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And North Korea says it will launch its first military spy satellite in June.

About possible security risks. joining us now, is it clear why? has the speaker's office said at all why mccarthy is doing this? >> reporter: well, victor, you're right, it is a very unusual decision that kevin mccarthy has made. sources have told me that mccarthy did not consult members of republican leadership before turning this footage over, nor did he consult house democratic leader hakeem jeffries, before giving these materials to fox news. and u.s. capitol police chief tom manger had told cnn, really, he had turned over the footage to mccarthy, but when someone asks for this, particular...

Themselves but by turning this footage over to tucker carlson, mccarthy is essentially outsourcing that job to fox news. democrats, meanwhile, are worried about the security concerns. zoe lofgren has told cnn when they released a lot of this footage during the past year, of the january 6th hearing, they came to an agreement, one thing they had said, u.s. capitol did not want them using video of lawmakers evacuating the capitol that day. lofgren told us that she worries having that footage in the hands of the wrong people, could provide a blueprint for bad actors on how to successfully attack t...

This morning only a few hours before the actual meeting that he was still in the race. what happened? >> i don't think we know yet, wolf. i think it's very, very unusual that he pulled out at the last minute. his stated reason for dropping out as he said in interviews today is that he wanted a larger majority of the vote. i've never seen someone drop out of the race because they were going to win but not win by a big enough margin. i mean, he knew when he jumped into this race that governing the house conference was going to be difficult and that he'd only have, you know, 218 or 220 something ...