On the recordJune 7, 2022
I made a phone call to the president, telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. And I was very intense and very loud about it.
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Kevin McCarthy recounts his urgent communication with Donald Trump during the Capitol insurrection.
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