McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson all Jan. 6 safety photos, sources issue

>>> IN OUR POLITICS LEAD, IN A HIGHLY UNUSUAL MOVE THAT DEMOCRATS ARE ASSAILING AS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY HAS GIVEN FOX NEWS PRODUCERS ACCESS TO ALL THE U.S. CAPITOL SECURITY FOOTAGE FROM THE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION ACCORDING TO.

MULTIPLE SOURCES INCLUDING FOX. FOX, OF COURSE, THE NEWS ORGANIZATION THAT KNOWINGLY PUSHED LIES ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION REPEATEDLY PROMOTED ON ITS AIRWAVES, QUOTING FOX HOSTS BE MOANING LIES THEY NEEDED TO SHARE TO GET VIEWERS. CNN'S LAUREN FOX IS ON CAPITOL.

HILL FOR US. THIS JANUARY 6th FOOTAGE HAD BEEN STRICTLY CONTROLLED BY THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE AND FEDERAL PROSECUTORS. WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT THIS MOVE BY SPEAKER McCARTHY? >> Reporter: DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT IT, JAKE,.

IN PART BECAUSE THEY ARGUE IT DOES POSE A POTENTIAL SECURITY RISK. YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SECURITY FOOTAGE THAT CAN SHOW DIFFERENT ANGLES OF THE U.S. CAPITOL AS WELL AS ESCAPE ROUTES OF SOME OF THE POLITICIANS RACING TO GET OUT OF THIS BUILDING ON JANUARY.

6th. THEIR CONCERN THEY SAY IS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT A FUTURE ATTACKER COULD USE THAT FOOTAGE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PREMISE HERE ON CAPITOL HILL. YOU HAVE HAKEEM JEFFRIES, THE TOP DEMOCRATIC IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SENDING A LETTER.

TO HIS COLLEAGUES SAYING HE'S GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF HOW THE FOOTAGE WAS TRANSFERRED TO FOX NEWS, BECAUSE IT ENDANGERS THE HARD WORKING WOMEN AND MEN AT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE WHO VALIANTLY DEFENDED DEMOCRACY WITH THEIR LIVES AT RISK ON THAT FATEFUL.

DAY. IT'S NOT JUST DEMOCRATS CONCERN, JAKE. YOU ALSO HAVE REPUBLICANS LIKE FORMER CONGRESSMAN ADAM KINZINGER TELLING CNN EARTHIER THAT HE CAN'T BELIEVE KEVIN McCARTHY MADE THIS DECISION. >> I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT HE.

HAD MORE RESPECT FOR THE INSTITUTION AS TO GO THROUGH AND UNDERSTAND WHETHER THERE ARE SECURITY CONCERNS, TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMITTEES OF JURISDICTION FIRST TO REVIEW. I THINK THAT'S ALL THIS WAS, WAS TRYING TO WIN OVER TUCKER CARLSON SO HE CAN HAVE HIM ON.

OUR SIDE. THE DANGER IN THIS IS SIGNIFICANT. >> Reporter: SOME OF THIS SECURITY FOOTAGE WAS RELEASED AS PART OF THE JANUARY 6th COMMIT SEE'S HEARINGS, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS DONE ACCORDING TO THE CHAIRMAN AND OTHER AIDES WHO.

WORKED ON THE COMMITTEE WITH CONSULTATION OF THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE TO ENSURE SOME OF THAT VIDEO FOOTAGE DIDN'T ENDANGER THE CAPITOL AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE IN THE FUTURE. >> CERTAINLY UNUSUAL. LAUREN FOX ON CAPITOL HILL, THANKS.

WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET A RESPONSE FROM SPEAKER McCARTHY'S OFFICE AS TO WHY HE'S MAKING THIS DECISION AND IT'S NOT RELEASED TO ALL THE NEWS MEDIA AS OPPOSED TO ONE SPECIFIC CHANNEL. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS WITH MY PANEL.

ELENA, DEMOCRATS ARE BLASTING THIS DECISION. JAMIE RASKIN, THE CONGRESSMAN ON THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE TWEETED IN PART, McCARTHY GIVING 40,000 HOURS OF JANUARY 6th TAPES TO FOX — WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THE SECURITY CONCERNS ABOUT THIS?.

>> THAT'S DEMOCRATS' MAIN CONCERNS, AND I THINK SOME REPUBLICANS AS WELL. WE SPOKE WITH ZOE LOFGREN, A FORMER MEMBER OF THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE, AND SHE TOLD US THEY WERE VERY CAREFUL WORKING WITH U.S. CAPITOL POLICE IN WHAT FOOTAGE THEY COULD USE IN THE.

HEARINGS. ONE THING THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE SHOWN WAS LAWMAKERS BEING EVACUATED FROM THE CAPITOL BUILDING. SHE TOLD US SHE WORRIED THAT SHOWING SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR OTHER FOOTAGE THAT COULD BE IMPROPERLY HANDLED COULD CREATE.

A BLUEPRINT FOR, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, BAD ACTORS TO TRY TO ATTACK THE CAPITOL AGAIN. I WILL SAY FROM MY REPORTING THAT I SPOKE WITH SEVERAL SOURCES IN REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT McCARTHY DIDN'T GO TO THEM BEFORE RELEASING THIS FOOTAGE TO.

FOX NEWS OR MAKING THE DECISION TO TURN OVER THIS FOOTAGE TO TUCKER CARLSON. HE DID NOT CONSULT HAKEEM JEFFRIES, THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER AS WELL, BEFORE DECIDING TO TURN OVER A LOT OF THIS FOOTAGE. >> WHAT'S THE JUSTIFICATION FOR DOING THIS, DO YOU THINK?.

>> WELL, I THINK WHAT McCARTHY WILL EVENTUALLY TELL YOU WHEN HE GIVES YOU AN ANSWER IS THAT IT'S TRANSPARENCY, RIGHT? THE ARGUMENT IS GOING TO BE — >> TO GET TO ONE SUPPORTIVE CHANNEL? >> OF COURSE, PROCEDURES HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED SO YOU DON'T JUST.

RELEASE ANYTHING. THAT WILL BE THE ARGUMENT. I THINK IT'S CLEVER THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER, JEFFRIES, TO SAY BASICALLY WE WANT MORE TRANSPARENCY. WE WANT TRANSPARENCY ABOUT THIS DECISION, HOW IT WAS MADE, WHAT THINGS WERE CONSIDERED, SO HE'S.

NOT FALLING FOR THAT TRAP. >> MAYBE THE ARGUMENT, BUT IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THROUGH THE PRISM OF POLITICS. IF IT WERE TRANSPARENCY, I THINK WE ALL CAN AGREE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT TO ALL NEWS AGENCIES AT THE SAME TIME BY IS STANDARD PROTOCOL WHEN YOU WANT.

TO RELEASE SOMETHING TO THE PUBLIC. IN THIS CASE IT ONLY MAKES SENSE IN POLITICS BECAUSE OF THE I'M TOOING. KEVIN McCARTHY WANTS TO PUSH ASIDE THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE AND FOX NEWS WANTS TO PUSH ASIDE THE EMAILS THAT CAME OUT THAT.

ARE PRETTY DAMNING SHOWING FOX NEWS HOSTS AT THE VERY TOP KNEW TRUMP HAD LOST THE ELECTION AND THEY WENT OUT AND MISLED THEIR AUDIENCE ANYWAY. THEN WHAT HAPPENS? JANUARY 6th. THAT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR FOX NEWS.

I'M NOT HERE TO JUDGE WHETHER IT WORKS. I'M HERE TO OBSERVE EMPIRICALLY THIS IS HAPPENING FOUR DAYS AFTER THOSE EMAILS CAME OUT. WE KNOW THERE'S A TRIED AND TRUE TACTIC IN POLITICS OF MAKING A FUSS AND RELEASING INFORMATION TO TRY AND CHANGE THE TOPIC FROM.

NEGATIVE INFORMATION. >> WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS? >> THE BIG WINNERS ARE NOT FOX NEWS AND SPEAKER McCARTHY. IT'S ALL NEWS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. THERE ARE TERRORISTS OUT THERE. THOSE OF US OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER 9/11 KNOW THAT.

THOSE OF US HOLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER JANUARY 6th KNOW THAT. SECURITY IS AT ISSUE HERE. THAT'S OUR CAPITOL BUILDING. THE AL QAEDA TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO STUDY THIS. THE ISIS TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO STUDY THIS. THE NAZI TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO.

STUDY THIS. KEVIN McCARTHY WILL SUCK UP TO A NEWS HOST WHO WILL NEVER LIKE HIM. TUCKER WILL NEVER LIKE KEVIN McCARTHY. HE'S ENG DANGERING THE SECURITY OF A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE MAYBE INCLUDING HIMSELF, GOD FORBID.

>> IF THE FOOTAGE THAT CARLSON USES ENDS UP NOT COMPROMISING ANYBODY'S SECURITY, I DO THINK THAT THE FOX PLAY WILL BE TO SAY LOOK AT ALL THIS HYSTERIA, THEY'RE ALWAYS ATTACKING US WITH THESE EXTREME SCENARIOS. >> HOW WILL THEY SECURE IT? IT'S HARD ENOUGH FOR THE.

GOVERNMENT — LET'S SAY, AND I WANT TO BELIEVE THIS, AND I DO BELIEVE THIS, THAT TUCKER AND AND FOX ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY PUBLICLY RELEASE. HOW ARE THEY GOING TO SECURE IT? AS SECURE AS THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE, HOMELAND SECURITY, FBI? I DOUBT IT.

I THINK THEY'RE MUCH MORE VULNERABLE TO PENETRATION. >> YOU CAN SEE COURT CHALLENGES, TOO, RESTRAINING ORDER TO TRY TO

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