the end of the month. mccarthy, caught on tape talking about kicking trump out of office ran to mar-a-lago weeks later. chairman bennie thompson writing, you declined voluntary cooperation, and we re left with no choice but to issue thank you subpoena. in a letter sent asking for his cooperation in january, the committee said they wanted to talk to mccarthy about his, quote, conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attacks. mccarthy today slamming the committee s probe. look, my view on the committee has not changed. they re not conducting a legitimate investigation. it seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents. congressman scott perry having a similar thing today. the fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members proves it s all about headlines. bennie thompson saying today he hopes they all comply, and so far there have not been conversations about contempt if they don t.
this. they highway choice to come as early as saying. they refused. now they re saying this is about headlines and anti-trump. there s a lot of anti-trump people the congressional committee could have subpoenaed, marjorie taylor greene or matt gates or any number of people like. that they didn t. this is not five random people. these are five material witnesses, and the committee has said in their letters that they have evidence that mark meadows was being plotted with with these members of congress, or these mcs were plotting with ali alexander and others as well, like jeffrey clark, trying to maneuver for him to be acting attorney general and boot out the old attorney general, jeffrey rosen, who wasn t doing trump s bidding. so, all of this is really important information. i m upset it s taken this long to get to the subpoena, but i m really glad to see congress doing this today. we ll talk about how time is of the essence, but barbara talk