Liz Cheney Says Capitol Riot Committee Should Uncover Everything That Happened at the White House on 1/6

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Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said the House prime committee tasked with investigating the events of January 6 indispensable uncover everything that happened astatine the White House that time arsenic well.

Investigators indispensable fig retired “what happened each infinitesimal of that time successful the White House — each telephone call, each conversation, each gathering starring up to, during and aft the attack,” Cheney said successful opening remarks astatine the committee’s archetypal nationalist hearing.

“Honorable men and women person an work to measurement forward. If those liable are not held accountable, and if Congress does not enactment responsibly, this volition stay a crab connected our Constitutional Republic, undermining the peaceful transportation of powerfulness astatine the bosom of our antiauthoritarian system,” Cheney said.

Cheney’s remarks came aft she told reporters that the committee could subpoena erstwhile President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

“It could,” she told ABC News. “The committee volition spell wherever we request to spell to get to the facts.”

Cheney has pushed back against her chap Republicans who person criticized her for her relation connected the committee.

”There are immoderate successful my party, including Leader McCarthy, who proceed to enactment arsenic though this is astir partisan politics, I deliberation it’s truly sad. I deliberation it’s a disgrace,” she told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

“The American radical merit to cognize what happened each infinitesimal of that day,” she added.