BREAKING: @CNN has exclusively confirmed that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s name was a part of the list of lawmakers whose communications records the @January6thCmte requested be preserved.w/ @ZcohenCNN, @AnnieGrayerCNN & @WhitneyWReports

Kevin McCarthy among GOP lawmakers whose phone records January 6 select committee asks to be preserved

(CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is among a group of GOP lawmakers whose phone records are of interest to the select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, CNN has learned.

The committee asked a group of telecommunication companies to preserve phone records belonging to McCarthy, along with several other House Republicans, earlier this week.

On Monday, CNN first reported the existence of an evolving list of lawmakers whose phone records the committee wanted preserved. At the time of CNN's reporting, McCarthy's name had not been added to a draft version of the list, but by the time the document was finalized and sent to the telecommunications companies later that same day, it was included.

But since the final list was submitted on Monday afternoon, CNN has received information that McCarthy's name was, in fact, included along with several other lawmakers and hundreds of other individuals.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/politics/kevin-mccarthy-preserve-phone-records/index.html

A historically unpopular party that’s losing support by the day is relentlessly attacking people’s rights to control their bodies and vote and protect themselves from a pandemic because our system is rigged for minority control and they stole the court.

That’s what’s happening.

We hear all the time about how news is reported and objectivity, but the objective, unarguable truth is that the GOP has used a system design for white, wealthy men to reign over everyone to deny earned, natural rights and quickly dismantle liberal democracy which rejects them.

When we read about this it will be framed as “Texas limits access in a move that concerns some.” That’s a viewpoint born from a politics-as-a-sport perspective championed by a media that’s skewed to wealthy, white men benefited from these attacks. The truth is much uglier.

What we’re experiencing is an intentional dismantling of open society and liberal democracy, an attack on vulnerable populations, and a movement on the Right that recognizes it’s not particularly capable of winning elections.

That’s not overreacting. It’s life here right now.