hello and welcome to inside politics. john king in washington. a busy news day. a damning finding. the justice department says louisville police department had a practice of stomping on civil right, using excessive force, conducting illegal searches, making unlawful stops and discriminating against black and brown ztszs. officials pull back the curtain on the biggest challenges to national security. the take aways, expect china to amp up pressure. time is on its side in ukraine. also some new reporting on the house gop plan to revisit the insurrection. that despite fresh evidence from a lawsuit against fox showing its executives and hosts knew election fraud allegations and conspiracy were bogus, but promoted them any way. up fist for us, a blatant, horrific disregard for humanity. the attorney general delivering a stinging indictment of the louisville pret metro police department. merrick garland announcing the results of a probe following the killing of bre yo na taylor
fold. which is what this is about. mccarthy had no intention of going back to january 6th in this conversation thl he realized that he needed to bring these very far right republicans and bring tucker carlson on board. he doesn t need tucker carlson throwing shots at him on fox news every night. this really is about his speaker race, i think a the lot of lines are going to be drawn back to these. including the key point, he needed the support of marjorie taylor greene to become speaker. she s suggested she wants to visit the defendants in jail because she believes they are being tortured. american citizens are being tort tortured as political prisoners. a thousand people have been arrested and charged. that s how they debate this. they have a realtime propaganda example to consider. tucker carlson is using the special access kevin mccarthy gave him to january 6th footage it present his take on what happened that day. it is so dishon thaes a good number of republicans were quick
and he refused to criticize kevin mccarthy for releasing the tapes, but obviously that s the connection everyone is going to make. it s a fascinating dynamic playing out on the hill right now as republicans try tos wrestle with this in realtime. and as any fox viewer, whether a consistent viewer or occasional viewer, this is the question that they have to ask. tucker carlson and the others, what they say to this day about donald trump. and then this is tucker carlson in his own words. we re all pretepiding we have a lot to show for it. admit whag a disaster it s been is too tough to day igest. there isn t an upside to trump. number one, you re lying to your viewers. trump is running again. i think we re all watching for that tweet or whatever it is on his site. he said trump is good at
here in the capitol. where was the security failure? no one should have of ever been able to breach this capitol. what do we need to do to ensure that it never happens again. that s in a nutshell what we re after. reporter: meanwhile, the house oversight committee might look into some of these issues. some members on that committee want to look into the january 6 defendants. marjorie taylor greene told us she is going to lead a group of republicans over the d.c. jail. she s been trying to defend the rioters seizing on this tucker carlson footage and the way it s portrayed providing these game clinton campaigns that they were nothing more than tourist visitors, something that gave leaders serious heartburn when he first started making those comparisons two years ago. while all this maneuvering has ingratiated kevin mccarthy, there s clear risks with else vaiting these members and keeping january 6th in spotlight.
the lawsuit. do they settle at some point is an interesting point. but it was sidney powell, rudy giuliani, mike lindell who was on fox talking a about this conspiracy theory that dominion voting machines were part of a conspiracy. but tucker carlson gave it a lot of credence on television and would not shoot it down. we have heard from a lot of people about the segment, including people in the white house and people close to the president. like us, they have concluded that this election was not fair. like us, they are willing to believe any explanation for what happened. like us, they have not seen a single piece of evidence showing that software changed votes. doesn t mean it didn t happen. it might have happened. it means they haven t seen evidence that it happened. by they, we are including other members of donald trump s own legal team. he s trying there to straddle a bit. yet he says the election was not