Hours after Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter calling for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's "voluntary cooperation" with the January 6 select committee, McCarthy issued a statement making clear he will do no such thing. A release from McCarthy referred to the select committee as "Pelosi's illegitimate select committee" and read as follows:

This committee is not conducting a legitimate investigation as Speaker Pelosi took the unprecedented action of rejecting the Republican members I named to serve on the committee. It is not serving any legislative purpose. The committee’s only objective is to attempt to damage its political opponents – acting like the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee one day and the DOJ the next.