McCarthy says he does not recall Jan. 6 Cassidy Hutchinson call on Trump going Capitol

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that he did not remember talking to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Jan. 6 about the prospect of former President Trump going to the Capitol that day as Congress certified 2020 presidential electoral votes.

“I don’t recall talking to her that day,” McCarthy said in a press conference Friday. He added that he did recall talking to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Savino, and Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner, and Trump himself on Jan. 6 as the Capitol attack was underway and he and his staff were removed from his office.

“If I talked to her, I don’t remember it. If it was coming up here, I don’t think I wanted a lot of people coming up to the Capitol. But I don’t remember the conversation,” McCarthy said.

Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified under oath in a House Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing last month that McCarthy angrily called her after Trump urged supporters to march to the Capitol in his speech at the Ellipse, saying that he would go with them.