McCarthy Defends Releasing January 6 Tapes, Slams CNN Reporter
On Monday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed a CNN reporter as he took questions about his decision to release footage from the January 6 Capitol riot to Fox News host 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 reporter Manu Raju said. “Do you regret giving him those [tapes] so he could whitewash the events of that day?” “No. I