Democrats prepare for hardball as doubts linger over Jan. 6 commission: The Note

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making clear that she has a backup plan. "If they don't want to do this," Pelosi said of Senate Republicans, "we will find the truth."

The TAKE with Rick Klein Democrats celebrated Wednesday night's passage of a bill creating a Jan. 6 commission with words like "bipartisan" and "independent," and also with words like "chaos" and "incoherence" to note that a divided GOP again sided overwhelmingly with former President Donald Trump. But they know the numbers that matter from here aren't the 252-175 vote in the House, even with 35 Republicans joining Democrats on the bill. The Senate math remains brutal, with the prospect of 10 GOP members voting with Democrats exceedingly slim so long as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is opposed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making clear that she has a backup plan. That matters profoundly for how the attempted insurrection is investigated -- and perhaps how Democrats seek to push the rest of their agenda from here.