Kevin McCarthy Might Be Evidence Of Trump's Witness Tampering

The January 6th Committee is currently weighing whether or not to issue a subpoena to force House minority leader Kevin McCarthy to cooperate, and the reason is becoming more clear - They might suspect that Donald Trump is guilty of witness tampering, and McCarthy himself might be evidence of that. McCarthy's stance about the riot has clearly shifted over the past 12 months, and the Committee seems to suspect that Trump is to blame for this. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So this week, the house select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot, of course, as we all know and we talked about earlier this week, they sent a letter to Kevin McCarthy said, hey, Kevin, we want you to come down, have a conversation with us. Talk to us a little bit about what you know and what you've said. Well, McCarthy says, nope, I'm not gonna do that. But the big question on everybody's minds is why McCarthy, right? Well, as the week ticked on a little bit more and more information came out and we kind of got a clearer picture of why McCarthy. And the answer that we have come to at this point is that McCarthy himself might actually be a piece of evidence against Donald Trump. And we can basically come to that conclusion based on what the committee said in their letter to Kevin McCarthy.

It said, you know, your view of Trump's role in the insurrection quote, shifted over time, eventually becoming much more favorable to the former president. Soon after January 6th, McCarthy blamed Trump for his tardy response to the attack on the Capitol and even suggested a historic censure of Trump. That's according to the Washington Post. A few months later, though, McCarthy was talking as if Trump's response once the riot began was sufficient. So they wanna know of course, why McCarthy softened his stance. He wanted Donald Trump censured. He wanted him punished for this. And then he's saying, oh no, everything was great. Donald Trump could not have done a better job that day. So why does the committee even care about that? Well, because that could be evidence of witness tampering.

That is pretty much the consensus right now that that's what the committee is trying to look into and of course, McCarthy himself is the evidence. What did Donald Trump say to you? How many conversations have you had with him? And they can line up these conversations, of course, if they get their hands on his, you know, cellphone records, text messages, all that, they can line it up with what he said publicly. Was there a Trump phone call and then the next day, a different statement from McCarthy, or maybe even a couple days after that? Because if it is that kind of seems like witness tampering, right? And of course that could lead to even more criminal charges against Donald Trump if the committee chooses to go that route. Of course, it's gonna be a long time before we figure this out. Now, the House has not ruled out, issuing a subpoena to force Kevin McCarthy to comply, which of course he will likely try to fight.

But the committee is still trying to figure out if they even have the legal authority to issue a subpoena to a sitting member of Congress. They're not even sure if they can do it. They kinda wanna do it, they think, but they don't even know that they can. This drama again, is getting too much for the committee to handle. An outside prosecutor would not be limited by, oh, I don't know if I can subpoena this person. No, you could. You're the outside prosecutor. And I'm starting to see more and more people finally come around to what I've been saying for months now that we need a special prosecutor. They don't run into these hurdles. They pretty much have free reign to subpoena any individual they think may be involved and that at this point is what is sorely needed.