Tucker Carlson

"It was not peaceful. It was an abomination," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said as the Hill's police chief slammed the Fox News host for falsely portraying the ...

An attorney for a member of the Proud Boys, currently on trial for alleged seditious conspiracy on Jan. McCarthy has indicated he hopes to publicly release large amounts of the video files, with some exceptions to protect the security of the campus. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) described the day as a violent attack and said any effort to “normalize that behavior is dangerous and disgusting.“ 7, 2021 — did not die because of anything that occurred the day before. on that day — to the FBI, which shared it with Jan. “I think that it’s unfortunate that [Carlson] is the exclusive holder of the tape recording. I just think it’s the kind of thing that should be made available to everybody at the same time, so as to not have a political angle to it.” He added that Carlson’s “commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.” Asked if he disagreed with McCarthy’s decision to share footage with Carlson, Armstrong replied: “I don’t disagree with it any more than I disagree with the 1/6 committee narrative. Inside McCarthy’s conference, few if any members would say outright on Tuesday night that their speaker made a mistake by sharing the footage with Carlson — in fact, only a handful admitted to watching the segment at all. So what is the purpose of continuing to bring it up unless you’re trying to feed Democrat narratives even further?” Rep. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to release thousands of hours of security footage from that day to Fox News has reopened a painful fault line that his party has repeatedly tried to mend.

That Tucker Carlson thinks his viewers are stupid is not new, though his first swing at spinning unseen footage of the January 6 insurrection provides a ...

[potential indictments](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/indictment-donald-trump-fulton-georgia-mar-a-lago-documents-january-6/672800/) related to Trump’s attempt to overturn the election. [recent, little-noticed statement](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/trump-january-6-possible-indictment-defense-jack-smith/673070/), he and his allies have come to largely embrace the second. The problem with the first was that it required Trump to disavow many of his most devoted supporters, something he was loath to do. The problem with the second was that too many fellow Republicans were appalled by the riot to make the defense viable. When word emerged of the phone call in which he tried to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to aid his reelection campaign, Trump first tried to bury the incident; when that proved impossible, he began insisting that the call “ (Although Carlson claims a media cover-up on the footage McCarthy gave him, other organizations [have in fact sued to obtain it](https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1632910415788224513).) On the other, it fits with a long-standing Donald Trump approach of demanding that his supporters believe him rather than their lying eyes. Early on, two defenses of Trump and the riot emerged. Equally strange is his insistence that they were “people who believe in the system,” given that they were interfering with the system. Carlson notes that while standing at the dais in the Senate, Chansley offered a prayer for Capitol Police officers, but claims that “you would never have known from the media coverage.” Awkwardly, the footage he plays to show this includes a watermark revealing its origin: It was captured by the New Yorker journalist Luke Mogelson, Carlson can’t erase the images that everyone has seen of chaos and destruction, so he tries to recontextualize them. Look at the hallways they didn’t smear feces on and statues they didn’t deface!

Carlson called the 2020 election “a grave betrayal of American democracy” after court documents showed he believed fraud claims about the election were ...

6 Footage](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/02/20/speaker-mccarthy-gives-tucker-carlson-41000-hours-of-jan-6-footage/?sh=c3ffc9831894) (Forbes) [Fox Unlikely To Settle With Dominion Over Election Lies As High-Stakes Trial Nears, Experts Say](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/03/fox-unlikely-to-settle-with-dominion-over-election-lies-as-high-stakes-trial-nears-experts-say/?sh=5261cc2d3c7f) (Forbes) [Murdoch Admits Fox News Hosts Pushed False Election Fraud Claims](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/02/27/murdoch-admits-fox-news-hosts-pushed-false-election-fraud-claims/?sh=7fe27dbe494b) (Forbes) Murdoch also suggested the company was motivated by money in pushing the fraud allegations, agreeing their decision making was “not red or blue—it is green.” The court filings have drawn Trump’s ire, with the former president repeatedly [denouncing Murdoch](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/03/01/trump-attacks-rupert-murdoch-and-fox-news-again-claiming-destruction-of-america-amid-defamation-lawsuit/) in recent days for saying he doesn’t believe there was election fraud and praising Fox hosts—like Carlson—who have pushed the allegations. [gave](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/02/20/speaker-mccarthy-gives-tucker-carlson-41000-hours-of-jan-6-footage/?sh=c3ffc9831894) the Fox host 41,000 hours of security tapes, which the lawmaker [said](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/02/28/mccarthy-january-6-tapes-released-to-tucker-carlson-will-be-made-public/?sh=680ff73d4b66) will be released to the public as well. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tucker-carlson-new-video-provided-speaker-mccarthy-falsely-depicts-jan-rcna73673) (NBC News) [‘Mind Blowingly Nuts’: Fox News Hosts And Execs Repeatedly Denounced 2020 Election Fraud Off-Air—Here Are Their Most Scathing Comments](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts-and-execs-repeatedly-denounced-2020-election-fraud-off-air-here-are-their-most-scathing-comments/?sh=a27343b18f35) (Forbes) [Speaker McCarthy Gives Tucker Carlson 41,000 Hours Of Jan. Fox News hosts have repeatedly sowed doubt about the 2020 election and pushed claims on the network suggesting there was widespread election fraud, despite no evidence that’s true. Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News is set to [go to trial](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/03/fox-unlikely-to-settle-with-dominion-over-election-lies-as-high-stakes-trial-nears-experts-say/?sh=5261cc2d3c7f) in April, assuming a settlement or ruling is not reached before then, and the voting company is asking Fox to pay $1.6 billion in damages if the court finds they committed defamation. [repeated comments](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts-and-execs-repeatedly-denounced-2020-election-fraud-off-air-here-are-their-most-scathing-comments/) from anchors and executives saying they “did not believe” the statements and people like Powell who pushed them were “nuts.” Murdoch [testified](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/02/27/murdoch-admits-fox-news-hosts-pushed-false-election-fraud-claims/?sh=7fe27dbe494b) to the court he also did not believe the election fraud claims and “would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight,” but he did not stop election deniers from appearing on Fox News. [court filings](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts-and-execs-repeatedly-denounced-2020-election-fraud-off-air-here-are-their-most-scathing-comments/) with Fox anchors saying the fraud claims were false, including Carlson saying conspiracy theories involving Dominion machines were “insane” and “absurd” and it was “shockingly reckless” to be pushing them. [asking them](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/01/rupert-murdoch-must-tell-fox-news-hosts-to-stop-spreading-election-lies-congressional-democrats-demand/?sh=458253632065) to force Fox anchors, including Carlson, to publicly apologize for making false election claims, and specifically citing Carlson’s airing of the January 6 footage as a reason he should denounce the fraud allegations now. [defamation case](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/03/fox-unlikely-to-settle-with-dominion-over-election-lies-as-high-stakes-trial-nears-experts-say/?sh=5261cc2d3c7f) brought by voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, which alleges Fox anchors including Carlson repeatedly pushed election fraud claims despite knowing they were false. [suggest](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts-and-execs-repeatedly-denounced-2020-election-fraud-off-air-here-are-their-most-scathing-comments/) Carlson knew were false—as he aired exclusive footage of the January 6 attack and used it to downplay the riots. [gave](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/02/20/speaker-mccarthy-gives-tucker-carlson-41000-hours-of-jan-6-footage/?sh=c3ffc9831894) him exclusively, by saying the rioters were “right” to believe “that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer strongly condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing footage of the Jan. 6 insurrection and portraying it as a ...

But the ME also told The Washington Post that "all that transpired played a role in his condition." "Speaker McCarthy's decision to share security footage with Fox looked like a mistake from the very beginning, but after last night, it looks like a disaster," Schumer said. "It was one of the darkest days of our democracy and all you have to do is watch those videos." "They lied about the police officer they claimed to revere. Carlson "tried to argue it was nothing more than a peaceful sightseeing tour," Schumer said. I don't think I've ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain." 6](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/06/doj-says-jan-6-capitol-riot-arrests-top-thousand-people.html) insurrection in a way that portrayed it as a peaceful visit to the U.S. House, disrupting a joint session of Congress and delaying for hours the confirmation of [Joe Biden's](https://www.cnbc.com/joe-biden/) election as U.S. 6 insurrection in a way that portrayed it as a peaceful visit to the U.S. Manger had written that Carlson's commentary on the "cherry-picked videos ... 6 Capitol attack was not a violent insurrection," Schumer said. [Tucker Carlson](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tucker-carlson-new-video-provided-speaker-mccarthy-falsely-depicts-jan-rcna73673) for airing footage of the deadly [Jan.

U.S. Capitol Police officials say they saw just one of the many clips from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that Fox News host Tucker Carlson ...

[Barry Loudermilk](https://thehill.com/people/barry-loudermilk/) [Capitol Police](https://thehill.com/tag/capitol-police/) [Fox News](https://thehill.com/tag/fox-news/) [Jan. It’s hard to overstate the potential security risks if this material were to be used irresponsibly.” “We repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” Capitol Police told The Hill on Monday. “This action clearly does not coincide with promises of safety and security and endangers everyone who visits and works in the Capitol complex,” Rep. “When the Select Committee obtained access to U.S. 6 panel, said at the time. 6 panel raised the alarm over “‘Deadly insurrection.’ Everything about that phrase is a lie,” Carlson said during his show Monday night. Capitol Police video footage, it was treated with great sensitivity given concerns about the security of lawmakers, staff, and the Capitol complex,” Rep. “Very little about Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. U.S.

On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the historical record of President Donald Trump's coup attempt, portraying the people who ...

A full version of the episode can easily be found on competing video-sharing site Rumble, which is much slower to respond to copyright takedown notices. Kevin McCarthy, opened his show on Monday by declaring that the footage he was showing had been “hidden from the public,” and tried to rewrite the story as one of protestors merely exercising their First Amendment rights. In fact, Carlson tried to get a Fox reporter fired after she fact-checked the ridiculous claims being made by Sidney Powell on the network. But if you search for Tucker Carlson on the YouTube mobile app, you won’t find Carlson’s revisionist history at the top of the page. Full-length episodes of cable TV shows are regularly deleted from YouTube on copyright grounds, with companies like Fox News filing complaints to have them pulled. On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the historical record of President Donald Trump’s coup attempt, portraying the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan.

Republican senators bashed Tucker Carlson of Fox News on Tuesday for lying that Jan. 6 Capitol attack was "peaceful."

[wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109981996761731158) on Truth Social. [Chuck Schumer](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/chuck-schumer/) (D-N.Y.) said from the chamber floor. [suggesting he will pardon](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-texas-rally-2024-campaign-biden-1292508/) the perpetrators if he wins reelection — has also shared clips of the segment and implored his followers to tune in again Tuesday night, when Carlson is expected to release more footage. 6](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jan-6/) Capitol attack. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). Jon Thune (R-S.D.). Mitt Romney (R-Utah). Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), referring to “LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO,” Donald Trump Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). [Tucker Carlson](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/tucker-carlson/) exclusive access to tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the [Jan. “I think particularly when you come into the chambers, when you start opening the members’ desks, when you stand up in their balcony — to somehow put that in the same category as, you know, permitted peaceful protest is just a lie.”

McConnell joins U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger and Democrats in slamming Carlson's portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack. Carlson began a two-part show ...

"Last night, Fox News, with Speaker McCarthy as a willing, capable and powerful accomplice, aired one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen in the history — in the entire history of cable television," Schumer said. Earlier this month, McCarthy confirmed reports that he had allowed the release of the extensive footage to Carlson as an exclusive. - The Fox News host claimed fallen officer Brian Sicknick's death had "nothing to do with his heroic actions on January 6." Manger refuted that characterization saying that officers who were severely outnumbered were using "de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building." He held up Manger's one-page statement — called "Truth & Justice" — near the Senate chamber. 6 attack on the Capitol — including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended his decision to hand over more than 40,000 hours of related security footage.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson whipped up a firestorm Tuesday on Capitol Hill, sparking bipartisan backlash and igniting tensions with Capitol Police by ...

“They believed the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted,” Carlson said Monday of the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. [Donald Trump](https://thehill.com/tag/donald-trump/) [Fox News](https://thehill.com/tag/fox-news/) [Jan. In retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy, given the facts that have since emerged about that election,” he said. Yet the beneficiaries of that election continue to lie about what is now obvious.” 6 committee, is among those who have raised security concerns over the release of the footage, noting it could be used to map the Capitol and the evacuation path of lawmakers. “We repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” Capitol Police told The Hill on Monday. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who was one of the members on the Jan. Among the unfounded theories Carlson floated in his Monday program were suggestions that federal agents helped incite the violence, though he stopped short of providing evidence to prove it. McCarthy later gave Carlson exclusive first access to the footage, but has denied that release came as a result of negotiations for the Speakership. Carlson, who has previously criticized McCarthy on his show, suggested at the start of the year that the new House Speaker release all Jan. Carlson was expected to air more clips from the footage during his show on Tuesday evening. The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments,” Manger wrote in a memo to lawmakers.

It was a predictable result of Kevin McCarthy giving Tucker Carlson the Jan. 6 footage first. Now it has set off an unusual clash between GOP senators and ...

6](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/29/trump-january-6-timeline/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_11). [Five people died](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-riot-death-medical-exainer/2021/04/07/53806608-97cf-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_6) on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and [140 police officers were assaulted](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police-capitol-riot/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_7). [Here’s what the criminal referrals mean](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/19/jan-6-criminal-referrals-faq/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_4). Read The Post’s [analysis about the committee’s new findings and conclusions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/jan-6-final-report-findings/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_2). Capitol](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_5) in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. [McCarthy’s own evolution on the subject](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/26/kevin-mccarthys-bizarre-attempt-rewrite-narrative-jan-6/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7). 6 committee released its final report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/22/jan-6-committee-trump-should-never-hold-office-again/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_1), marking the culmination of an 18-month investigation into the violent insurrection. 6 was [a false flag orchestrated by the federal government](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/10/28/tucker-carlson-draws-bipartisan-backlash-false-flag-claim-about-jan-6-new-documentary/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7). 6](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tucker-carlson-new-video-provided-speaker-mccarthy-falsely-depicts-jan-rcna73673) on Carlson’s show Monday night. Given the [concessions McCarthy made to the House Freedom Caucus](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/09/mccarthy-concessions-rules-debate/?itid=lk_inline_manual_28) to become speaker, his speakership could be short-lived without making sure his right flank is minded at all times, and Carlson exercises perhaps unrivaled sway over it. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) summarized Carlson’s version as “some rowdy peaceful protest of Boy Scouts” and said to put what happened “in the same category as … 6](https://www.washingtonpost.com/january-6-capitol-riot/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), 2021, as being fomented by antifa, Rep.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired newly released footage on his show Monday from the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, that included images of the rioter ...

CNN does not have access to the footage and cannot verify Carlson’s claims, and it’s unclear how Fox News determined that it’s Sicknick in the video. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain and he’s going to come back tonight with another segment.” “To say January 6 was not violent is a lie – a lie pure and simple,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. [Sicknick was attacked](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/politics/sicknick-capitol-bear-spray-pepper/index.html) with pepper spray and physically fought with members of the mob. The video shows Sicknick in the crypt of the Capitol, appearing to give instructions to some of the nearby rioters who are milling around the area, repeatedly waving his arms. In the end, the only change that we made was in blurring the details of a single interior door in the Capitol building.” Prosecutors say that Chansley disobeyed that request and walked to the Senate floor. Additionally, Capitol Police officers have testified at several January 6 trials that after the initial wave of rioters entered the building, they felt outnumbered and were afraid of escalating violence by engaging with the mob. Carlson aired never-before-seen surveillance footage that he said showed Sicknick, who died one day after the January 6 insurrection. In one clip, Chansley is shown with two officers who attempt to open a door near the Senate chamber. The speaker said Tuesday that the footage would be released to all media organizations, but did not say when. McCarthy’s office said it is still working out the process to make the footage “more widely available” but did not comment further.

El presentador ultraconservador de Fox News, Tucker Carlson, presentó en horario estelar un video que capta parcialmente a seguidores de Donald Trump ...

La prensa negra es una voz de confianza en las comunidades afroestadounidenses y debe recibir la misma equidad y acceso que todas las demás entidades de prensa de EEUU", dijo Benjamin Chavis, Jr. Carlson dijo en su programa que la cadena conservadora había consultado con la Policía del Capitolio antes de emitir el video, y que "sus reservas fueron menores". El FBI identificó a dos personas que lo rociaron con un químico y la familia del agente fallecido afirma que los disturbios contribuyeron al accidente cerebro-vascular. Ese día, aparte de la toma al edificio se colocaron dos bombas en las inmediaciones que no llegaron a explotar. "La Constitución de EEUU no distingue las libertades de prensa solo para la prensa blanca, la prensa dominante o la prensa de derecha. "Las imágenes no muestran una insurrección o un disturbio en curso", señaló Carlson comentando las imágenes.

Driving the news: In an internal letter Monday night, Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger blasted Carlson for spreading "offensive and misleading conclusions" ...

Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said to reporters at the Capitol, calling Carlson's depiction "inexcusable." [McCarthy plays with fire](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/22/mccarthy-tucker-carlson-january-6-surveillance) It was an abomination,” said Sen. [per Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/capitol-police-jan-6-carlson-00085904). It was not peaceful. - "The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress," Carlson said on Monday's program. Carlson claimed that Sicknick's death "had nothing to do with his heroic actions on January 6.” [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bulls-gop-senators-rebuke-tucker-carlson-downplaying-jan-6-mostly-peac-rcna73764). [during her testimony](https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/caroline-edwards-nick-quested-testify-jan-6-committee-hearings)last year at a hearing of the Jan. [100 officers were injured in the rio](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/politics/capitol-police-injuries/index.html)t and hundreds [have left the force](https://www.axios.com/2021/12/07/200-capitol-police-jan-6). [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/capitol-police-chief-tears-tucker-carlson-claims-officer-brian-sicknic-rcna73813), which obtained the memo. [exclusive access](https://link.axios.com/click/30690326.143720/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjMvMDIvMjAva2V2aW4tbWNjYXJ0aHktdHVja2VyLWNhcmxzb24tamFuLTYtcmlvdC1mb290YWdlP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2F4aW9zc25lYWtwZWVrJnN0cmVhbT10b3A/62e7f25d6e7093735a094dd0B39b0d6ab) to 41,000 hours of Capitol footage from the Jan.

Some viewers questioned the authenticity of one section of the video, which showed Jimi Hendrix performing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

“Some of you have asked, ‘Isn’t Jimi Hendrix dead?’ ” he said. The video you’re about to see tells a different story.” Some viewers, however, questioned the authenticity of one section of the video, which showed a performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Jimi Hendrix.

Kevin McCarthy is standing by his decision to grant Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to the raw security footage from Jan. 6.

6, claiming they were "right" to "believe that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted." 6 was an insurrection," though he also showed familiar footage of rioters violently breaking into the Capitol. 6 attack on the Capitol, [telling reporters on Tuesday night that he has no regrets](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-police-chief-slams-carlsons-comments-jan-6/story?id=97686463) but repeatedly refusing to answer questions about what Carlson said on his show. 6, McCarthy said, "Let me be clear, last week's violent attack on the Capitol was undemocratic, un-American, and criminal." 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. [from the Jan.

House Republicans promoted Tucker Carlson's report falsely portraying the attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful event, while Senate Republicans ...

6](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/us/kevin-mccarthy-capitol-riot-commission.html) shortly after the attack, [downplaying or outright denying the violence and deflecting efforts to investigate it.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/republicans-capitol-riot.html) In Mr. “By diving deep into the waters of conspiracy, and cherry-picking from thousands of hours of security footage, Mr. Carlson and his conspiracy theories, and called the broadcast “shameful.” More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police; the Metropolitan Police of Washington, D.C.; and other agencies suffered injuries on Jan. Here is a close look at [how the attack unfolded](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/politics/jan-6-timeline.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-capitol-mob&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). “The American people saw what happened on Jan. “Clearly the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on Jan. “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.” Carlson opened his segment on Monday with a full-throated endorsement of the myth that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. But the segment prompted anger in the ranks of the Capitol Police Department, whose members suffered dozens of injuries on Jan. 6, effectively [outsourcing the task](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html) of rewriting the history of the riot to the right wing’s favorite news commentator, who has circulated conspiracy theories about the attack. Carlson and his team exclusive access](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/us/politics/mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-video.html) to Capitol surveillance footage from Jan.

McConnell joins U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger and Democrats in slamming Carlson's portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack. Carlson began a two-part show ...

"Last night, Fox News, with Speaker McCarthy as a willing, capable and powerful accomplice, aired one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen in the history — in the entire history of cable television," Schumer said. Earlier this month, McCarthy confirmed reports that he had allowed the release of the extensive footage to Carlson as an exclusive. McConnell responded by saying, "My concern is how it was depicted, which is a different issue." "The justice system will. 6 attack on the Capitol — including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended his decision to hand over more than 40,000 hours of related security footage. He held up Manger's one-page statement — called "Truth & Justice" — near the Senate chamber.

New emails and texts released in Dominion Voting System's case against Fox News highlighted internal strife among hosts including Tucker Carlson.

"We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale." By January 2021, according to the new filings, network chief Rupert Murdoch emailed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and said, "It's been suggested that our prime time three should independently or together say something like 'the election is over and Joe Biden won. "I think the three of us have enormous power," Ingraham adds. "We are officially working for an organization that hates us," Ingraham texted Hannity and Carlson on November 16, 2020, according to court documents. [ filed to dismiss the motion](https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-files-to-dismiss-defamation-2021-5?utm_medium=referral&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_source=yahoo.com), and by December 2021, a judge [ had rejected Fox's motion.](https://www.businessinsider.com/delaware-judge-rejects-fox-news-request-throw-out-dominion-lawsuit-2021-12?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) In the company's lawsuit, Dominion claimed that Fox News "sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process." [ Fox News' move to throw out](https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-worth-80-million-despite-billion-lawsuit-fox-news-says-2023-2) the lawsuit in a new filing last week, in [a high-stakes case set for an April trial](https://www.businessinsider.com/rupert-murdoch-make-trump-non-person-after-january-6-2023-2). "Thanks to today's filings, Dominion has been caught red-handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," a Fox News spokesperson told Insider in a statement on Tuesday. The transcripts have further pulled the curtain back on Fox News leaders in the wake of the 2020 election [ and the conspiracy theories that spread afterward](https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-voter-fraud-claims-headless-time-travel-dominion-fox-2023-2). We are all dissapointed but it happened. [Dominion's 1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News](https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-news-election-2021-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_source=yahoo.com), which claims that the network gave prominence to the election-fraud claims as a tactic to revive viewership as ratings dropped [after President Donald Trump's loss](https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-fox-news-as-the-networks-seem-to-turn-against-trump-2020-11).

The Senate Republican leader says it was a "mistake" for Fox News to air footage playing down the riot.

"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," he wrote on 4 January 2021, according to US media. Meanwhile, there were new revelations on Tuesday night from a $1.6bn (£1.2bn) defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. He has also suggested without evidence that government agents could have instigated the riot. The latest legal filings in the case reportedly suggest that two days before the Capitol riot Mr Carlson wrote in text about his "hate" for Mr Trump, Criticism of Monday's segment came from Democrats as well as top Republicans in Washington, the head of the Capitol police, and the family of a police officer whose death was mentioned by Mr Carlson in the show. In the roughly 45-minute segment, Mr Carlson said the video showed that while a minority of protesters did commit violence, most were "sightseers".

Fox News host Tucker Carlson privately expressed contempt for former President Trump in text messages revealed in court filings as part of the network's ...

“Thanks to today’s filings, Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press,” Fox said in a statement late Tuesday evening. Dominion has accused Fox of knowingly airing false claims about the company being spun by Trump and his allies. But I can’t handle much more of this.” Fox has so far argued to have the case dismissed on First Amendment grounds and accused Dominion of cherry picking quotes from its top talent and executives to build a stronger case in court. “I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked the criticism he received on Tuesday from congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, including Senate Majority ...

“The person that I thought was going to authorize the evacuation didn’t do it. “The former employee you interviewed was part of Uniformed Operations, not Intelligence and Protective services. It is baffling why this former employee is attacking Pittman, who was not in his chain of command. 6 surveillance footage.” Attorney Charles Tobin sent a letter last month on behalf of 10 media organizations, including ABC, Axios, CNN and CBS, requesting access to the footage, and McConnell in a press conference earlier Tuesday said he wanted to associate himself “with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol police about what happened on Jan. Carlson used security footage to argue on his Monday night show that the violence on Jan. Johnson was pictured wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on Jan. They sort of showed their membership cards of whatever club this is to the public. “I said at the very beginning, transparency. If you want to know who’s actually aligned, despite the illusion of partisanship, we found out today,” Carlson said. But, of course, it does,” Carlson said. Thomas Manger, who said that Carlson’s Monday night show was filled with “offensive and misleading conclusions about the Jan.

New text messages released through Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News reveal just how much Tucker Carlson despised Donald Trump.

[publicly carried water](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-2020-presidential-election-results-would-seem-defy-laws-known-physics) f [or Trump’s election lies](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-fox-news-misinformation-2020#paragraph--section-heading--3370876), and still does to this day. 6 propaganda blitz by [telling his audience](https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1632909923615997954) that the “2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy given the facts that have since emerged about that election. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.” In a separate exhibit filing released last week, Carlson called the former president a [“demonic” force](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-disbelief-2020-election-fraud-dominion-lawsuit-1234681503/). [publicly fact checked](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/new-filing-shows-tucker-carlson-tried-get-fox-reporter-fired-correctly-fact-checking) the network’s election claims. In the words of Ingraham to Carlson and Hannity, “I think the three of us have enormous power…more power than we know or exercise.” [writing that](https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1633290946132557825) while “we’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Trump post-2020 election text messages, according to new court filings from ...

Capitol riot](https://www.axios.com/2022/01/06/capitol-riot-january-6-anniversary) on Jan. 4, 2021, per the [filings](https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1633278939807502338?s=20), which were unsealed Tuesday. I truly can't wait," Carlson allegedly said in one text message to a co-worker two days before the

For the second night this week, Tucker Carlson devoted the majority of his broadcast to his long standing campaign to re-write the history of Jan. 6.

[claimed that](https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1633278445978365953) the “real villains here are the federal judges in Washington D.C. The Fox host accused lawmakers criticizing him of [degrading themselves](https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1633274145503952897) and endorsing lies and censorship. [Tucker Carlson](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/tucker-carlson/) devoted the majority of his broadcast to his long standing campaign to re-write the history of [Jan. Carlson compiled a montage of media figures criticizing McCarthy and Carlson’s exploitation of the footage, and Tuesday night’s broadcast features virtually none of the 44,000 hours of [Capitol surveillance footage](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-tucker-carlson-tapes-maga-lawsuit-1234687833/) to which House Majority Leader [Kevin McCarthy](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/kevin-mccarthy/) granted Carlson and his team exclusive access. 6](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jan-6/). And for the past two years, the country has watched that footage over and over again. Despite barely airing any additional footage (again he had 44,000 hours to work with), Carlson brought on a series of commentators to help him craft and reiterate his claims about Jan. 6, with particular focus on the plight of Jan. On Tuesday the sheer nothingness of Carlson’s discovery became plainly apparent. 6 committee and democrats based on little more than tidbits of footage of protesters milling about the capitol. As expected, the host made explosive accusations of lies and deception against the Jan.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson has amplified a wholesale effort to ...

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are mounting an effort to retell the history of Jan. Members of the extremist Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups are facing rare charges of sedition for their roles at the front of the assault. Carlson is reviving the falsehoods launched by Trump and his allies, including Republicans in Congress, that the attackers were peaceful protesters and acted like tourists, despite the well-documented carnage of the day and the deaths of five people in the riot and its aftermath. Officers have testified in court about being chased, hit, dragged and scared for their lives as they tried to defend the Capitol. “The speaker decided it was more important to give in to a Fox host who spews lies and propaganda than to protect the Capitol,” Thompson said in a statement. 6 “one of the darkest days in the history of our democracy.” It’s part of an effort to reverse criminal charges for those being prosecuted in the attack, many of whom have pleaded guilty and said they regretted their actions on Jan. 6 committee in the past Congress and called the Republican former Congress members who served on the panel, Vice Chair Liz Cheney and Rep. Chansley pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison. 6 investigation](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-06/full-coverage-of-jan-6-committee-hearings), which painstakingly documented, with testimony — mostly from Republicans — and video evidence, how Trump rallied his supporters to head to the Capitol and “fight like hell” as Congress was certifying his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. 6 select committee investigating the insurrection, called McCarthy’s decision to selectively release the security footage “a dereliction of duty.” Bennie Thompson, the Democrat who chaired the House Jan.

The text messages sent by the Fox News host were released as part of a 2020 election lawsuit.

"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," he wrote in a text sent on 4 January 2021. There isn't really an upside to Trump." "That's the last four years.

Fox News continues to claim January 6 was peaceful while legal filings show him saying Trump is good at 'destroying things'

In another text, Carlson said of “the last four years” under Trump, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.” before or during these less tense moments”. Ditto with Rudy.” He’s the undisputed world champion of that. “I truly can’t wait.”

Handed some 41000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol ...

The Fox host's private comments, revealed recently in court documents, contrast sharply with his support of conservatives on his show.

Mr. 6, Mr. Pfeiffer about Mr. Carlson texts with members of his staff, two months after the 2020 election and two days before the insurrection at the Capitol building, about looking forward to not having to cover Mr. Carlson texts with Mr. Carlson’s views on Mr. A staff member texted Mr. Trump and one of the biggest promoters of the unfounded election fraud claims. Here are five examples of Mr. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. Trump and some of his closest aides. In his private messages, Mr.

The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine,” Cooper said about the Fox News host.

Instead of a terrifying great white shark that eats innocent swimmers, “The Late Show” host joked, Carlson’s depiction would have made the shark out to be an adorable child singing “Baby Shark.” “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the Capitol thinks,” McConnell told reporters. Kevin McCarthy, who is Trump’s Waylon Smithers, gives all the footage to Tucker, Tucker shows only the tame parts, and then Trump claims the rioters were framed,” Meyers said. [I hate him passionately](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson-texts/?itid=lk_inline_manual_17),” Carlson texted a colleague, according to the exhibits. 6, 2021] was no big deal so they can stay in office and maybe do a better coup next time,” Colbert said on CBS. The election-technology company is arguing that Fox News gravely hurt its economic future by allowing allies of Donald Trump to claim falsely on Fox programs that it had rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.): “To somehow put [ The CBS late-night host then envisioned a conversation between rioters: “Grab a rock, honey, we’re going to the Louvre. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. [blasting Carlson](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/07/tucker-carlson-jan-6-senate-republicans/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6) for twisting details of the Capitol riot into a conspiracy-fueled vision that portrayed the deadly insurrection as a mostly peaceful protest that involved little violence. Tucker Carlson.— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) The Freedom Caucus desperately needed someone, anyone, to create propaganda to make it seem like January 6th was NBD.

In a rare rebuke of the Fox News ratings leader, the White House said Carlson is 'not credible.'

Carlson did not include the White House critique in his broadcast. The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. [Democrats in recent days](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/04/dems-cut-fox-off-lawsuit-revelations-00085469) have called on the White House and others to boycott Fox News, including refraining from appearing on its airwaves and not spending advertising dollars there. Carlson has taken fire from all sides since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opted to give the Fox host exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of video captured on Jan. The former Playboy model has accused Fox of defamation over a Carlson episode on her in December 2018. But both he and the Fox host have been widely criticized for presenting slanted and sanitized coverage of the insurrection. McCarthy has defended his granting of the footage to Carlson. It was an insurrection.” Carlson did not respond to a text message seeking comment. It clearly was violent. “I was there on Jan. In a rare rebuke of the Fox News ratings leader, the White House said Carlson is "not credible."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Congress' top two Republicans, differ on Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump.

McConnell, meanwhile, has publicly lambasted the former president and said there is "no question" Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking" the Jan. In fact, it was a phone call on the House floor from Rep. The top two Republicans in Congress have long taken different approaches to Jan. McCarthy has faced mounting pressure this week after giving Carlson more than 41,000 hours of video footage from the insurrection. Some of that pressure has come from U.S. 6, 2021, has deepened the fissures between two key Republican leaders: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Hours after Senate Republicans slammed the Fox News host for using speaker-provided footage to downplay the riot, the House majority pushed to talk about ...

And so we have the documents, we have the videos, we have a lot of information. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) told reporters Wednesday that the GOP conference is starting to more closely review the work of the last Congress’ Democrat-run Jan. In one sign the GOP will continue to go on the offensive: Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. 6 segment aired on Monday night, several House Republicans have parried questions by claiming they did not see Carlson’s show or by otherwise avoiding the media. 6 select committee only presented one side of the riot. 6 rioters — and eventually the public at large — access Capitol Police security footage that is in the House GOP’s possession. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who represents a battleground district, said that House Republicans see attention to Carlson’s portrayal of Jan. They only want to talk about certain parts of it, though,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporters during a press conference where every question focused on the Fox News footage. “It seems like some in the press want to talk about Jan 6 every day. 6 as “more of a media thing.” Senate Republicans heaped criticism Tuesday on Carlson’s portrayal of the riot, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (though few directly dinged McCarthy). In fact, some members were privately surprised by the amiability of this week’s first closed-door huddle — generally because there is usually some drama, but particularly since the Fox News segment

The White House said on Wednesday that Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson "is not credible," after the right-wing commentator showed footage from the Jan.

Then-Vice President Mike Pence, members of Congress and staff ran for their lives amid the chaos. Supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

The Biden administration rarely criticizes conservative media stars by name, but a deputy press secretary declared that Mr. Carlson “is not credible.”

Biden has tussled in the past at news conferences with Peter Doocy, a Fox News White House correspondent, but when the president did criticize Mr. Carlson’s coverage: In a Twitter post, the House Republican Conference called his segment about Jan. Doocy to clear the air. In a deposition released on Tuesday, an executive at Fox News Media, David Clark, who previously oversaw Fox News’s weekend programming, said he did not consider Mr. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, repeated those remarks at a briefing with reporters on Wednesday and added that Mr. 6 a “MUST WATCH.” In an unusual broadside against a major conservative television star, the Biden administration on Wednesday directly criticized the Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his on-air portrayal of the Jan. Mr. 6 and downplayed the violence that occurred. He presented the footage as evidence that the attack was an “orderly and meek” gathering of sightseers who had good reason to doubt the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Bates, said in a statement. On his Monday and Tuesday night broadcasts, Mr.

The White House is calling out Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his Jan. 6 tapes segments, calling him "not credible."

“I’ve seen a lot of crazy days at the Capitol, I’ve worked a lot of crazy days in the news business, and I have never seen anything like it, and I probably never will, and I hope I never do.” “I find it hard to understand somebody who has never put himself in harm’s way in any capacity for anyone else or on reporting a story and yet has the audacity to try to rewrite history. “The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine,” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said on his show Tuesday. “And to be clear, no one here at Fox News condones any of the violence that happened on Jan. “This isn’t some office park somewhere in the suburbs. I thought it then to be an insurrection, I still think it was an attempted insurrection,” added Sen. On Wednesday, he added in a statement that “Speaker McCarthy has held the gavel for less than three months. “I was there, it was violent. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S Capitol are drawing pushback unlike anything in recent memory for a cable news host. The comments made by McConnell were covered on Fox News by anchor Bret Baier and correspondent Chad Pergram. But by sharing the January 6th security footage with Fox News, he has already done more than any party leader in Congress to enable the spread of Donald Trump’s Big Lie.” “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a primetime cable-news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr.

Press secretary criticizes Fox News host for depicting security footage as what he described as 'peaceful chaos' – follow all the latest news.

“This is not the story of a Biden failure or a Trump failure. It’s been a lively day in US politics so far and there is much more to come. That deficit reduction goal is significantly higher than the $2tn Biden had promised in his State of the Union address last month. Frankly, I’m hopeful that Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee. “There are several competent Republican leaders who have the potential to step up and lead. “And it’s also just not something I’m working toward. “I know those three little kids will have a life of freedom and opportunity now because of that.” And then if he doesn’t make it, it goes to DeSantis, and then DeSantis has to stumble. After a few minutes, amid the hundreds of people desperately waving documents and flinging luggage, she pointed to a man with his hands on his head staring back at her, tears streaming down his face. “They’re not trying to start a third party,” he said. He took the youngest children in his arms and together they fought their way through the crush of people. When he reached the children, he noticed that the baby’s face was blue and didn’t appear to be breathing.

The story is also about how he, Tucker Carlson, would never do something like that. He loves you, Trump supporters. He respects you. Pay no attention to those ...

But in a sense, engaging on the facts is pointless because what Carlson really wants is to tell Trump supporters a story in which they are the true victims, wrongly maligned by the dastardly Democrats and mainstream media. But Carlson apparently wants to assure viewers that it’s reasonable for them to think the election was stolen — and that he, Tucker Carlson, is on their side — so he doesn’t mention that possibility. Sicknick collapsed that night after the Capitol was cleared, was hospitalized, and died at the hospital on the night of January 7, after having had two strokes. Carlson may not love Trump — but he loves Trump’s voters, and he desperately wants them to love him, too. But his argument was just that they were unrepresentative and that the “overwhelming majority” were “peaceful.” It’s all a bit silly. “As a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection,” Carlson said. There were scenes that seemed silly and nonthreatening that day, and there were [was in fact covered](https://www.vox.com/22992772/hunter-biden-laptop) in the press before the election, and Twitter and Facebook quickly lifted their short-lived limits on a New York Post story about it. He just said the election was in some unspecified sense a “grave betrayal of American democracy.” It’s about how Democrats and the media were mean to Trump supporters. In retrospect, the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy. (Through the discovery process, many Fox internal emails and documents were provided to Dominion, and the company’s attorneys have made them public by citing them in legal filings.)

I hate him passionately” was just one of the many dark thoughts the Fox News host expressed about the then president—while doing his bidding nightly.

Later, in the same conversation, Carlson texted that the prior four years under Trump had been a complete shit show, but that he and (presumably) the rest of the gang at Fox were “all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. I can’t handle much more of this.” Reading the text messages Carlson sent to people in the days following the 2020 election detailing how much he absolutely despised the 45th president—messages he presumably never expected would see the light of day!