Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Program 20240604 00:42:00 :

believed the nonsense in it? i had to guess i d say five to ten. i think there was a sense among those who did sign it that at least some of them was sort of, well, we re just going to do this to placate president trump, and i thought that was not doing our duty. kevin mccarthy told me directly he wasn t going to sign it. i said good. it this is not a brief to be associated with and a few hours later he signed it. the brief went out without kevin mccarthy s name and the next day saying he was inadvertently left off and he signed on to it. that was bad. didn t want to sign it and then realized ltzed pressure. people sign on to something they don t believe to avoid political pressure. leaders afraid of their base and not leading their base. reporter: the supreme court declined to even hear the suit. majority of house republicans, two-thirds of them, literally saying, i don t want