The hosts of the quite popular ABC midday talk show “The View” — including the program’s new Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — seemed to finally agree as of this past Wednesday in their anger in order to attack House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for handing over multiple thousands of hours of January 6 footage to Tucker Carlson, a host for Fox News.
The women sitting on the panel all spoke out to explain their issues — which ranged from complaints about the idea that Carlson works as a member of Fox News to issues that anyone that is releasing the footage could allow possible terrorists access to information about the security around the Capitol.
Leading the pack was Joy Behar who quickly attacked both Fox News and Carlson directly. “They go on the air and tell people all these lies that they don’t even believe themselves. And now he’s handed all this footage from January 6 to propagandize on Fox,” she exclaimed, going on to add that Carlson “is saying to us basically, don’t believe your eyes, believe what I tell you.”
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Alyssa Farah Griffin claims Tucker having the videos is a security risk for the Capitol.
"This raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol!"
She suggests Tucker will reveal evacuation points, saferooms, and security camera locations and will enable another 9/11. pic.twitter.com/cC6uqXqMqR— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 22, 2023
“This raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol,” chimed in Griffin to agree, stating that the showing of that kind of footage to the American public allowed everyone the ability to know the locations of a number of security cameras set up around the Capitol building and could also leak information about possible escape routes and any safe rooms which are located all throughout the facility.
“As a Republican, we always say we ‘back the blue,'” she stated, going on to finish, “Well, you just exposed the entire Capitol and undermined the Capitol Police and their safety precautions for something like a January 6, were it to ever happen again, or something like 9/11 where the Capitol was targeted.”
In the wake of Behar quickly interrupting to suggest that it could even be illegal for Carlson to have access to the tapes, Sunny Hostin, a former prosecutor and current co-host, corrected that it was not illegal before going on to complain that Carlson was not actually real news and argued that he would not give a fair showing to the released footage.
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Sara Haines asserts Tucker "only has bad intentions … nefarious intentions" and will use the video to help terrorists scout the "White House."
She pushed the debunked conspiracy theory that Republican members of Congress helped rioters scout the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/nhH6TqKq2K— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 22, 2023
Another co-host, Sara Haines, chimed in to agree that Carlson would not actually present what they called the “news” and stated that she was agreeing with Griffin that the main issue was whether or not the showing of the footage would endanger security.
