“We will slowly roll out to every individual news agency. They can come see the tapes as well,” McCarthy said in an interview with Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “Let everyone see them to bring their own judgment.”
Reiterating his prior defense, McCarthy argued that he gave access to the footage in the name of transparency and is gearing up to grant additional media outlets access to the tranche of footage as well.
It sounds like Tucker Carlson is speaking directly to Kevin McCarthy tonight, listing demands in exchange for the House speakership:2. Put Thomas Massie in charge of a new Frank Church committee. pic.twitter.com/gibneAXH7h "My goal here is transparency," McCarthy stressed."The first thing I found is that the January 6 committee was not honest with us. That it's not 14,000 hours of tapes, there's 41,000 hours of tapes."
“They’re not destroying the Capitol,” Carlson said at one point during his broadcast. “They obviously revere the Capitol.”
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