We Need To Talk About Kevin McCarthy

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The January 6th commission issued subpoenas to five Republican Congressmembers including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in order to gain information about communications they had with the White House leading up to the riot, during it, and after. These are critically being issued before the committee begins its public hearings next month.

Tomorrow is a nationwide day of action with Bans Off Our Bodies rallies. These demonstrations are meant to empower people to stand up for abortion access in a time when Roe v. Wade is poised to be overturned by the Supreme Court. Kelley Robinson, the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and an organizer for the marches, joins us to discuss her message to folks who plan on attending.

And in headlines: Finland’s leaders announced that their country would apply for NATO membership, Twitter fired two of its top executives and instituted a hiring freeze, and Spain is considering monthly medical leave to folks who suffer from severe menstrual pains.

Show Notes:

Ban Off Our Bodies Rally on May 14th – https://bit.ly/3P1KxgN
Send us your pics and videos from your time at a rally – wad@crooked.com
Donate to abortion funds, take action and more via Vote Save America – votesaveamerica.com/roe

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0:00.0	It's Friday, May 13th. I'm Gideon Resnick.
0:07.6	And I'm Treville Anderson and this is What A Day, where we avoid it taking losses in the
0:12.1	cryptocurrency crash simply by having low financial literacy.
0:16.4	That's right. I invest solely in gold bars. Those will never depreciate in any sort of value.
0:21.4	Wow. You might want to look deeper into that. I believe in that.
0:25.9	I will be taking no further questions. On today's show with Row Poise to be overturned,
0:33.8	we talk with one of the organizers of tomorrow's nationwide march to protect abortion rights.
0:38.2	This is not a drill. This is not an alarm. This is the moment that we have been anticipating.
0:43.3	Plus, we'll hear the entry that will probably make you crane the winner of tomorrow's Eurovision
0:47.8	song contest. But first, some Trump and January 6 news. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that
0:53.5	federal prosecutors convened a grand jury to investigate former president Trump and the
0:58.8	possibility that he mishandled classified information. Already that grand jury has issued
1:04.4	a subpoena. Gideon, can you give us some background here?
1:07.2	Yes. So as a refresher, the national archives found out in January that Trump had apparently
1:12.2	taken something like 15 different boxes from the White House to White House South, aka
1:17.8	Mara Lago, when his term ended. That is not typical. Federal law requires that records be
1:24.6	turned over at the end of a term. And the committee investigating the January 6
1:29.2	insurrection has been requesting and receiving various documents from the national archives
1:34.2	over the course of their investigation. There have also been anecdotes about some records
1:39.2	being torn up when the national archives received them. Again, not extraordinarily typical,
1:44.4	not to mention that toilet flushing anecdote that someone reported where Trump had apparently
1:50.2	maybe put some in the toilet. We don't really know. But when these particular boxes were returned,
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