McCarthy sidesteps whether he still thinks Trump bears Jan. 6 responsibility

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sidestepped a question about whether he still thinks former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying that information he learned since then backs up his pivoting to place blame on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for security failures that day.

“I think from the standpoint that we wanted to make sure that resources were brought here as fast as possible,” McCarthy said at a press conference on Thursday. “When I called the president, I was telling him about what was happening in the Capitol because none of you would know unless you were in the Capitol.”