Kevin McCarthy Defends Releasing January 6 Tapes, Torches CNN Reporter To Their Face

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Republican from California) attacked a CNN reporter in a short interaction with reporters. He answered questions regarding the release of footage from January 6th riot at U.S. Capitol, to Tucker Carlson.

“Because of the footage that you gave Tucker Carlson, last night he went on and said this was a mostly peaceful chaos as he said, he downplayed Brian Sicknick’s death, said it was not related to January 6, that this was not an insurrection,” CNN’s Manuraju spoke. “Do you regret giving him those [tapes] so he could whitewash the events of that day?”

“No. I said at the very beginning, ‘transparency,'” McCarthy spoke. “And so what I wanted to produce for everybody is exactly what I said, people can actually look at it and see what’s gone on that day.”

McCarthy responded to McCarthy’s question as to whether he agrees with Carlson’s account of events on January 6. “Each person can come up with their own conclusion.”

“But I just wanted to make sure I had transparency, because I know on CNN, I mean, I had here where you guys actually wrote where we were,” McCarthy continued holding the CNN printout, as McCarthy did so. “This was a secret location … I don’t know if you got concerned by that, I don’t even know from a point of view of security if we could ever be taken there again. But when you broke that at CNN, that was a real concern to a lot of people.”

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