“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough is concerned that Kevin McCarthy’s release of the Jan. 6 security footage of Tucker Carlson will lead to another riot, as the panel discusses Tuesday the Fox News host’s rewrites and how to reduce insurrection at the Capitol. Did.
Scarborough said, “You are again promoting violence and praising those who commit violence against the police.” “It’s an abandonment of the blue once again. An abandonment of police officers once again.
He continued: “You can’t say ‘the Republican Party.’ thrown out of.
Scarborough also called the release of McCarthy’s footage a “serious breach”.
“It’s disrespectful and it’s dangerous, and all it does is encourage the next attack,” he said. “But just politically, just for a second: Americans are not going to back a faction of a party that supports violence against police officers. Americans are not going to back a faction of a party that Supports riots on January 6th and subverts a peaceful presidential election. And for Kevin McCarthy to think anything less? It’s outrageous.
Michael Steele, an MSNBC analyst, criticized and warned Americans about what is at stake with the next election cycle.
“Americans have supported a rebel party, they re-elected them to power in November,” he said. “If Kevin McCarthy is not Speaker of the House, he is not grateful to Marjorie Taylor Greene and this faction that these clips will never be released. This is the result of people voting us into power who are anti-democratic, who are narcissistic. are, like Trump, in the sense that their self-interest is the prevailing interest.
Steele also pointed to how the issue “gets bogged down” amid rising gas prices, a failing economy, inflation and other events.
“Once they are back in power, where is the border policy? Where is the health policy? Where is the transport policy? But you know what? Tucker is giving Carlson what he wants,” Steele said. “This is what we’re getting here, so let’s stop pretending you’re going to get anything different.”
“When you give power back to the people who instigated the rebellion, what do you think you’ll get the next day?” They said.
But the “Morning Joe” panelists weren’t the only ones angered by Carlson’s rewriting of Jan. 6 history. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans spoke out against the Fox News host on Tuesday, picking quiet moments from thousands of hours of security footage from that day when they called the attack “mostly peaceful chaos.”
Watch the full “Morning Joe” segment in the video above.
