Kevin McCarthy actually said...

"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."

"What's more important than something that happened 15 months ago on a private conversation with about four other people is what's happening here right now."

"I never told the president to resign. It was a conversation that we had about scenarios going forward."

"Let me be very clear to all of you, and I am very clear to the president. He bears responsibility for his words and actions, no ifs, ands or buts."