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The January 6 Select Committee held their first prime-time hearing Thursday evening to investigate the US Capitol attack in 2021. The panel played new video from depositions of members of former President Trump’s team.

Congressman Jim Banks told Tony Katz that Thursday night’s hearing was nothing but an attack on former President Trump.

“There was nothing that came out last night that would change anybody’s mind. This illegitimate committee is trying to prosecute Donald Trump for crimes that he didn’t commit…The bottom line in all this is that you can’t have a legitimate trial, a legitimate committee hearing, when you don’t have a different point of view.”

Banks was originally supposed to be on the committee until Pelosi rejected both he and fellow Republican Party member Rep. Jim Jordan due to ‘integrity’ concerns. He said if he were to have been in the room he would’ve addressed the serious questions at hand such as why the Capitol wasn’t secure on January 6thto begin with.

Listen to Banks full takeaway on the prime-time hearing here:

https://omny.fm/shows/tony-katz-and-the-morning-news/rep-jim-banks-on-primetime-jan-6th-committee-heari