The cackling coven of ABC’s The View was outraged on Wednesday after news broke that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson all 44,000 hours of footage from January 6. The gaggling gals were off the rails from the get-go with accusations that Carlson was a security risk who would reveal “evacuation points,” “safe rooms,” and security camera locations which would end up enabling another January 6 or 9/11.
“So, exactly how dangerous is it to let Tucker Carlson reset the narrative on January 6?” Joy Behar asked the hysterical faux conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Without evidence, Farah Griffin proclaimed that Carlson’s possession of the footage “raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol.” She then proceeded to rattle off all the different kinds of security measures we would supposedly expose:
So, I worked in the Capitol for many years. There are underground evacuation points, there are safe rooms. We even have rooms to protect for like bio/chemical attacks where you can go and safely be housed. This will also reveal where video cameras are stationed in the Capitol.
She then attempted to make an Evel Knievel-style leap and argue that Carlson having the footage was somehow anti-police and would enable 9/11 2.0:
So, as a Republican, we always say we back the blue. Well, you just exposed the entire Capitol and undermined the Capitol Police and their safety precautions for something like January 6 were it ever to happen again or something like 9/11 where the Capitol was targeted.
“It's so, so dangerous,” she opined.
The bloviating continued with Joy Behar wondering if McCarthy or Carlson was breaking the law by handing over or receiving the footage. Racist Sunny Hostin had to let her down easy:
BEHAR: Isn't this against the law to do something like that? Why isn’t it against the law?
SUNNY HOSTIN: It's not. I spent the morning researching.
Echoing Farah Griffin, Hostin warned that Carlson having the footage was “so dangerous.” “It's so divisive for our country. But it's most dangerous, I think, for the security of our country,” she lamented.
Farah Griffin’s ridiculous suggestions about security threats were something the entire cast latched on to. “The biggest thing here is what Alyssa said before. The security risks, exposing the inside of the White House,” Sara Haines declared.
Insisting that Carlson had “nefarious intentions,” Haines also pushed the long-debunked accusation that Republican members of Congress had helped rioters scout the Capitol beforehand:
But they proved that they were giving tours – Congress people were giving tours before to show people exactly what we just – what was just now handed over to someone. And where there can be nothing good coming from it, they've investigated we’ve done everything we need to do. It's not only not going to add good, it actually only has bad intentions. It's – Nefarious intentions drive this request.
The cast of The View knew perfectly well those accusations were busted last year. Back in June 2022, they cried foul when the Capitol Police exonerated Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA). “I don't understand why they did release a statement that said, ‘well, we've investigated this and there's nothing to see here.’ That part does actually concern me,” Hostin whined at the time.
As they were nearing the end of the Wednesday segment, the lunacy swelled as Haines and Farah Griffin teamed up to seemingly suggest McCarthy had removed the metal detectors outside the House chamber to allow the Freedom Caucus to shoot other members of Congress:
HAINES: Pelosi had added metal detectors because we also know there were Congress people fighting whether you should be able to carry in the Capitol --
FARAH GRIFFIN: And by the way, we’ve seen the Capitol floor descend into attacks recently.
HAINES: Right! We’ve after you’ve seen that, one of the first things he did as speaker was remove those metal detectors. Those seem like ridiculous moves.
Finally, Hostin lamented that the House Ethics Committee wasn’t doing anything to stop McCarthy. “Well, because she oversees it though is the thing,” Farah Griffin complained, despite the fact Hostin admitted earlier that nothing illegal was going on.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 22, 2023
11:04:15 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: So, exactly how dangerous is it to let Tucker Carlson reset the narrative on January 6?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it’s two fold. So, this raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol.
So, I worked in the Capitol for many years. There are underground evacuation points, there are safe rooms. We even have rooms to protect for like bio/chemical attacks where you can go and safely be housed. This will also reveal where video cameras are stationed in the Capitol.
So, as a Republican, we always say we back the blue. Well, you just exposed the entire Capitol and undermined the Capitol Police and their safety precautions for something like January 6 where it ever to happen again or something like 9/11 where the Capitol was targeted.
But secondarily, it allows Tucker Carlson to invent his own narrative about what happened. 44 hours of footage; you can come up with all sorts of different things to feed your narrative and his audience just continues to get lies and lies about what happened that day. It's so, so dangerous.
BEHAR: Isn't this against the law to do something like that? Why isn’t it against the law?
SUNNY HOSTIN: It's not. I spent the morning researching. Because generally, you have a Freedom of Information Act request that news outlets, let’s say ask Capitol Police for is. So, is it illegal just to give it to one person? The Capitol Police is not -- the FOIA – the Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to them. And so, if someone in Congress, like a leader in congress, asks the Capitol Police for this information, 44,000 hours of footage, they must comply.
And so, that is what is scary here.
BEHAR: But why didn't he give it to The New York Times and to other newspapers?
HOSTIN: Well, I think – Well, I don't want to guess. But you know, he had to make a lot of concessions to become speaker. Right? And maybe one of the concessions that he had to give Marjorie Taylor Greene or one of his supporters was give Tucker Carlson this. We know how powerful Tucker Carlson has become within the Republican Party. It's odd that a fake news anchor would be that person.
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It's so dangerous. It's so divisive for our country. But it's most dangerous, I think, for the security of our country.
(…)
11:07:56 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: The biggest thing here is what Alyssa said before. The security risks, exposing the inside of the White House. You're sharing videos with people –
BEHAR: People were killed – people died on January 6.
HOSTIN: An officer.
HAINES: They were giving tours—
BEHAR: They’re going to say it was a tourism day.
HAINES: But they proved that they were giving tours – Congress people were giving tours before to show people exactly what we just – what was just now handed over to someone. And where there can be nothing good coming from it, they've investigated we’ve done everything we need to do. It's not only not going to add good, it actually only has bad intentions. It's – Nefarious intentions drive this request.
(…)
11:09:02 a.m. Eastern
HAINES: Pelosi had added metal detectors because we also know there were Congress people fighting whether you should be able to carry in the Capitol --
FARAH GRIFFIN: And by the way, we’ve seen the Capitol floor descend into attacks recently.
HAINES: Right! We’ve after you’ve seen that, one of the first things he did as speaker was remove those metal detectors. Those seem like ridiculous moves.
HOSTIN: Again, that may be something that he had to give those people that want to carry weapons within the sacred halls of Congress. But I will say this, why doesn't the House Ethics Committee look at something like that?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, because she oversees it though is the thing.
(…)
