Asked if he was worried that GOP leaders would strip him from committee assignments, King told CNN, "I've heard nothing like that -- why would anybody do that?" "I think it's important that we all reject that kind of hateful ideology," Scalise told CNN. Sen. Tim Scott, the lone black GOP senator, wrote in an opinion piece Friday that the GOP should not be silent over King. "Very seldom do I get involved in primaries and right now you're two years away from elections," Grassley told CNN. But he made clear no one in the GOP told him to make those remarks.

Source: CNN January 11, 2019 21:33 UTC