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 m
Eighth, ninth, tenth, 11th, who were expressing their honest outrage about what they saw, and how the president responded. who then by, in kevin mccarthy s case, was looking the boot. it wasn t even bending the knee, it was looking the boot, to curry favor with the guy who they thought was a real threat to this democracy. quickly, finally, barbara, we ve only ever seen bannon as the one who really just flouted it. he was referred for contempt, and is going to be prosecuted. everyone else has played it both ways. meadows was cooperating, then he wasn t. others have pleaded the fifth. others have cited privileges, that era. it s not like members of congress are just going to treat this like if it s nothing if, they get a subpoena. i think that s right. i think one of the things the committee is done well as his public shading, with a six-page letter, laying out all of the details about why they want to
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
You ve got something that creates the evidence for it. justifying because you know the political rather modifications, chris, are enormous. ramifications?olitical one, it exposes the efforts of the republicans, and more specifically mccarthy on that day. how they responded to the said. not for the interest of, what we are conversations like, but, were you aware of just how this was driving the narrative that led to what we were witnessing live on television. mccarthy s one off to the reporter that you showed, oh yes, all respond. we know that was bowl. there is no way that he was going to do that. that s not going to be a driver for, him right now, to cooperate, but rather the consistent driver to obstruct
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.