at least for now, responding to a leaked audio mccarthy saying he plans to tell trump to resign, just days after the capitol. trump told the journal that mccarthy quickly changed his stance, when he quote, found out the facts. while we don t know exactly what facts he is following, we do know the mob that stormed the u.s. capitol after the now former president told him to quote fight like hell, to overturn, again, biden s fair and free election victory. but even with trump s forgiveness, mccarthy is still working to skirt the truth. yesterday, he was just describing a phone call he had with trump. take a listen. my conversation is very good, because the conversation here is what they, what they said we did we never did. let me be very clear, i have never asked the president to resign. so what the book said was not true. i never asked the president to resign. we talked about the ability to win the majority back in congress. win the majority back in congress. sure, and then
republican politics, in a new interview with the wall street journal, trump s stance by house minority leader kevin mccarthy. at least for now, responding to a leaked audio mccarthy saying he plans to tell trump to resign, two days after the capitol. trump told the journal that mccarthy quickly changed his stance, when he quote, found out the facts. while we don t know exactly what facts he is following we do know the mob that stormed the u.s. capital after the now former president told him to quote fight like hell, to overturn, again, biden s fair and free election victory. but even with trump s forgiveness, mccarthy is still working to skirt the truth. yesterday, he was just describing a phone call he had with trump. take a listen. my conversation is very good, because the conversation here is what they, what they said we did we never did. let me be very clear, i have never asked the president to resign. so what the book said was not true. i never asked the president to r
Especially, the mccarthy story right now breaking, is any of this news actually penetrating voters right now in that rally? you know, i think a good point here from this, maria teresa, is in fact the trump is continuing to travel around this country, galvanizing 10,000-plus people at these rallies here. if the january six committee does its thing, the audio recordings of kevin mccarthy come here, there is the reality that donald trump continues to exist as the power structure. this republican party here today. i talked to several dozen individuals, and asked them, does anybody here trust kevin mccarthy? and there was a resounding no. not a single individual was willing to defend kevin mccarthy. they didn t want him to be speaker of the house, if republicans take the house here. and i think that this is also where his rally is endorsement of jamie, who took this stage just a bit ago, i think there s that important connection point that you guys were talking about here. i was talking w
Impeachment conference in the aftermath of this audio, this was almost having like a ptsd listen to that audio, because that is exactly where the conference was at the time. there were discussions about the fifth amendment, people were very upset with trump. and when minority leader mccarthy didn t actually go down to mar-a-lago, that now paints a picture of two of them, chasing came out, it was a bit of whiplash for many in congress. kurt, you are a republican strategist, and listening to how we see mccarthy flip flop when it comes to trump, it s almost a reminder of people saying that, putin-owned trump, and trump is now finding the exact same thing, that now he owns mccarthy. is that true? and what is the calculation of the republican party, by staying so close to some of that clearly wanting to overthrow the government?
At least for now, responding to a leaked audio mccarthy saying he plans to tell trump to resign, just days after the capitol. trump told the journal that mccarthy quickly changed his stance, when he quote, found out the facts. while we don t know exactly what facts he is following, we do know the mob that stormed the u.s. capitol after the now former president told him to quote fight like hell, to overturn, again, biden s fair and free election victory. but even with trump s forgiveness, mccarthy is still working to skirt the truth. yesterday, he was just describing a phone call he had with trump. take a listen. my conversation is very good, because the conversation here is what they, what they said we did we never did. let me be very clear, i have never asked the president to resign. so what the book said was not true. i never asked the president to resign. we talked about the ability to win the majority back in congress.