U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News' Tucker Carlson 'exclusive' access to Jan. 6 security footage of the Capitol attack, despite the conservative commentator's own work raising false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot over Joe Biden's election.
In this file photo, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House Chamber after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News' Tucker Carlson "exclusive" access to Jan.
"Have you ever had an exclusive? Because I see it on your networks all the time. So we have exclusive, then I'll give it out to the entire country," McCarthy said. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the former chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee, said the panel went through a painstaking process to work closely with the U.S. Capitol Police to review and ultimately release approved segments of the surveillance footage as part of its public hearings.
McCarthy insisted he was taking measures to ensure security at the Capitol would not be jeopardized by the release, but declined to provide details -- only to say that Carlson made it clear to the speaker's team he did not want to show "exit routes" used by lawmakers or others. But the Republican leader has made it clear he is working to set the record as he sees it, and repeatedly complained that other media outlets, including CNN, already had received exclusives to show video last year, when Democrats held the majority in House.
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