GOP's McCarthy says VP Harris should attend FBI-CIA terror briefing: 'I know she hasn't been to the border'

EXCLUSIVE: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy confirmed Wednesday he has requested a classified briefing from the FBI and CIA over two Yemeni men on the FBI’s terror watch list who were allegedly caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border two months apart this year. 

He added that Vice President Kamala Harris, who was recently appointed President Biden's border czar, should attend the briefing.

"I know she hasn't been to the border," McCarthy said. "I don't know if she's ever been briefed on this, but I think it'd be important that all the leaders, because this isn't about Republican or Democrat, this is about the security of our nation. And everybody should be making sure our nation is secure."

McCarthy told Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich that Border Patrol agents told him large numbers of people from countries like Yemen, Turkey and Sri Lanka have been crossing into the U.S. through the southern border.

"We've got data that's showing more than a thousand people come across every day that don't even get encountered. So this is a real concern," he said.

"So we know people on the terrorist watch list are coming into America," he said. "How are they coming in? How many do we assume got through that we did not catch? Why were they on the watch list? What were they doing coming into the country? Do we have any intel based upon what did they have planned once they entered into the country? Who were they going to meet up with?"

In addition to Harris, the California Republican said, he has requested the classified briefing be shared with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.