McCarthy won’t support bipartisan January 6 commission
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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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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