Kevin McCarthy

excerpt from Sunday morning's "FACE the NATION"

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’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–

MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you see those numbers we just put up there? 70%.

he never did get around to answering that, other than to keep saying... but the Democrats...

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about some specifics then. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you put her on a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of COVID.

SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Yes.

MARGARET BRENNAN: She compared mask requirements to the type of abuse Jews were subjected to during the Holocaust. She called for Fauci to be arrested and imprisoned, and she spread conspiracy theories. How is anyone supposed to take that work seriously and find that we’re credible?

SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Very well. You look at all of it. So you have all the questions out there. I think with the American–

MARGARET BRENNAN: You think these are legitimate questions?

SPEAKER MCCARTHY: I think what the American public wants to see is an open dialogue in the process. This is a select committee where people can have all the questions they want and you’ll see the outcome.

Really? so why did you decide not to place any of your caucus on the January 6th committee, then Mr. Speaker?
I needed another cup of coffee after that interview... or was that when I mixed up my Bloody Mary?