House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) grilled CBS News host Margaret Brennan in a Sunday interview over whether she has held Democrats to the same standard that she holds Republicans.
McCarthy made the remarks during an appearance on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; while talking about how some Republican members of Congress denied the results of the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve put many of them on very key committees, intelligence, homeland security, oversight,&#8221; Brennan said. &#8220;Why are you elevating people who are denying reality like that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, if you look to the Democrats, their ranking member, Raskin, had the same thing, denied Trump or Bush was in there,&#8221; McCarthy responded. &#8220;Bennie Thompson, who was —&#8221;
Brennan immediately interrupted.
&#8220;Did you also be fair and equal and where you looked at — Raskin did the same thing?&#8221; McCarthy asked. &#8220;Bennie Thompson, who&#8217;s a ranking member and was the chair. These individuals were chair in the Democratic Party.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m asking you as leader, Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s House, why you made these choices?&#8221; Brennan responded. &#8220;These were your choices.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah they&#8217;re my choices, but they&#8217;re the conference choices. But I&#8217;m also asking you, when you look to see just Republicans, Democrats have done the same thing,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;So maybe it&#8217;s not denying. Maybe it&#8217;s the only opportunity they have to have a question about what went on during the election. So if you want to hold Republicans to that equation, why don&#8217;t you also hold Democrats? Why don&#8217;t you hold Jamie Raskin? Why don&#8217;t you hold Bennie Thompson, when Democrats had appointed them to be chair? I never once heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that question when they were in power in the majority, when they questioned.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a>: &quot;I never once heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that question, when they were in power in the majority.&quot;
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy schooled CBS&#39;s Margaret Brennan over her election denialism hypocrisy. <a href="https://t.co/zXcYC0ibL2">pic.twitter.com/zXcYC0ibL2</a>
&mdash; Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1620097984946921472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>MARGARET BRENNAN: Without those rules like that, right now. That&#8217;s a risk. You really think you can control the Freedom Caucus and some of those more conservative members who gave you such a hard time?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Everybody has a voice. But let me- let me explain that. That one vote to vacate, that&#8217;s not new. That&#8217;s been around for 100 years. The only person who took it away when they got a small majority was Nancy Pelosi. So Nancy felt she did not have the power to stay in office if that was there. I&#8217;m very comfortable in where we are. So I don&#8217;t have any fear in that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You don&#8217;t regret any of the concessions you made?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: The only concession I made was taking it from 5 to 1 where it&#8217;s been around for 100 years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about some of the makeup of your caucus.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: According to CBS records, 70% of the House GOP members denied the results of the 2020 election. You&#8217;ve put many of them on very key committees, intelligence, homeland security, oversight. Why are you elevating people who are denying reality like that?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Well, if you look to the Democrats, their ranking member, Raskin, had the same thing, denied Trump or Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson, who was&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you see those numbers we just put up there? 70%.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Did you also be fair and equal and where you looked at- Raskin did the same thing. Bennie Thompson, who&#8217;s a ranking member and was the chair. These individuals were chair in the Democratic Party.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I&#8217;m asking you as leader, Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s house, why you made these choices? These were your choices.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Yeah they&#8217;re my choices, but they&#8217;re the conference choices. But I&#8217;m also asking you, when you look to see just Republicans, Democrats have done the same thing. So maybe it&#8217;s not denying. Maybe it&#8217;s the only opportunity they have to have a question about what went on during the election. So if you want to hold Republicans to that equation, why don&#8217;t you also hold Democrats? Why don&#8217;t you hold Jamie Raskin? Why don&#8217;t you hold Bennie Thompson, when Democrats had appointed them to be chair? I never once heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that question when they were in power in the majority, when they questioned&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: You&#8217;re talking about things going back to 2000, which was the time when I didn&#8217;t have this show back then, which is why I&#8217;m asking you now about your leadership&#8211;
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: No, but they were- they were in power last Congress.</blockquote>
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