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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy received a standing ovation from House Republicans during a meeting on Wednesday after he addressed leaked audio from a phone call he made days after the Capitol riot.

Nancy Mace told reporters after the meeting that Kevin would be the speaker.

The members gave McCarthy a standing ovation, according to Representative Jay Obernolte.

The New York Times recently published audio from a January 10, 2021, meeting of Republican leadership in which McCarthy expressed concern that Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) and Representative MoBrooks (R., Alabama) were endangering the security of other lawmakers and the Capitol complex in the wake

Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Barry Moore of Alabama were among the GOP lawmakers who made comments that were deemed offensive or dangerous.

It was during the call with Republican leaders that McCarthy suggested he should call.

Obernolte told Fox News that the conference was satisfied with what the House GOP leader said about the leaked comments.

McCarthy told The Hill that the conversations in the leaked audio were just speculating on different scenarios, including suggesting Trump resign and wondering if GOP members could be kicked off of social media.

I take his word for it, because he said we were going to lay out different things.

According to The Hill, the need for Republicans to remain focused on taking back control of the House in the upcoming elections was discussed.

This is a distraction. Come on. Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia said that this is a distraction by the left trying to drive a wedge in a very unified Republican Party and a unified conference.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told The Hill that she spoke during the meeting on Wednesday and wanted to see McCarthy and Scalise apologize for their comments in the leaked audio about Gaetz.

We need to be held accountable for our words. I have had to do that before. "We need to apologize when we say something wrong, and it's hurtful to hear McCarthy suggest that members be removed from social media."

She noted that McCarthy's team helped her with her effort to get her personal account back on track.

A lot of this stuff is just drama that the American people don't care about.

The New York Times published an audio from January 2021, in which McCarthy said the country was too crazy to allow lawmakers to speak recklessly in the wake of the riots.

McCarthy said that Gaetz was putting people in jeopardy by attacking Republicans who had criticized Trump. We saw what people would do in the Capitol, and so we prepared them with rope and everything else.

In audio from the same meeting, Cheney asks McCarthy if there is any chance Trump would resign.

McCarthy said that his gut told him no, according to the audio released by the New York Times.

McCarthy says that he would recommend that he resign if he thought this would pass. I don't know.

McCarthy issued a statement before the audio was released denying reports by the New York Times.

The New York Times reporting on me is false. McCarthy said that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda. If the reporters were interested in truth, they wouldn't ask for comment after the book was printed.

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