Speaker McCarthy refuses to say if January 6 was “mostly peaceful”

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy refuses to say if he thinks the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was “mostly peaceful.” McCarthy released more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the day of the insurrection to just Fox News host Tucker Carlson who continues to downplay the severity of the attack saying it was less “deadly” than it’s been portrayed. Former Republican U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger was a member of the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection. He tells Anderson Cooper he thinks McCarthy’s goal is to win over Tucker Carlson and the base of the Republican party.

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0:00.0	Good evening, House Speaker Kevin McCarty weighed in late this evening on his decision to
0:04.5	give Fox's Tucker Carlson first dibs on footage from January 6.
0:08.5	Footage which so far, Tucker Carlson, has used to portray the capital attack as something
0:12.4	it was not.
0:13.6	The speakers remarks come on a day that saw several Republican senators criticize his decision
0:18.0	and hard on the heels of last night's document dump in Dominion Voting Systems cased against
0:22.8	Fox.
0:23.8	Documents revealing that Carlson's contempt for the former president, for his viewers
0:27.6	and for the facts.
0:28.6	Well, more on that shortly, first of some of what the speakers just said.
0:34.1	One thing I always want to make sure is this capital is protected and secured.
0:38.7	I want to make sure the officers here have everything they need to provide that.
0:43.4	My whole role for January 6 is just to bring transparency.
0:46.3	People can make their own decision of that.
0:48.8	Let's not only sit on the subject or amount of Raju found out when he pressed the speaker,
0:52.0	he joins us now.
0:53.1	So McCarty held his press conference today following a Congressional Budget Office report
0:56.4	on the debt.
0:59.4	How much concern, I mean, are you hearing from members of the House?
1:03.6	Members of the Senate have spoken out, but it doesn't sound like a lot of House members
1:06.3	are Republicans.
1:07.3	Yeah, a lot of House members are aligning themselves with Kevin McCarty.
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