NCS host Jake Tapper dished out inconvenient info to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and a little bit of snark of their interview on Sunday. (Watch the video under.)
After the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, Johnson tried to defend President Donald Trump’s obvious weaponization of the Department of Justice.
“They have to hold people accountable,” Johnson mentioned. “We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone.”
“Does the rule of law have to apply to people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6?” Tapper requested.
“Well, I’m glad you brought that up,” Johnson replied. “There’s new information over the last couple of days about that, as well. Apparently, there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd on Jan. 6.”
The speaker was about to parrot President Donald Trump’s disproven declare that FBI brokers acted as agitators. His personal FBI director, Kash Patel, debunked it once more when he told Fox News those agents had been referred to as in after the disturbance started (a transfer that Patel additionally deemed problematic).
“No, no, no, that’s Kash Patel,” Tapper shot again at Johnson. “Kash Patel just … brought enhanced understanding to that. They were sent there to do crowd control because of everything that was going on … it wasn’t a false flag operation as President Trump suggested.”
“How do you know that?” the speaker requested.
“I’m just going on what Kash Patel said,” Tapper replied.
“Well, and I’m telling you that there’s videos, and it’s always been disputed — what involvement some of those persons, you know, engaged in. What involvement they had. Did they spur on the crowd? Did they open the gates to allow them in? I don’t know. These are questions, but they should be answered.”
Johnson shifted the chat to a brand new congressional probe of a earlier Jan. 6 committee, which he accused of bias.
“My theory is, I’ve always believed that they got rid of evidence and they hid some of this. So, all of it’s going to come out. The American people deserve full transparency,” Johnson mentioned.
“Full transparency, 100%. I’m always in favor of full transparency, including for the Epstein files, which that will probably come on the floor of the House soon and we’ll have lots of discussions about that,” Tapper snapped again.
Johnson has aligned with Trump’s effort to stifle the publicly unread paperwork concerning the late intercourse offender, regardless of efforts by even some outstanding Republicans to get the information launched. The current particular election of a Democratic House member, nonetheless, put the decrease chamber closer to forcing a vote on the matter.