MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Compares GOP to Branch Davidians, Questions Why Jan. 6 Commission Needs to Be ‘So Bipartisan’

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross asked on Monday why the congressional committee centered on January 6 needed to be “so bipartisan,” saying that Republicans were akin to “Branch Davidians” who the committee should be “prosecuting.”

“Why exactly does this committee have to be so bipartisan, you know?” Cross asked in a segment of The ReidOut. “It’s like if you were prosecuting Dave Koresh, you’re not ever thinking ‘We should get the Branch Davidians, too, to get their perspective.'”

Koresh led the the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993 when the religious sect engaged in a 51-day standoff with federal authorities. The standoff ended with the death of nearly 100 people, including Koresh and four federal agents.

Cross ended her comment by asking one of her guests, Fordham Professor Christina Greer, “What do you think the bipartisan committee should do?”

“The intent should be that all Americans should feel concerned and disgusted and aggrieved by what happened on January 6,” Greer replied.  “This idea that we’re even divided as to what happened on January 6 when we see it with our own eyes is really something where I think that’s the impetus behind Nancy Pelosi to say if this affected the entire American populace, we need to have both parties at the table.”

Watch above via MSNBC.

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