hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pence s bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big new york times story that was making waves. you might have seen it. he s here. he make his beat debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those hardliners, and during those clashes when he had to get all the votes on the house floor, he promised all kinds of concessions, including promoting what was then his most ardent foe to a committee to look into fbi investigations and attacking the fbi and doj. and that itself is a shift in washington s power dynamics. this is a story i m about to tell you. for decades, members in both parties lobbied to get on committees like appropriations, controlling money. some sought prestigious assignmen
let alone the safety of his colleagues in the capitol, if it s considered that at all. mccarthy is literally already fundraising off this gambit, giving the stuff to tucker. he s trying to publicly link himself closer to tucker carlson. now, you might stop and say, okay, ari, but aren t top republicans always tight with fox news hosts? why would the republican speaker, who s the top republican in government right now, need to further that alliance? well, again, the answer s in the evidence. you can t assume fox hosts and republican politicians are tight, even if they might publicly admit they vote the same way a twist, carlson has been blasting mccarthy as a republican in name only, telling viewers mccarthy is a puppet of the republican party. he also calls him a democrat or msnbc analyst or d.c. lobbyist
mike pence condemned the violence, calling on those republican attackers to stop. i completely condemn the violence in the capitol. what we re currently watching unfold is un-american. i am i m disappointed, i m sad. this is not what our country should look like. this is not who we are. this is not the first amendment. this has to stop, and this has to stop now. that was what he said. that was mccarthy s truth. by the way, in court, that kind of statement is actually deemed more credible, an excited utterance, because in panic and fear, the courts found that s when the truth might seep out, even from someone like mccarthy. now, he s contradicting all this right now. he s elevating carlson, the insurrection minimizer, who is one of several hosts under heat right now, by the way, for the alleged defamation in the related lies that fed the insurrection. for mccarthy, this is clearly about politics, not truth.
together and how they should be cut. you laid out such an incredible indictment of this speakership and the gentleman who holds the chair because it really is at its core about i want to power, give me the power, what do i have to do to get it, and what do i have to do to keep it? as has been reported, mccarthy s admitted, yeah, yeah, i promised tuckums i would do this, that i would giver over this footage. so what else has been promised? i mean, i think we should all be bracing for that, because there s more of this to come. i also find it very curious. clearly these two individuals don t speak to each other, meaning tucker and mccarthy, because mccarthy on january 6th said, i condemn that.
recent standards. you see people walking around taking pictures. they don t look like terrorists, they look like tourists. they don t look like terrorists to him because he has an idea of what terrorists look like. but they re convicted seditionists. sedition is terror against your own government as opposed to a foreign government. now, that person you just heard, tucker carlson is who speaker mccarthy is elevaing to review the attack footage, a attack on mccarthy s workplace and his colleagues. and we know mccarthy is faking all this. i don t say that lightly. i won t say it if i can t prove it. we know on this particular story in the heat of the moment during that attack when no one knew how bad it would get or if the trump fans would go further and murder members of congress or assassinate mike pence as they clambered for, in that moment,