downplayed brian sicknick's death and saying it was not an insurrection. do you regret giving him the tapes so he could whitewash the events of that day? >> i said from the very beginning transparency and so what i want to produce for everybody is exactly what i said that people can actually look at it and see what went on that day. >> why -- it was a portrayal of what happened that day? >> each person can come up with their own conclusion, and i wanted to make sure there was transparency. >> he continued to say that he wanted to provide for transparency, but they would not explain why he provided it to carlson who has long had a history of downplaying the, vents of that day that mccarthy himself condemned immediately after that happened on the house floor days later, but really exposing the divide here between the house republicans and senate republicans in particular over january 6th, the fallout of that and the role of donald trump and the party going forward. mccarthy, of course, aligning