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(13 May 2022)
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1. Various of January 6 Capitol insurrection
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Chief Congressional Correspondent:
"On Capitol Hill the committee, the House committee that is investigating the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol issued subpoenas for members of Congress, several members of Congress, including the Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, to come testify before the committee. This is rare. Now, the committee has interviewed a thousand people in its investigation."
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4. Wide of Capitol security guards with shields standing on steps
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Chief Congressional Correspondent: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The committee had asked a number of these lawmakers, including leader McCarthy, the Republican leader, to come voluntarily and speak to the committee. But these members have declined. These are five people, the leader and four others. The four other Republican lawmakers had been in very close contact with Donald Trump in the run up to the January 6th insurrection. They had been working behind the scenes, talking and in meetings about these questions that the former president was raising about the election. And so the committee wants to hear from them."
6. STILL: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy heads to his office surrounded by reporters after House investigators issued a subpoena to McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Chief Congressional Correspondent: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The Republican leader asked the president, we know in a phone call to to call it off, to tell people to go home. And, of course, former President Trump didn't do that. So the committee has taken this rare step of issuing these subpoenas.
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Chief Congressional Correspondent:
"The members of the panel who agreed to to issue these subpoenas, several of them said today, look, this is unprecedented because the insurrection at the Capitol was like nothing we have ever seen. It, too, was unprecedented. And that's why Congress is taking this rare, rare step."
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STORYLINE:
A House panel issued subpoenas Thursday to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The panel is investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides worked to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
“They're not conducting a legitimate investigation,” McCarthy said. "Seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents.”
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