Okay, good morning. Are you hearing that he might design Is there any reason to think that might happened? I’ve had some few discussions. My gut tells me no, seriously. Thank you for having that conversation with him tonight. I haven’t talked to him in *** couple of days. In *** recording of 10 January 2021 House Republican leadership call Um posted by the New York Times on Thursday nine House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is heard discussing the democratic effort to remove President Donald Trump from office after the January six insurrection. In the recording, McCarthy is heard saying that he would tell Trump, I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation you should resign. I got I mean, the only discussion I would have with him is that I think this will pass and it would be my recommendation. We should be done. I mean that would be my take, but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know. The recording was released by the new york times, Jonathan martin and Alex Burns on the Rachel Maddow show McCarthy’s office had insisted he had never said he would call trump to say he should resign. But that statement was put out before the release of the tape and since then the Washington post had interviewed AIDS that indicated McCarthy and trump have since spoken since the release of the tape. You know, both were satisfied with the explanation. Leader McCarthy, Shortly after january 1/6 visited with the president in mar *** Lago and since then it’s been very clear that he has tried to remain in the president’s good graces, and he believes that the president is *** critical player in the success of the Republican Party. This fall, the elections will determine who controls Congress. Leader McCarthy believes that President trump could play an instrumental role in helping republicans take back the majority and allow him to become the next speaker of the House.
House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.The Jan. 6 panel’s subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.The committee has been investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat.Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.“These members include those who participated in meetings at the White House, those who had direct conversations with President Trump leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol, and those who were involved in the planning and coordination of certain activities on and before January 6th,” the committee said as it announced the subpoenas.
House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The Jan. 6 panel’s subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
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The committee has been investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat.
Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.
“These members include those who participated in meetings at the White House, those who had direct conversations with President Trump leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol, and those who were involved in the planning and coordination of certain activities on and before January 6th,” the committee said as it announced the subpoenas.
