4 things to know about the Jan. 6 footage released by Tucker Carlson

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, March 09, 2023

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The Senate passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, which enshrines same-sex marriage into federal law. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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.

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
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