Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tore into a CNN reporter over her network's decision to hire two intelligence operatives who themselves leaked classified information and lied about it to the American people.

McCarthy was discussing "equal justice under the law" regarding former President Trump's unprecedented federal indictment when a CNN reporter kept interrupting him when she wasn't getting the answer she wanted.

McCarthy highlighted the weaponization of government against Trump with CNN's hiring of disgraced former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the bureau for leaking classified documents in 2018.

"You can't put words in my mouth. Even though your network can hire Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for leaking classified documents," McCarthy said.

"Did you remove him from your network? No, you continued to put him on to give judgment against President Trump."

McCarthy also brought up how CNN hired former National Security Director James Clapper, who leaked classified information to CNN's Jake Tapper and also signed onto the famous intelligence community letter falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was Russian disinformation in 2020 — but the CNN reporter attempted to shut him down.

"Is there any effort to defund the FBI? Any effort to defund the Department of Justice after what you've seen over the last several days?" she asked.