.MaddowBlog: According to Sen. McConnell, a commission designed to scrutinize the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should not focus entirely on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images fileIt wasn't long after January's deadly insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol when an obvious idea took hold: policymakers needed an independent commission, along the lines of the 9/11 Commission, to determine what happened and why., in theory, this seemed like a no-brainer.
Or put another way, according to the Republicans' Senate leader, the commission designed to scrutinize the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should not focus entirely on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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