Democrats condemn McCarthy for handing Capitol attack footage to Tucker Carlson – live

• House Republican leader’s move ‘poses grave security risks’
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Good morning, US politics blog readers. You would think Republicans would like to put the January 6 insurrection – where a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters ransacked the Capitol – behind them. Apparently not. In keeping with a pledge he says he made in his lengthy-but-successful quest to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy has handed over more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from the insurrection to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, a conservative mouthpiece who has consistently downplayed the attack on his show, which is one of the most watched on television.

Top Democrats are fuming over the move, including Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who warned colleagues McCarthy’s decision “poses grave security risks”. We’ll get into why McCarthy did this, and what Carlson’s doing with the footage, on this blog later on.

Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg is visiting East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment spilled toxic chemicals earlier this month. He arrives a day after Trump made an appearance in the village, where he criticized the Biden administration’s response.

January 6 committee investigators will discuss the continued threat posed by violent extremism in an event at the Georgetown Law Center at 3.30pm eastern time.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds her briefing at 1.30pm.