Senate leader Schumer blasts Fox News' Tucker Carlson, House Speaker McCarthy over Jan. 6 footage

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer connected Tuesday powerfully condemned Fox News big Tucker Carlson for airing footage of the Jan. 6 insurrection and portraying it arsenic a peaceful sojourn to the U.S. Capitol.

Schumer, D-N.Y., besides criticized successful blistering presumption House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for giving Carlson and Fox News entree to thousands of hours of Capitol information footage that Carlson utilized to physique that mendacious communicative for his broadcast Monday evening.

"I and truthful galore others who were here" connected Jan. 6, 2021, "are conscionable furious with Tucker Carson and Kevin McCarthy today," Schumer said connected the Senate floor.

He called Carlson's broadcast Monday, "One of the astir shameful hours we person ever seen connected cablegram television."

And helium said Carlson had cherry-picked information footage to marque "bald-faced lies" astir the invasion.

Carlson "tried to reason it was thing much than a peaceful sightseeing tour," Schumer said. "Can you imagine?"

The Senate person besides addressed Carlson's superiors straight from the floor, saying:"Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, archer Tucker Carlson not to tally a second" conception utilizing the information footage.

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, aboriginal told reporters that Carlson's claims astir the Jan. 6 onslaught are "bull-s--."

"I was here," Tillis said, according to NBC News. "I was down determination and I saw possibly a fewer tourists, a fewer radical who got caught up successful things."

"But erstwhile you spot constabulary barricades breached, erstwhile you spot constabulary officers assaulted, each of that ... if you were conscionable a tourer you should've astir apt lined up astatine the visitors' halfway and came successful connected an orderly basis," helium said.

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