Monday Sunrise Briefing: Jan 6. insurrection, revisited

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a second Republican Sunday to a panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that interrupted Congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election. On Tuesday, four police officers are expected to testify before the panel. Police provide the “moral center of gravity of the whole investigation,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (Md.), one of seven Democrats on the  committee, told the Washington Post. With most Republicans still loyal to former president Donald Trump, and many downplaying the severity of the Jan. 6 attack, there is little bipartisan unity on this subject. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) has threatened to retaliate against Republican members who participate in the panel. Rep. Liz Cheney (Wy.) says the investigation is about holding