Thompson: January 6 will haunt McCarthy again
Kevin McCarthy is likely to face new pressure this week to appear before a bipartisan commission investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, his chairman said, while the minority leader in the House of Representatives faces angry Republicans this morning.
The guerrilla leader was caught lying about the January 6 uprising in the New York Times, which released audio clips of Donald Trump’s alleged ally, saying he would call for Trump’s resignation, which he denied.
Probably more devastating to McCarthy’s hopes of one day becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives is the latest Times publication, in which he suggests that far-right Republican lawmakers could incite violence against colleagues.
In a recording made Jan. 10 last year, four days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building amid the then-president’s efforts to undo his electoral defeat by Joe Biden, McCarthy told his fellow Republican leaders that the extremists politicians “put people in danger” with inflammatory statements and tweets.
The vocal supporters of Trump Matt Gates from Florida and Mo Brooks from Alabama have been identified by McCarthy as particularly likely to threaten the security of other lawmakers.
Gaetz, as expected, reacted angrily, revealing cracks to Republicans in a tweet attacking both McCarthy and the whip of the minority, Steve Scaliz.
Later this morning, McCarthy confronted the Republican Group in the House of Representatives, knowing that the Jan. 6 committee has been urging him to testify again since Jan. 6.
According to the Associated Press, the commission expects a decision this week to make a second request to McCarthy, who refused to appear voluntarily, and is also considering inviting a growing group of Republicans to the House of Representatives for interviews.
The commission is examining the riots and Trump’s attempts to stay in power. Its chairman, Mississippi Democrat Benny Thompson, says the group will hold public meetings in June and expects to publish a report in early fall.
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Joe Biden spoke with the family of Trevor Reed, a former US Marine released today by the Russians on a prisoner exchange deal.
The exchange had been “prepared for months,” White House sources told CNN, with senior administration officials, including the president, working on the details.
A video broadcast by CNN, according to reports from Russian authorities, appears to show Reed at an airport preparing to board a plane for the United States.
In a statement, the president said:
I heard in the voices of Trevor’s parents how much they worried about his health and missed his presence. And I was glad to share with them the good news of Trevor’s freedom.
His safe return is proof of the priority my administration places on the return home of Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad. We will not stop until Paul Whelan and others join Trevor in the loving embrace of family and friends.
Whelan is another former U.S. Marine and corporate security officer sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court in 2020. John Sullivan, the US ambassador to Moscow, called Whelan’s conviction a “mockery of justice.”
Today we welcome Trevor Reed home and celebrate his return to the family he missed so much. A former US Marine, he has now been released from Russian custody. I was glad to share the good news of Trevor’s freedom with his family.
– President Biden (@POTUS) April 27, 2022
The exchange of prisoners between the United States and Russia releases the former Marine
Russia and the United States have dramatically exchanged prisoners, exchanging a Marine veteran imprisoned in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long sentence in America, a senior US and Russian foreign ministry official said.
The surprise deal would have been a remarkable diplomatic maneuver even in peacetime, but it was even more unusual because it was over as Russia’s war with Ukraine brought relations with the United States to their lowest point in decades, the Associated Press reported.
Trevor Reed. Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images
As part of the exchange, Russia released Trevor Reed, a former Texas Marine who was arrested in the summer of 2019 after Russian authorities said he attacked an officer while he was taken by police to a police station after a night of heavy drinking. .
Reed was later sentenced to nine years in prison, although his family claimed innocence, and the US government described him as unjustly detained.
The United States has agreed to return Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States after being arrested in Liberia in 2010 and extradited to the United States.
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Thompson: January 6 will haunt McCarthy again
Kevin McCarthy is likely to face new pressure this week to appear before a bipartisan commission investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, his chairman said, while the minority leader in the House of Representatives faces angry Republicans this morning.
The guerrilla leader was caught lying about the January 6 uprising in the New York Times, which released audio clips of Donald Trump’s alleged ally, saying he would call for Trump’s resignation, which he denied.
Probably more devastating to McCarthy’s hopes of one day becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives is the latest Times publication, in which he suggests that far-right Republican lawmakers could incite violence against colleagues.
In a recording made Jan. 10 last year, four days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building amid the then-president’s efforts to undo his electoral defeat by Joe Biden, McCarthy told his fellow Republican leaders that the extremists politicians “put people in danger” with inflammatory statements and tweets.
The vocal supporters of Trump Matt Gates from Florida and Mo Brooks from Alabama have been identified by McCarthy as particularly likely to threaten the security of other lawmakers.
Gaetz, as expected, reacted angrily, revealing cracks to Republicans in a tweet attacking both McCarthy and the whip of the minority, Steve Scaliz.
Later this morning, McCarthy confronted the Republican Group in the House of Representatives, knowing that the Jan. 6 committee has been urging him to testify again since Jan. 6.
According to the Associated Press, the commission expects a decision this week to make a second request to McCarthy, who refused to appear voluntarily, and is also considering inviting a growing group of Republicans to the House of Representatives for interviews.
The commission is examining the riots and Trump’s attempts to stay in power. Its chairman, Mississippi Democrat Benny Thompson, says the group will hold public meetings in June and expects to publish a report in early fall.
Read more:
Good morning and welcome to the weekly edition of our political blog in the United States.
It will be an awkward morning for House of Representatives minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who is facing the Republican Assembly for the first time since being caught lying by the New York Times during the January 6 uprising.
Audio clips published by the newspaper filmed Donald Trump’s alleged ally, who said he would call for Trump’s resignation, which he denied.
But perhaps more devastating to McCarthy’s hopes of one day becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives is the latest Times publication, in which he suggests that far-right Republican lawmakers may incite violence against colleagues.
McCarthy confronts Parliament’s parliamentary group at 10 a.m.
Here’s what we saw today:
- Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said the Covid-19 pandemic had ended effectively in the United States, according to the Washington Post. Curiously, however, he missed the White House reporters’ dinner this weekend for fear of catching it.
- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will address House and Senate committees today, trying to explain how the Biden administration intends to fix the pickle it has pledged to end Trump-era immigration policies. Title 42.
- Joe Biden and Bill and Hillary Clinton will attend the funeral in Washington of Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state who died last month.
- A panel of the House of Representatives investigating the January 6 uprising will hold public meetings in June and expects to publish a report in early fall, said its chairman, Benny Thompson.
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