senator mccarthy. there was a panel put together to to look into his behavior and to basically provide a, you know, factual predicate for considering a resolution to censure him. that took that investigation it occurred in the in the summer and fall of 1954 and then a vote was held on december 2nd, 1954. and by a vote of 67 to 22 of the senate censured senator mccarthy. so that was a a dramatic blow to his to his standing. he you know, was was never again chaired a committee in the senate and following that 1954 until his death in 1957, he really became an insignificant member of the senate. no longer was he sort of the darling of the media as somebody who was, you know, often being quoted and seen as a powerful member of the senate. he lost all of that power and ultimately he died while in office in 1957. he died young. do we know what he died of? well, he died of habit. the cause of death was listed as hepatitis. and there is some evidence you know, certainly people who examined this. have found that

senator mccarthy. there was a panel put together to to look into his behavior and to basically provide a, you know, factual predicate for considering a resolution to censure him. that took that investigation it occurred in the in the summer and fall of 1954 and then a vote was held on december 2nd, 1954. and by a vote of 67 to 22 of the senate censured senator mccarthy. so that was a a dramatic blow to his to his standing. he you know, was was never again chaired a committee in the senate and following that 1954 until his death in 1957, he really became an insignificant member of the senate. no longer was he sort of the darling of the media as somebody who was, you know, often being quoted and seen as a powerful member of the senate. he lost all of that power and ultimately he died while in office in 1957. he died young. do we know what he died of? well, he died of habit. the cause of death was listed as hepatitis. and there is some evidence you know, certainly people who examined this. have found that

mccarthy's investigations and later in 1954, the army mccarthy hearings were televised. and it was these televised hearings where americans got to see mccarthy's abuse of tactics and unsubstantiated allegations. for the first time. this changed public opinions and the viewpoint of mccarthy. and within a few of the hearings, the the senate had decided had voted to censure mccarthy for conduct unbecoming a senator in in the early 1950s. there was an increasing number of media reports focused on organized crime and there was an increase in americans who were concerned that that this crime was becoming a serious problem and nothing was being done about it. senator estes kefauver of tennessee decided to look into this, and he created a committee in the senate to investigate organized crime and the mob. part of his investigation going to different cities, the country. he went to 14 different cities and he interviewed law enforcement officers and politicians and citizens in these different cities to find out what the state of organized crime was in their areas. they often put s

>> 6:35 general mccarthy calls walker. mccarthy, if you read his transcript from the select committee he said he never did that. he was getting ready for a news conference. he was taking notes and writing so preparing for a televised news conference and he overheardle general walker but general says he never told general walker. he never gave the go order. they point in each other's directions. then they claim that they had to call walker again. 25 minutes later. that's absolute falsehood. mccarthy was in a televised press conference. dod instructor general has obligation to correct the record. we are talking about general officers in the army before the senate. they didn't like that and they wanted to get general piat promoted to general and they want today take down walker. general milley engages in that. he implies walker was lying or exaggerating and everything general milley says in transcribed interview says is incorrect and the committee had to know it. >> let me clarify something here. the general walker did testif

denny mccarthy threw a 28 at you on that back nine. what are you most proud of in how you handled everything that came your way this week? >> yeah. i just stuck to my game plan. i played great today. i kind of got the goal that i in mind today and denny played unbelievable. you got to give him credit. he is one of the best players out here and when he gets hot, it's scary. hi a six-shot lead in the back nine and then tied at 18. he makes that putt and, man. what a crazy day. >> then we saw you favoring your shoulder on the 72nd hole after the celebration. you called for a trainer. what happened? >> yeah, so this shoulder i've had some issues with and yeah, when i made that putt and i kind of raised my arm it kind of came out of the socket and came and went back in but thankfully he was still around and taped it up good and felt good hitting that wedge shop. i appreciate him very much. >> ten years ago you played in the national pitch and chip and national fines and you're on your way to the masters. what are you looking forward to as y

this is a case that should have never been brought every legal scholar, every legal expert, any mccarthy jonathan and every single one, jonathan turley came out with a scathing report in this trial today any mccarthy scale? hey report marked can't believe this is happening in our country. this little case here, there's no case whatsoever. it's a disgrace we, have a conflicted, judge, and it shouldn't be happening, not in this metric. thank you very much. you should be nine. >> so far all right.

mccarthy served as her public and chief deputy whip 2009 -- 2011. house majority whip from 2011 until 2014. in 2014 his luck that house majority leader later surfaced house minority leader as well. he was elected to the speakership in general 2023 filling his marks a former speaker will take his questions in a discussion moderated executive director. during the conversation on social media by tagging at gq politics using # mccarthy at gu. now, please show me in welcoming to the stage former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. [applause] [applause] it is a great crowd this close to the end of the semester. i think i was at the tombs this close to the end of the semester mr. speaker thank you for joining us for coming back. you spent some time here. your son graduated a few years back on the other on the 21st at the stamp at midnight. [laughter] thank you for being here. as we were talking about backstage a big focus on the institute this year has been around the topic of trusting democracy. we are seeing a poll after poll after poll shows americans

they do like the fact they believe he has been much more honest than kevin mccarthy. he has not made deals with different sides that are not congruence with one another. they also think he did the quote right thing. he passed the multiple bills to fund the government. multiple bills to avoid short-term government shutdown and now he has advanced the foreign aid package israel, taiwan, also ukraine for the democrats it i house speaker mike johnson. >> speaker johnson recently announced his son will begin at the is not the time to be a republican or to be a democrat this is the time to be an american. he is referring especially to the ukraine aid the $61 billion everyone knows the world is watching. if ukraine cannot stave off a russia, a pollutant will keep going the next thing you know he is stepping into nato territory than that u.s. is dragged into that. i think it would be surprising if at this point marjorie taylor green does try to oust the speaker because it appears in sight of her own party as well as of course it democrats they are tired of basically the polit

jonathan turley, gregg jarrett, andrew mccarthy. one of them saying -- [inaudible] meaning there is no case. howard: so mostly right-leaning commentators. but nicole wallace on msnbc says we're not going to play this for you. we'll let you mow if he says something we think you should hear. you know, they bash him all a day long on msnbc, he speaks for about 4-5 minutes and suddenly, oh, we couldn't possibly expose our viewers to this. >> well, i mean, that's an editorial decision of a network whether they should or shouldn't have played it, i don't know. i do know that donald trump is a lawyer's nightmare as a client. having your client go out in the middle of a trial and free wheel about what is and what is not the opinion of legal scholars or experts about the case is not helpful. but that just shows that we're really doing two things here. one, there is a trial of a person who happens to be a former president who is on trial in manhattan. separately, that same person is running for president again. and so he is going to the, as t

we didn't lose very many republicans in mccarthy.oesn't take many democrats to not vote or oppose it. i don't think we would lose the same number of republicans that we lost with kevin mccarthy. even people that -- >> you wouldn't get to eight republicans. they've gotten to three. >> there's a lot of people that like this speaker, respect this speaker, even when they disagree with him. they know he's honest, a straight shooter. and they've had a taste of what it's like to go without a speaker for three weeks. i don't think they want that again and i don't think they want it close to an election. >> former speaker gingrich says the demons that matt gaetz unleashed going after kevin mccarthy are out there. you can't govern by shooting yourself in the head every day. how does speaker johnson get anything done? >> he's gotten a lot done. every appropriation bill passed. fisa through, this aid -- >> he has to re lie on democratic votes which he's being faulted for by members of his party. >> every appropriations bill is bipartisan at the

she is backing that was case when kevin mccarthy of thrown out too, the people.t gaetz did not have a candidate to win consensus. this is a democracy, this is how it works if she does not like the bilges bills she votes again them, she has one district in georgia that is plus 22 that is her big selling point. not a big group of people, deal with it, shut up and by the way, when donald trump came out and said he supported michael johnson that should be enough forever these people who are backbenchers, they should say we'll make it work that is the game. >> everyone is a rino . >> over or under on trump. >> reagan did it twice, trump -- you can imagine a private citizen running for president and winning, he has done it before. larry: you are taking over. >> safe the tape. >> joe concha,. i'm kudlow, up next, kevin mccarthy, very optimistic about republicans winning the house, senate and white house, i'm business. it's not a nine-to-five proposition. it's all day and into the night. it's all the things that keep this world turning. it's the go-tos that keep us going

from minnesota, eugene mccarthy, had also thrown his hat into the ring for the nomination. and really, the indiana primary was the first opportunity for him to test out his message and his campaign with voters. so although it was a long shot. indiana, which is a more conservative state, even among democrats, didn't seem like the right state for kennedy to start his campaign in. and it was a bit of a gamble. but as kennedy himself said, you know, my whole campaign's a gamble, so we're going to give it a try in indiana. following his speeches is in south bend at the university of notre dame on april 4th and his subsequent talk at ball state university. kennedy was supposed to, according to his schedule, fly to indianapolis, coming at where cook airport, as it was then known from there, go to downtown indianapolis to open up his new campaign headquarters. after that event, he was supposed to come out here to the broadway christian center at 17th and broadway streets, which was in the heart of an african-american neighborhood. give his standard campaign speech, talk about what

former speaker speaker of the e kevin mccarthy.now to sit back and watch what is taking place in congress. not just the house but all of congress. and you can see the glide path is basically where the democrats want it right now. we are going to have to really show up in big numbers and change the electoral map, increase the numbers in the house. when the senate and elect donald trump to have any hope of saving this country, aren't we? the democrats are not interested in compromise. they are interested in monopoly power. >> people sit back if they sit back and think about how much further the democrats would go. republicans have the house they are able to stop a lot. i will tell you this for everyone sitting at home. this is a unique opportunity if the election was held today president trump would win simply on the merits that people can measure what we have been able to accomplish but on the card of joe biden himself more around the world a brighter white open fentanyl killing americans at five embassies have to evacuate. the deci

the 1950's mccarthy era hearings, among the first televised hearings.he senate committee explored whether communists had infiltrated the state department and army. the investigation resulted in the censure of wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy for his actions. watch on c-span2. >> president biden spoke to voters during a campaign stop in scranton, pennsylvania. in his remarks the president said he'll restore the child tax care credit and provide a tax credit for first-time homeowners.

he brought mccarthy down successfully and and that was the end of mccarthy. but truman had tried to go head to head and thought, that's the way you deal with somebody like. and he had no success at all. maybe maybe another lesson for the future. yeah. all right. you have a question, sir. this is about eisenhower. you really you got to eisenhower experts even wrote a fabulous book, ike's bluff. you haven't read it. three preceding his political. it's what were the traits and characteristics that were recognized by the military that that seemed to be bringing him up quite steadily. well everybody in the military who was superior to eisenhower wanted him to be their assistant because realize he outworked everybody he brilliant he knew how to handle people. and, you know macarthur wanted him. marshall wanted him. everybody wanted him because made everything better. not in any kind of puffed up, arrogant, beat on your chest. i'm a great guy, but through it, through hard work and diligence and wisdom and fundamental intelligence and fundamental likability. i like i

aforementioned kevin mccarthy is here. i love an optimist. i love a bull and i love kevin mccarthy.. let's begin with mr. trump? >> well i'm optimistic because that's what the data shows. let's go back to the last election. president biden won that election by 48918 votes. so if you take the polling from then and compare it to today, president trump is really at the exact same place he was then. the difference is, president biden was plus 10 favorability then. he is minus 20 now. i think if the election was today it wouldn't even be close. president trump would win big. you're seeing it, even talking about new york. you're not mentioning michigan. you're not mentioning pennsylvania, arizona, or georgia. president trump has been leading in those swing states for a number of months and now we're looking at black american percentage, up to 22%. if president trump gets above 13%, democrats will never win the white house. and you look at his growth with hispanic voters. we've watched that in congress, winning the districts along the border. we were the first party ever to have a mexican-

in the 15 speaker votes it was wielded against mccarthy to get rid of him.is going to file another one. what does it mean for you as a democrat? >> i stand in the solutions business. we want to get things done and we raised the debt ceiling we provided the majority of votes. we expelled the fraudster santos. and i expect on ukraine we will provide the majority of votes we want to be the responsible gang there. i will stand with speaker leader jefferies he is the speaker as to what we need to do to get things done. >> what you said is interesting. because you saying he is functionally the speaker. when you note all those things is you've got when you say democrats provide the majority of votes, what has happened is folks like gaetz and the house freedom caucus produced a situation in which the only way the house can function is with democratic votes and they produce a situation where that is the only thing that can happen and use it as a sign of betrayal to go after leadership? >> that is right. it's paid in service to donald trump. and, again, the key for us

there's a reason this fundraising is less than half of what kevin mccarthy's musk whether i like it orthe speaker of the house is a fundraiser in chief for majority party and we are going to have lackluster fundraising with everybody, especially donors being aware he's not the next figure. it would be who of us to get somebody in there. joey, let me begin with you because marjorie taylor greene did not move on vacating the house speakership today but you have called white there and probably not going anywhere. >> i have thoughts on why he's there to begin with, there's a lot in that poster statement, a lot of tentacles to the school politics of it and then policy involved. before we get into should we spent the money they spent? look at work speaker johnson is and whether republicans are. it is a good chance republicans will win the senate, a good chance donald trump will win the presidency in a decent chance those two things will then republicans will be in a deficit in the house. what got us here when you look about kevin mccarthy, the last straw and matt gaetz make say because of th

the investigation was offered with joseph mccarthy for his actions. watch congress investigates saturday at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span2.

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mckayla served former speaker at mccarthy's chief ofir staff and counsel.orking with mckayla i've worked workso much the ins and outs hag to converse with her regularly and here are some really shared insights from one of the hills most senior staff is not always exclude those two opinions other than one similar to my own. but by coming here should this city and this school and set programs like the geopolitics of and able to expand my worldview bulk of opinions that were previously foreign to me. this cometh to me embodies the spirit of democracy and exemplifies with the mission is all about. with that. today it is my pleasure to introduce former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy served as that 50 fit the speaker of the house of representatives. he was u.s. representative for california 23rd congressional district in 2007 to 2023. he served two terms as a member of the california state assembly before being elected to the u.s. house in 2006. mccarthy served as house republican chief deputy whip from 2009 until 2011 house majority whip fro

speaker mccarthy's chief of staff and general counsel. by working with michaela, i've learned so much about the ins and outs of congressional work at the highest level. having the opportunity to converse with her regularly and here's some rarely shared insights from one of hill's most senior staff has been truly unique. growing up just outside of seattle i was and always exposed to opinions other than once similar to my own. but by coming here to the city and the school and by finding programs i've been able to expand my worldview and welcome opinions that were previously foreign to me. this to me embodies the spirit of democracy and exemplifies gu politics mission is all about. and with that today, it is my pleasure to introduce former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. kevinev mccarthy served as a 50 fifths peek of the house of representatives. he was the u.s. representative for california's 20thca congressional district of 2007-2023. he served two terms as a member of the california state assembly member of the california state assem

that's a quote from then from republican leader kevin mccarthy. democrats, of course, joined in the condemnation. they have stood by it through today. what is different, what we're charting here is how republicans went over time from calling it up acceptable to going soft on crime and the insurrection. within a year, the national party formally declared that it claimed january 6th was, quote, legitimate political discourse. when that happened, that drew outrage over that lie, an effort to embrace and defend convicted seditionists and trespassers. hard to imagine in al qaeda or isis stormed the capitol that a year or two later you would have one political calling it discourse. republicans rejected the chance to -- or follow, say, the precedent of a 9/11 investigation. instead they ousted the party members who stood up. they excommunicated people like liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger. seen enough, the legislator who replaced kevin mccarthy, got himself in a scandal saying he would blur the face from doj. he backtracked on that, but went on

i give speaker johnson minus o, same thing i give kevin mccarthy. what he's going to do is the same thing. he's going to go to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring and i actually like what the republican party is doing right now, even though i think they're crazy. they're blocking money to go to israel. they're blocking money to go to ukraine. that war is lost. why do we want to keep sending money to keep killing people? the same thing with israel. netanyahu has to go. so if our leadership is not strong enough to deal with that, they don't get my vote. so he can go to mar-a-lago and kiss the ring all he wants, he's still the same fool. republican party is a lost cause. the democratic party is weak and they should stand up right now, but they won't. maybe it's because they're too old, i don't know, but right now, i don't know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party because i'm watching a genocide take place right before my eyes and we're doing nothing. >> okay. mary there in maryland. when it comes to the assessment of not only th

a graduate of the university, fox news contributor andy mccarthy. somebody in academia says he feels like watching his professional home destroy itself is a moral injury for somebody who is a graduate who was aware of the politics at columbia. how do you feel about it? >> it's very hard to watch. when i was there, dana, it was still within a decade of the major riots that had occurred at columbia why in 1968 in connection with the vietnam war and when i heard that student say that he would rather not see the nypd come in, part of me wants to say how else do you think this gets resolved? when i was an undergrad at columbia it was a few years after kent state where four students protesting the war were killed when they had a military and law enforcement response to the violence that was underway there. so it's a powder keg of a situation. i can understand why they want the law enforcement people to stand down until it's absolutely necessary to bring them in. but i really think this is a problem of the administration. the people who were the main rob w

but on the subject of matt gaetz kevin mccarthy was a georgetown this week and he was incredibly blunt, candid, and sharp about matt gaetz give me the truth about that number >> and i'll give you the truth why i'm not speakers because one person, a member of congress wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old an ethics complaint that started before i ever became speaker, and that's illegal and i'm not going to get the milk. did he do it or not? i don't know >> okay. before you jump in, i just need to say that the doj did investigate the congressman gates for sex trafficking. they looked into allegations that he had sexual relations with an underage girl. they dropped the investigation and february of 2023, he denies the allegations and gates responded to mccarthy san kevin is a liar, which actually is why he isn't speaker. just ask any of the 224 people who voted to remove him. >> listen. kevin mccarthy, obviously, still dealing emotionally with what it means please do not be speaker anymore. in effect, that matt gaetz is the one who dealt him that fate.

this week the 1950 mccarthy era hearing among the first televised hearing the senate committee exploredst had infiltrated the state department, the army and other federal agencies. the investigation resulted in the center of wisconsin republican senator joseph mccarthy for his actions. watch congress investigates saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. ♪ book and tv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discuss the latest nonfiction books. at 9:00 p.m. eastern journalist talks about her upbringing why young adults like herself are leaving the evangelical church with her book the x in the evangelical. at 10:00 p.m. eastern on after words princeton university profesr author of we are the leaders we have bn looking for shares his views on black politics of the black community it moves forward in america's democracy he has interviewed harvard university history, race public policy professor. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. she spent as your unfiltered view of government could be refunded by

do now, how many times i heard as a former friend of kevin mccarthy from kevin mccarthy, none.iz cheney and i pelosi republicans kevin mccarthy went to mar-a-lago. caitlin for one reason, he needed to become speaker and he knew that he didn't have time to take out the maga and he wanted to win. he needed them, so he went down to enlist the help of donald trump for fundraising, which donald trump help them with and to get donald trump on his side as a political player. so he could become speaker. >> that's it. and in that process, it was like a ambulance showing up to a person in cardiac arrest. he thought the paddles to donald trump and brought him back to political life. and this, by the way, is just a few weeks after he said that donald trump was responsible for january 6 after capital lease officer died on january 6 after numerous capitol police officers were assaulted and beat up on january 2 but he has no choice because he made his bed. now we have to lay in it and he is lying to himself in the american people by saying that's why he went, >> well, there was also the photo

now mccarthy's replacement, speaker to mccarthy, he is doing the very thing gaetz and others said wasxample, democracy, where you use the votes in the house to pass things. doesn't sound that controversial. speaker johnson worked with democrats to get much-needed aid to foreign conflicts including ukraine and israel. he also relied on democrats to avoid the shutdown. maga republicans apparently think that they want to go into this campaign season with another civil war. johnson could need democrats to help him save his job if there were a vote on removal, it would be democrats who probably stop the bleeding. chay, it is really remarkable that this story is kind of a catch up. i'm giving everyone that update because there's been a lot of other stuff happening, but we haven't seen a modern congress, say, in the last two generations successively fight over possibly replacing, firing two speakers in a row in one congress. >> no, we haven't but, you know, this it feels to me like the republican party and their government representatives, donald trump, green, mike johnson, it feels like "th