Newt Gingrich demands GOP House Take Action

The Jan. 6 panel was an investigative committee established by the then-Democratic-controlled House to examine the events leading up to and including the disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on that date. The committee included only two Republicans, former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, and former Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, both of whom had voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Also, it was the first time in modern history that the minority party’s leader — then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — was not able to choose his party’s own members, as Pelosi rejected those choices.

 

“This committee, the J6 committee, was so fraudulent that the current House should repudiate it, define it as an illegal or unethical, runaway investigation of no standing,” Gingrich said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “[A]nd [it] should send a letter to both the Department of Justice and to the appropriate judges, saying that any action based on the J6 committee should be considered null and void and that people like Steve Bannon should not be going to jail because they want to fight with a committee which was literally operating outside the law.”