mr. mccarthy. quote, on january 10th, so four days after the attack on the capitol, kevin mccarthy convened a small group of house republican leaders to share his thinking. speaking with just three other top republicans on a private, call mccarthy said he might call on trump to resign. he conferred for more than 45 minutes, with steve scalise, liz cheney, and tom amr, the minnesota congressman who led the republicans campaign committee. the usually upbeat mccarthy was audibly anguished. the gravity of the attack was still sinking in, and it seemed increasingly clear to him that he had to break with trump, it was finally time to end their alliance. his plan, mccarthy said, was to approach president trump, and tell him it was inevitable that congress would impeach him, and it isn't time for him to he envisioned telling trump of an impeachment resolution, saying, quote, i think this will pass. and it would be my recommendation that you should resign. i think this will pass, meaning the impeachment res

mr. mccarthy said he would push president trump to resign. his spokesman responded saying, quote, no, he did not. mccarthy issued a statement himself, saying "the new york times" reporting on me is totally false and wrong. the problem with these denials from mr. mccarthy and his office is that we have now obtained audio of that january 10th phone call that leader mccarthy had with other top republicans in which he in fact said he's going to call trump and tell him that he must resign. the you a thors of this new book, jonathan martin and alexander burns from "the new york times" have shared that audio of the call with us so we can share it with you and so you can know when kevin mccarthy denies that this happened, he is not telling the truth. here it is. >> are you here? >> i'm here, mr. chairman. i just heard the question, when we talked about the 25th amendment resolution, and you asked, you know, what happens if you get there after he's gone, is there any chance, are you hearing that he might resign. anything that that might happen? >> i've

mr. mccarthy because so many of their own voters care about the relationship that trump has with elected republicans in congress. and it's so important to keep mr. trump satisfied because of that. so i don't think the issue here is necessarily will this impact trump and trump's relaugsship with mccarthy or vice versa. will trump look for another candidate for speaker of the house if the republicans win the majority in november because of this. i think he likes the relationship where mr. mccarthy is always trying to satisfy and keep trump assuaged from doing things that would be counterproductive to republicans' political aims. i do think the question we've gotten to here is how do other house republicans react to this. when you are a leader of the conference, whether you're the top leader or a major depp testify leader, you are don't get to say anything in your function as a congressman from wherever or a senator representing the state of whatever. you are always speaking for the conference. and guess what happens when a leader says something that might be problematic. it's problematic be

mr. mccarthy realizes that he has a moral obligation to come in and tell us what he knows.he should not be hiding the truth from the committee or from the american people. let's hope he has the honor to come forward and just tell the truth, that's all we ask. >> what do you make of the former presidents denial of culpability after hearing the tapes of kevin mccarthy saying in fact he takes no responsibility and didn't say that? >> well, the president is known for statements that bear little resemblance to the truth, i think news media used to add up how many untruths per day were said. so, whether this falls into that category i don't know, but we certainly want to see mr. crump talk to mr. mccarthy. >> i want to play a clip from a show yesterday in which i spoke with charlie's ike's, about what was happening with mark meadows as well. that information that we're now hearing that meadows actually knew there was a possibility of violence being told by the secret service before january six. i want to talk on the other side. >> mark meadows is at the center of all of what was

mr. mccarthy is a terrible follower.t a coup on our country, were leaders, and you saw that mr. mccarthy failed miserably. i will take that message. you know the democrats are often demonized for our horrible ability to message, but i will say that people can see with clarity, we're fighting for the people. republicans are lying about what's going on and trying to make you afraid about it and blaming somebody else. so, a.b., continue to counsel us to make sure that we lift up the very best of public servants and my hope is -- i believe we will be in the majority, we will continue to lead. if somehow that is not the case, i think mr. mccarthy will never learn -- will never earn the respect enough of his conference in order to become speaker. that doesn't tell me anything good about who might be next, but mr. mccarthy is so weak. you see it in his daily interaction on the floor. i have experienced myself his extraordinary weakness. as you said, he's trying to please everybody. he's pleasing nobody. he stands for nothing. i

mr. mccarthy referred chiefly to new dose representatives, matt gaetz of florida, mo brooks of alabama, as endangering the security of other lawmakers at the capitol complex. along with the public -- the published story, the tapes as well. here is one where mccarthy was discussing matt gaetz. >> the other thing i want to bring up, i just got something about newsmax, matt gaetz saying he is calling people's names out as anti-trump in this type of atmosphere. this is serious stuff. it has to stop. >> mo and louis posto comments tol, members have had concerns. >> louis was at the -- i mean, mo was at the rally -- >> what did he say? >> i just saw that on twitter. >> i am calling him and explaining to him -- i will have some other people to call him too. i will get another briefing from the fbi tomorrow. >> that's -- it is potentially illegal, what he's doing. >> he's putting people in jeopardy. he does not need to be doing this. we saw what people would do in the capitol, you know. >> that from the leaked audio recordings published by the new york times, a series of quattro different recordin

mr. mccarthy and his office is we have obtained audio of that january 10th call mccarthy held in which heaid, he's going to call trump and tell him that he must resign. >> there you have it. rachel reporting on that. the tapes and the underlying sources there are from this new book you may have heard about. "this will not pass," by "new york times" journalists. the secret calls were five days after the insurrection. they revealed top republicans say they were privately pressing trump on his responsibility. >> let me be very clear to all of you, and i am very clear to the president. he bears responsibilities for his words and actions. no ifs, ands, or buts. i asked him personally today does he hold responsibility for what happened, does he feel bad about what happened. he told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. and we need to acknowledge that. >> this goes well beyond the lies. it shows the republican party is led by people like mr. mccarthy who privately, secretly, saw the insurrection for what it was, a terrible trump-fuelled attack on democracy. and then people who b

mr. mccarthy, that is completely consistent with the resolution. and mr. mccarthy then himself withdrew the other three and determined that he would not participate. finally, madam speaker, i continue to hear this allegation that the committee's not investigating what happened at the capitol, not investigating what happened with respect to the capitol police. not investigating what happened with respect to security that day. that's just not true. the committee has an entire team that is very focused on investigating what happened with respect to security at the capitol. it is the case, though, madam speaker, we must all remember that the former president provoked a violent assault on this body and the extent to which there were security lapses, the extent to which people did not anticipate that there would be a violent assault on the capitol provoked by the former president is not the fault of the capitol police. that is the responsibility of the former president. and i would also note, madam speaker, that mr. davis voted yes on the bipartisan commission wh

mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, for the house to be in order, should people be in their seats or should people be talking? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may proceed. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. people are standing and talking. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mccarthy: today's resolution is about criminalizing dissent. democrats are threatening to throw in jail a good man who has done nothing but attempt to follow the law. simply because he's president trump's closest aide. mr. scavino does not deserve that. he tried to cooperate with the select committee's request. he sent timely letters to the committee to clarify the vague scope of the requested testimony. he even offered to answer the committee's questions in writing. which the committee's rules allow

mr. mccarthy. other republicans who initially criticized him at the gym or six and then said there was no support him. they realize they were wrong and supported me. nbc news reports that one person close to trump set mccarthy called the former president and apologized. earlier tonight, we heard from kevin mccarthy himself. >> congressman, have you spoken with president trump recently? did you speak with him last night? >> i spoke to him twice today, just an hour ago. >> how is your conversation? did you talk about the new york times report and the conversation you had -- >> the conversation is very good. the conversation of they said we did, we never did, i never asked him to resign, we will talk about that. >> have you spoke with him about resigning? >> no, let me be clear. i have never asked the president to resign. with the book said was not true. i never asked the president to resign. we talked about the ability to win the majority back in congress. >> we should point out that the book, this w

mr. mccarthy. mr. eaders who truly lead have to have that quality of trust. mr. mccarthy can't be trusted to tell the truth in two different places in two different minutes. and so you can see his conference is flailing. there's blood in the water. i have said for months i don't think he will remain the leader. if they should somehow take the majority, which i don't believe they will. but he's -- >> i think we lost the congresswoman. i want to bring you in, joyce vance, and put the same kind of question to you about whether there's something about kevin mccarthy and steve scalise admitting on tape in the one instance what one of the members does is worse than what trump did which they view at least in the call as impeachable and describe their own member's conduct as going farther than what was impeachable in the case of donald trump. steve scalise saying he thought matt gaetz' conduct was illegal. what does that knowledge and speaking freely about legality say to people in the justice department lookin

mr. mccarthy telling other gop lawmakers he would advise mr.rump to resign several days after rioters stormed the u.s. in january 6, 2021. in an interview with the "wall street journal" at his mar-a-lago resort in florida, mr. trump said he was not pleased to learn of the comments on the call but he said the california republican never ultimately advised him to quit. he said that mr. mccarthy quickly changed his stance "when he found out the facts." and embraced him fully a few weeks after the january 10 call. "he made the call, i heard the call, i didn't like the call," said mr. trump, but almost immediately, as you know because he came here and we took a picture right there, you know the support was very strong. the photo was an image seen as formalizing mr. trump's continued dominance in that party. it is fort payne, alabama, good morning on the republican line. caller: yes, good morning. first of all, i would like to say this, i do not appreciate you running the clips and letting the f-word be on the tv for everyone to see. i think that sho

mr. mccarthy still have your support? al mccarthy and republican whip steve scalise criticizing congressman matt gaetz for his attacks on liz cheney, who has been the subject of threats. f t. >> reporter: gaetz called mccarthy and scalise weak men, not leaders. mr. gaetz, do you think he's going to remain conference leader? the republican leader weathered a political storm last week, when another january 2021 recording surfaced in which he told colleagues he was planning to recommend donald trump resign. the audio leaked just hours after mccarthy denied doing so. one of trump's staunchest backers, his former doctor and now texas congressman, ronny jackson, told cbs news today he still backs mccarthy. >> we're not going to let leaked audio tapes to the press pull us apart. we have bigger things to do. we're all on the same page. >> reporter: at a private meeting of house republicans today, kevin mccarthy addressed those leaked phone calls, then called for unity. and from a party that's optimistic it will retake control of t

mr. mccarthy as speaker and mr. mcconnell continue as leader. [applause] >> thank you so much. [applause] [speaking foreign language]

mrs. mccarthy: good morning, everyone. first let me thank steve and anne and the entire team for all of their work and of course secretary buttigieg for always making fun of my boston accent. [laughter] for all of your incredible leadership, you know, the lights going on out for a second at the beginning reminded me of the last -- one of the last times that we've done an event together. which happened to be a parking garage with lots of cars, looking at some e.v. charging stations. and when the secretary got up to give his remarks, there was -- you reporters will remember this, there was a pause in the audience because one of the light fixtures blew up, started a fire, all the lights went out. all you could see was the billoing smoke. [laughter] and this man kept talking the entire time. [laughter] i don't know whether anyone was listening, but it was a hoot. it just shows, i guess, indiana strong, right? that's how you just keep moving. it also makes me wonder if he's a jinx. but we'll move on. but really, thanks to every

mr. mccarthy still have your support? the recordings also reveal mccarthy and republican whip steve scalise criticizing congressman matt gaetz for his attacks on liz cheney, who has been the subject of threats. >> reporter: gaetz called mccarthy and scalise weak men, not leaders. mr. gaetz, do you think he's going to remain conference leader? the republican leader weathered a political storm last week, when another january 2021 recording surfaced in which he told colleagues he was planning to recommend donald trump resign. the audio leaked just hours after mccarthy denied doing so. one of trump's staunchest jack tols ws tay h stilbacks mccahy. >> we're not goi to let leed ha. 're all he same ge.>> rorter: a meeting of house republicans today, kevin mccarthy addressed those leaked phone calls, then called for unity. and from a party that's optimistic it will retake control of the u.s. house next year and make mccarthy speaker, kevin mccarthy received a standing ovation. norah. >> o'donnell: scott macfarlane on capitol hill,

mr. mccarthy has shown himself to not be able to leave. that moment, at the moment of an attempted insurrection, that for a split second he recognized the truth. he recognizes the extraordinary responsibility of the president. the actions and the attack on the capitol that nearly took his own life. and then he pivoted, because he is a follower. in the, and he is a follower. i do want to say on this easter sunday morning, for some of my constituents, my ukrainian american constituents, they are tired of these kinds of conversations. many of my constituents, they are much more concerned about their own lives, their own families, the price of gas and food, the price gouging. they are also concerned about what is going on in ukraine. and in the meantime, democrats are doing things about both of these things. and we met people, republican leaders like mr. mccarthy, who has not a plan, and cannot by his weight of a paper bag in order to tell the truth to the congress and to the american people. >> to that point, he always seems to say, i did not

mr. mccarthy: don would tell all of us be on time. to make sure we didn't keep this too long. to his family, thank you. thank you for sharing him. he loved you so much. don has taught us a lot but he told us how to have this job and love their family. you know, throughout my time in congress, many have come and gone, but few have had as great an impact as our dean, congressman don young. there has been no other person in this chamber that has been loved, feared and respected more all at the same time. don was mr. laughter, but he was born in my home state california, but it wasn't frontier enough for him. when alaska became a state, he knew where to go. he tried his hand at everything. yes, he was a tugboat captain, he was a mayor and he told me that the job that prepared him the most to be a member of congress was teaching the fifth grade. i don't know what type of teacher don was in alaska, but i can only imagine he was good, because he was a great teacher to all of us in congress and didn't matter what side of the aisle you stood.

will have to be a plus and democratic person who understand the foster to charlottesville on mrs. mccarthy's party i re told to responded, maria let allow me to respond. so we have a new prime minister now in place that the protest, i mean, i don't know what you feel they're going to achieve, but isn't it in the benefit of all pakistan is to move forward now and address this urgent issue that is a tackling and propping up the, the economy, what would you hope the new prime minister will prioritize? i think the, the new prime minister has his hands full a. he's come in on an international conspiracy mandate, which you said that we haven't proven. i just want to clarify that that's completely incorrect. ok. tanner has called the north dust. the national security council was called it has all 3 chiefs, the navy, the army, and the air force chiefs and the opposition leaders at the time who are now in power. were all invited to that council to the national security council. they all refused to come. all 3 serving armed chiefs signed off that they feel that there was a, an intervention. and that t

mr. mccarthy went so far as to say that he would push mr. trump to resign immediately. i've had it with this guy he supposedly told a group of republican leaders leader mcconnell told his advisers that, quote, the democrats are going to take care of the sob for us, referring to the imminent impeachment vote in the house. both leaders ended up backing off because they feared retribution from mr. trump and feared alienating his supporters in a statement leader mccarthy's office says the book's reporting is totally false and wrong and that he never said he would push mr. trump to resign. mr. mcconnell's office declined to comment. >>> meantime donald trump jr. is expected to appear before the january 6th committee according to a source familiar with the investigation. a date not yet scheduled but we're told it will be in the coming days. this will be a voluntary appearance by trump jr no subpoena has been issued. an attorney for mr. trump has not responded to nbc's request for comment. >>> former president barack obama taking on a major problem we all face, disinformation.

mr. mccarthy referred chiefly to new dose representatives, matt gaetz of florida, mo brooks of alabama, as endangering the security of other lawmakers at the capitol complex. along with the public -- the published story, the tapes as well. here is one where mccarthy was discussing matt gaetz. >> the other thing i want to bring up, i just got something about newsmax, matt gaetz saying he is calling people's names out as anti-trump in this type of atmosphere. this is serious stuff. it has to stop. >> mo and louis posto comments tol, members have had concerns. >> louis was at the -- i mean, mo was at the rally -- >> what did he say? >> i just saw that on twitter. >> i am calling him and explaining to him -- i will have some other people to call him too. i will get another briefing from the fbi tomorrow. >> that's -- it is potentially illegal, what he's doing. >> he's putting people in jeopardy. he does not need to be doing this. we saw what people would do in the capitol, you know. >> that from the leaked audio recordings published by the new york times, a series of quattro different recordin

mr. mccarthy said, and they would have the votes to pass it. now he planned to call mr. tell him it was time for him to go. what he did was unacceptable. nobody can defend that and nobody should defend. . kevin, kevin, listen to the voices inside your head. you were right the first time. that's what he told the house leadership team. mccarthy also said he would tell mr. trump of the impeachment resolution, i think it will pass, it would be my recommendation you should resign. so anyway, on and on and on. some incredible reporting, willie, coming out in this blockbuster book. of course, we know how the story ends. within weeks they back off, both of them back up. but just get this, willie, so you have -- you have here with this incredible reporting from jonathan martin and alex burns, you have the majority leader of the senate saying "let the democrats take care of this son of a bitch," and saying if this is not impeachable then nothing is. then you have kevin mccarthy, running republicans in the house, saying it is unforgivable, it is uncalled for, and that donald trump

mr. mccarthy did not follow through on the steps republicans expected him to take. -- in the interest of advancing his own career. so talk to us about the advancement of kevin mccarthy's career here and what a lot of this is about, the potential that he wants to speakership if the republicans take back the house in midterms. >> yeah. he was denied the brass ring in 2015. he wants it. that's what he thinks about all the time. that's one of the reasons why he's so secure at this moment is because he's done a lot of fund raising, and he's done a lot of political favors for his own members and he's done hundreds and hundreds of trips and events and stocked up a lot of political chips inside the house republican conference just for a moment like this. a couple of things. one, i think it's easy for mccarthy to reel against the press, and that's made it easier here was it was the new york times. they're liberal, they're out to get all republicans. and i think he's tried to use that and he claims he was misquoted and it wasn't accurate, and of course that's not true. mccarthy wants one thing, and

mr. mccarthy reportedly made those comments, donald trump wasn't just, you know, one of the 17 differentc

mr. mccarthy's potential to become speaker. >> sandra: juan, you can give us your view, but democrats you could probably make the case may be welcoming this distraction at a time when they're fighting each other. progressive senator elizabeth warren says democrats need to triple down now on some of these far left policies. is that good advice considering president biden's current poll numbers? >> well, no, i don't think it's good advice, sandra. i think this midterm election is going to be bigger than simply the left wing base of the democratic party. i think you have to move swing voters in swing congressional districts specifically. and you got to do that really -- and this is what i think elizabeth warren's best point is democrats have to build and show that they can get things done in washington, that they are not just spinning their wheels, that they can build after build back better stalled in the senate. they can build on covid vaccinations, covid economic relief, the passage of the infrastructure package, that they can now go on and attack climate change. they can do something abo

and we are now in week two of the rolling mccarthy tapes. >> and, when i had mr. martin and mr. specifically the night saying, they immediately, said one of the other things that he did, and i've seen this reporting in this book, that advance cop in part of the book, was that mccarthy had asked for social media companies, twitter, to cut off other republican members of congress in the same

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mr. mccarthy referencing the fbi briefings he was getting, in that same discussion. in addition to that recording tonight, released by the new york times. we've now also got the context for wet nicholas burns and jonathan martin have reported here on this show last week, when they described kevin mccarthy expressing exasperations the social media companies, the twitter was not cutting off the accounts of more republicans, beyond just trump. as republicans continue to use social media platforms like twitter to call for violence, or to otherwise say things online that could incite. here is that tape. >> what did mora say down at that rally, though. >> it's the kicking butt and taking names thing is the one i'm seeing the most from people. i didn't watch the speech, that's a number of members said that to me, the use that term. and louise said -- didn't you say something a couple of days out that -- >> something like that, yes. it's incendiary. >> i'm, you've got maxine waters and all that stuff too. i know the dems are in a very strong position right now, we've got to

mr. mccarthy referencing the fbi briefings that he was getting in that same discussion. in addition to that recording tonight released by "the new york times," we also now have the context for what nicholas burns and jonathan martin reported here on this show last week when they described kevin mccarthy expressing exasperation that social media companies, twitter, wasn't cutting off the accounts of more republicans beyond just trump as republicans continued to use social media platforms like twitter to call for violence or otherwise say things online that could incite it. here is that tape. >> what did mo brooks say down at that rally, though? [ bleep ] taking names thing is the one that i've seen the most from people. i didn't watch the speech, but -- that's another member sent that to me. he used that term. and louis said like we need to fight or something, right? didn't he say something a couple days out that was horrendous. >> something like that, yes. >> incendiary. >> i mean, you got the max seen waters and all that stuff, too. i know the dems are in a very strong

mr. mccarthy said he wished the big tech companies would strip some republican lawmakers of their social't put up with that. can't they take their twitter accounts away, too. obviously trump's had been taken away. we keep talking about it. is kevin mccarthy at risk of not being speaker? if trump gave them the nod they'd in a heartbeat oppose him. kevin mccarthy in part of his statement yesterday said he never specifically names any members. he also said he didn't say he planned to call trump to resign and you have the audio of that. i suspect anything -- he can't deny anything now because he denied one big thing and the audio whacks him in the head with it. but who? did he say who? >> he can try to deny things again. he's more than welcome to do that. we quoted him saying in that story is, yes, a more general description of the kind of member he wishes the tech companies would take access away from. but it is very clear the group he's referring to in the days after january 6th. the lauren boeberts, matt gaetzes, marjorie taylor greenes of the world who continue to say incendiary things a

mr. mccarthy and other republicans who criticized him after january 6, and then said they'll stid back him until i read the statement over and over again, and i realized that this is the way donald trump thinks. it gives you great insight into his mind, which is that they were wrong when they said i should resign. they were wrong when they criticized me. but i am so powerful and so important in the republican party that they changed their minds. and also maybe they listened to me and understood that i was right all along. this is the way donald trump thinks. and after i thought about that for a while, it made an awful lot of sense to me because he realized, or in his own mind, he thinks that he has conquered kevin mccarthy and the rest of those people who dared to disagree with him on impeachment, for example, and he has made it his life's work right now to try and defeat those people in the upcoming midterm elections. >> and they think what is clear for at least the reaction so far as you point out from republicans is that they are willing to give kevin mccarthy the benefit of the doubt.

mr. mccarthy went so far to say he would push mr. trump to resign immediately.leaders but as the times notes in weeks later, they backed off because they feared retribution from him and the political movement. and visiting mar-a-lago a week after, and saying he would vote for him again. >>> joining us, the "washington post" reporter, an msnbc contributor. so jackie, good morning. great to have you with us. trump in his words, more likely than not, criminally conspired to disrupt congress's proceedings, does the pence call that happened, the morning of january 6th, is it a clue as to how they're trying to frame their case? >> yes, that's a really good question, it does give us a clue and we know the committee is trying to flush out as many details as possible that have somehow gone undetailed in the past, basically the year and a half, since january 6th happened but this was a key call that the former president had, you know, before a lot of the violence broke out on january 6th. and the former, there are various witnesses who were around the president, who sort

mr. mccarthy fought out and categorically denied thought today.xactly that. trump to resign he in >> just over two months and to russia's invasion of ukraine there is an open question about the current state of the russian military. is it degraded? what is the best definition we have provide given the nuclear power? the kyiv independent has published in estimates of russia's losses, which of course should be taken with enormous grain of salt. this is fundamentally ukraine ministry of defence propaganda. they show that as many as 22,000 russian troops have been lost. just incalculable staggering numbers, along with 900 tanks, 400 artillery units. these numbers are likely inflated, and yet independent estimates still report significant losses for russian troops. so even though they are entering part of the phase in the war in ukraine, because bottles are concentrated in the eastern region where russia has a significant advantage, the seemingly endless supply of military support from the west, against the russia military that has seen substantial los

mr. mccarthy flat out and categorically denied that today.resign. that he said he woul tell trump t in 2010, you historian tim snyder published a new history kind of a shocking new history of world war ii professional specialize in the history of central eastern europe and the book was called blood lands. europe tween hitler and stalin. that book took on really for the first time would happened in total on the land east of roland and west of moscow between 1933 and 1945. he elected to do something that nobody had ever really try to do about that geography and the world in that time. he told a single history, a single story of the 14 million people who were killed in that part of the world while both hitler and stalin help power. 40 million people who were not soldiers. civilian non combatants, not people who are caught in the cross fire while countries were trying to kill each other soldiers. these were victims of mass killings, sanctioned by policy. in western russia, in belarus, in poland, and ukraine, the baltic states, all the same place,

mr. mccarthy insqquired about t mechanisms for removing a president from office before concluding that wasory with donald trump, when donald trump reads that, and he was planning to tell me to resign, that's not going to sit well. there's going to have to be another mar-a-lago mission here. >> oh, everything that has been reported in this, you would expect to really upset the former president. but it also just further highlights how much republicans are willing to adapt and cater to him. and what he believes, as far as the election, the false allegations that it was rigged. but you repeatedly, you saw kevin mccarthy go down there once. you've seen other republican goes down there to kiss the ring. that's something that likely will have to happen more. even if he's coming out and denying it. it's not going to sit well with the former president. >> so help me. the january 6th committee is trying to put together this timeline. they want to talk to kevin mccarthy. the likelihood is like the same as me flapping and flying. it's not going to happen. and so -- but you get this account here from a

nbc news has confirmed the former president and mccarthy spoke thursday night, and so far mr. trump is not upset. but neither man has commented publicly about what this means for their relationship or mccarthy's ambition to become house speaker. lester >> all right, kelly o'donnell at the white house tonight, thank you. >>> on this earth day president biden signed an executive order to protect forests from wildfires on federal lands. this comes as fire season strikes early and severely in the west where a number of fast moving blazes are out of control one of the most dangerous is in arizona. and miguel almaguer is there for us tonight >> reporter: overmatched and understaffed tonight firefighters across the west are on their heels. a series of destructive and fast moving infernos devouring homes. >> you could hear the fire coming it was so intense. >> reporter: facing extreme conditions the most dangerous fires today are whipped by winds. here in arizona where dozens of structures have been obliterated crews are struggling to stay ahead of the tunnel fire and are mopping up in

mr. mccarthy quickly changed his stance "when he found out the facts." i didn't like the call, said mr.rump, but almost immediately, as you know because he came here and we took a picture right there, you know the support was very strong. the photo was an image seen as formalizing mr. trump's continued dominance in that party. fort payne, alabama, republican line. caller: good morning. first of all, i would like to say this, i do not appreciate you running the clips and letting the f word be on the tv for everyone to see. i think that should be blotted out. i don't have any respect when you do that. second of all, both virginia callers you had, their comments are very empty. second of all, i think we rode this horse to death. we have got people dying in ukraine. yes, this will change my vote back to the way it was. i will support any republican that runs because biden's administration is ruining our country. senior citizens are suffering in america on account of the things he is doing. nobody addresses the senior citizens. as senior citizens have already put our time in. donald trump, w

mr. mccarthy, that is completely consistent with the resolution. and mr. mccarthy then himself withdrew the other three and determined that he would not participate. finally, madam speaker, i continue to hear this allegation that the committee's not investigating what happened at the capitol, not investigating what happened with respect to the capitol police. not investigating what happened with respect to security that day. that's just not true. the committee has an entire team that is very focused on investigating what happened with respect to security at the capitol. it is the case, though, madam speaker, we must all remember that the former president provoked a violent assault on this body and the extent to which there were security lapses, the extent to which people did not anticipate that there would be a violent assault on the capitol provoked by the former president is not the fault of the capitol police. that is the responsibility of the former president. and i would also note, madam speaker, that mr. davis voted yes on the bipartisan commission wh

mccarthy and the former president spoke late thursday after the tape materialized. mry so far, very accepting of people who were against him, but then turned for him. but what we don't know is when does donald trump potentially if he does put in a sword, republicans often follow the former president's lead really goes after him, it could create problems for mccarthy's speakership. a leak could be designed to drive a wedge between president trump and mccarthy, and so far it has not worked. on capitol hill chad program, fox news. new at 10. oakland police have cited to smoke shops for selling flavored tobacco to minors departments alcohol, beverage and tobacco unit conducted an investigation last month. after receiving calls from concerned community members. police found a large quantity of banned flavored tobacco products worth between 10 and $15,000. the clerks who sold the tobacco were issued citations and could face fines. police did not name the smoke shops involved. new details tonight about the man at the center of an airplane confrontation with boxing legend mike