually do the investigation. And, you know, it was really important, we felt, to make sure, first of all, that the story of what had happened, you know, as we did the investigation and … (40:46–40:50)

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Asserts that the select committee was the only method available to investigate January 6 after the bipartisan commission was rejected.

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