tucker carlson. some republicans want to take it one step further. then, a one-on-one, behind the scenes exit interview with kate bedingfield, as she steps down as white house communications director. tiktok, on the clock, again. now, the white house, and congress, set their sights on the mega popular app. over, guess what, security concerns. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, back a 30 rock. after dodging reporter questions for days, of speaker kevin mccarthy goes on the defensive today, after their controversial move to fox news host tucker carlson, first steps, on tens of thousands of hours of security video, from january 6th. last week, carlson said, they have already gained access to the footage. democrats, of course, slammed mccarthy s decisions, and with carlson s foreign claims about the capitol attack. it is also that certain security operations on the hill can be made public. today, mccarthy made no
double-layered button downed shirt aficionado, the leaked audio is just a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit and remember with me, a couple of months earlier, steve bannon had been arrested on charges that he had been bilking unsuspecting donors out of their money by telling them theirct donations were goi toward building a wall on the southern border when in fact, the money was going to steve bannon s pockets. bans was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut,ry belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire kind after patrongi of bannon. bannon out on bail is at a meeting with a bunch of the chinese billionaire friends, fine crew of folks who work on a sprawling online network peddling far right disinformation and an activist meeting a few days before the presidential election, bannon is filling themes in on how electi night is going to go down. what trump s gonna do is just declare victory, right? he s gonna declare victory.
hawley hauling you know what out of the capital again. they don t want to show the embarrassment of that. there are reports of some republicans who want to provide this video footage to defendants from january 6th, the actual insurrectionists so, interesting. think of the person who will actually be spearheading that release of information to the criminal defendants. it is representative loudermilk, who on january 5th, 2021, letter to her including one of the january six defendants who was prosecuted by the federal government, taking photographs, and videos of, the areas of the capital that you do not normally document there is no coincidences here. everything is intertwined. at the end of the day, we will find that mccarthy sold his soul to get a speakership, and part of that deal included releasing this footage, but i think you will have a negative effect which is, you will have a lot of people who shouldn t have their hands on this information, that have their
it s about donald trump. one of the goals of the january 6d hearings is to clearly plac donald trump at the center of the decision making around the actual plot to overturne the election culminating in the attack on the capitol. it was donald trump who spoke to steve bannon the day before the eye tack attack, prompting ban ton tell his supporters that all hell was going to break loose the next day. it was donald trump who on january 5th told the chief of staff to call mike flynn and roger stone, allies who had connections to the right wing militias who led the capitol attack. it was donald trump who gathered oval office the day before the attack, and asked them what the best route was for the mob to take to the capitol thee next day. every one of these elements of the planning for january 6th is an independently-serious matter. they were all ultimately focused on overturning the election. . and they all have one other thing in common.