House GOP Leader McCarthy’s Insurrection Amnesia

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kevin McCarthy claims he cannot remember key phone calls between himself and Trump during and after the insurrection, but the timeline of his previous public remarks about the former president admitting he bore some blame for the Capitol attack tell a different story.

Also tonight, the GOP lawmakers who refuse to testify: what are McCarthy, Perry and Jordan hiding about January 6, and will they be subpoenaed? Plus, Oath Keepers leader pleads not guilty to seditious conspiracy in the January 6 attack, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vows to fine hospitals that follow Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers and Novak Djokovic is detained by Australian border authorities after his visa is revoked for a second time.

Guests: Jan. 6 Select Committee member Rep. Pete Aguilar, attorney for Jan. 6 Select Committee Mary McCord, CNN Contributor Patrick McEnroe and CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

Hosted by Laura Coates.

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0:00.0	The news continues when I hand it over to Laura Coates and CNN tonight.
0:04.9	Laura?
0:05.9	Anderson, thank you.
0:06.9	That song is sucking all of our heads now all week long.
0:08.9	We're all going to be singing it.
0:10.4	Have a great weekend with that earworm now.
0:12.0	I appreciate it.
0:13.0	You too.
0:14.0	And I am Laura Coates and welcome to CNN tonight.
0:18.0	You know what?
0:19.0	Today's news could be filed under the category of, well, well, well.
0:25.9	It's exactly what you've probably been thinking as you heard the day's news unfold.
0:29.9	First, when Stuart Rhodes, the head of the Oathkeepers, a far-right fringe militia group, and another
0:36.2	defendant, Edward Vallejo pleaded not guilty to one of the most serious charges we have on
0:42.3	our books, Seditious Conspiracy.
0:45.4	Now you know these men are two of the 11 suspects accused of plotting to basically try to use
0:51.5	force to stop Congress from carrying out the job of certifying the presidential election.
0:57.9	You know, the thing we all assume will happen after a free and fair election.
1:03.8	And that's a thing that's part of a peaceful transition of power.
1:07.9	The kind of thing that stops us from being a dictatorship when someone says, you know what?
1:13.9	No, I'd rather stay right here.
1:17.1	The reason the charges are so serious?
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