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Originally Posted by VitaMan
No need to hand it over to Tucker...unless he is "special"
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nothing was handed over. FOX producers had to watch video on D.C. police devices. that's in part because the devices have the location data to find various points in the Capitol building. without that it would be a sea of data almost impossible to use.
the video is indexed for that very reason, so if needed they can call up any location and any time stamp easily and watch it. you couldn't do that with a DVD copy. the raw data would be useless to anyone without the search software on the D.C. police's devices.
clearly you are underestimating McCarthy. is this McCarthy paying back the Democrats for their farce of a kangaroo committee? of course! and why shouldn't he? did the Democrats not think he would if they lost control of the House? that would be incredibly naive and we all know, for better or
worse, how cutthroat politics is. that's the problem. both sides play this game.
at the time, i thought McCarthy made a tactical mistake by pulling all his picks off the committee when Pelosi and Schiff refused his top two picks, Jordan and Banks. it was Banks btw who would have been the ranking Republican.
McCarthy's other nominees are:
- Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis;
- Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan;
- Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota;
- and Texas Rep. Troy Nehls.
along with Banks these were McCarthy's nominees. as i recall the Democrats would have allowed the rest, just not Banks and Jordan and presumably McCarthy could have picked two other Republicans for the committee.
it came down to the fact that the Democrats did not want Banks and Jordan. McCarthy felt it was important enough to have his two leads or no one. the reason is obvious, he wanted two lead Republicans at the top of the minority part of the panel that he knew he could trust to challenge the Democrats. at the time i thought that was a tactical mistake but now it seems like genius. Why? McCarthy knew the Democrats wanted to present a narrative and without strong Republicans on the panel they did. McCarthy gave them all the rope they needed to freely hang themselves and they did.
now he's showing that they did, that they had no intention to determine why this happened, just create a false narrative and with two republican rino's Cheney and Kinzinger, both with known bias against Trump, which if this was an actual legal proceeding would have disqualified both of them.
McCarthy knew FOX and Carlson were the only major outlet he could trust to counter the kangaroo committee's narrative.