Guys, you need to elect me to office.
You need to elect me to office because there's certain
things I will not do.
Like I will not, I will not do this.
That incident uh and uh the ensuing interaction between the
two members of Congress.
Uh she writes, I've never seen this on Capitol before.
This was 10 41 a.m.
yesterday.
While talking to Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting,
former Speaker McCarthy walked by with his security detail, and
McCarthy shoved Burchett.
Burchett lunged towards me.
I thought it was a joke, it was not, and
a chase ensued.
Burchett's back was to McCarthy, and his detail was walking
by in the hallway, and then the lunge.
Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy kept walking.
Sorry, Kevin, didn't mean to elbow.
And then seriously, he yelled, Why'd you elbow me in
the back, Kevin?
Hey, Kevin, do you have any guts?
Burchett then looked back at me, the reporter, and said,
jerk, referring to McCarthy.
I asked if he had done that before Burchett said
no.
And that's when the chase ensued.
Burchett took off after McCarthy and his detail.
I chased behind with my microphone.
Tim Burchett yelled after catching up to McCarthy, Hey Kevin,
why'd you walk behind me and elbow me in the
back?
Kevin McCarthy saying, I didn't elbow you in the back.
Burchett, you got no guts.
You did so.
The reporter said it right there.
What kind of chicken move is that?
Uh Burchett uh continued, You've got no guts.
You did so.
The reporter said it right there.
What kind of chicken move is that?
You're pathetic, man.
You are so pathetic.
Burchett starts to walk away from McCarthy and tells me,
What a jerk, and then yells back, You need security,
Kevin.
Burchett tells me that it's the first point of communication
with McCarthy since Burchett voted for McCarthy's ouster as speaker
back in October.
That's just it for communication since the ouster vote.
He's just a jerk.
He's just a childish little blank blank blank.
Burchett adds, Did you just see that uh saying in
disbelief, uh, he won't follow up with McCarthy on what
happened.
He's on a downhill spiral.
He just that was pretty gutless of him, and I'm
disappointed in him.
And that was uh how it played out on social
media.
Claudia Grosales of NPR with her series of tweets.
Uh by These are supposed to be adults.
These are supposed to be adults paid for by our
taxpayer dollars.
So I'm just gonna plug myself real quick because I
think uh I think we need better leadership in power.