{"id":597758,"date":"2023-11-15T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/npr-reporter-weighs-in-on-mccarthy-elbow-accusation\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T06:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:19:36","slug":"npr-reporter-weighs-in-on-mccarthy-elbow-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/npr-reporter-weighs-in-on-mccarthy-elbow-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"#NPR reporter weighs in on McCarthy elbow accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/burchetttim_092923gn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NPR reporter Claudia Grisales, who was interviewing Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) at the time he was allegedly elbowed by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), spoke about her experience in an interview on CNN Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[U]ntil he was shoved, he lunged towards me, in that moment,\u201d Grisales, who is NPR\u2019s congressional correspondent, told CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI thought, maybe initially it was a joke, and I looked up, I saw it was McCarthy surrounded by his detail,\u201d Grisales continued. \u201cI could tell by Burchett\u2019s response soon after, it was not a joke, at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened as Republicans headed out of a conference meeting early Tuesday. Burchett stopped to talk to reporters in a Capitol hallway when the former House Speaker appeared to bump into him. Burchett said it was deliberate and that he then chased after the California Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018What the heck, you know, why did you do that?\u2019\u201d Burchett said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy later denied elbowing his colleague, who was one of the eight Republicans to vote to remove McCarthy from the Speakership last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess our elbows hit as I walked by,\u201d McCarthy later told reporters, including CNN. \u201cIf I would hit somebody, they would I know hit them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident wasn\u2019t the only tension-fueled moment on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) almost came to blows with a union leader in a Senate hearing and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-Fla.) and House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) got into a heated spat in a hearing in the House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) at the time he was allegedly elbowed by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), spoke about her experience in an interview on CNN Tuesday. \u201c[U]ntil he was shoved, he lunged towards me, in that moment,\u201d Grisales, who is NPR\u2019s congressional correspondent, told CNN\u2019s Anderson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/burchetttim_092923gn01_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[71103,117,146993,10574,134661,90482,138232,35813,141121,40445,115,134354,95222,70289,138060,141877],"class_list":["post-597758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anderson-cooper","tag-business","tag-claudia-grisales","tag-education","tag-energy-environment","tag-house","tag-house-gop","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-media","tag-news","tag-nexstar-media-wire-news","tag-npr","tag-senate","tag-speaker-of-the-house","tag-tim-burchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}