and tucker carlson has proved that he hates the truth even more passionately. leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of counsel and professor of practice at nyu, law school, msnbc legal analyst. andrew, i want to begin on this one point that we got in an email that we just got before coming on the air. it is from rupert murdoch to paul ryan, on january 12th, so this is almost a week after january 6th attack on the capitol. he says to paul ryan, rupert murdoch, says everything changed last wednesday, meaning the attack on the capitol. he then says, could he meaning trump could he still resign and get pence to pardon him, then just disappear? would mike pence agree?
they were saying we need to get rid of those people because it is going to hurt our stock. and this really is where you have the business of news and the sort of profession of news in conflict. where rupert murdoch shouldn t be saying it is not red or blue, it is green. he should be saying it could be green all you want, but there is a line we will not cross, which is saying something that is knowingly false and that is why they re in a lot of hot water. and based on this evident, for very good reason. so, david, jolly, if there is one thing that has not lost its grip on on my fury in terms of what the republican party i once knew ushered in, it is the silence of people who know better. so in that spirit, let me read you this from the filing. an exchange between paul ryan and rupert murdoch. quote, on january 12th, paul ryan discussed with rupert and
information. how does a disgraced drug addict make a $50,000 a month payment? who was paying him and why? why do classified documents keep appearing in homes that hunter biden lived? we have a right to ask those questions. joe biden doesn t feel like answering them. mr. president, are you sure there are no more classified documents? tucker: [laughing]. well, he s not sure. he s not sure of anything. but they are not bothering to answer questions anymore on this topic. every statement they have begin so far has proven to be false. for example, on january 12th,
to doj. and so that brings us to some interesting remarks by the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. he s been, you know, dodging the commit essentially and trying to rewrite history in what he has said. we ve discovered a radio interview with a local station in bakersfield, california, on january 12th. this was last year about a week after the insurrection where he said this. i say he has responsibility. he told me personally that he does have some responsibility. i think a lot of people do. he s talking about then president trump. there was also a call with house republicans five days after the insurrection, and cnn has obtained mccarthy s exact quote. he says let me be clear to you, and i have been very clear to the president. he bears responsibility for his words and actions, no ifs, ands or buts. i asked him personally today if he holds responsibility for what happened, if he feels bad about what happened. he told me he does have some
incendiary opinion, including calling president obama a muslim. he s apologized for many of those comments, but walsh is facing a new bulletproof presidential data point. according to the latest poll, president trump has an 84% approval rating amongst republicans. so i guess the big question first, let s start with this. who is mr. walsh? who is the former congressman walsh? i want to pull up some of his tweets from prior to now joe walsh which include on november 8th i m voting for trump. on november 9th if trump loses i m grabbing my musket. obama is a muslim, happy new year. on january 12th, 2018, to say it s racist to call haiti a blank hole is like saying it s racist to say chicago has a