Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) listens as Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) speaks at a press conference on the Senate’s upcoming procedural vote to codify Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 05, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday strongly condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing footage of the Jan. 6 insurrection and portraying it as a peaceful visit to the U.S. Capitol.
Schumer, D-N.Y., also criticized in blistering terms House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for giving Carlson and Fox News access to thousands of hours of Capitol security footage that Carlson used to build that false narrative for his broadcast Monday evening.
“I and so many others who were here” on Jan. 6, 2021, “are just furious with Tucker Carson and Kevin McCarthy today,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
He called Carlson’s broadcast Monday, “One of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television.”
And he said Carlson had cherry-picked security footage to make “bald-faced lies” about the invasion.
Tucker Carlson speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on November 17, 2022 in Hollywood, Florida.
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Carlson “tried to argue it was nothing more than a peaceful sightseeing tour,” Schumer said. “Can you imagine?”
The Senate leader also addressed Carlson’s superiors directly from the floor, saying:”Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, tell Tucker Carlson not to run a second” segment using the security footage.
Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, later told reporters that Carlson’s claims about the Jan. 6 attack are “bull-s–.”
“I was here,” Tillis said, according to NBC News. “I was down there and I saw maybe a few tourists, a few people who got caught up in things.”
“But when you see police barricades breached, when you see police officers assaulted, all of that … if you were…
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