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White House staff and others in the week after the January 6 attack. McCarthy says he has nothing relevant to offer the panel since he’s already publicly revealed he had a phone call with Trump on January 6.The committee also wants to know why McCarthy has since changed his tune, and whether Trump or any of his associates asked McCarthy to change his tone about the President’s role in the attack and their private conversations.CNN previously reported about an expletive-laced phone call between McCarthy and Trump while the Capitol was under attack on January 6, where Trump said the rioters cared more about the 2020 presidential election results than McCarthy did.In his radio interview, McCarthy strongly supported censuring Trump as an alternative to impeachment – which he strongly opposed – and said he supported a bipartisan committee to investigate the causes of the attack. McCarthy also said he brought up the idea of censure with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.“What I proposed –which I think history will say, I’m right –because it’s the right thing to do, I believe,” McCarthy said. “Have a bipartisan commission and get all your facts, actually work through the grand jury to find out at the end, instead of predetermining, whether someone’s guilty or not.”“The one thing about impeachment, why would you run it through so fast? I say let’s put a bipartisan commission, let’s learn all the facts,” he added.Hoyer confirmed that McCarthy floated censure as an alternative to impeachment but called it a “relatively passing conversation.”Related articleGOP plots onslaught of Biden probes in the run-up to 2024“I didn’t take it as a profound, sort of long, thought-out strategy,” Hoyer said Thursday. “He was looking at options because at that point, he was holding the president responsible.”On Thursday, McCarthy defended his decision not to cooperate with the select committee--------------------------////////////////// trump got him to be the speaker of the house is why he did not testify. chicken ****jerrab » 2 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the local radio interview, McCarthy said he urged the President throughout a phone call during the Capitol attack to call in the National Guard and go on television to call off the rioters.Related articleTakeaways from the landmark sedition indictment against the Oath Keepers and why DOJ acted now“I spoke to the President during the riot,” McCarthy said. “I was the first person to call him. I told him to go on national TV, tell these people to stop it. He said he didn’t know what was happening. We went to the news then to work through that. I asked the president, he has a responsibility. You know what the President does, but you know what? All of us do.”“I called the President, told him, bring the national guard, go on television,” he added later.The details of McCarthy’s call with Trump – and whether Trump has ever admitted any culpability for the riots – have been a subject of interest for the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot, saying it’s key to understanding the former President’s state of mind during the Capitol attack and in the weeks after.McCarthy declined this week to cooperate with the committee, which wants to question him about his communications with Trump,