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What would the January 6 committee hearings be like if there was a forceful Republican presence? The party largely dropped out of participating, and only two GOP lawmakers are currently on the panel, both of which are avowed enemies of the former president and were appointed to the panel by the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

But there's a rising sense among Republicans that it may have been a mistake to opt out of participating in the inquiry - including, apparently, Trump himself.

Well, I think in retrospect, I think it would have been very smart to put [Republicans on the committee] and again, I wasn't involved in it from a standpoint so I never looked at it too closely. But I think it would have been good if we had representation. ...

I think in retrospect [McCarthy should've put Republicans on] to just have a voice. The Republicans don't have a voice. They don't even have anything to say.