{"id":1804036,"date":"2023-01-12T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804036"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:49:56","slug":"did-you-ever-raise-that-issue-mccarthy-roasts-media-over-lack-of-interest-in-security-concerns-surrounding-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-you-ever-raise-that-issue-mccarthy-roasts-media-over-lack-of-interest-in-security-concerns-surrounding-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Did You Ever Raise That Issue?\u2019: McCarthy Roasts Media Over Lack Of Interest In Security Concerns Surrounding Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdid-you-ever-raise-that-issue-mccarthy-roasts-media-over-lack-of-interest-in-security-concerns-surrounding-democrat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Speaker of the House, newly elected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (R-CA), a heated exchange took place between the media and him during Thursday&#8217;s first weekly press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>After answering several questions regarding the embattled New York Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/george-santos-posts-defiant-message-after-ny-republicans-call-on-him-to-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Santos<\/a>McCarthy turned the script on reporters and asked them why they didn&#8217;t show the same enthusiasm when answering questions about subjects on both sides of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN cut away from Speaker McCarthy\u2019s press conference, when he begins hammering Rep. Swalwell because he is allegedly compromised, as well as Rep. Schiff for lying repeatedly about having evidence that collusion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fL5xcblNI1\">pic.twitter.com\/fL5xcblNI1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill D&#8217;Agostino (@Banned_Bill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Banned_Bill\/status\/1613575659825029120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The confrontation began with a question about McCarthy\u2019s decision \u2013 which he had promised months before ever receiving the speaker\u2019s gavel \u2014 to remove Congressmen Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the House Intelligence Committee and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said you\u2019re going to let Democrats appoint their own members to the committee, but you\u2019ve also indicated you\u2019re not going to let \u2014\u201d A reporter started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very clear early on,\u201d McCarthy interjected. \u201cLet me phrase something very direct to you. If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn\u2019t have Swalwell on any committee. And you\u2019re going to tell me other Democrats couldn\u2019t fill that slot? He cannot get a security clearance in the private sector \u2014 so would you like to give him a government clearance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou asked me questions about Santos,\u201d McCarthy continued. \u201cDid you ask the questions about Swalwell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy didn&#8217;t say that Swalwell was a member the House Intelligence Committee and had had access to information not even allowed to other members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had more information than the majority of all the members. Did you ever raise that issue?\u201d McCarthy asked. \u201cNo! but you should have. You\u2019re going to tell me there\u2019s 200 other Democrats that couldn\u2019t fill that slot? But they kept him on it. The only way that they even knew it came forward is when they went to nominate him to the Intel Committee \u2014 and then the FBI came and told the leadership then, \u2018He\u2019s got a problem.\u2019 And they kept him on. That jeopardized all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy then turned to Schiff and said that he was his opponent. \u201copenly lied to the American public,\u201d As he went on, CNN quickly ended the press conference and returned to its normal programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) roasted the media in a testy exchange during his first weekly press briefing on Thursday. After fielding several questions about embattled New York Republican Rep. George Santos, McCarthy flipped the script on the reporters and asked why they had failed to show similar zeal when questions arose about subjects &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1804039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6973,5241,6202,4912,4174,7557,3663,4188,5283,14644,3646,14645,6195],"class_list":["post-1804036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-did","tag-concerns","tag-daily","tag-democrat","tag-issue","tag-lack","tag-mccarthy","tag-media","tag-raise","tag-roasts","tag-security","tag-surrounding","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}