i'll turn it to mr. mccarthy. reporter: speaker pelosi, will you be asking the same questions to mitch mcconnell? he also had an appointee for the sergeant at arms, will you ask the same questions about capital security? -- capitol security? mr. mccarthy: we. we want to get to the bottom why this capitol was so ill prepared. there were reports that offered the national guard as early as january 2. we don't know why they weren't here. seen intel reporting after this, watched the crowd get out of control. people warned ahead of time. they were offering a national guard. we want to get to the bottom of why they weren't there. jonathan, how are you? reporter: thank you. can you just clarify something? do you believe that joe biden was the legitimate victor of the 2020 election? and do you believe that donald trump is just plat wrong when he says the election was stolen? mr. mccarthy: look. we answered this question a long time. joe biden is the president. i think you can look there's a lot of problems still within the

mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, this is the third time i've come to the floor to protect our supreme court justices and their families. speaker pelosi said this bill would come to the floor this week, but it's not listed on our schedule. mr. speaker, also said last week in her press conference that no one is in danger. think about that, mr. speaker. the speaker of the house of representatives last week at a press conference said no one is in danger. this is just after a day or two of a man came clear across the country from california to kill justice kavanaugh. he was on the street, had a weapon, zip ties, he had a plan. at the same time the speaker says no one is in danger. but at the same time the senate already unanimously passed the bill with agreement from all 100 senators. that wasn't passed last week, that was last month. for one month the majority of this house, mr. speaker, has held that bill. a bill that every single senator, republican and democrat, and independent passed in the senate. it simply

with that, let me bring up our leader, kevin mccarthy. [applause] mr. mccarthy: only a few of us are speaking today but i hope you acknowledge everyone who is standing behind me. i hope you acknowledge everybody who is sitting at home. saying the exact same words. that we are. today's supreme court decision is the most important pro-life ruling in american history. by a vote of 6-3, the court affirmed that the power to protect unborn life is returned to the people and their elected representatives. the people have won a victory. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. this great nation can now live up to its core principles, that all are created equal, not born equal, created equal. americans celebrate this historic victory because we know it will save the lives of millions of children and it will give families hope. but as encouraging as today's decision is, our work is far from done. americans remain one of only seven countries on earth that allow elective abortions in the third trimester. of those seven countri

so and mr. mccarthy called me with this information. i answer to connie's sounded a rush, but also frustrated and angry at me and i was confused because i didn't know what the president had just said. i'm. he then explained the president who said he's marching to the capital. you told me this whole week. you are coming up here. why would you lie to me? i said i'm, i'm not lying. i wasn't lying to you sir. i. we're not going to the capital. and he said, well, he just set it on stage. kasey figure it out. don't come up here. i said all all around the troughs on this not i'll shoot you a text i can assure you, we're not coming up to the capital. we've already made that decision. he price a little bit more believing me, but i think frustrated that the president had said that and we ended the phone conversation. after that i called mr renato to reconfirm that we were going to the capital. and which is also in our text messages, eisen sent mr. mccarthy, another text telling him their formative that we were not going up to the capital. and he

mr. mccarthy: i would tell him in less than 140 days things will change here and he will have a congress that will call him up. he will have the ability of congress to have oversight. he will now have a congress that will hold him accountable. thank you all and most importantly, to america. i continue to pray, one for the safety of everyone, but more importantly we now have a voice for all life. thank you and god bless. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] supreme court's decision to overturn roe versus wade which protected women'srights and abortion . thisis just over 20 minutes . >> ... [inaudible] there's no point in saying good morning because it most certainly is not one . morning the radical supreme court raining and americans rightsand endangering their safety . congress will continue to act to overcome this extremism and prote

mr. moore, your take on that same question of what people like mr. mccarthy are seeing whether it supports indictment and whether there is a mark being made by some of this evidence. >> well, i am glad to be with you. i may be in the other camp and, you know, anybody that thinks i am defending trump, that is not my point here but i do think we are at a place we have heard a lot of hearsay. we have heard some allegations. we talk about can we prosecute the trump orbit? or people in the trump orbit? that's not how you prosecute. so, hopefully, with the media sort of narrowing down who is the target? is there somebody/some way, they can show in fact trump was pulling strings, being the godfather if you will of the -- of the event there? let me throw this out, though. i think probably the most serious thing that i have heard about a prosecution, and i -- i would agree that this may be a real threat to him and that is this idea of witness tampering. if they can link the witness tampering we heard about in the committee hearing, in trump's direction, i thi

which is an argument that mr. mccarthy is in a bizarre position to make, given the fact that he was the one --. the republicans had advance for an independent, outside non-11 style commission to investigate january 6. which was something we agreed to as the democrats. five republicans, five democrats -- any investigation. the gop leadership ended up pulling the plug on the proposal. congressman bennie thompson who is now the chair of the select committee has except it there? d this is what we need to do to have a fair and accurate investigation and he agreed to it in the republicans pulled the plug on it because donald trump didn't want it. now they come back with the composition of the committee, where they have done everything they can to undermine, this is a very effective, focused, bipartisan committee. it's the most bipartisan committee i've ever been on in the sense that we are working together towards common ends rather than just engaging in rhetorical combat. that's a lot of what we see unfortunately in th

i sent esther mccarthy another text, -- i sent to mr. mccarthy another text with the affirmative that we were not going up to the capitol and he did not respond after that. >> we understand the plans for the president going to the capitol had included discussions at some point about what the president would do when he came up to the capitol january 6. let's lookt a clip of one of your interviews scussing that issue with the committee. >> you were talking about a scheduled movement. [indiscernible] -- the president to when he got here? >> n not tt i can specifically remember. i remember hearing ideas, discussed with mark and scott perry, mark and rudy giuliani, i don't know which conversations were elevated to the president. i don't know what he originally wanted to do when he went to the capitol that day. i know that there were talks about him having another speech before gng in. there was a conversation about him going into the house chamber atne point. as we have l just heard, in the days leadi up toanuary 6, on the day of the speech,

so mr. mccarthy called me with this infoation. i the call and he sounded rushed -- i answered the call, and he sounded rushed and angry at me, i was confused, because i did not know what the president ha just said. he then explain, the presint just that he is marching to the capitol, you told me this whole week that you are not ming up here, why would you lie to me? i said, i wasn't lying to you sir, we are not going to the capitol. and he said, he just set it on stage, cassidy, figure it out, do not come up here. i said, i will assure you we are noo the capitol, we have ready made that decision. he pressed a little t more, believg me, but frustrated that the president had said that. and we entered the phone conversation after that. i called tony to reconfirm that we were not going to the capitol, which was also in our text messages. ient esther mccarthy another text-- i sento mr. mccarthy another text with the affirmative th we were not going up to the capitol and he did not respond ter that. >> we understand the plans for the pr

which is an argument that mr. mccarthy is in a bizarre position to make, given the fact that he was the one --. the republicans had advance for an independent, outside non-11 style commission to investigate january 6. which was something we agreed to as the democrats. five republicans, five democrats -- any investigation. the gop leadership ended up pulling the plug on the proposal. congressman bennie thompson who is now the chair of the select committee has except it there? d this is what we need to do to have a fair and accurate investigation and he agreed to it in the republicans pulled the plug on it because donald trump didn't want it. now they come back with the composition of the committee, where they have done everything they can to undermine, this is a very effective, focused, bipartisan committee. it's the most bipartisan committee i've ever been on in the sense that we are working together towards common ends rather than just engaging in rhetorical combat. that's a lot of what we see unfortunately in th

here's mr. short's testimony regarding his call with representative kevin mccarthy. >> he indicated that he had some conversation -- i don't recall whether it was with the president or somebody at the white house, but i think he expressed frustration that not taking the circumstances seriously as they should at that moment. >> mr. mccarthy indicated he had been in touch with someone at the white house and conveyed to you they weren't taking this seriously as they should. >> yes. >> while the vice president made several calls to check on the safety of others, it was his own alive that was in great danger. mr. jacob did donald trump ever call vice president to check on his safety >> he did not. >> mr. jacob, how did vice president pence and mrs. pence react to that. >> with frustration. >> mr. jacob, immediately before you and the vice president were evacuated to a secure location within the capitol, you hit send on an e-mail to john eastman explaining why his legal theory about the vice president

lofgren: mr. stepien could not be here with us and proper to be with his wife as they welcome their child, but he also had discussions with the president about the red mirage, that is it would be a long night and early votes wore favor him and lots more votes would be counted over the night and days after. let's play clip one from our interview with mr. stepien. >> i recounted back to that conversation with him in which i said like 2016 was going to be a long night. i told him in 2020, it was going to be a process again as the early returns are going to be positive and be watching the returns. >> is it fair to say you are trying to present a realistic picture of what might happen over the course of that night, being election night? >> that night and days to follow. i always, you know, told the president the truth and you know, i think he expected that from me and i told him it was going to be a process going to be -- wait and see how this turns out. just like i did in 2016. i did the same thing in

mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, earlier today a man was arrested for plotting to kill justice kavanaugh. over a month ago the senate unanimously passed a bill to provide more security for supreme court justices and their families. but house democrats have let that bill gather dust. this is the same party whose heated rhetoric has encouraged political pressure on conservative justices. former white house press secretary jen psaki said, i know there's an outrage right now, i guess, about protests that had been peaceful to date. and we certainly do continue to encourage that outside judges' homes and that's the president's position. and majority leader schumer said, i want to tell you, justice kavanaugh and justice gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirl wind and you will pay the price. you won't know what

it is mr. short's testimony regarding his call with representative kevin mccarthy. >> he indicated that he had had some conversation, i don't recall whether it was with the president or someone at the white house, but i think he'd expressed frustration at not taking the circumstances as variously as i should've in that moment. >> so, mr. mccarthy indicated he'd been in touch with someone at the white house and he conveyed to you that they weren't taking this as seriously as they should? >> yes. >> answer yes or no. >> yes. >> okay. >> well the vice president made several calls to check on the safety of others, it was his own life that was in great danger. mr. jacob, did donald trump ever call the vice president to check on his safety? >> he did not. >> mr. jacob, how did vice president pence and mrs. pence react to that? >> with frustration. >> mr. jacob, mediately before you and the vice president didn't wear evacuated to a secure location within the capital, you hit send on an email to john e

mccarthy made to the president that mail-in voting was available. mr. stepien: largely tubulars to the argument, leaving a big deal to chance, urging your voters to vote only on election day leaves a lot to chance and be, i previously mentioned the republican party had the advantage of grassroots workers and volunteers on the ground that would allow an advantage to enhance returns ballots. those were the two pillars of the argument. >> what if anything do you recall representative mccarthy saying during that meeting? mr. stepien: we were queuing the same argument. his words echo mine and vice versa on those two topics. rep. lofgren: mr.stirewalt, you called -- how did you make that call and where did you think it stood on the next hours the next day? mr. stirewalt: our decision was proud to be a part of it. the university of chicago, thanks to my colleague and friend had filled a wonderful device for forecasting the outcomes of elections. we had a different set of data than our competitors. we have more research and a better system and a great team. wha

it is mr. short's testimony regarding his call with representative kevin mccarthy. >> he indicated that he had had some conversation, i don't recall whether it was with the president or someone at the white house, but i think he'd expressed frustration at not taking the circumstances as variously as i should've in that moment. >> so, mr. mccarthy indicated he'd been in touch with someone at the white house and he conveyed to you that they weren't taking this as seriously as they should? >> yes. >> answer yes or no. >> yes. >> okay. >> well the vice president made several calls to check on the safety of others, it was his own life that was in great danger. mr. jacob, did donald trump ever call the vice president to check on his safety? >> he did not. >> mr. jacob, how did vice president pence and mrs. pence react to that? >> with frustration. >> mr. jacob, mediately before you and the vice president didn't wear evacuated to a secure location within the capital, you hit send on an email to john e

here's mr. short's testimony with representative kevin mccarthy. >> he indicated that he had had some conversation, i don't recall if it was with the president or somebody at the white house. he expressed frustration that not taking the circumstances seriously as i should at that moment. >> so mr. mccarthy indicated he was in touchwith someone at the white house and they were taking it as seriously as they should? you have to answer yes or no. >> yes. >> while the president made several calls to check on the safety of others, it was his own life that was in great danger. did president trump call the vice president to check on his safety? >> he did not. >> how did vice president pence and mrs. pence react to that? >> >> with frustration. >> mr. jacob, immediately before you and the vice president were evacuated to a secure location within the capitol, you hit send on an e-mail to john eastman explaining why his legal theory about the vice president's role was wrong. you edited your e-mail by stat

we need help, mr. mccarthy insisted. of course, this is going to be part of what we anticipate the american public will hear once the hearings begin. how impactful could kushner's testimony be? >> well, i think it is important and interesting to see what the january 6th committee, you know, uses from their testimony that they had from him, he's never spoken about this publicly, there is no account from him about his views of this, and his actions or lack of action in that period. i think that's going to be a relevant thing when the committee outlines its version of the episode. and it is important to hear as you say what happened on january 6th. he wasn't in the country for most of the day. when he landed, he goes home, gets in the shower to rest after a long trip, he had just negotiated a diplomatic -- and you get this panicked phone call from kevin mccarthy saying come help. he turns off the shower, goes to the white house, by that time it was too late. ivanka, his wife, persuaded the president to put out a video. it w

mr. -- you had heard that mr. giuliani wanted to talk to the president and then he was directed your way. did you end up talking to mr. giuliani when he w directed ? >> i did. >> what was at conversation? >> a lot of conversations re directed my way. a few of us, myself, jason miller, justin clarke, mark meadow gathed in a room off the map room to -- to listen to whatever rudy presumably wanted to say to the president. >> was there anyone in that conversation who in your observation had had too much to drink? >> like -- mayor giuliani. >> tell me more about that? what was your observation about his potential intoxication during that -- that discussion about what the president should say when he addressed the nation election night? >> and the mayor was definitely intoxicated, but i do not know his level of tox -- intoxication when he spoke with the president, for example. >> were you part of any discussions with the people i mentioned, mr. stepien, mr. meadows, or anyone else about whether

so mr. mccarthy called me with this information. i answered the call and he sounded rushed but also frustrated and angry at me and i was confused because i did not know what the president had just said. he then explained the president just said he's marching to the capitol. you told me this whole week you are not coming up here, why would you lie to me. i said i'm not lying, i wasn't lying to you, sir. we are not going to the capitol and he said well, he just said it on stage, cassidy, figure it out, don't come up here. i said i'll run the traps on this and shoot you a text. i can assure you we are not coming up to the capitol. we have already made that decision. he pressed a little bit more believing me but i think frustrated that the president had said that and we ended the phone conversation after that. i called mr. ornato to reconfirm we were not going to the capitol, which is also in our text messages. i sent mr. mccarthy another text, telling him the affirmative that we were not going up to the capitol and he did not respond a

it made me remember the minority leader, mr. mccarthy claiming that he had never ever called for the president to resign and it was only an hour later that the audio tape where he did the very same thing became public. so the evidence doesn't lie. we'll layout what we have in the proper order. >> jason miller a key trump aide whose taped interview was featured says he was taken out of context. we're told the full transcripts will be released at some point. why not now? >> that's up to the chairman but i think obviously, his interview went on for a very long time. we didn't play the whole thing. i don't think there was anything at all misleading but we'll release the -- all the transcripts in due course and people will see there was nothing to this. they have really no answer to what we've out lined here. is a very serious assault on the peaceful transfer of power, really, an assault on our democratic republic and i've heard republican legislatures talk about everything else, trying to discredit the effort but they can't and i th

yeah, i understand a little bit more about the argument that you and mr. mccarthy made to the president in that meeting as to why it wasn't a bad thing. that male and voting was available largely 2 pillars. so that argument, both of which i previously mentioned the one you know, leaving the chance pushing or urging your voters to go over an election day leaves a lots a chance that can be also previously mentioned. the fact that the trump campaign, national committee republican party, had advantage of grassroots workers and volunteers on the grounds that would allow an advantage to enhance returners of balance. that were, those were the 2 pillars of the already i say. and what if anything, do you recall reaction car thief saying during that meeting we were, you were echoing the same argument. i mean, is it more exactly what i echoed mine and vice versa on those on those 2 topics. mister star? well, you were at the decision desk at fox news on election night, and you called arizona early for president biden, which was controversial. how did you make that call and where did you think the r

we've got the republican leader mr. mccarthy applauding the supreme court decision. we will hear from the president in some shape or form today. how does this change the political landscape of the united states? terry: i think the obvious answer is to say we will determine that in november, but let's get past that. i think where the most likely impacts come reporter: reporter: is not so much on federal -- likely impacts come is not so much on federal, but much more the states. proponents will think that what they need to be doing is focusing all their efforts on states immediately. you and david have talked about this a ready -- this already, so i won't recap that. i think you will see a lot of that. i do think you will see some changes in voter intensity among democrats going into november, but i would strongly caution against making too much of that. places where abortion rights are strongest tend to be the most heavily blue or democratic states already, so it might have some impact in a swing state. it might not. but you will see certainly a little more voter inte

and i'll give you a hint it is not the former president. >> mr. mccarthy, you said both publicly and privately that you thought trump bore some responsibility for the attack? do you still feel he is in any way responsible? >> i thought everybody in the country beared some responsibility. given what was going on, the rights in the streets. others. >> that's right folks forget trump! forget the lawmakers, and officials who enabled him! forget the proud boys and extremists! forget the right-wing media. you! yes you, sitting at home and watching this right now! the top ranking house republican is suggesting that the capitol riots is your fault! you try crazy things... ...because you're crazy... ...and you like it. you get bigger... ...badder... ...faster. ♪ you can never have too much of a good thing... and power is a very good thing. ♪ >> the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... >> mm. >> ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... >> mm. [ chuckles ] >> ...a

and that we had to have a bipartisan committee to get that done, and i think mr. mccarthy made a big mistake when he -- the bipartisan committee in the senate and nancy pelosi made a mistake or maybe it was intentional, that he chose -- the committee to give to credence. and i think it's going to be difficult to convince those folks who don't -- didn'tleave it now. i am not sure they will believe it. i wish the committee all the best. i think this needs to be explored. i think this needs to come out. but i just think that it's too easy for folks on the hard right to dismiss this committee because of the way that it was structured. you talk about the durability of the -- >> and that committee was formed and i believe it today. >> you talk about the durability of the so-called big lie, this election fraud claim. we mentioned at the start of this segment here in "washington post" analysis shows 100 republican primary winners this cycle have repeated the lies. if you win this race, congressman, if you end up back in congress for the next congress, are you concerned ab

mr. charge. in the first five hearings the committee heard from a significant number of republicans including former trump administration justice department officials, several members of president trump's white house staff, a program nant judge, and several others. today's witness is another republican an another former member of president trump's white house staff. certain of us in the house of representatives, she once worked for steve scalise, she also held a prominent role in the white house legislative affairs office and later was the principal aide to president trump's chief of staph, mark meadows. she spent time up here on capitol hill representing the trump administration and we welcome her back. we have been organized to address specific elements of the plan welcome . we have several cross cutting topics that are relevant to each of our future hearings. she handled a sensitive issues. she spoke daily with members of congress, high ranking officials, senior white house staff inclu

mr. mccarthy: i want to first apologize for being a few minutes late. i was on the floor asking for unanimous consent to move the supreme court security bill that was passed by the senate by 100 votes and it was denied. i know the speaker just had a press conference in here. i'm told she said nobody is of threat over the weekend. i don't know how she can say that knowing that you just captured a person who wanted to kill kavanaugh and his family. so was he not in any threat yesterday? is he not in any threat after schumer made his threats on the supreme court? or

mr. mccarthy: thank you, madam speaker. after three unanimous consent requests of mine that were brought, congress will finally vote to provide supreme court justices and their families with more security. i'm glad this bill is coming to the floor as is. the senate passed it unanimously, 100-0, more than a month ago. but madam speaker, the house democrats have delayed it for more than a month. the question the american public asks is, why, why would you delay it? we have all known that additional security has been necessary since the dobbs opinion was leaked last month. justice kavanaugh was targeted by an armed and dangerous man who flew clear across the country. to kill him. he had zip ties. he had a plan. and far left groups have plans to target justice amy comey barrett and her children. they put out where their children go to school. but congress kept it here for a month. for a month. these unnecessary delays put the safety of the justice and their families in danger. by passing this bill as is, we're sending a clear m