his voluntary cooperation. they want to meet with him, want him to turn over documents. he put out a statement last night saying he is not planning to cooperate, citing a couple reasons. one, he said this was an illegitimate investigation. two, he said he has nothing relevant to offer the committee. but both claims are disingenuous at best. on the first one, whether or not this is legitimate, nancy pelosi vetoed some of mccarthy s picks for the committee. it wasn t precedent bud that was well within her authority. on the topic of whether mccarthy has anything to offer the committee, he spoke to president trump on january 6th, was urging him to call off the riots. there are conflicting accounts of what trump said back to him. one republican said trump, according to kevin mccarthy, was saying, well, kevin, i guess these rioters care more about the election than you. if that is true, that suggests trump had no plan to stop the
against the best interests of the people and against what he previously suggested he would do. they also point out the meeting that he had down at mar-a-lago and ask about any suggestion or persuasion that the president, the former president, may have given to him so that he changed course. that s kind of an interesting nod to a potential obstruction of justice case down the road. they re interested in statements on the day of and the lead-up to, right, manu? also as jennifer laid out, they want to know about after the fact. they re focused on some of those conversations like they write this. additionally, the committee would like to question you regarding your communication with president trump, white house staff and others the week after the january 6th attack, particularly regarding president trump s state of mind at that time. what is your sense of why the committee is focusing in? it makes why before and on the day of the insurrection. why are they focusing in on conversations w
responsibility. he was asked by the reporter if he remembers a house call, and i reported at the time whenken mccarthy said that president trump accepted some blame for the riots. that is what he told the republicans, and what we reported at the time and he acts like he does not remember the phone call, and this is what the committee wants to dig in and did trump and the others dig into him, and if there is witness tampering. that is what the committee wants to know about. and these are the comments that he said after the insurrection. he said, my criticism is everybody that day, and why was the capitol so ill prepared that day. and this is what kevin mccarthy said from the house floor. the president bears responsibility for the attack on the capitol from mob rioters and he should have immediately
with the house committee investigating the capitol insurrection. in just minutes we ll hear from mccarthy at his weekly news conference, and you can be sure he ll face questions if he takes them about why he s going back on his promise to cooperate with the committee. the panel wants to speak to him because of his repeated contacts and calls with donald trump on the day of the violence siege. investigators believe mccarthy has valuable insight into trump s state of mind in the lead-up on the day of and in the days after the attack. but mccarthy now says he won t cooperate, calling the probe illegitimate and an abuse of power. the committee s vice chairman, republican liz cheney, she is now accusing mccarthy of trying to cover up what happened that day. and that is exactly one year to the day the house of representatives impeached trump a second time for inciting the insurrection. mccarthy, well, he seems to have forgotten his own words from one year ago today.
not donald trump tried to tamp we are any of the witnesses who may have testified about what donald trump was saying, his mind-set at the time, both during the attack as well as after the attack. the question they have is what skwlen jennifer is talking about, can they build a case to charge donald trump, anybody else in the justice department, obstruction charges and any evidence that suggests president trump told kevin mccarthy to shape his testimony in any way could give them some evidence. we ll see whether that happened or not or if they discussed this. mccarthy has said previously that he and trump had not spoken about this and the aftermath of january 6th. but there was, of course, that infamous meeting just days after mccarthy went to the floor a year ago today and said that donald trump bore responsibility for this attack. they came out afterwards smiling for the cameras and saying that