republicans. the committee also wants to know more about kevin mccarthy s conversation with donald trump and others after the insurrection. they specifically pointed to a conversation on january 11th when he pushed the president to accept defeat. mccarthy s local news of lewis wrote about that. quote, he said he implored president donald trump s intense hour-long phone call during the morning. to move forward to the peaceful transition of power. the house minority pleaded with him telling the election was over. to move on, stop this. mccarthy recalled telling him. the committee notes that it appears mccarthy may have also discussed with trump the potential that he would fix the center resolution, impeachment, or removal under the 25th amendment. it also appears that you may find them to fight other possible options including president trump s immediate resignation from office. so things, of course, very quickly turned around between mccarthy and. from january 28th, mccarthy visited tru
of the most important events and is refusing to cooperate. mccarthy, of course, then pulled the remaining nominees. the committee concluded their letter by pointing out that mccarthy has recently indicated that he might be open to cooperating, quote, wouldn t hide from anything. which is good. they asked mccarthy to appear for them. proposing the time in the first week of february. we watched as one rioter after another sentence over january six by the justice department without anyone at the top facing any accountability. right now, we re looking at the prospect of minority leader house representatives having to come before the committee to testify about what he knows. that see whatever strong, it s covering the story of political and she joins me now. this seems like a very very big deal for the committee to do. this what is your reporting suggesting about the background in context for. and what we can anticipate mccarthy is going to do. it is.
implications from the top house republican. plus, senator elizabeth warren on the new strategy for democrats to plus voting rights. and what looks like seriously encouraging data on the omicron surge. when all in starts right now. surge. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is asking that the top republican in the house, kevin mccarthy come and give them testimony before them. this is the man poised to become speaker of the house, should republicans take back control the midterm elections later this year, which is certainly a strong possibility. but before that happens, they want to hear about what s mccarthy knows about the insurrection. in a letter to mccarthy, released this afternoon, the committee writes that the, quote, requested voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics. including your conversation with president trump before, during and after the violent january 6th attack. in many ways, kevin mccarthy ha
begin his term. oh yeah, he ll do does. except his share of the responsibility. but of course, much more was going on behind the scenes. later on, we found out that mccarthy had a top with trump that got quite heated. he told his republican colleague, jamie herrera beutler about it at this time. and she released a statement that they cite here. the president repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that breached the capitol. mccarthy refuted and told the president they were trump supporters. that is one according to mccarthy, the president said, well kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. committee also quote, political risks reporting, that mccarthy got into a screaming match after mccarthy demanded that trump released a statement denouncing the mob. trump finally relented and said he would send the tweet. that wasn t good enough for mccarthy who wanted more. in fact, that pattern matches exactly the interview we just heard him give during the i
shared and even said in a call on january 11th that he stated that president trump had admitted some degree of responsibility for january six in his one-on-one conversation with him. that s interesting. the committee wants to know about all these conversations naturally. they re also invested in conversations mccarthy had when it came time to finally seek the electors that night. again, the committee highlights this point in the letter. quote, you agreed to support continued objections to the electoral vote from multiple states late in the evening of january six and into the morning of january seven. the select committee wishes to question you regarding communications who may have had with president trump, president trump s legal team, representative jim jordan and others at the time on that topic. we should note, and this really remains a startling fact. it was a startling fact even then more than a. after all that facts, mccarthy not only objected close to the floor, he voted for t