<p>Newly-elected House Speaker <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) roasted the media in a testy exchange during his first weekly press briefing on Thursday.</p>
<p>After fielding several questions about embattled New York Republican Rep. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/george-santos-posts-defiant-message-after-ny-republicans-call-on-him-to-resign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Santos</a>, McCarthy flipped the script on the reporters and asked why they had failed to show similar zeal when questions arose about subjects on the left side of the political aisle.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">CNN cuts away from Speaker McCarthy&#39;s press conference when he starts hammering Rep. Swalwell for being allegedly compromised, and Rep. Schiff for repeatedly lying about having evidence of collusion. <a href="https://t.co/fL5xcblNI1">pic.twitter.com/fL5xcblNI1</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Bill D&#39;Agostino (@Banned_Bill) <a href="https://twitter.com/Banned_Bill/status/1613575659825029120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The confrontation began with a question about McCarthy&#8217;s decision – which he had promised months before ever receiving the speaker&#8217;s gavel — to remove Congressmen Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the House Intelligence Committee and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.</p>
<p>&#8220;You said you&#8217;re going to let Democrats appoint their own members to the committee, but you&#8217;ve also indicated you&#8217;re not going to let —&#8221; a reporter began.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was very clear early on,&#8221; McCarthy interrupted. &#8220;Let me phrase something very direct to you. If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn&#8217;t have Swalwell on any committee. And you&#8217;re going to tell me other Democrats couldn&#8217;t fill that slot? He cannot get a security clearance in the private sector — so would you like to give him a government clearance?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You asked me questions about Santos,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;Did you ask the questions about Swalwell?&#8221;</p>
<p>McCarthy went not to say that, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, Swalwell had been privy to information that even other members of Congress had not been allowed to see.</p>
<p>&#8220;He had more information than the majority of all the members. Did you ever raise that issue?&#8221; McCarthy asked. &#8220;No! but you should have. You&#8217;re going to tell me there&#8217;s 200 other Democrats that couldn&#8217;t fill that slot? But they kept him on it. The only way that they even knew it came forward is when they went to nominate him to the Intel Committee — and then the FBI came and told the leadership then, &#8216;He&#8217;s got a problem.&#8217; And they kept him on. That jeopardized all of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCarthy then pivoted to address Schiff, saying that he had &#8220;openly lied to the American public,&#8221; and as he continued, CNN quickly cut away from the press conference and went back to normal programming.</p>

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