for defamation saying they spread lies about him for years. ray eps says he was accused by conspiracy theorists of leading an fbi plot to orchestrate the january 6th insurrection. that s of course false. he said fox fueled those rumors and that destroyed his life. with more on this, jake joins me now. you re going to be speaking to his lawyer later today. tell us where you re going to go with this. it s just fascinating because it s yet another example of irresponsible lies put out by that network resulting in individuals, in this case, ray earnings epps who is a maga supporter, a fox viewer who has been unfairly scapegoated for being none of this is true, but for being a federal agent or allied with the fbi and convincing the maga mob that day to do wrong. and you know, this is going to be yet another lawsuit where
didn t work for law enforcement law enforcement in a very specifically worded answer, clearly thought through aheadh of time. the questionahead of is , did wa work or have any contact or with any government agency? did he talk about he ta january six before it happened? lk january 6thwith any employee. government? governmwe don t know. we do know that two years after january six , long after ane awful lot of other people havehe gone to jail for walking around the capitol, g building, ray eps is still a free man. bee he s never been charged, much less imprisoned in solitary confinement. n gelike so many others.less why is that?n well, let s just stop lying at this point. it s pretty obvious why that is . jut of course, they re still lying about it. julie kelly is one of the veryf few reporters in america who has covered this story honestly since the first day. y shesincday. is the author h the book on january 6th. and we are ad to honored hav tor join us tonight. julie kelly , than
0 to reconvene for the fourteenth vote for the speaker of the house. unfortunately, though, it won ts happen during the show. anyway.. by that s all the time we havecop, left this evening, by the way, t cop , new york city cop shot, heeling hero. let s give it u p for him. you come here right now, your heartbeat from the war is next. covering the house vote . remem have a great weekend. we ll see you back here, hopefully with speaker. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight, kevin mccarthy s continued attempt to become speaker of the house continues at this hour. take the house is expected to take another vote late tonight. you ll see it live here on fox,i of course. but first,rst an anniversary to years ago today. a capitolrs hill police unard officer called michael bird shot an unarmed woman in the neck. at the time of that killing,llin bird had a documented history gr gross negligence with a firearm. he left a loaded glock pistoosse in a public men s room at the ca
law enforcement agency on january 5 or january 6 or at any other time and he s never been an informant for the f.b.i. or any other law enforcement agency, end quote. wow! bombshell. it looks like case closed. we can forget about ray epps and move on. sorry we asked. but wait a second. when exactly and under what circumstances did the committee talk to ray epps? supposedly this interview was conducted in secret last november. if that s true, we don t know if it is but let s say it is then why did the committee wait months to tell us today in a tweet? when committee got its hands on mark meadows text messages i seem to remember they leaked those to the media within hours and was this ray eps interview conducted under oath. will the information that he revealed be available to the many january 6 defendants who are now awaiting trial? can their lawyers see a transcript of this interview?
can we see a transcript of this interview? if not, why not? and while we re at it here s something else that s confusing. epps is a long time right wing activists. he urged protestors to ryatt. video on january of shows him right at the capitol appearing to ushers others inside. he want just someone who was there. he was the central figure there. and yet democrats, for reasons that aren t at all clear, suddenly seem highly protective of ray epps. they don t want you to criticize him. adam described ray eppsed as nothing but a january 6 protest attendee. really? nothing but an attendee. he s the opposite of that. of everyone there, ray epps is the one you should be maddest at if you re the democratic party. and yet they are telling us he was an attendee, not an insurrectionist, not a terrorist, just an attendee. another engaged american