<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed a CNN reporter during a brief interaction with reporters in which he answered questions about releasing footage from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of the footage that you gave Tucker Carlson, last night he went on and said this was a mostly peaceful chaos as he said, he downplayed Brian Sicknick&#8217;s death, said it was not related to January 6, that this was not an insurrection,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju said. &#8220;Do you regret giving him those [tapes] so he could whitewash the events of that day?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No. I said at the very beginning, &#8216;transparency,'&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;And so what I wanted to produce for everybody is exactly what I said, people can actually look at it and see what&#8217;s gone on that day.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked if he agreed with Carlson&#8217;s portrayal of the events that took place on January 6, McCarthy said, &#8220;Each person can come up with their own conclusion.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But I just wanted to make sure I had transparency, because I know on CNN, I mean, I had here where you guys actually wrote where we were,&#8221; McCarthy continued as he held up the printed off CNN report. &#8220;This was a secret location &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if you got concerned by that, I don&#8217;t even know from a point of view of security if we could ever be taken there again. But when you broke that at CNN, that was a real concern to a lot of people.&#8221;</p>
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