In a letter to congressional leadership Friday, the media companies argue the footage House Speaker McCarthy allowed Carlson and Fox News to access should be made available to other media groups.
In a letter to congressional leadership Friday, the media companies argue the footage McCarthy allowed Carlson and Fox News to access should be made available to other media groups.
McCarthy's office has not responded to multiple requests for comment from CBS News about the reported release of more than 41,000 hours of police footage to Fox News. with The New York Times that he expects to make the footage more widely available after Carlson uses the material. "Now that the CCTV videos have been released to one member of the news media – one whose program is categorized by its own network as opinion programming – they must be released to the rest of the news media as well," Tobin wrote.
In a statement, the U.S. Capitol Police chief said,"When Congressional Leadership or Congressional Oversight Committees ask for things like this, we must give it to them." Wednesday, McCarthy said he'd"promised" to release the footage. McCarthy's election as House speaker was held up in early January by a faction of far-right House Freedom Caucus conservatives. The nature of some of the concessions exacted by the group from McCarthy remains unclear.
Carlson said on the show Monday that"we have been there about a week, our producers — some of our smartest producers — have been there looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means, and how it contradicts, or not, the story that we've been told for two years."Fox News did not reply to a request for comment.
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