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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and apparently Kevin McCarthy
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likes to hit people. If you believe the accusations against him, Kevin McCarthy likes to hit people
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Another former Republican representative has stepped forward and said McCarthy struck him
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not once but twice. Before we get started, please make sure you like, comment, share, and subscribe
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Those little things really help us out and they help our channel continue to grow. So Adam Kinzinger, who I have no love for, and I'm sure you guys don't either
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but Adam Kinzinger was on CNN, his home base, he's a contributor there
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and he recounted a story of when he was hit by Kevin McCarthy in the house. And it comes on
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the heels of Representative Tim Burchett saying that McCarthy hit him. So when you add both of
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those together, you're starting to develop an idea here that McCarthy's an issue. You know
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no matter how much you dislike somebody, you can't resort to hitting them. You're a representative of
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the United States of America, Kevin. Come on. Let's take a look at Kinzinger's story and then
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I'm going to tell you what's going on with McCarthy and why this could be the end of him
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He was either created or in some cases they helped create. You're a combat veteran, you served in the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan
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you write that you have watched an alarmist, quote, many politicians speak and behave as if
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Congress itself were a battlefield and as if they had been elected not to serve the public and
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protect the Constitution, but to score points for their side no matter the cost, unquote
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This week, a Republican lawmaker accused former Speaker McCarthy of giving him a sucker
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elbow to his kidneys. In the book, you write about two physical altercations with McCarthy
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not really altercations, but times that he kind of, well, tell us what happened
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Yeah, so twice. So imagine just, I'm kind of standing in the back of the house
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leaning over that gold railing, just kind of watching what's going on, talking to people
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that walk by and I get, wham, I get shoulder checked. Never had that happen on the floor
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of the house. And I turn and Kevin McCarthy's already passed me and my initial reaction was
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like, oh, we used to be, we're friends. And I'm like, wait, we haven't been friends in a year. That was serious. And then like three weeks later, we're passing each other
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basically on that same walkway in the house. And he leans over and shoulder checks me again
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like when you're in fourth grade. And it was just like, what a child. And so the interesting thing
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is what are the chances that I write about this in a book that comes out? He does it to this guy
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from Tennessee. And then he's saying like, it was an accident. Like that's never happened to me from
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anybody else. Kevin McCarthy has compromised his values so much that he's lashing out now
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on the people that are calling him out. And honestly, I hope he gets help. I think he needs
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to because his identity was wrapped up in being a speaker. And I was a threat to that in January 6th
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and others are a threat to that now. They've actually taken it away. So he's an angry man
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And when you lash out physically in this job, it goes to show something's broken
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House Speaker Mike Johnson just announced that he's going to publicly release all Capitol Hill
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security footage from January 6th, as long as it does not contain any sensitive security
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information. This seems an obvious move to please the far right wing members of the House Republican
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Conference. What's your reaction to that? Well, the problem is 40,000 hours of this tapes are
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you know, people aren't going to watch 40. Now, the reason this really hurts McCarthy is because
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you add it to the Burchett story, which here's where it really hurts McCarthy
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Gates filed an ethics complaint against him on that. So now there's an ethics complaint against
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McCarthy. This story kind of can go into the evidence showing a preponderance of using these
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type of tactics against representatives. And then the case looks really bad for Kevin. So
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you know, all in all, I don't know how I feel about this. In other countries, this is kind of
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common. But in America, I don't like it. Honestly, I don't like it. I don't like the violence. I
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don't like hitting. I don't like all that stuff. You're, you're representing the United States of
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America. Stop it. I want to know what you guys think about this. Please let me know in the
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comments. Also, please remember to like, share and subscribe. It really helps us out. I'm Carmine
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This is Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you. Take care, everybody
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