McCarthy’s Prebuttal Proved Necessity of Hearings

Aaron Blake: “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to a news conference Thursday to offer a prebuttal of the Jan. 6 committee’s public hearings, which were set to begin Thursday night. He cast the committee as illegitimate and overly political, suggesting the House’s time would be better used on issues such as inflation, gas prices and crime.”

“What he also did, though, was reinforce just how much the chief questions about Jan. 6, 2021 and what preceded it remain largely unanswered — or at least unsettled, thanks to people like McCarthy, who once expressed great interest in them.”

“In the space of 60 seconds, McCarthy was asked five times whether President Biden’s win in the 2020 election was legitimate. Each time, he declined to answer.”