House GOP Leader Refuses To Cooperate With January 6 Investigation

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy refuses to cooperate with the January 6 investigation, saying he won’t participate with the “abuse of power”. That, as two other Representatives, Jim Jordan and Scott Perry also decline to appear before the House Select Committee. What are they hiding?

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0:00.0	The news continues right now.
0:03.0	Let's hand it over to Laura Coates and CNN tonight, Laura.
0:05.8	Thanks Anderson, nice to see you and thank you.
0:08.4	I am Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight and I want to start by asking you a question
0:14.2	and it's a real one.
0:16.0	Anyone else tired of double standards?
0:19.1	You know one rule for you and then another one for everyone else.
0:23.6	It's something that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of all people recently railed
0:28.1	about.
0:30.1	It's an old definition of abuse of power.
0:34.1	Rules for thee but not for me.
0:37.9	Keep that in mind in a second if you will because we have some big breaking news tonight involving
0:42.7	him and the January 6th committee.
0:45.8	An statement released just moments ago, McCarthy has said that he will not cooperate with
0:50.8	the investigation despite that statement of rules for thee and not for me and also saying
0:56.5	that he actually would if he were asked and he was asked a lot more of that in a moment.
1:03.1	And look, I can't say I don't really know when you watch this show which side you're
1:07.2	on.
1:08.2	I don't know what political party you affiliate with or who you vote for or even where you're
1:12.4	from.
1:13.6	But I'll bet that you are as sick of double standards as I am.
1:18.0	I mean, you've been hearing about them at least all day today.
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