“Giving someone as disingenuous as Tucker Carlson exclusive access to this type of sensitive information is a grave mistake by Speaker McCarthy that will only embolden supporters of the Big Lie and weaken faith in our democracy,” writes a Democrat senator.

Posted BY: Jamie White

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer characterized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s disclosure of thousands of hours of Jan. 6 video footage to Fox News as “one of the worst security risks since 9/11.”

“Giving someone as disingenuous as Tucker Carlson exclusive access to this type of sensitive information is a grave mistake by Speaker McCarthy that will only embolden supporters of the Big Lie and weaken faith in our democracy,” Schumer tweeted Wednesday with an attached letter to fellow Democrats condemning McCarthy.

“The speaker is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11,” the New York senator said in the letter.

“The footage Speaker McCarthy is making available to Fox News is a treasure trove of closely held information about how the Capitol complex is protected, and its public release would compromise the safety of the Legislative Branch and allow those who want to commit another attack to learn how Congress is safeguarded.”

“The speaker — nor any elected official — does not have the right to jeopardize the safety of senators nor Senate and Capitol staff for their own political purposes. Period. Full stop,” he added.

Carlson said this week that his producers will spend the week digging through the 44,000-hour trove of video footage and have already uncovered some that dispel the “insurrection” narrative.

“Some of our smartest producers have been 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 more than two years.”

“We think already in some ways it does contradict that story,” he noted.

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