good evening from new york i'm chris
hayes you know there was a brief moment
in the days after january 6 where it
looked like the republican party the the
leaders of it at least not donald trump
might actually just do the right thing
right the stark moral truth sitting in
front of them party leaders kevin
mccarthy and mitch mcconnell were
obviously correctly horrified by the
violence of the insurrection
both men publicly condemned trump for
his obvious involvement in citing the
attack they were even more damning of
his conduct in private
we are now learning that mccarthy was
not just concerned about trump according
to leaked audio obtained by the new york
times on a january 10th call just four
days after the insurrection mccarthy
also expressed concerns that republicans
in his own conference might incite
violence against their fellow party
members
the other thing that we have to do is
these members on either whatever
position you are calling out other
members that stuff's got to stop
especially in this nature so when i get
up right here i'm going to call gate
but anything else we see don't assume i
see everything don't assume i know
everything
but we've got to have one central point
so i mean if you can bring this stuff to
dan lee lagansky so you'd have it but i
mean don't sit back around
it's going to be your eyes personally
tension is too high the country is too
crazy
i do not want to look back and think we
caused something or we missed something
and someone got hurt
i don't want to play politics with any
of that
that's a remarkable moment of moral
clarity i don't want to
look back and think someone got hurt i
don't want to play politics with any of
it mccarthy singled out republican
congressman matt gates of florida as
someone whose inflammatory rhetoric
might get people hurt
mccarthy was worried that gates who
frequently criticized fellow republicans
by name for being insufficiently loyal
to trump in his eyes was inflaming
tensions at a time when the country was
already in a volatile position it was a
concern echoed by others on the call
including the number two republican in
caucus a man who was shot we should
remember congressman steve scalise
okay the other thing i want to bring up
and i'm making some phone calls to some
members
i just i just got something sent now
about newsmax something matt gateshead
where he's
calling people's names out saying an
anti-trump in this type of uh atmosphere
um in some of the other places this is
this is serious stuff people are doing
that has to stop
um
and louie's comments too a lot of
members have said some real concerning
things as well did they say did they say
something today too
no i said louie was that i mean um
moe was at the rally you know there were
kicking ass and taking names thing at
the trump rally uh well these are the
things before they kick that back
okay what did gates say
call them too but the nature of what if
i'm getting bracing i'm going to get
another one from the fbi tomorrow
uh this is serious to cut this out
yeah that's that's that's that's
i mean it's potentially illegal what are
you doing
well he's putting people in jeopardy and
he doesn't need to be doing this
we saw what people would do in the
capitol
um you know
and these people came prepared
as you heard a bit of there mccarthy and
his fellow republicans also took issue
with congressman mo brooks of alabama of
course he was the one who wore body
armor while he spoke at trump's rally at
the ellipse and told the soon-to-be
insurrectionists about to storm the
capital that it was quote the day
american patriots started taking down
names and kicking ass
as well congressman louie gohmert of
texas who invoked violence in the
streets on january 1st after a judge
rejected a lawsuit trying to give vice
president mike pence the power to
overturn the election
just a warning this next bit's a little
long but we think it's important for you
to hear this conversation in full as
kevin mccarthy talks with republican
congressional leaders and their aides
what does little brook say down at that
rally though
it's the kicking ass and taking names
thing is the one that i've seen the most
from
from people i didn't watch a speech but
that that's
a number of members sent that to me so
that he used that term
and louise said like we need to fight or
something right didn't he say something
a couple days out that was her it was
something like that yes
is incendiary i mean
you got the maxine waters and all that
stuff too so i mean
i know the dims are in a very strong
position right now to drive a lot of
things but our members have got to start
paying attention to what they say too
and you can't put up with that type of
brooks apparently said
today the american patriots start taking
down names and kicking ass which i would
say is even a step further than the
kind of rhetorical take you know
because if you think that you think the
president deserves to be impeached
for his comment that's almost like he
goes back
all right let's see if someone give me
the intro of what they said
have either of them apologize for what
they've done
i have not seen that anywhere
gomer so wasserman schultz introduced
the gomer censurer and
he did tweet out that you know i'm not
advocating violence he also cited martin
luther king so i mean it wasn't
exactly like an artful block back but
sure i think there's there's obviously a
lot of
comments people could circle and find
reason to introduce things about
how many members spoke at that rally
i thought it was between eight and ten
but i don't have a confirmation on that
yeah we can put together a list of the
members that did
really
use them
kev i've also heard something bargaining
i'm sorry steve what did you say
i've heard some members talk about
bringing mo up at steering committee to
possibly
strip him of committees kind of in the
vein of steve king
so i'd imagine this will definitely come
up at spirit committee
what committee does he own
not good ones but
farm services
and there's an issue with alabama barry
moore has said some some things today
even that we should look at honestly
what did barry say today
pulling it up one second so i quote him
correctly
okay
all right so he deleted his personal
twitter account but jamie dupree was the
atlanta journal um got screenshot
he said about 22 hours ago
wow we have more arrests for stealing a
podium on january 6th than we do for
stealing an election on november 3rd
atlanta philadelphia and detroit would
be places i recommend you start there's
video evidence of these crimes as well
hashtag election integrity matters
and then
um
moore also made this tweet on saturday
night as the u.s capitol police officer
who shot and killed a woman as he tried
to get into the lobby so he tweeted at
marjorie green and at neyral i
understand it was a black police
officers that shot the white female
veteran you know that doesn't fit the
narrative
what
i don't oh man
this is what we're we have to confront
with this
can't they take their twitter accounts
away too
it's yeah i'm left speechless by that
there's so much to say about that um
they know right i mean the moment i
guess at one level it's sort of
reassuring like
in the moment there's some semblance of
a moral compass and instincts to
understand that like this is
beyond the pale
but it doesn't last right
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