House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the five Republicans he chose to sit on a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 riot announced that they would form their own investigative body after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked two of McCarthy’s picks to sit on her Democratic-controlled committee.

“We will run our own investigation,” McCarthy said Wednesday, in a hastily called news conference. “Why was the Capitol so ill-prepared for that day when they knew on Dec. 14 they had a problem? And what have we done to make sure that never happens again?”