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Anderson Cooper 360

McCarthy won’t support bipartisan January 6 commission

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy won’t support a deal to form a January 6 commission, siding with some other Republicans who have tried to downplay and move on from the violent efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Democratic Rep. Jason Crow was in the Capitol the day of the insurrection and comforted his colleagues as rioters stormed the building. He tells Anderson Cooper that McCarthy wants to sweep the insurrection under the rug and that he needs former President Trump’s support regardless of his behavior and incitement of the insurrection. Plus, the Pasquotank County district attorney said the deputies who fatally shot Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina last month were justified in using deadly force. The three deputies who fired at Brown will be reinstated and retrained. Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump joins AC360 to discuss the district attorney’s comments and says he’s trying to “whitewash this unjustified killing of a black man.”  Airdate: May 18, 2021   Guests: Rep. Jason Crow Benjamin Crump To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, a man who was just friably frightened by what he saw at the capital in the

0:04.3

6th of January, but had a moment of courage, which allowed him to stand up to the President

0:09.0

of the United States, has now completed his metamorphosis.

0:13.1

There will be no more moments of courage from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

0:17.1

And as you'll see, his defense of that transformation is striking in its cynicism and intellectual

0:22.2

dishonesty.

0:23.2

Last night, along with breaking news on the election lie, we touched on reporting from

0:27.1

CNN's Jamie Gangell on McCarthy's motive for opposing a bipartisan commission on the

0:32.1

Capitol attack.

0:33.7

Her sources telling her that he was concerned about being called to testify about his

0:38.0

conversation with the defeated President that day, but also about what happened between

0:41.7

election day and the attack.

0:43.5

So, that's where we left it last night, with the expectation that a vote approved in

0:46.8

the commission would come Wednesday tomorrow.

0:49.2

Well, today, pretty much right on cue, Leader McCarthy came out against the deal.

0:53.3

Surprising no one, but still shocking some.

0:56.2

This is representative Jim McGovern from Massachusetts.

0:59.7

We have some members of Congress who are basically saying that what happened, what we all experienced,

1:05.9

what we saw, it didn't really happen.

1:08.8

I mean, enough.

1:12.1

And I've had it.

1:14.3

I mean, I talked earlier about talking to staff members, talking to people, talking to

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