McCarthy: Where's the primetime hearing on record inflation, rising gas prices?

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is wondering why Democrats are not holding a primetime hearing related to record inflation and rising gas prices instead of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

"I don't see any primetime hearing set for gas prices, for battling inflation, feeding our children, making the streets safer," McCarthy said Thursday, hours before House Democrats were set to hold their debut primetime TV hearing on the riot.

McCarthy also said he wants to know how much former ABC News President James Goldston, who is helping produce the hearing, is being paid.

Just the News has reached out to the office of Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, to ask whether  Goldston is receiving compensation.

Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks laid out a series of questions related to Jan. 6 that he said remain unanswered.

"How is it possible that the Capitol Police, we now know, was half-staffed because of COVID on Jan. 6?" he said during a press conference at which McCarrthy also spoke. "Did [House] Speaker Pelosi communicate with the House Sergeant at Arms on Jan. 6 or in the days leading up to the riot?"

Banks also asked why the Capitol Police's Intelligence Unit didn't raise the alarm about potential violence ahead of Jan. 6.