Omar says she supports adding a 'reality-based' Republican to January 6 committee
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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Tuesday that she would support adding a "reality-based" Republican to the select committee being established by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the January 6 insurrection.
Asked by CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" about the possibility of Pelosi appointing a GOP lawmaker to the panel, Omar said, "I certainly believe that the goal was always to make sure that this was a bipartisan effort. The American people are interested in finding out, as much as we are, what the truth is -- what led to the insurrection and what took place as part of that insurrection on January 6." "And so if the speaker believes that she can find Republicans that are reality-based, that will engage in fact-finding, that can be trusted by the American people, then I support it," the Minnesota Democrat said.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.