4 things to know about the Jan. 6 footage released by Tucker Carlson
Critics on both sides of the aisle are unhappy with the footage's release
After the first video footage was released Monday, Democrat and Republican lawmakers voiced their objections.
In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., derided the segment as "one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television." Noting that Carlson was planning to share additional footage that evening, Schumer called on Fox News to "tell [him] not to run a second segment of lies."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters that "It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely [at odds] with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks," referring to Manger's statement.
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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., slammed the narrative underpinning the video footage as "bull—." After recalling how "I was down there, and I saw maybe a few tourists, a few people who got caught up in things," he spoke of the "police barricades breached" and "police officers assaulted" on Jan. 6. Tillis insisted that "if you were just a tourist, you should have probably lined up at the Visitors' Center and came in on an orderly basis."
Like AOC describing J6, Tillis breathlessly sounding like he did a tour in Fallujah that day pic.twitter.com/QgFENHBFEa
— Andrew McCarthy (@AMcCarthyNY) March 7, 2023
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
