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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) handed over 41,000 hours of security tapes from the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol riots to Fox News host Tucker ...

Carlson actually backed the pushback against McCarthy, [calling](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3797516-tucker-carlson-refreshing-to-see-mccarthy-struggle-to-win-votes-for-speaker/) the dissent “refreshing” and blasting McCarthy for being “ideologically agnostic.” In a June 2022 column, Carlson [characterized](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-truth-happened-jan-6-unknown) the riots as “an outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards.” Carlson has repeatedly [railed against](https://www.wane.com/news/tucker-carlson-jan-6-panel-is-lying-and-we-are-not-going-to-help-them-do-it/) the House panel investigating the insurrection and lawmakers’ role in the events. McCarthy [became](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/01/07/kevin-mccarthy-elected-house-speaker-ending-historic-deadlock/?sh=488eecce39f5) Speaker of the House last month after a historic vote that took 15 rounds thanks to a group of ultra-conservative Republican legislators who took issue with McCarthy’s comparatively moderate views. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who tweeted, “Here you go!” [revealed](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts-and-execs-repeatedly-denounced-2020-election-fraud-off-air-here-are-their-most-scathing-comments/?sh=644e6d2618f3) in court filings last week. [told](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage) Axios.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News' Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan.

6 committee played numerous excerpts of the footage at last year's captivating hearings. Reality check: The Jan. - "If there was ever a question that's in the public's interest to know, it's what actually happened on January 6. [See the committee's archive](https://www.govinfo.gov/committee/house-january6th?path=/browsecommittee/chamber/house/committee/january6th/collection/CHRG).) Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks. [epeatedly questioned](https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/a37dafe2a435b63ba8179e4b935d5b5c/) official accounts of 1/6, [downplaying the insurrection](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-truth-happened-jan-6-unknown) as "vandalism."

Kevin McCarthy gave Fox host Tucker Carlson access to a trove of Jan. 6 riot tapes, Axios reported. The Speaker gave Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 ...

The process of sharing the tapes began in early February, Axios reported, citing communications between Carlson's show and McCarthy's office. "If there was ever a question that's in the public's interest to know, it's what actually happened on January 6. [issued their final report in December](https://www.businessinsider.com/read-the-full-house-january-6-committee-report-here-2022-12). McCarthy exclusively gave the Fox News host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" 41,000 hours of tapes from the Capitol, according to an Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Tucker Carlson access to thousands of hours of surveillance tapes from the - The Speaker gave Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance tapes from the insurrection.

Representative Jamie Raskin said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy giving January 6 footage to Tucker Carlson is an "astounding ethical collapse."

[Kevin McCarthy](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy) on Monday after a report said he handed over footage of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Kevin McCarthy should be ashamed of himself, but we all know he has no shame," Shi added. "If there was ever a question that's in the public's interest to know, it's what actually happened on January 6. "Kevin McCarthy turned over Jan 6 videos to right-wing propagandist Tucker Carlson. What security precautions were taken to keep this from becoming a roadmap for 2024 insurrection? 6 tape to a pro-Putin journalist is an astounding ethical collapse.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds the Biden administration's response to the war in Ukraine as it ignores East Palestine, Ohio, residents following the ...

You're beyond the ability to explain, and you're way beyond the ability to lead the opposition in the United States Senate. You laughed at Trump, and here we are facing the end of control of a lot of the world because you so unwisely managed the power that you inherited. Here you have the president of the United States, personally visiting a corrupt foreign autocrat to announce a half a billion dollars more in your tax dollars to go to Ukraine. That's going to be coming your way and that's just the United States in this piece. So, Republicans in the Senate have a leader. In other words, the country with more ships than any navy in the world has united with a country that has more nuclear armed ICBMs than any country in the world to fight us through proxy in Ukraine. And yet, for more than two weeks after all of this started with the famous train derailment, FEMA and the Biden administration have refused to provide any kind of financial assistance to you. But imagine if you were watching all of this, the spectacle from your home in East Palestine, Ohio, a home that is still stinking of chemicals you can't identify. And as a result of that fact, according to Zelenskyy himself, hundreds of millions of people will die. It would have the scale to control a lot of the world's economy and trade routes and raw materials. Well, that's scary, and the thing is, everybody involved seems to know it's scary and just how scary it is. Now, we're not going to sit here and tell you it was a smart idea to turn the White House over to Jared Kushner; it was not.

WASHINGTON — Conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that he and his team have gained access to about 44000 hours of security camera footage ...

Tucker Carlson is not a journalist, he’s an entertainer peddling propaganda and conspiracy theories — but as someone who defended the Capitol on January 6th, there’s nothing entertaining at all to me about that day." 6, predicted that the video footage will be "selectively edited to fit an extreme MAGA narrative without care for the safety of Capitol Police, Members of Congress and Congressional staff." He said his team plans to spend the rest of the week going through it and said he'll "bring you what we find next week." Carlson said his producers have been looking at the footage "trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we've been told for two years" about Jan. Carlson has long downplayed the violence on Jan. "It’s hard to overstate the potential security risks if this material were to be used irresponsibly," Thompson said.

House Homeland Security Committee ranking Democrat Bennie Thompson (Miss.) on Monday blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for handing over tens of ...

[Bennie Thompson](https://thehill.com/tag/bennie-thompson/) [Bennie Thompson](https://thehill.com/people/bennie-thompson/) [Jan. 6 Capitol riot](https://thehill.com/tag/jan-6-capitol-riot/) [Jan. A [Fox News spokesperson confirmed](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3866648-mccarthy-gives-fox-news-tucker-carlson-access-to-jan-6-capitol-surveillance-footage/) the development to The Hill on Monday. 6 House committee](https://thehill.com/tag/jan-6-house-committee/) [Kevin McCarthy](https://thehill.com/tag/kevin-mccarthy/) [Kevin McCarthy](https://thehill.com/people/kevin-mccarthy/) [Tucker Carlson](https://thehill.com/tag/tucker-carlson/) [Tucker Carlson](https://thehill.com/people/tucker-carlson/) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [Appropriations](https://thehill.com/business/appropriations/) [In The Know](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) In 2021 he produced “Patriot Purge,” a documentary series that purports to tell an alternative story of the Jan. [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Technology](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [See All](https://thehill.com) 6, and has boasted that Fox News did not cover the proceedings, or what he called “propaganda,” on live television. Fox News staffers were reportedly angered by the series, and at least two contributors to the network resigned in protest. The committee had interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, read through documents and reviewed troves of video footage of the riots during its investigation. [previously said that it had “cooperated extensively”](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3498231-gop-threatens-to-release-jan-5-footage-but-obtaining-it-will-cost-them/) with the select committee, noting that it provided 14,000 hours of footage to the panel. [has accused the select committee of “lying”](https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/3518349-defiant-tucker-carlson-boasts-fox-news-channel-not-carrying-jan-6-hearing-propaganda-live/) about what happened on Jan. [releasing its final report in December](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3783637-jan-6-committee-releases-final-report/).