众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡坚持他的决定福克斯新闻频道主持人塔克·卡尔森拿到了原始监控录像从1月6日国会大厦遇袭开始，周二晚上告诉记者他不后悔但是一再拒绝回答关于卡尔森在他的节目中说了什么的问题。
“每个人都可以得出自己的结论，”麦卡锡在谈到卡尔森周一晚上播出的内容时表示，这很快招致参议院共和党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)、民主党高层和美国国会大厦警察局长等人的指责。
美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)资深国会记者雷切尔·斯科特(Rachel Scott)问麦卡锡，他之前在周二拒绝回答问题，他是否对卡尔森提出的内容有任何担忧，指出了首席汤姆·曼格(Tom Manger)给国会警察的一份内部备忘录，其中曼格将卡尔森的报道描述为“樱桃采摘”、“误导”和“冒犯”。
“我没有看到播出的内容，”麦卡锡说，他坚持说，出于“透明”的目的，他给了卡尔森-而不是其他媒体-接触磁带的机会
卡尔森周一播出了他声称是新的监控录像从2021年1月6日，对美国国会大厦的攻击为了尽量减少作为和平集会的骚乱，并诋毁众议院1月6日委员会和联邦调查人员的工作。
与卡尔森现在的说法相反，在1月6日之后的几天里，麦卡锡说，“让我明确一点，上周对国会大厦的暴力袭击是不民主的，非美国的，是犯罪的。”
司法部长梅里克·加兰在周二被问及卡尔森的计划时说，“我认为1月6日发生的事情非常清楚。”
卡尔森和一些众议院共和党人已经炒作了几个星期的报告，但在观看了麦卡锡给他的40，000小时的视频后，主持人只重复播放了安全摄像机镜头的选定场景。
卡尔森在1月6日为“抗议者”辩护，声称他们“有权”认为他们刚刚投票的选举是不公平的。值得注意的是，卡尔森的评论紧随多米宁投票系统在对福克斯新闻频道的诉讼中提交的新法庭文件之后，该文件显示，在2020年11月中旬，卡尔森向他的一名制片人发短信说，“没有足够的欺诈来改变选举的结果”。
2023年2月1日，DC，白宫，众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡(共和党)在会见乔·拜登总统后对记者说。
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尽管他私下里说过，卡尔森周一表示，“从整体来看，视频记录并不支持1月6日是一场叛乱的说法，”尽管他也展示了暴徒暴力闯入国会大厦的熟悉镜头。
周二，记者问麦卡锡是否认为1月6日的骚乱是一场暴动，但麦卡锡完全回避了这个问题。
他说，他“与国会警察合作”将向卡尔森提供什么视频，但总经理在他的备忘录中说，福克斯新闻频道从未向国会警察询问他们播出什么片段的背景。
福克斯新闻频道的一位女发言人没有回应ABC新闻对备忘录的评论请求。
在前往众议院的路上，麦卡锡在被问及他是否听到过任何国会警察或任何官员对他关于卡尔森节目的细节的担忧时，他对ABC新闻说“没有”。
Kevin McCarthy speaks on controversy over giving Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is standing by his decision to grantFox News host Tucker Carlson access to the raw security footagefrom the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol,telling reporters on Tuesday night that he has no regretsbut repeatedly refusing to answer questions about what Carlson said on his show.
"Each person can come up with their own conclusion," McCarthy said about what Carlson aired Monday night, which quickly drew rebuke from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, top Democrats and the U.S. Capitol Police chief, among others.
ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott asked McCarthy, who had previously declined to answer questions on Tuesday, whether he had any concerns about what Carlson presented, pointing to an internal memo from Chief Tom Manger to Capitol Police officers where Manger described Carlson's coverage as "cherry picked," "misleading" and "offensive."
"I didn't see what was aired," McCarthy said, insisting that he gave Carlson -- and no other media outlet -- access to the tapes for the purpose of "transparency."
Carlson on Monday aired what he claimed to be new surveillance videosfrom the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitolin an effort to minimize the rioting as a peaceful gathering and to discredit the work of the House Jan. 6 committee and federal investigators.
In contrast to Carlson's claims now, in the days right after Jan. 6, McCarthy said, "Let me be clear, last week's violent attack on the Capitol was undemocratic, un-American, and criminal."
Attorney General Merrick Garland, asked on Tuesday about Carlson's program, said, "I think it's very clear what happened on Jan. 6."
Carlson and some House Republicans had been hyping the report up for weeks, but after viewing 40,000 hours of video given to him by McCarthy, the host played on repeat only select scenes of the security camera footage.
Carlson defended "protesters" on Jan. 6, claiming they were "right" to "believe that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted." Notably, Carlson's comments come on the heels of new court filings by Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against Fox News that showed in mid-November 2020, Carlson texted one of his producers that "there wasn't enough fraud to change the outcome" of the election.
Despite what he's said in private, Carlson said on Monday that "taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that Jan. 6 was an insurrection," though he also showed familiar footage of rioters violently breaking into the Capitol.
Reporters on Tuesday asked if McCarthy believed the Jan. 6 riot was an insurrection, but McCarthy avoided the question entirely.
He said he "worked with Capitol police" on what video would be provided to Carlson, but Chief Manger said in his memo that Fox News never reached out to the Capitol Police for context about what clips they aired.
A Fox News spokeswoman did not respond to ABC News' request for comment on the memo.
On his way to the House floor, McCarthy told ABC News "no" when asked if he had heard any concerns from any Capitol Police officers or any officers on his detail about what was show on Carlson's show.
