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in a statement released just moments ago mccarthy has said he will not cooperate with the investigation despite that statement of rules for thee and not for me and also saying that he actually would if he were asked. and he was asked. a lot more of that in a moment. and look, i ve got to tell you, i don t really know when you watch this show which side you re on. i don t know what political party you affiliate with or who you vote for or even where you re from. but i ll bet, i ll bet that you were as sick of double standards as i am. you have been hearing about them at least all day today. whether it s another elite athlete who thinks the covid prevention rules somehow shouldn t apply to him because he wants to win more titles at the australian open, or maybe it s a senate leader who tells you that democracy requires fighting for the rights of him and his colleagues in the political minority but the rights for a racial minority, that somehow is not what democracy is sup ....
circle, our digital news show that allows us to dig into topics in depth. let s hand it over to lawrence coates and cnn tonight. thanks, anderson, nice to see you. thank you. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. i want to start by asking you a question and it s a real one. anyone else tired of double standards in, you know, one rule for you and then another one for everyone else? it s something that house minority leader kevin mccarthy of all people recently railed about. it s an old definition of abuse of power. rules for thee but not for me. keep that in mind in a second, if you will, because we have some big breaking news tonight involving him and the january 6th committee. in a statement released just moments ago mccarthy has said he will not cooperate with the investigation despite that statement of rules for thee and not for me and also saying that he actually would if he were asked. and he was asked. a lot more of that in a moment. and look, i v ....
hey, everyone, thanks for watching. i ll be back tomorrow. don lemon tonight starts right now. i like the way you said that, don lemon. it had an oprah quality, i think, don lemon. i don t know why i did that. you get a car, you get a car. so we re anticipating hearing about novak djokovic tonight. i know you spoke about it a little bit. you know, i think that american athletes, the nfl, the nba so on and so forth can learn from the australian government and the united states because they re saying, look, we want to investigate this fully and if you lied or if there s anything untoward or if you don t follow the rules, then you shouldn t be here. you shouldn t be playing. you shouldn t be in the country, and i think that s fair for the greater good. that decision tonight from the australian government should come out during this show. i can t wait to hear it. it s kind of like the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. the audacity here of the gov ....
take a listen. would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission sure. next question. you would? change now. another story we re following this morning, tennis star novak djokovic officially the number one seed in the australian open men s singles draw, will he get to play? questions about whether he broke the rules everyone else has to follow. and president biden set to speak next hour to announce a new federal plan to deploy military medical teams to hospitals that are grappling with the omicron surge. let s get right to our top story this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following the story from washington. jessica, what more are you learning? bianna and jim, mccarthy doubling down now on his refusal to talk. he released that statement last night condemning the in ....
i love anderson, but i talk football and he s like, yeah, you know where they throw the thing, doesn t know much about football. you know where they throw the thing? you know what, you have the most unbelievable and wonderful shade because it is the shade if i was next to you in high school i would have been suspended, a lot. we talk about it openly on the air, that he knows nothing about sports. listen, i was actually watching the game kind of out of one eye in the commercial breaks last night. but anybody who beats alabama, i love it because i m an lsu tiger, so i was rooting for georgia having lived in georgia. did you see stetson bennett s interview this morning, the man, the quarterback? he was so hung over. you know, maybe he was tired. don t call that young man out. maybe he was just very tired and he had that stupor of having won something. yeah. his mom might be watching! what are you doing? well, he deserves to be hung over after that. that was an ....