i know this is a huge topic, but give us a super quick overview of what the justiceh department did after january 6th? so they immediately started rounding up trump supporters,, arresting them within days of the protest. i think you will remember because you talk about this quite extensively in patriot purge and referred to the first 100 arrests as a shock campaign. they were rounding people up using social media accounts, et cetera, to arrest people and some drag to this political prison they opened up in washington, d.c. specifically to house january 6th defendants. so tucker, at least the justice department requested pretrial attention for at least 100 january 6th defendants and right now 83 men are held behind bars, some of whom have been incarcerated since the middle of january last year awaiting trials that won t start until april or may of this year.
didn t mean it, so cruz apologizes and says he was quote, dumb, and sloppy in his words and got his push back in public, millions watching, from carlsen. the way i phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and frankly dumb. i don t buy that, look i ve known you a long time since before you went to the senate, i don t believe you used that accidently. it s, so tucker, as are a result of my sloppy phrasing caused people to misunderstand what i meant, i wasn t saying the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting donald trump are somehow terrorists. it s a new low, after other recent new lows. ted cruz went from the senator who would spoezedly stand up to trump and the threat he said was the lie, the immorality, he calls it, attack on democracy, you know, those were the words he used to phrase the threat trump posed. then to a trump supporter, trump
with tucker. let s listen. we are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage. the way i expressed things yesterday was sloppy and dumb. i don t buy that. whoa, whoa. you were a supreme court contender. you take words as seriously as any man who served in the senate. you repeated that phrase, i do not believe you used that accidentally. i just don t. so tucker, as a result of my sloppy phrasing it s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. i mean, i don t really know what to say to that. he said it was a violent terrorist attack. it was at the very least a violent attack on the capitol. i went through a litany of the deadly and dangerous weapons
that accidentally. i just don t. so tucker, as a result of my sloppy phrasing it s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. all right, this, in addition to the only republicans who attend the memorial in the house were liz and dick cheney. what does all of this say to you about the current republican party? well, you know, i think that my colleague representative cheney is the best person to speak on the state of her party, almost her former party at this point. you know, ted cruz s comments and that little video that you played, thank you for doing so, because i don t follow tucker and i don t follow ted cruz much. but i had read the headlines, is just indicative of what we saw so much of on january 7th of last year and beyond, where this about face and by the way, i was in the so-called cat bird seat in the capitol. i was looking i was up on the gallery looking down on the house floor and i was able to
be called a liar for telling the truth. seung min, ted cruz has had to explain himself before, i guess. i don t want to go through the history of it, but just why? well, i mean, tucker was right about one thing. ted cruz is someone, and i ve covered him, you know, for almost a decade now, he is someone who is extremely careful with his words and very precise and when he called it a terrorist attack he meant, it so the fact that he kind of had to be pulled into apologizing for his words, and he also gave a pretty vigorous apology on his twitter food as well, show you how much republican leaders these days being pulled by elements of their base and it was quite the remarkable interview and apology that he had to gave because the elements of the party who don t believe the horrors of january 1th were so surprised about what that day