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Days after the Jan 6 insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told top GOP lawmakers in a call that he would ask Trump to resign, according to a newly released audio clip, prompting Trump’s allies to question McCarthy’s suitability for the top job of House speaker
Call it the dictator’s paradox: By demonstrating weakness, you affirm the Big Man’s power. By groveling, you gain standing. Pretending to believe what’s patently false, you affirm manly independence from what Swift mockingly called “the vulgar Dictates of unrefined Reason.”
>> we not sure if i trust that. greene also brushed off -- calling pelosi a traitor. spoiler alert, it didn't go so well for her. >> in fact, you think that speaker pelosi is a traitor to the country. >> that's speculation, it's hypothetical. >> you have said that, haven't you missed green, that she's a traitor to the country? >> i haven't said that. oh no, wait. hold on now. i believe by not upholding the securing the border, that violates her oath of office. >> so we are here talking -- melissa murray is back with me. we're gonna talk a little bit about treason. talk to me a little bit about...
McCarthy also explored removing Trump through the 25th Amendment, according to the forthcoming book from a pair of New York Times reporters.
All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democ...