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Rep. Cheney: People Deserve The Truth About Jan. 6 Riots
Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney appeared on a couple of nationally broadcast cable television news shows on Tuesday to defend her involvement with a congressional probe of the Jan. 6 riots in Washington D.C.
Cheney appeared on both the ''CBS This Morning" and "Good Morning America" programs to talk about her role in a congressional committee investigating the riots.
Most congressional Republicans have called the committee a partisan witch hunt that is more interested in scoring political points than getting at the truth about the riots, in which supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the capitol building in support of his claims that the presidential election had been rigged.
But Cheney, who voted for Trump's impeachment in January, defended the need for the committee.
She had this to say on ''Good Morning America":
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