During the Monday night broadcast of his primetime show 'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' the Fox News host aired selected snippets from of 41,000 hours of footage from the Capitol that day.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday refuted Fox News host Tucker Carlson's portrayal of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, sayingas"mostly peaceful" is at odds with the reality they experienced as a mob of former President Donald Trump's supporters breached the building.
But some Senate Republicans pushed back on Carlson's depiction. Members of the House and Senate were evacuated from their respective chambers when the rioters forced their way into the building, knocking over barricades and forcing their way past police in an attempt to stop the counting of state electoral votes.
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said that the events of Jan. 6 were"an attack on the Capitol." Still, Carlson's depiction of Jan. 6 has been met with widespread criticism, including from the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, Thomas Manger, who wrote in a letter to his department that the Fox News broadcast wasSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, holding a copy of Manger's letter during a press conference on Capitol Hill, said"I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol police about what happened.
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