Joe Biden demonstrated confidence.

Although the well has been poisoned in the past four years, he thinks everything is beginning to move, said the president on Wednesday evening in a television discussion.

Even if not overnight.

As if to confirm, the question of how to come to terms with the attack on the Capitol on January 6th had escalated in the foreseeable future in Congress.

Majid Sattar

Political correspondent for North America based in Washington.

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Nancy Pelosi, the "Speaker" of the House of Representatives, had decided to take a step that is unusual even for the first chamber, which is always more combative than the Senate. The Democrat had turned down two Republican candidates for the committee of inquiry. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader, accused her of an unprecedented abuse of power and withdrew the three other members of the special committee he had nominated.

There is only one Republican on the body - Donald Trump's intimate enemy Liz Cheney.

Pelosi had offered the former number three of the Republican faction, which had recently lost their post under pressure from the former president, one of the Democratic seats on the committee of inquiry.

And, to McCarthy's indignation, Cheney had agreed.

She was the leader of the group of Republicans who voted for the second impeachment against Trump in January for incitement to insurrection.

Commission was blocked in the Senate

The conflict had started in the Senate; of course, McCarthy also played a role in this. In May the House of Representatives voted to set up an independent commission, following the example of the investigation into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 35 moderate Republicans voted with a majority of Democrats. In the Senate, however, the commission was blocked: the Republican leadership ensured that the agenda item could not be called.

McCarthy had urged his Senate colleagues to take the step on the grounds that, unlike the “9/11” commission, the committee's rules of procedure could be misused for party politics. In any case, the Democrats wanted to orchestrate the investigation so that it would deliver ammunition to them for the congressional elections in autumn 2022. The presidential party countered that McCarthy had been forced by Trump to stop the investigation: if he had not followed Trump, he would do everything to undo McCarthy's dream of replacing Pelosi as "speaker" after the congressional elections.

After the failure of the independent commission, Pelosi announced a parliamentary committee of inquiry. McCarthy then nominated MPs Jim Jordan and Jim Banks for the body on Monday. Jordan was Trump's most important ally in Congress during the presidency. After the November election, he and Banks were among those spreading Trump's narrative of electoral fraud. Banks had said after his nomination that the committee should not only investigate January 6, but also left-wing extremist riots last summer. Jordan even called the committee “the third impeachment”.

Pelosi justified her step with the "respect for the integrity of the investigation".

McCarthy replied: "No committee in Congress will work if one person chooses all who can participate." He now wants the Republicans to investigate why the Capitol Police were so poorly prepared on January 6 - and what responsibility Pelosi was for it sluggish.

Biden continues to rely on common sense: “I don't care if you think I am Satan born again.” The fact is: In view of the television images, it cannot be said that nothing happened on January 6th.

"You can't listen to people who say: That was a peaceful demonstration."