Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) continued his tirade against Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hours ago. Schumer is extremely upset that McCarthy handed over security video of the Capitol from January 6th to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.
“Those of us who were here on January 6th know the attack was a violent insurrection—including Speaker McCarthy. Every leader on Capitol Hill has done the right thing calling out Fox News’s lies—except for Speaker McCarthy. The Speaker is outing himself as a January 6th denier.”
This comes amid the news that Kevin McCarthy intends to release the nearly 50,000 hours of security camera footage from January 6th to the public according to some reports such as the from the Post Millennial.
Outgoing U.S. House Rep Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) comments on McCarthy’s release to Tucker seem to have pushed him to release it all to the public.
Schiff said, “This is only about the money and the ratings. For Tucker Carlson. For Rupert Murdoch. And for Fox. It will only stop when Fox sees financial consequences. And when they don’t have an enabler in the Speaker’s office. Since there is nothing but the profit motive operating here, the only way to attack is to attack the profit.”
It was after this that McCarthy said, “We just want to make sure we go through them all, and it takes time. The first thing that Tucker said too, he didn’t want to show any exits to cause any problems. We asked the Capitol Police, ‘Were there any concerns?’”
“They came back with one, and we mitigated that, but it was interesting, that one that they had a problem with, Eric Swalwell had had up on the internet for the last two years showing that part.”
“Well this is all about transparency.”
“It won’t just be to Tucker. Like any news organization, different people get exclusives. We watched during the January 6, CNN would have exclusives all the time and nobody complained.”
“CNN actually got to be in Statuary Hall for a whole hour for their own show. You’ve watched that January 6 would release only certain tapes. I think it’s better for transparency that anyone can make their own decision up, and as we walk through these, these are many more hours of tapes than the January 6 committee told us. It’s not 14,000. It’s 42,000 hours.”
“We want to make sure for security purposes our certain exits aren’t shown and others. But you know the most interesting thing, when I had the team talk to the Capitol Police about making sure they had no problems with the exit and so on, they said January 6 never asked them that.”
“They showed the exit of the vice president.”
“They showed the exit from my office.”
“They literally had then Speaker Pelosi’s daughter showing the secure location that they take the leadership.”
“That’s not supposed to be known to anybody, and CNN reported it, and I don’t remember the press ever getting upset with that.”
“So what we want to do is make sure we have this out that everybody can see it.”
McCarthy has called out the hypocrisy he sees and is standing by the notion that this is about transparency.
