denier mike lindell is furious that speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for giving exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of january 6th security footage to fox news host tucker carlson. because mike lindell is worried that tucker is going to cherry pick the footage to fit his own narrative. and that is absolutely a huge concern. it is why several national news outlets including nbc news, it is why they have sued for access to that very footage. getting election deniers, getting the mad at you, is just one where many giant can of worms that speaker mccarthy has opened here. tucker carlson having exclusive access to this footage is concerning because we have a pretty good idea but what you might do with, it and it is not great. carlson s already released a three-part documentary entitled patriot purge that push the idea that the january 6th attack was a false flag operation. if you re wondering at this point you could possibly be
news. it is important to keep it focused on what happened on january 6th. yes. which was there an insurrection on our capitol, no matter what political party do you belong to or, maybe you don t belong to anyone. you can find that outrageous. and right now there is one party and some from a few most democrats who are saying that is wrong. and that we need to stand up for democracy and we need to get to the bottom of what happened. there is only a handful of republicans who believe that. so keep it focused on what happened on january 6th. how we have to prevent that from happening again. and who represents standing up for democracy in the country. are you at all concerned that this all seems like a very concerted effort to reframe what happened on january 6th? because that is what, i mean, that is presumably whatever carlson is gonna do with 44,000 hours of footage. of course he is, i mean, i can just see his show now. where there is so many ways to play it. we are just giving
well, because fox, number one, fox is going to sift through it and only put out what they want. you heard that correctly. mike pillow ceo and election denier mike lindell is furious that speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for giving exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of january 6th security footage to fox news host tucker carlson. because mike lindell is worried that tucker is going to cherry pick the footage to fit his own narrative. and that is absolutely a huge concern. it is why several national news outlets including nbc news, it is why they have sued for access to that very footage. getting the lection deniers, like michael j. lindell, getting them mad at you, is just one where many giant can of worms that speaker mccarthy has opened here. tucker carlson having exclusive access to this footage is concerning because we have a pretty good idea but what you might do with, it and it is not great. carlson s already released a three-part documentary series entitled patriot
over these generous excited to talk across? i, well we don t endeavor anything. tucker was interested in it. we ve had videos for more than two years and i never heard anyone concerned about that when cnn was given exclusive. i know you have letters from all our news organizations asking for the same video that you ve made available to him. have you ever had an exclusive? because i see it on your networks all the time. so we ll have an exclusive, then give it out to the entire country. tucker will have an exclusive, and then the rest of the country will get to see it. said the speaker of the house of representatives. what is the big deal there? the number two house republican majority leader steve scalise also took questions on this topic today, his take amounted to, well, the january six committee released video. on january 6th, talk about today s meeting. and yesterday was being reported as well. is there concern as much as there is a desire for transparency around this
pushed the idea that the january 6th attack was a false flag operation. if you re wondering at this point who could possibly be worse to give this access to? well, i mean, probably mike lindell. [laughter] because he is angry at tucker carlson. because lindell wants the footage for himself, presumably to push whatever bonkers narrative he thinks s most pressing. remember, mike lindell had once claimed he had evidence that would put the hundred million people in, quote, prison for life because i ve imagined election fraud and now mike lindell is going to sue kevin mccarthy for the footage, which is, thanks mccarthy. now after dodging reporters for days today speaker mccarthy finally agreed to answer reporters questions about in-tern, his questionable decisions. and in 20 decisions to hand