Tucker Carlson uses exclusive footage to back up his retelling of January 6th. And then the Republican Party responds, and it is not one Republican Party that responds to Carlson. The Senate may feel a little more independence about how they speak about this. But I think that the reason they have done this is simply because they live this.
The Fox News host aired a splashy exclusive this month about the January 6 insurrection. Some Republican senators saw his coverage — and publicly called “b******t.”
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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