Politicians respond to Tucker Carlson footage

This is what politicians are saying about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s claims that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was “peaceful chaos” …

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00:00Knowing full well he was lying, lying to his audience, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran a

00:07lengthy segment last night arguing the January 6th Capitol attack was not a violent insurrection.

00:16He tried to argue it was nothing more than a peaceful sightseeing tour. To say January 6th

00:21was not violent is a lie, a lie pure and simple. Both Republicans and Democrats are condemning

00:29Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his depiction of the January 6th attack on the Capitol,

00:34which he called peaceful chaos during a recent show. I think it's bulls**t. My

00:38recollection of the day is that it was not just some rowdy peaceful protest of Boy Scouts. There

00:45were a lot of people in the Capitol at the time who I think were scared for their lives. It was

00:52an attack on the Capitol. Carlson's new assessment comes after speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News

00:58over 40,000 hours of exclusive internal security footage from the day of the attack. Carlson then

01:04used select moments of that footage to further spread conspiracy theories about the day and

01:09depict it as a peaceful protest. It was a mistake in my view for Fox News to depict this in a way

01:19that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.