Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday strongly condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing footage Monday of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection in a way that portrayed it as a peaceful visit to the U.S. Capitol.
In blistering terms, Schumer, D-N.Y., also criticized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for giving Carlson and Fox News exclusive access to 44,000 hours of Capitol security footage. Carlson then used selective clips to build that false narrative for his broadcast Monday evening, Schumer said.
"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 this week, "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 of the Capitol by hundreds of supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
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.
Carlson during his broadcast said, "The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress."
"Instead it shows police escorting people through the building, including the now-infamous 'QAnon Shaman," Carlson said.
He did not show graphic footage captured by security cameras throughout the building of rioters attacking police guarding the Capitol, invading the Senate chamber and congressional offices, including the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many other scenes of mayhem.
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 just a tourist you should've probably lined up at the visitors' center and came in on an orderly basis," he said.
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