Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Interview With Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

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As far as I know, that's just plain false. And I'm not surprised that, you know, we would hear another falsehood out of Kevin McCarthy. In particular, I think the Police Chief in that two-page letter to the members of the department taking issue with how the events were being misrepresented by Tucker Carlson said there was no effort to get their input, and even when that was available to them.

So you know, I think McCarthy's getting a lot of flak as he should be for compromising the security of the Capitol, compromising our escape routes, compromising where security officers are posted, giving the material to someone in Tucker Carlson, who we see in the Dominion litigation, basically, privately was acknowledging the truth about the election and publicly was lying about it.

And when others were truthful, took issue with wanting to get them fired, because it would hurt the profits of FOX. So this is who Kevin McCarthy has decided to trust this security footage with and he has done exactly what was expected and that is misrepresent it in an effort to, as Adam was saying, appease the base, but also apparently meet commitments he made in order to get the speakership to the most extreme elements of his conference.

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No, there isn't. There isn't, you know, plainly in giving over surveillance video to someone who would do exactly what Adam is describing, and that is use it to try to rewrite history, to denigrate the law enforcement that day, McCarthy knew exactly what he was doing. And it had nothing to do with the institution or interests of our democracy. It only had to do with appeasing the most extreme elements of his conference and placating the base and fundraising. That's all that Kevin McCarthy is.

What is most remarkable to me, Anderson is the American people saw what happened that day. You can't ignore those images. And yet, the power of repetition is such that, you know, people like Tucker Carlson, who know they're lying to the public can convince tens of millions of people of those lies.

I tell you, it's been really illuminating to me about other periods of history where you had other liars use a powerful megaphone and convince millions that they can't believe what they've seen, and you wonder how is that possible? And now we see how that's possible when you have people who have no love of country, no patriotic fiber, when it's just all about the money, then this is what happens. And for Tucker Carlson, who has many iterations, he is no different than Rupert Murdoch, it is all about the money and nothing else really matters.

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