Biden says even people who think he's 'Satan reincarnate' have to know something happened on Jan. 6

Joe Biden.
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President Biden supports a bipartisan investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and believes anyone who watched the events unfold should, too.

"I don't care if you think I'm Satan reincarnate, the fact is you can't look at that television and say, nothing happened on the 6th," he told CNN's Don Lemon during a town hall Wednesday night in Cincinnati.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) selected five GOP lawmakers for the committee, and on Wednesday Pelosi rejected two of them: staunch Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who both voted in favor of challenging the election certification. McCarthy said without all five on the committee, Republicans will not participate in the investigative process.

Biden also slammed conspiracy theorists who are spreading "venom" about the coronavirus and Jan. 6 attack, telling the town hall audience, "You can't listen to people who say: This is a peaceful march." They go hand-in-hand with people who believe in the false QAnon conspiracy, Biden said, and the United States has "got to get beyond this. This is not who we are."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.