#shorts On 1/19/2023, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “The White House today put out this really sharply worded statement about the committee assignments — the Oversight Committee assignments — you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative Gosar, Representative Boebert getting these assignments on the Oversight Committee. The statement said, “…handing the keys of oversight to the most extreme MAGA members in the Republican caucus … does the White House view the Oversight Committee as even legitimate?”
MS. Jean-Pierre: So, look, I’ve been very clear, and I just said this moments ago: The President intends to work with both parties in good faith, if they choose to, and make more progress on behalf of the American people. He has said this, and we will continue to say this. But unfortunately, to your point, Mary, on some of these key committees, it appears that House Republicans have handed over the keys to the most extreme MAGA members of the Republican caucus. This is what we’re seeing from the other side of Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Avenue … They should have to explain why allowing these individuals to serve on these committees and come clean with the American people about the secret agreements, the secret deals that were made with these extreme MAGA — MAGA extremists in — that are currently in — in the House. And so that is something for them to respond to. That is some- — that question goes to them.
Reporter: It sounds like you don’t view the committee as very —
MS. Jean-Pierre: I — I did not say that. I laid out — I laid out what the President intends to do. I laid out what — what unfortunately — what — the actions that they have taken, how unfortunate it is to basically hand over the keys to some of the most extreme people in the — in the Republican Party, the MAGA — ultra-MAGA Republicans, and what they’ve done.
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/rLjt4R40UH4
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