The January 6 insurrection

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today she was appointing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney to the new select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, placing one of former President Donald rump's most vocal House Republican critics on the panel likely to investigate his role in the lead-up to the insurrection.

"We are very honored and proud she has agreed to serve on the committee," Pelosi said at the news conference.

Pelosi announced that the committee will be chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, which has already been probing the January 6 Capitol riots.

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