not at all what tucker carlson is portraying. and i know that there are a number of people on capitol hill, not just democrats, but republicans included who are saying that this is outrageous, b.s. as thom tillis put it, ali vitale and heard mitch mcconnell weigh in. what did he say. reporter: mcconnell wasn t as colorful. put him in the camp of the capitol police who say what carlson did last night and will continue to do on this week with his show is cherry picking and not at all in line with the reality of what happened on january 6th. here is the senate minority leader just about an hour ago. with regard to the presentation on fox news last night, i want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the capitol police about what happened on
pretty much is in flames with violence from the northern tip of mexico to the southern areas. and you have cartels that control wide swaths of territory, and the mexican government is doing very little to counter that. mike vigil, again, thank you very much for joining us. still ahead, tucker carlson cherry picked from 44,000 hours of security video from january 6th to try to, quote, prove the insurrection was actually a peaceful protest. mitch mcconnell is now weighing in on this. we ll tell you what he said. plus, governor ron desantis gave his state of the state address in florida. what one republican lawmaker, though, did right before the speech and how desantis might respond. also, it will be bad. moody s analytics has weighed in on what will happen if the country defaults on its debt.
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organization. mccarthy s office i should note eventually will get it. 44,000 hours of footage is a lot of footage and carlson s show had a lot of lead time on sifting through this and putting out what they clearly want to put out about it. so on the senate side of this building, republicans are clearly feeling a little bit more free in criticizing the way that this is happening right now and also doubling down on what actually happened on january 6th. but i have hear dozens of republican lawmakers that i have spoken to in the last few weeks, katy, on this side of the building, the house side of the building, who wanted this video out, who pressured mccarthy to give it to carlson, who think that fox news is the right place and the right people to put this kind of narrative out there, however false that it is because it speaks to a republican base that does not want to see this as an insurrection and still believes that the 2020 election was stolen. so, different permission structures on
they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists, they were sight seers. footage from inside the capitol overturns the story you ve heard about january 6th. protesters 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. it is b.s., as you just heard republican thom tillis say. at least 1,000 people have been arrested on charges related to the insurrection. more than half of them have pleaded guilty to federal crimes. about a third of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding police. roughly 400 have been sentenced to prison time. that s just so far. carlson also claims he found video of officer brian sicknick. here is surveillance footage of sicknick walking in the capitol after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside.