Tucker Carlson has used the January 6th footage, his exclusive, to press what narrative? He was kind of like getting in there on behalf of Kevin McCarthy. If you prefer democracy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues that actually matter, it's pretty refreshing to see it. Tucker Carlson ends up with an exclusive on the 41,000 hours of security footage at the Capitol. So that's a rather remarkable scoop, because news organizations have wanted 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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