enter its third month. we ought the doesn t that in a moment. the first, we begin with tonight with donald trump s response to the leak audio of kevin mccarthy, saying that he would urge trump to resign in the days after the january 6th riot. trump told the wall street journal tonight that his relationship with mccarthy is not damaged. they report, quote, trump said he was not pleased to learn of his comments, but he said the californian republican had never ultimately advised him to quit. he said that mr. mccarthy quickly change his stance when he found out the facts and embrace them fully a few weeks after the january 10th, 2021 call. the wall street journal goes on to say, quote, i think it is all a big compliment, frankly, mr. trump said about mr. mccarthy. other republicans who initially criticized him at the gym or six and then said there was no support him.
with 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. we should point out that the book, this will not pass, said on the january 10th call with house gop leaders, quote, he envisioned telling trump of an impeachment resolution. i think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation he should resign. the authors of that book, alexander burns and jonathan martin, shared even more of that generate and call. i ve had it with this guy. what he did is unacceptable. nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it. liz cheney who was then part of republican leadership, were both on that call. they deny reporting or leaking the audio. the times reporter also released from january 11 2020 phone call, during which mccarthy tells the full republican congress the trump admitted some responsibility for the attack on the capitol.
all a big compliment, frankly, mr. trump said about mr. mccarthy. other republicans who initially criticized him at the gym or six and then said there was no support him. they realize they were wrong and supported me. nbc news reports that one person close to trump set mccarthy called the former president and apologized. earlier tonight, we heard from kevin mccarthy himself. congressman, have you spoken with president trump recently? did you speak with him last night? i spoke to him twice today, just an hour ago. how is your conversation? did you talk about the new york times report and the conversation you had the conversation is very good. the conversation of they said we did, we never did, i never asked him to resign, we will talk about that. have you spoke with him about resigning? no, let me be clear. i have never asked the president to resign.
they realize they were wrong and supported me. nbc news reports that one person close to trump set mccarthy called the former president and apologized. earlier tonight, we heard from kevin mccarthy himself. congressman, have you spoken with president trump recently? did you speak with him last night? i spoke to him twice today, just an hour ago. how is your conversation? did you talk about the new york times report and the conversation you had the conversation is very good. the conversation of they said we did, we never did, i never asked him to resign, we will talk about that. have you spoke with him about resigning? no, let me be clear. i have never asked the president to resign. with 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. we should point out that the
you have three major contenders going for it. so, we need a rationale two party system. we don t have one right now. it s an unfair question to ask you with only a minute left, it was so struck when the former french ambassador to the united states says that he said that le pen has a 30% chance of beating macron. i wonder if you re looking at the past, macron himself said that brexit, donald, trump look at those things. but what do you think a boat. ..? president biden has talked about this from the campaign trail forward. the dividing struggle for the generation s democracy versus autocracy. it is free government versus self government versus authoritarian, trend authoritarianism. i was struck by your guest saying. i love that he points out, i was ambassador when donald trump won.