{"id":1129031,"date":"2021-12-17T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129031"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:28:34","slug":"mcconnell-jan-6-committee-findings-are-something-the-public-needs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-jan-6-committee-findings-are-something-the-public-needs-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Jan. 6 Committee Findings Are \u2018Something The Public Needs To Know\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-jan-6-committee-findings-are-something-the-public-needs-to-know%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the findings of the Jan. 6 Select Committee are \u201csomething the public needs to know\u201d in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s remarks, coming from an <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ky\/louisville\/politics\/2021\/12\/17\/mcconnell-sitdown-jan-6-and-2021-reflection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> with Spectrum News that aired Thursday, come months after he and Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/capitol-riot-chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell-911-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed a bipartisan commission<\/a> in May that would have investigated the riot. The select committee was formed weeks later, and most Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, have dismissed it as nothing more than political grandstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re watching the investigation that\u2019s occurring over in the House, reading about it like everyone else, and it will be interesting to see what facts they find,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the fact-finding is interesting. We\u2019re all going to be watching it. It was a horrendous event, and I think what they\u2019re seeking to find out is something the public needs to know,\u201d he said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/house-vote-steve-bannon-contempt-justice-department-criminal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Votes To Hold Steve Bannon In Criminal Contempt For Defying Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7337119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7337119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jan. 6 Select Committee convenes on Dec. 13 to consider voting on holding former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The nine-member committee includes two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Both Cheney and Kinzinger have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/liz-cheney-elise-stefanik-donald-trump-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> former President Donald Trump and his repeated claims that the 2020 election was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s Spectrum interview is not the first time he has expressed interest in the committee\u2019s findings. During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?516741-1\/senator-mcconnell-not-contact-mark-meadows-january-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekly presser<\/a> Tuesday he told reporters that \u201cit will be interesting to reveal all the participants involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee revealed that multiple Fox News hosts urged Trump during the riot, to no avail, to tell the rioters to go home. It also showed a message from a Republican congressman, later revealed to be Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/house-votes-hold-mark-meadows-criminal-contempt-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Meadows<\/a>, expressing dismay that President Joe Biden\u2019s victory could not be overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the findings of the Jan. 6 Select Committee are \u201csomething the public needs to know\u201d in an interview.McConnell\u2019s remarks, coming from an interview &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}