Kevin McCarthy

Brooks said “Kevin McCarthy spoke before knowing the facts.” He said he did not recall McCarthy speaking with him about his rally speech.

We saw what people would do in the Capitol, you know, and these people came prepared with rope, with everything else.” “We will probably look at engaging some of the lawmakers by invitation at this point, and we’ll go from there,” Thompson said Tuesday. “We will probably look at engaging some of the lawmakers by invitation at this point, and we’ll go from there,” Thompson said at the Capitol. There’s discussion on the call of disciplining Brooks, who addressed the Jan. 6 rally and urged the crowd to “fight like hell” before they marched to the Capitol. There’s no indication McCarthy followed up with any disciplinary measures. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the panel expects to decide this week about issuing a second request to McCarthy, who has declined to voluntarily appear before the panel. “And he doesn’t need to be doing this.

The extent of the House Republican leader's Jan. 6 concern is coming into focus — as is his retreat from that concern.

It is as necessary today as it was at the start of our country.” By the time the moment for that accountability arrived, though, McCarthy was once again aligned with his caucus. Within a week of the riot, the House was moving forward with an impeachment of Trump for his role in the riot. McCarthy, who had joined the majority of his caucus in supporting challenges to state election results in the hours after the riot, again publicly joined with House Republicans in opposing the effort. He noted that he hadn’t yet spoken with Democrats about what might follow — an important reminder that there was another bipartisan path forward: uniting in opposition to Trump’s actions. When he voted to impeach Trump for his role in stoking anger about the election and drawing people to the Capitol, Gonzalez apparently hoped to try to stop that progression. It’s useful to remember the broader context of the moment. We saw what people would do in the Capitol, you know, and these people came prepared with rope and everything else.” Someone else on the call describes Gaetz’s attacks on Cheney as “potentially illegal,” which McCarthy softens a bit: “Well, he’s putting people in jeopardy. Gonzalez’s example is interesting in part because it represents an unusual effort by a Republican to push back against the party’s evolution. The country is too crazy,” McCarthy says on the recording. The point is that Gonzalez is not some poindexter.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) denied he made comments about asking then-President Trump to resign after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, ...

I believe that integrity, ethical behavior, morals and most of all honesty are what define an individual’s character. (“ What the GOP’s muted response on the McCarthy tapes means for the Republican Party,” April 22) “These are not the droids you’re looking for” — or better, these are not the facts you’re looking for.

Leaked recording shows senior House Republican said Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and others put Americans at risk.

“That’s almost something that goes further than what the president said.” Boebert has been a staunch defender of Trump’s actions that day. “And he doesn’t need to be doing this.

Leaked audio shows McCarthy calling for GOPers to be kicked off Twitter for putting other members "in jeopardy"

McCarthy claimed on Monday that he thought he had denied that he called on Trump to resign, and didn't believe he had told Republican leaders he would do so. "I cannot tell you how angry I was," he told the Times, adding that McCarthy never responded to his resignation letter. After the initial report about his failed vow to pressure Trump to resign, McCarthy claimed that the account was "totally false and wrong." "We have a lot more on tape from this period, which is at the highest levels of American politics. "He's putting people in jeopardy," McCarthy said in the recording. "We have our leader that's basically negotiating with Liz Cheney on whether he should encourage President Trump to resign or not." Some Republicans in the conference pushed to strip Brooks of his committee assignments, Scalise said on the call. "You think the president deserves to be impeached for his comments?" "This is the behavior of weak men, not leaders," he said in a statement. "That's almost something that goes further than what the president said." But those comments make clear that in the wake of Jan. 6, Republican leaders were highly concerned that members of the GOP would further stoke violence. "Kevin McCarthy of California told his good friend Liz Cheney that he hopes the social media companies would censor more conservative Republicans in Congress," Carlson said.

Driving the news: McCarthy, in a call with fellow Republican leaders four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, expressed serious concern about the comments some ...

He received applause as well, the source said. - Others claimed ignorance about the audio. "I only voted for Kevin once." "I'm the only guy or gal here who never voted for [former Speakers] John Boehner or Paul Ryan," he said. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in the days after the Capitol riot feared that comments made by far-right members of Congress were "putting people in jeopardy," according to audio recordings obtained by the New York Times. - McCarthy specifically made the case that what was published paints an incomplete picture of the call, that he was speaking in hypotheticals and that he never trashes his members publicly. A massive tranche of texts from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows obtained by CNN shows how former President Trump's allies went from pleading for a stop to the violence on Jan. 6 to affirming their support for Trump in the aftermath. - Gaetz, in astatement posted to Twitter, characterized the call as "sniveling" and said of McCarthy and Scalise, "This is the behavior of weak men, not leaders." The bottom line: The rank-and-file affirmed their support for McCarthy by giving him a standing ovation when he defended his past comments during a GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning, according to a source in the room. House Republicans are closing ranks around Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after the New York Times published audio of a call four days after the Capitol riot in which he voiced support for some of his members losing access to Twitter. Driving the news: McCarthy, in a call with fellow Republican leaders four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, expressed serious concern about the comments some of his members have made, according to the audio. - Gaetz, McCarthy said, was "putting people in jeopardy" by going on TV to attack Republicans as "anti-Trump." Scalise said his remarks were "potentially illegal."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) defended himself Wednesday in his first face-to-face encounter with House Republicans after audio recordings ...

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) said he is “absolutely” comfortable with the possibility of a McCarthy speakership. McCarthy initially denied the Times report about his remarks, calling it “totally false and wrong.” After the Times released the audio of the phone call, McCarthy told reporters that he “never thought that [Trump] should resign.” He has since dodged questions on the topic. In a report Tuesday night, the New York Times detailed McCarthy’s comments to fellow Republican leaders about several members of the House GOP conference days after the Jan. 6 attack. Two House Republicans said Gaetz was the only lawmaker to criticize McCarthy during the meeting. “Nobody cares.” Also the American people want to hear answers. Because unless you’re a member of the press, nobody gives a damn about January 6,” Grothman said. He added of McCarthy: “I support him for speaker. On Monday, McCarthy claimed that the Times had asked him whether he had urged Trump to resign. “All of us were trying to make sense of, you know, what happened, why did it happen, why didn’t we stop it? “But I can tell you this: Every member had a similar process, whether they were recorded or not.” According to one of the lawmakers, Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.), Gaetz “spoke up and he was angry.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, has recently come under fire for his role in allegedly obstructing the investigation of the ...

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, has recently come under fire for his role in allegedly obstructing the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot. Q: What will Congress do to hold McCarthy accountable? Q: What effect will his hypocritical behavior have?

The GOP leader talked about reigning in violent commentary by Matt Gaetz and others, then realized it wouldn't be politically popular and did nothing.

While I was protecting President Trump from impeachment, they were protecting Liz Cheney from criticism.” Gaetz did not add that, in the end, McCarthy voted against impeaching Trump, or that he helped oust Cheney from GOP leadership. On Tuesday evening, Gaetz released a statement addressing the latest report, saying, “Rep. McCarthy and Rep. Scalise held views about President Trump and me that they shared on sniveling calls with Liz Cheney, not us. Nobody accuses this guy of thinking of doing the right thing before he reassesses how it will affect his career and does absolutely jack shit, ya hear?! Following the Capitol attack, McCarthy was deeply—and reasonably!— concerned that numerous far-right members of Congress would provoke violence against fellow lawmakers, by riling up the base with inflammatory attacks on their colleagues for not supporting Trump’s attempted coup, among other things. And now, for the second time in less than week, the Times has provided yet more evidence that McCarthy momentarily had a conscience for a few days in January 2021, before apparently deciding that doing the right thing wouldn’t be politically popular with his party, or help his chances of one day being speaker of the House. (At the rally that preceded the insurrection, Brooks told Trump supporters to “start taking down names and kicking ass,” while Gaetz went on TV post–1/6 to attack multiple Republicans who’d criticized Trump for inciting the riot that left five people dead.) “He’s putting people in jeopardy,” McCarthy said of Gaetz, noting that he was going to speak with the Florida congressman about attacking colleagues by name.