Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on March 7 told reporters that it was a “mistake” for Fox News to allow Tucker Carlson to depict the events of Jan. 6 as he did on his March 6 daily program.
On Feb. 20, it was announced that Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had given Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Carlson has two programs: his primetime program “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which earlier this month drew in over 3.5 million viewers in a week, and “Tucker Carlson Originals,” a new series of documentaries by Carlson. Carlson could draw from the footage provided by McCarthy for both programs.
During the last Congress, the Jan. 6 panel pushed a narrative of events that portrayed the Capitol breach as the culmination of a months-long effort by Trump and his supporters to overthrow the U.S. government.
Notably that panel, formed in a mostly party-line vote, included only two Republicans: former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), both virulent Trump critics.
Thus, the narrative adopted by the panel was criticized for being unfairly weighted against the former president.
On his show, Carlson has often been critical of this narrative.
In the past, Carlson has dismissed Jan. 6 as an “outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards.”
McConnell, by contrast, has largely rubber-stamped the official narrative of Jan. 6, leading to clashes with others in his party over the issue.
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On March 6, Carlson aired the first of the unreleased Jan. 6 footage, coming to the conclusion that the true events of Jan. 6 were radically different from the committee’s narrative.
“Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection,” Carlson said. “In fact, it demolishes that claim.”
Later, Senate GOP Leader McConnell was asked whether it was a “mistake” for McCarthy to give Carlson access to the footage.
“My concern is how it was depicted,” McConnell replied ambivalently, “which is a different issue.”
“Clearly the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6,” McConnell said, citing a letter from U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Steven Manger that was released after Carlson’s segment.
Manger dismissed the segment, saying it came to “offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6 attack.”
Asked about the situation, McConnell told reporters that he agrees with Manger.
“It was a mistake in my view for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,” McConnell said.
The Findings
On March 6, Carlson aired his first segment using the newly released footage.
“Virtually no one in Washington, D.C., Republican or Democrat, wanted these tapes released tonight,” Carlson stated in the kickoff to the explosive segment.
“Democrats in Congress, assisted by [Reps. Adam Kinzinger (D-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)], lied about what happened that day,” he continued.
“They are liars,” he emphasized. “That fact should prevent them from ever being taken seriously again.”
The videos people haven’t seen “paint a very different picture of what happened that day” compared to the narrative of the Jan. 6 panel, Carlson said.
“By controlling the images you could see from January 6, they controlled how the public understood that day.”
Carlson said the USCP, despite dire warnings from the left of impending catastrophe if Carlson released the tapes, found little to criticize in the footage Carlson chose. Carlson said the only change requested by the Capitol Police was blurring out the details of a single door.
In the “enormous crowd” that entered the Capitol that day, Carlson said “only a few were hooligans” who committed illegal or violent acts.
“These were not insurrectionists—they were sightseers,” Carlson said. “Protestors queue up in neat little lines; they give each other tours outside the speaker’s office; they take cheerful selfies, and they smile. They’re not destroying the Capitol: they obviously revere the Capitol. They’re there because they believe the election was stolen from them; they believe in the system.
“These are not rioters—they’re people who wandered over from a political rally,” Carlson stated.
RINO “McConnell, by contrast, has largely rubber-stamped the official narrative of Jan. 6, leading to clashes with others in his party over the issue.”
“On March 6, Carlson aired the first of the unreleased Jan. 6 footage, coming to the conclusion that the true events of Jan. 6 were radically different from the committee’s narrative.”
“Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection,” Carlson said. “In fact, it demolishes that claim.”
Just how much proof do the voters need to convince them that the Democrat Party is their enemy?
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, immoral, demonic, socialist Democrat Party and their Democrat RINOs revolves around and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.
THE ONLY mistake are his home state voters KEEPING THIS RINO IN office, time and time again..
Of course it is a mistake for a news organization to reveal the uncensored truth about establishment Bi-Partisan Washington political leaders hiding anything that would reveal their incompetency, wasteful government spending and media manipulation that keeps guys like McConnell in power and his Chinese wife incredibly rich. Just goes to show you that Tucker was right, Jan 6th was all about getting rid of Trump who got in the way of the establishment’s ability to make themselves more powerful and money rich and rock the boat of guys like Biden who never had an honest day’s work in their life, or had to witness the daily face of hunger on their own overfed and over drugged children who grow up to be just like them. The names of the Washington parties and faces in power change, but the truth censored financial fleecing of THE PEOPLE remains the same, as do the power brokering political crime families and the educational institutions they government fund and foist upon an unsuspecting duped American public. What they fear most is a next time, when even more of THE PEOPLE show up, fully organized and fully armed and the Military they tried to corrupt sides with THE PEOPLE. The mistake was not enforcing term limits so political power bases of crime families like MCCOnnel’s that can corrupt our laws are allowed years to form and decades to get rid of.
The mistake is electing McConnell and his ilk to office. The bigger mistake is reelecting any of them…
That’s on the idiots in his home state.
Don’t want to upset the status quo, do you Mitch?
An entire branch of government has not been so sold out to foreign interests like China since Mark Anthony hooked up with Cleopatra and Cleo kissed the Asp. The Asp was a symbol of royalty in Eqypt, just like the Washington snakes today.
they were all scared that day and honestly they should be scared of us all the time not the other wat around.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “When the government fears the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.”
WE need to honor his OTHER quote, about watering the tree of liberty.
Who needs a Dem opposition, when you have traitors in your own party working against you at every step ?!?
‘Don’t believe what you see, believe what we tell you to believe.’ McConnell and Schumer are both corrupt traitors to America…
“Are you going to believe me, the corrupt, lying, obedient puppet president No Joe Biden or believe your lying eyes?”
Mitch McConnell has served too long and is not in support of the common sense conservative base of today. His opinions have made it clear that he’s all in favor of hiding the truth along with the far left Democrats, who only held this hearing about Jan 6 to control the public narratives based on their political opposition to the real events that took place on Jan 6. They spent a lot of money and time and wasted it to produce and control the court of public opinion, only to try and harm President Trump’s bid to run in 2024. Politically, Mitch McConnell went along with the misleading masquerade because of his dislike for President Trump. Mitch, it’s time for you to vacate the homestead! The truth will be revealed whether it’s Tucker Carlson or someone else, doesn’t matter who reveals it, but I’m glad that a truth teller like Tucker is doing it! As it goes, those who have something to hide can’t handle the truth! Bring it on Tucker!
Traitors like him, are WHY WE need term limits!!
Between the Lobbyists and the Chinese, the McConnells, husband and wife, are making a tidy living keeping things just like the narrative was given for the last two years….
So was McConnell in on the setup? It’s appearing more and more that McConnell is a member of the cabal known as leaders of the Senate. If he keeps the Democrats in charge he never has to take responsibility for anything.
HE Certainly is looking like a card carting member of the traitor brigade.
Great observation. Is this a great country—or what?
God help us all.
China Mitch is just as corrupted by the C.C.P. as Pedo Joe. He is the epitome of the D.C. Cesspool Dweller. Everything he does is stay in office,expand his power and expand his wealth. Last election cycle he was the reason the Republicans didn’t gain control of the Senate. He controlled the campaign money purse strings for the Senate and if he felt a candidate wouldn’t vote for him to be Senate Republican Leader, they received no financial support. He spends more time on the DEmocrat CRime Organization side of the aisle than even Songbird McCain. Now he is backing the Democrat Crime Organization Reichstag Fire Plot of Jan. 2021. When are you people in Kentucky going to wakeup and retire this Democrat Crime Organization Quisling at the polls????
Mitch McConnell is the ultimate Rino! He only wishes to be part of the establishment and making sure he keeps getting invited to all of the deep state Washington soirees! Since the 1/6 committee was a complete one sided sham, it is only just that the Dems get a taste of their own medicine, in this case, by showing the evidence that refutes all of their, one sided BS! The repubs are now starting their own investigation that needs to dig into all of the important questions ignored by the Dems kangaroo court!
I would like to know why the GOP Senate keeps electing this D bag as their leader. As a matter of fact I would love an explanation to be included with each vote from each senator. That would tell us which ones are being paid off for their vote. There are at least dozens of more capable and less corrupted senatorial leaders available for the position.
BECAUSE the senate is too FILLED OF RINOS. ??
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is an OLD Dangerous FOOL that needs to retire!
OR start courting his funeral!
Facts don’t care about your feelings, Mitch.
McConnell said “The videos should not be shown by the hair of my chinny chin chin chin chin chin.”
Mr. McConnell, were you aware of the lies? Did you allow the democrats to imprison your fellow Americans as if we lived in a third world dictatorship? It sickens me that you are OK with the vile circus they put on as if there was really an insurgency….and do you feel that Ashley Babbitt death was merited, do you believe anyone on that bogus committee was anything but a political hack? If so, you have been in that game way too long. Shame on you, double shame to your dopplanger Schumer.
Unfortunately, more than likely, YES HE WAS aware of the fraud, and YES He was ok with what was going on…
Just proves he is a bigger ******* then I thought he was
Unfortunately, he’s always been one.. As far as i’ve known him…
The biggest mistake in politics is allowing RINO’s like McConnell to become a leader of anything, especially the party leader on the Senate. He is largely responsible for caving to Democrats in the first two years of Trumps’ Presidency. Check the record; he even admitted that he thought trump was going to destroy the Republican Party as we know it. Actually he was correct but the republican Senate under McConnell’s leadership was a farce that should have been destroyed
IMO the biggest mistake, was the founders themselves, never though to install term Limits…
Why do we NEVER hear anything bad about McConnell from the media? Why the left NEVER attacks McConnell? Because he’s part of the Uni-Party, he’s with the media and the worthless Democrats. This McConnell ‘turtle’ is a card carrying RINO.
Hey Mr. Turtle Man. You are a mistake. You are almost THE mistake.
I think we’d best describe McConnell’s discomfort in the release of these videos as, uh, “An Inconvenient Truth”….
Well boy oh boy isn’t it just karma that RINO McConnell falls down cracks his head and ribs a couple days AFTER MAKING SUCH A DIABOLICAL FILTHY CLAIM????? Was Killary involved??