Fox News war correspondent Benjamin Hall detailed the events leading up to his brush with death in Ukraine while covering the early days of Russia&#8217;s invasion of the country.
In the extended versions of Fox Nation&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/sacrifice-survival-story-from-front-line-detailing-benjamin-halls-journey-home-now-fox-nation">Sacrifice and Survival: A Story From the Front Line</a>,&#8221; the Fox News reporter talked about the day he and others on his team were hit by incoming fire on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 14, 2022.
Hall said they had been filming in an abandoned area of the town when they heard shelling in the background. The team decided they were safe to proceed because it was far away — and just minutes later, they were hit by a deadly attack which killed, Fox News photojournalist Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra &#8220;Sasha&#8221; Kuvshynova.
&#8220;We came up to a checkpoint, there was nobody at the checkpoint, just three concrete barriers … just as we approached the first barrier, the first shell landed,&#8221; Hall recounted.
&#8220;About 30 yards in front of us, big explosion, Pierre immediately shouts very quickly, &#8216;reverse, reverse get backwards,&#8217; the Ukrainians who were driving couldn&#8217;t get into reverse, and then out of nowhere the second [shell] landed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I went black at the point. I say black, it was like a death. I mean, I wasn&#8217;t just concussed, I was out. And out of nowhere, I just hear my daughter&#8217;s voice.&#8221;
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A year after Benjamin Hall was severely injured when his crew vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Ukraine, the Fox News correspondent has published a book, &#39;Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home,&#39; due to be released Tuesday <a href="https://t.co/GgyrRz7jSU">https://t.co/GgyrRz7jSU</a>
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Hall said he then saw an image of his daughter urging him to get out of the car. So he did, and that&#8217;s when another shell struck the vehicle.
&#8220;I was out for a little bit and I wake up, first thing, I knew I was in trouble, and I was on fire and I had to stop that,&#8221; the reporter explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m rolling around, I&#8217;m hitting my legs, trying to get it out and I&#8217;m looking at myself and I&#8217;m bleeding from the head.&#8221;
&#8220;My leg is off, it&#8217;s dangling off, below the knee, the first thing I hear is Pierre say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t move, don&#8217;t move – Russian drones,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I sat there for a while, tried my phone, there is no cell phone reception, so I&#8217;m just sitting there, complete bloody wreck, didn&#8217;t think I was going to die, didn&#8217;t think I would get stuck, I didn&#8217;t even feel that the injuries were too bad. I knew they were terrible, and the leg was gone, but I knew I was going home.&#8221;
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He&#8217;s since gone through close to 30 surgeries, lost a foot, a leg, and no longer has use of one of his hands and one eye. The reporter credits his wife, Alicia Meller, and their three young daughters for giving him the strength to keep moving forward.
&#8220;Credit to him, credit to the kids, they took it in their stride,&#8221; Meller said in the clip. &#8220;They&#8217;re not bothered by anything, they&#8217;re so proud of daddy&#8217;s robot leg. It&#8217;s just a different way of life.&#8221;
While the Fox Nation story goes into part of what Hall went through, he&#8217;s shared the full story in his new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Saved-Reporters-Mission-Make-Home-ebook/dp/B0BBGLXV7W">Saved: A War Reporter&#8217;s Mission to Make It Home</a>,&#8221; which hit shelves on March 14.

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The two Nigerian brothers responsible for helping disgraced actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jussie-smollett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> carry out his fake hate crime attack in 2019 apologized for the stunt during an interview this week.
Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, nicknamed Bola and Ola, made the apology during a Thursday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Smollett, who formerly starred in “Empire,” paid $3,500 to the two brothers to carry out the orchestrated attack. Smollett was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jussie-smollett-found-guilty-on-multiple-counts-in-hate-crime-hoax-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> in 2021 on five counts stemming from lies that he told law enforcement officials about the incident. In March 2022, he was sentenced to 150 days in county jail, but only ended up spending six days behind bars after an appeal.
&#8220;I just first want to apologize to everyone in the audience, the country, and anyone who might have been affected by this directly. When we were asked to partake in this, we really didn&#8217;t foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country,&#8221; Ola Osundairo said. &#8220;We allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment.&#8221;
Smollett claimed that the men who attacked him were white and that they shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him and claimed that Chicago was &#8220;MAGA country.&#8221;
In a Fox News special about the incident, Abimbola told the network: “The police did ask us what Jussie’s motive was, but Jussie did not really tell me a motive.”
“[But] from what he was speaking about, or talking about, I would say what he wanted to accomplish was to increase his star level,” he continued.
“I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a fraud,” Abimbola said, referencing Smollett’s attitude in interviews after the incident. “This guy is really just sitting here, lying to these people. Lying through his teeth, and not caring. … I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done. I didn’t know what to do — I wasn’t ready to say anything. Like, I was mute. And I didn’t want to say anything.”
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“Insane. That’s when I really saw a different side of Jussie,” he said. “Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a supervillain.”
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) brought up left-wing riots during an interview over the weekend when asked about the recent media coverage surrounding the January 6 riot following the release of thousands of hours of video footage from the incident.
Mace made the remarks during an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; when asked by fill-in host Kaitlan Collins what she thought about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) giving 40,000 hours of footage to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
&#8220;I said early on last month that the release of the footage was important, that it should be released to every outlet, including CNN, every media outlet, every defense attorney, so that the public can see for itself,&#8221; she said. And there was violence on that day. You cannot deny that. And it was a dark day in our history. But so too was the summer of 2020. We saw very few arrests when there were attacks by an organization, members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter. I had my house spray-painted two summers ago, and no one&#8217;s been held to account for that.&#8221;
&#8220;And so we have got to make sure, if there&#8217;s going to be political violence in this country, no matter your political affiliation, everybody is treated and should be treated the same way,&#8221; she added.
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CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> asks Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) if she plans to join fellow lawmakers Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and James Comer (R-KY) in visiting January 6 defendants in jail. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/bEZuFmx86y">pic.twitter.com/bEZuFmx86y</a>
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<blockquote>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN HOST: Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION. I&#8217;m Kaitlan Collins.
A preview of a potential 2024 showdown between the former president and the former vice president, as Mike Pence unveiled a new attack on his former boss behind closed doors in Washington last night.
What does the emerging power struggle, though, mean for the future of the direction of the Republican Party?
Joining me now to discuss is Republican Congresswoman of South Carolina Nancy Mace.
Congresswoman, thank you so much for being here this morning.
I want to start with the scathing comments we heard from former Vice President Pence last night. He said: &#8220;I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable for January 6.&#8221;
Do you think he&#8217;s right?
REP. NANCY MACE (R-SC): And good morning, Kaitlan. Thank you for having me on this morning.
And I see this in two parts. I think both sides are really struggling looking at the nomination process. You have got some on the left that don&#8217;t want Biden to run. You have got those on the right that don&#8217;t want the former president to run. A lot of folks on both sides keep bringing up January 6, and it&#8217;s keeping us from moving our country forward.
I was very vocal about January 6 myself. I&#8217;m one of the only Republicans in the House who defeated the former president in a primary last year, went on to win my general election in a purple district resoundingly.
We have got to unite behind a candidate in &#8217;24 who can win the White House if we&#8217;re serious about it. There&#8217;s a lot at stake right now.
COLLINS: Well, given that, Trump is the front-runner of the Republican field right now. So do you think he has been held accountable for January 6?
MACE: Well, he&#8217;s one of the only candidates in right now. And I imagine, by June and July this summer, we will see more than two or three candidates in that race.
The Iowa caucuses aren&#8217;t for another 330 days. And that&#8217;s the start of it. I&#8217;m proud of my home state of South Carolina. We will be the first-in-the-South presidential primary next year. We have a long way to go for additional candidates to jump in and see how the field lays out.
COLLINS: On January 6, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Congressman James Comer, who is the chair of the Oversight Committee that you serve on, have been planning a trip to visit January 6 defendants who are in jail.
What do you make of that? Would you join them on a trip like that?
MACE: I&#8217;m not joining them, but I will say this.
I have done a lot of civil rights work over the years as a state lawmaker and as a member of Congress. In fact, the very first bill I ever filed or helped work on in my freshman year was with Hakeem Jeffries on a civil rights piece of legislation.
I would tell you, anyone who&#8217;s sitting in solitary confinement or sitting in jail, regardless of their political affiliation, if they feel like their civil rights have been violated, then we, as members of Congress, should help them. And this is something that I have worked on a lot over the years and something that I respect.
I was the ranking member on the Civil Rights Committee on oversight with Jamie Raskin last year. That&#8217;s something that we should all care about, the constitutional rights of citizens of the of this country.
COLLINS: But, given that, the other thing that Pence said last night was, he said it mocks decency to portray what happened on January 6 as tourist, as sightseers.
Obviously, we saw that happen on FOX News this week after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave them 40,000 hours of footage. You have said you want other people to get that footage. Was it a mistake, though, for him to only give it to one outlet to portray it as they did?
MACE: I said early on last month that the release of the footage was important, that it should be released to every outlet, including CNN, every media outlet, every defense attorney, so that the public can see for itself.
And there is &#8212; there was violence on that day. You cannot deny that. And it was a dark day in our history. But so too were &#8212; was the summer of 2020. We saw very few arrests when there were attacks by an organization, members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter. I had my house spray-painted two summers ago, and no one&#8217;s been held to account for that.
And so we have got to make sure, if there&#8217;s going to be political violence in this country, no matter your political affiliation, everybody is treated and should be treated the same way.
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COLLINS: And we agree that CNN should also get access to that footage. Many media outlets would.
I want to talk to you about the budget, because you just heard from the White House budget director about President Biden&#8217;s proposal. When are Republicans going to release their proposal?
MACE: I would like to know that as well. There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion internally about what that might look like. The Freedom Caucus has put theirs out. We&#8217;re still having that discussion.
I will tell you, and the comments by the director of OMB on this program a few minutes ago were disturbing to me, just not even as a member of Congress, but as an American, that this is nonnegotiable. The administration is talking about a $5 trillion tax hike.
That is not tenable for individuals and businesses, given the inflation that we&#8217;re facing right now, given the possible recession that we&#8217;re heading into. We should be negotiating on this issue. This shouldn&#8217;t be one-sided, because both sides, Republicans and Democrats alike, have caused the inflation that we&#8217;re in today.
They have caused the $31 trillion of debt that we&#8217;re facing right now. Both sides should be sitting at the table and coming up with a reasonable plan, let&#8217;s just say over 10 years, to tackle spending, to tackle taxes, to tackle inflation, so that we can get on with this and grow the economy in a way that can tackle the $31 trillion deficit that we have, let&#8217;s just say over 10 years.
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a lot to ask.
COLLINS: Yes, I should note the White House&#8217;s budget, they say would really &#8212; would reduce the deficit by about $3 trillion over 10 years.
But you just mentioned that proposal from the House Freedom Caucus. Do you agree with that proposal?
MACE: I haven&#8217;t read it in detail, so I don&#8217;t want to make a comment on it if I don&#8217;t know the specifics of the plan. The president&#8217;s plan just came out. I did read some media reports that said it would not reduce the deficit.
And so I want to look at it with an open mind and look at it from the economists from both sides of the aisle to figure out what it is. But what I did read was a $5 trillion tax hike on individuals and businesses. And if you&#8217;re going to be serious about inflation, for example, there are a number of things that we have to do.
You have to tackle spending. You have got to look at how we&#8217;re spending taxpayer dollars. You have to look at lowering taxes. You have to also grow the economy exponentially in a way so that it can &#8212; it can take over the inflation and the deficit issues that we have right now.
That&#8217;s what you got to do.
COLLINS: Yes.
And we should note&#8230;
MACE: You can&#8217;t do it by raising taxes.
COLLINS: &#8230; the White House&#8217;s plan is basically dead on arrival, given Republicans control the majority in the House. We will wait to see when Republicans do release their plan.
I want to ask you about the collapse of SVB. That is something that everyone is waiting to see what happens when markets open tomorrow morning. As a member of Congress, do you think that they should get bailed out by the federal government?
MACE: It&#8217;s still &#8212; it&#8217;s still very early to see or say what the ramifications are going to be. That was a unique bank that mostly served start-ups in Silicon Valley.
And those customers have been hit by inflation. They have been hit by interest rates. They&#8217;re low on cash. There was also, it sounds like, a panic run by some of their larger companies last week. The CEO sold himself millions of dollars of stock and gave his employees, I read this morning, bonuses right before the government took over the bank.
We cannot keep bailing out private companies, because there&#8217;s no consequences to their actions. People, when they make mistakes or break the law, have to be held accountable in this country.
COLLINS: OK, so just to confirm, you don&#8217;t support a bailout, right? Is that what you&#8217;re saying?
MACE: Not at this time. COLLINS: OK.
MACE: I would &#8212; it&#8217;s still very early. Again, it&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t even think, been 48 hours. But, at this time, I would not support a bailout.
COLLINS: I want to ask you about something your fellow South Carolinian, Nikki Haley, said. Obviously, she is running for president in 2024.
She said this week that she supports the &#8212; raising the retirement age for people who are in their 20s when it comes to receiving Social Security benefits. Do you agree with her on that?
MACE: I think that&#8217;s something that has to be on the table we have to look at.
I&#8217;m 45 years old. I&#8217;m assuming that Social Security will be insolvent, that I won&#8217;t have retirement funds from what I put into in my adult life, my working life. We do have to look at Social Security. We have got to look at our spending in this country, mandatory and discretionary.
If we&#8217;re going to take on fixing the Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, you name it, we have got to get serious about it.
COLLINS: OK, so you do &#8212; you do support potentially raising the age to maybe extend the&#8230;
MACE: As long &#8212; as long as it&#8217;s not anybody that&#8217;s heading into retirement right now.
We do not want to take away those that are in retirement or those that are heading into retirement. But if we&#8217;re talking about younger generations, my kids, for example, if they know what the &#8212; what the retirement will look like 40 years from now, 50 years from now, then that should be on the table, and can be.
We have to both. Republicans and Democrats have screwed this thing up, and they have got to fix it.</blockquote>

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Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwells-new-ad-shows-woman-arrested-dragged-away-from-her-kids-for-having-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Swalwell</a> (D-CA) suggested on Saturday that despite not wanting to &#8220;get in the business of telling troops what they can and cannot watch,&#8221; he might be open to banning Fox News on military installations.
Swalwell joined MSNBC host Katie Phang on Saturday, and she fretted about the ongoing <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/dominion-sues-fox-news-for-1-6-billion-over-2020-election-coverage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dominion</a> lawsuit and the &#8220;damage&#8221; she believed was being done by Fox News, asking whether Congress was ready to get involved.
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&quot;Nothing makes [our troops] feel more like home than their access to American television programming, and a popular channel is Fox News,&quot; says Democrat Eric Swalwell.
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&#8220;Has there been any discussions in Congress about maybe congressional oversight, regulations, maybe the FCC getting involved? I know we all respect the First Amendment, Congressman, but should there be some type of gatekeeping that happens so that this doesn’t happen again?&#8221; Phang asked.
Swalwell referenced a recent push from political action committee VoteVets to ban Fox News on military installations, adding that he understood it could be a particularly heavy lift because the network is popular with American service members.
&#8220;FOX hosts&#8217; election lies and disinformation splits the ranks, hurts unit cohesion, and weakens America&#8217;s national defense,&#8221; the PAC tweeted. &#8220;They must be removed from all TVs on military installations NOW.&#8221;
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FOX hosts&#39; election lies and disinformation splits the ranks, hurts unit cohesion, and weakens America&#39;s national defense. They must be removed from all TVs on military installations NOW. 
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&#8220;Nothing makes them feel more like home than their access to American television programming,&#8221; he said
“I don’t want to get in the business of telling troops what they can and cannot watch,” he said. “But, if you have a news station that a court is going to rule is, in its evening hour, you know, perpetuating dis- and misinformation, I don’t know if I disagree with VoteVets, who was saying that we need to take a look at, you know, how this is being broadcast to our troops,&#8221; Swalwell continued.
&#8220;I don’t think we’re without complete recourse,&#8221; the California Congressman said, appearing to suggest that threats of Congressional oversight would be &#8220;an incentive for Fox News to clean up&#8221; programming that did not fall in line.
Democrats and a number of legacy media talking heads have spent much of the last week criticizing Fox News and popular host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/j6-committee-chair-claims-members-didnt-have-access-to-footage-shifts-blame-to-staffers-and-abc-producer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> over his broadcast of previously unseen footage from the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill.

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<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/whoopi-suggests-its-fine-to-make-white-kids-feel-like-oppressors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> claimed on Wednesday that the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/trump-scores-win-on-first-amendment-grounds-in-case-over-fake-news-meme/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Amendment</a> did not allow people to &#8220;willingly lie&#8221; — and argued that Fox News, after airing never-before-seen footage from January 6th, was &#8220;recruiting domestic terrorists.&#8221;
Goldberg made the comments during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of her ABC midday talk show — &#8220;The View&#8221; — and she argued that it &#8220;should be against the law&#8221; for Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-scolds-republicans-over-tucker-carlson-airing-january-6-tapes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> to have access to and the ability to air footage that the January 6th Committee had opted not to show the American people.
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Whoopi Goldberg suggests that the government should shut down Fox News and prosecute everyone there for &quot;recruiting&quot; domestic terrorists. And she also claims the First Amendment has limits: &quot;[It] doesn&#39;t allow you to willingly lie.&quot; Meanwhile, The View is a cesspool of misinfo. <a href="https://t.co/7RkUjBWoZN">pic.twitter.com/7RkUjBWoZN</a>
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&#8220;I have a question, I have a question,&#8221; Goldberg began, referencing the newly-released footage. &#8220;How come this is not thought of as being recruiting? How come they&#8217;re not thinking about this as &#8230; radicalizing — why is this not being scrutinized the way they scrutinize other things, because to me, this is — this should be against the law.&#8221;
&#8220;You should not be able to lie to the American [people] — knowingly,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s one thing if you made a mistake and you didn&#8217;t know, but we heard for five or six years how, you know, the media was a lying sack of doo, they were &#8216;fake news&#8217; &#8230; so how come — what is our — what do we do as Americans to say this is not okay?&#8221;
Cohost Sara Haines interrupted, pointing out the fact that people who disagreed with her had a First Amendment right to say so — but Goldberg quickly shot her down.
&#8220;The First Amendment doesn&#8217;t allow you to willingly lie,&#8221; Goldberg asserted, despite volumes of case law that suggest otherwise in <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/lying.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all but a few</a> very specific cases.
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Goldberg claimed on Tuesday&#8217;s show that Americans should believe their eyes and ears when watching footage released the day of the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill — and the footage that was edited, produced, and released by the January 6th Committee — but suggested that the footage aired by Carlson should be held to a different standard.
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Whoopi Goldberg on Tucker Carlson releasing never-before-seen Jan. 6 footage: &quot;Tucker Carlson took a page from George Orwell&#39;s &#39;1984&#39; and told his viewers to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GNcdXpEvep">pic.twitter.com/GNcdXpEvep</a>
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President Joe Biden condemned House Republicans on Wednesday for allowing Fox News host Tucker Carlson to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">access and air previously unseen</a> security footage of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> that showed police officers appearing to stand by passively as people poured into the U.S. Capitol.
The rebuke from the president came in response to an internal memo from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger which criticized</a> &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; for broadcasting some of the video and commentary he claimed was offensive and misleading.
&#8220;More than 140 officers were injured on Jan 6,&#8221; Biden said in a tweet. &#8220;I’ve said before: How dare anyone diminish or deny the hell they went through? I stand with the [Capitol Police]. I hope House Republicans feel ashamed for what was done to undermine our law enforcement.&#8221;
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More than 140 officers were injured on Jan 6.
I’ve said before: How dare anyone diminish or deny the hell they went through?
I stand with the <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CapitolPolice</a>.
I hope House Republicans feel ashamed for what was done to undermine our law enforcement. <a href="https://t.co/pES1zApH9Y">https://t.co/pES1zApH9Y</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1633548683542249473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Carlson and his team received exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of security camera footage as part of a deal made with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who said he opted for the disclosure for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-defends-releasing-january-6-tapes-torches-cnn-reporter-to-their-face" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sake of transparency</a> and to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlsons-use-of-january-6-tapes-is-limited-republican-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counter the “politicization”</a> he believes had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee.
Some Republicans have been supportive of the speaker. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) thanked McCarthy for the disclosure as it <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1627733161026195470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may help some of the January 6 defendants</a> in their cases.
Still, Democrats and other Republicans have expressed their dismay with the agreement and Fox News&#8217; portrayal of the events of January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify Biden’s 2020 election victory.
&#8220;It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that&#8217;s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161686255/fox-tucker-carlson-jan-6-security-tapes-mcconnell-manger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters on Tuesday</a>.
Officials have said about <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/one-year-jan-6-attack-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">140 police officers</a> were assaulted in clashes with people at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. In addition, four police officers who defended the Capitol on that day <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/3rd-police-officer-gunther-hashida-kills-himself-after-capitol-riot-by-trump-mob.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later committed suicide</a>. However, only people who were part of the crowd <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> on the day of the breach, including Ashli Babbitt after being fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer.
During his show on Monday, Carlson aired some familiar images of the people getting violent with police and breaking windows. But, he said only a &#8220;small percentage&#8221; of the large crowd were &#8220;hooligans&#8221; and insisted the footage his team has seen &#8220;demolishes&#8221; the claim that there was an attempted insurrection.
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Virtually no one in Washington, Republican or Democrat, wanted to see this tape released tonight. <a href="https://t.co/YfpvaIZTbn">pic.twitter.com/YfpvaIZTbn</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1632953663822913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The host shared footage that he said makes clear the vast majority of the people were &#8220;peaceful,&#8221; &#8220;orderly,&#8221; and &#8220;meek.&#8221; These &#8220;sightseers,&#8221; as Carlson described them, appeared to revere the U.S. Capitol as they filed inside in an orderly fashion and were present out of concern that there was fraud in the 2020 election. He accused Democrats and journalists of suppressing the images up until now as “a pretext for a federal crackdown on opponents of the uni party in Washington.”
McCarthy <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3878242-mccarthy-gop-pump-brakes-on-release-of-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assured reporters</a> that Capitol Police were part of the process of sharing clips with Carlson&#8217;s team and security would be &#8220;taken care of.&#8221; Still, Capitol Police <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3888104-capitol-police-says-it-reviewed-just-one-jan-6-clip-tucker-carlson-showed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Hill on Monday</a> that the agency requested &#8220;that any clips be shown to us first for a security review&#8221; but that so far, it had &#8220;only been given the ability to preview a single clip out of the multiple clips that aired.”
In his memo sent to staff on Tuesday, Manger accused Carlson&#8217;s program of cherry-picking calmer moments from January 6 and claimed the commentary &#8220;fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.&#8221; Manger also said his department &#8220;stands by the officers in the video&#8221; that was shown, asserting that officers were outnumbered on January 6 and did their best to de-escalate the situation.

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Biden Scolds Republicans Over Tucker Carlson Airing January 6 Tapes

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed a CNN reporter during a brief interaction with reporters in which he answered questions about releasing footage from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
&#8220;Because of the footage that you gave Tucker Carlson, last night he went on and said this was a mostly peaceful chaos as he said, he downplayed Brian Sicknick&#8217;s death, said it was not related to January 6, that this was not an insurrection,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju said. &#8220;Do you regret giving him those [tapes] so he could whitewash the events of that day?&#8221;
&#8220;No. I said at the very beginning, &#8216;transparency,'&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;And so what I wanted to produce for everybody is exactly what I said, people can actually look at it and see what&#8217;s gone on that day.&#8221;
When asked if he agreed with Carlson&#8217;s portrayal of the events that took place on January 6, McCarthy said, &#8220;Each person can come up with their own conclusion.&#8221;
&#8220;But I just wanted to make sure I had transparency, because I know on CNN, I mean, I had here where you guys actually wrote where we were,&#8221; McCarthy continued as he held up the printed off CNN report. &#8220;This was a secret location &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if you got concerned by that, I don&#8217;t even know from a point of view of security if we could ever be taken there again. But when you broke that at CNN, that was a real concern to a lot of people.&#8221;
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Speaker McCarthy Speaks To The Press About Release Of January 6 Footage

Kevin McCarthy Defends Releasing January 6 Tapes, Torches CNN Reporter To Their Face

The head of U.S. Capitol Police sent a memo to his staff Tuesday, after Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aired dramatic, previously unseen</a> security footage of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> that showed police officers appearing to stand by passively as people poured into the Capitol.
Police Chief Tom Manger criticized the commentary on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; which he said was &#8220;filled with offensive and misleading conclusions&#8221; about January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
“The program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video,&#8221; Manger said. &#8220;The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.&#8221;
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NEW &#8211; Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger sends internal memo this am saying Carlson’s report was “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions” about Jan. 6 and says the “opinion program” never reached out with appropriate context. Reporting w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/rachelvscott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rachelvscott</a> <a href="https://t.co/BrnD0n4IN1">pic.twitter.com/BrnD0n4IN1</a>
&mdash; Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1633156537253240832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Manger took particular issue with a segment showing what appears to be Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” throughout the building as &#8220;tour guides&#8221; as Carlson described them, and Carlson&#8217;s focus on Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, whom a medical examiner found had suffered a stroke and died of natural causes a day after protecting the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
The New York Times reported on January 8 that Sicknick was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher during the riot, but five weeks <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later retracted the story</a> when it was shown he died the following day of what the D.C. medical examiner said were natural causes. His family and the police believe his death was related to the riot.
Footage of Sicknick appearing to guide people out of the Capitol building after &#8220;he was supposedly murdered outside,&#8221; Carlson said, &#8220;overturns the single-most powerful and politically useful lie the Democrats have told us about January 6.&#8221;
The Capitol Police, Manger said, &#8220;maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day.&#8221;
Carlson and his team received exclusive access to over 40,000 hours of security camera footage as part of a deal made with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
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Virtually no one in Washington, Republican or Democrat, wanted to see this tape released tonight. <a href="https://t.co/YfpvaIZTbn">pic.twitter.com/YfpvaIZTbn</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1632953663822913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlsons-use-of-january-6-tapes-is-limited-republican-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> he wanted to counter the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee, which focused heavily on former President Donald Trump in its investigation and final report.
The arrangement has been criticized by Democrats and even some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “It was a mistake in my view for Fox News to depict this in a way that is completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/07/mitch-mcconnell-tucker-carlson-jan/11420330002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McConnell said</a>.
Though Carlson showed on Monday some familiar images of the people clashing with police and breaking windows, he said only a &#8220;small percentage&#8221; of the large crowd were &#8220;hooligans.&#8221; The host shared footage that he said makes clear vast majority of the people were &#8220;peaceful,&#8221; &#8220;orderly,&#8221; and &#8220;meek.&#8221; These &#8220;sightseers,&#8221; as Carlson described them, appeared to revere the U.S. Capitol as they filed inside in orderly fashion and were present out of concern that there was fraud in the 2020 election.
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Capitol Police say <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/politics/capitol-police-injuries/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 100 officers</a> reported injuries after January 6. Although four police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/3rd-police-officer-gunther-hashida-kills-himself-after-capitol-riot-by-trump-mob.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later committed suicide</a>, only people who were part of the crowd <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> on the day of the breach, including Ashli Babbitt after being fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer.
In his memo, Manger thanked members of the Capitol Police for their efforts on January 6. “You fought like hell on January 6 and risked your lives to protect the Constitution and everything this country stands for,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;You, along with our law enforcement partners, saved every member of Congress and their staff.”

U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger

Capitol Police Chief Responds To Tucker Carlson’s Airing Of January 6 Footage

Capitol Police Chief Responds To Tucker Carlson's Airing Of January 6 Footage

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Daily Wire co-founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/jeremy-boreing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy Boreing</a> told “Fox &amp; Friends” Tuesday morning how the woke Left helped him literally become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nuts-or-nutless-the-daily-wire-launches-jeremys-chocolates-after-hersheys-trans-farce-insults-customers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an overnight success</a> in the chocolate business.
Boreing recounted for the popular cable news program how he became so disgusted last week by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-hersheys-trends-on-twitter-as-brand-features-man-who-identifies-as-trans-in-international-womens-day-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hershey’s Chocolate ad</a> for International Women’s Day that featured a biological male, that he decided to offer up an alternative. Over the following hours, The Daily Wire launched Jeremy’s Chocolate, shot a commercial that went viral, and in just a matter of days, sold over 400,000 bars.
“Our entire enterprise at The Daily Wire is about building alternatives to all the institutions dominated by the woke Left &#8211; kids’ entertainment, razors, now chocolates,” Boreing explained. “We believe that corporate America is supposed to serve America. We’ve got a situation now in the country where the incentives for corporations have been misaligned. They live in a kind of fear of the woke Left and, as a result, they take for granted the rest of us will just keep giving our money to them because we don’t have another choice.”
“We want to give people those choices,” he added. “That’s what it’s really all about.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeremyDBoreing</a> tells Fox &amp; Friends about Jeremy&#39;s Chocolate: &quot;[Woke companies] take for granted that the rest of us will give their money to them because, well, we don&#39;t have any other choice. So we want to give people those choices.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp">https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp</a> <a href="https://t.co/G3OC53S7bH">pic.twitter.com/G3OC53S7bH</a>
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The chocolate bars come in two varieties, “SheHer” and “HeHim.” One has nuts and the other does not, and, as Boreing says in the viral ad, “If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hershey’s.” They are available at <a href="http://www.ihatehersheys.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ihatehersheys.com</a>.
When host Steve Doocy asked Boreing how the chocolate tastes, Boreing replied that it is “delicious, of course.”
“It will be the best chocolate ever launched in two days,” quipped Boreing, who also promised the hosts that a dark chocolate variety is in the works.
Doocy and co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt marveled at how the chocolate line came together so quickly. Boreing said his team worked around the clock, driven in part by a sense of outrage.
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“Really what happened is we saw Hershey’s release this International Women’s Day campaign with a biological male,” he said. “The Left likes to talk about erasure, and here they are literally
replacing women with biological men. We thought there are a lot of Americans who won’t think that’s very funny.”
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Introducing Jeremy&#39;s Chocolate. 
We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. One of them has nuts. If you need us to tell you which one, keep buying Hershey&#39;s.<a href="https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp">https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp</a><a href="https://t.co/jmRKTNNwag">pic.twitter.com/jmRKTNNwag</a>
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Boreing also said that his team had experience in startups after last year’s successful launch of Jeremy’s Razors, which came after Harry’s Razors dropped its advertising with The Daily Wire over the company’s refusal to accept radical transgender ideology.
“We had learned a lot from launching Jeremy’s Razors last year, after Harry’s decided that The Daily Wire’s views were unacceptable to them over a very similar issue, by the way, and pulled all their sponsorship from us for saying that men are men and women are women,” Boreing said. “Very controversial take that we had.”
Jeremy’s Razors went on to sell over 100,000 subscriptions in just six months, and the logistical lessons proved valuable to Boreing’s new venture as a chocolatier. Jermey’s Chocolate has now taken orders requiring more than 20 tons of chocolate, Boreing noted.
“That tells me Americans are really tired, they’re fed up with getting these Left-wing sucker punches,” he said. “All people want to do is go to the store, get a candy bar, shave their face, put their kids in front of the TV — They can’t do any of that anymore without this nonsense.”
“So we’re giving them an alternative and hopefully one that they can smile about, hopefully a little tongue in cheek – although very much real chocolate,” he added.

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Daily Wire’s Jeremy Boreing Tells ‘Fox & Friends’ How Woke Hershey’s Made Him An Overnight Success In Chocolate Biz

Daily Wire's Jeremy Boreing Tells 'Fox & Friends' How Woke Hershey's Made Him An Overnight Success In Chocolate Biz

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FBI Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Wray</a> defended the bureau against allegations of political bias during a Fox News interview Tuesday night, claiming that it is &#8220;independent&#8221; and on &#8220;the American people&#8217;s side.&#8221;
&#8220;I hear these claims of politicization, but I can tell you that the FBI is and is going to stay independent,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And that means following the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it. And I add that last part because what I have found in today&#8217;s world is that far too many people use as their standard for whether they think something was fair or objective, whether it&#8217;s an FBI investigation, whether it&#8217;s a Supreme Court decision, or even an election, is whether they liked the result, whether their side won or lost.&#8221;
&#8220;But that&#8217;s not how independence and objectivity work. We are not on either side,&#8221; Wray continued. &#8220;The FBI is on the American people&#8217;s side, on the Constitution&#8217;s side.&#8221;
Fox News anchor Bret Baier then brought up examples of things that the public sees that cause distrust of the FBI.
&#8220;Mark Houck, Pennsylvania pro-life activist arrested at his home in front of his family for an alleged violation of the Freedom of Access of Clinics Act, alleged incident in which he was protesting in front of an abortion clinic. He was recently acquitted of all charges at trial,&#8221; Baier said. &#8220;The show of force for that arrest, that decision to use that force, was that by the book?&#8221;
Wray responded, &#8220;Those decisions are made, as they should be, by the commanders on the ground in the field office who have the expertise about when to conduct operations safely and securely for the safety of everybody involved.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, historically, FBI protocol is that a defendant has &#8212; if he has no criminal history, is not believed to be violent or pose a threat to public safety, that he or she is permitted to self-surrender, rather than subject dynamic execution of an arrest warrant,&#8221; Baier countered. &#8220;Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about as the dual system. There&#8217;s that for a pro-life activist, but not that for a Black Lives Matter protester who maybe torches a federal building over the summer. So, that disparity, that dichotomy is what sticks in people&#8217;s mind.&#8221;
Wray responded that &#8220;people have their opinions&#8221; and claimed that the FBI has &#8220;one standard&#8221; that is &#8220;irrespective of ideology, of politics, in this country, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you&#8217;re upset about or who you&#8217;re upset with.&#8221;
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FBI Director Chris Wray defends sending armed agents to arrest a pro-life activist while not cracking down on BLM terrorists who torched cities in 2020.<a href="https://t.co/scIOzRIv4U">pic.twitter.com/scIOzRIv4U</a>
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right, so let&#8217;s talk about by the book.
Mark Houck, Pennsylvania pro-life activist arrested at his home in front of his family for an alleged violation of the Freedom of Access of Clinics Act, alleged incident in which he was protesting in front of an abortion clinic. He was recently acquitted of all charges at trial.
The show of force for that arrest, that decision to use that force, was that by the book?
CHRISTOPHER WRAY, FBI DIRECTOR: Those decisions are made, as they should be, by the commanders on the ground in the field office who have the expertise about when to conduct operations safely and securely for the safety of everybody involved.
And, to my knowledge, those processes were all followed in this case.
BAIER: Yes, I mean, historically, FBI protocol is that a defendant has &#8212; if he has no criminal history, is not believed to be violent or pose a threat to public safety, that he or she is permitted to self-surrender, rather than subject dynamic execution of an arrest warrant.
Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about as the dual system. There&#8217;s that for a pro-life activist, but not that for a Black Lives Matter protester who may be torches a federal building over the summer. So, that disparity, that dichotomy is what sticks in people&#8217;s mind.
WRAY: I understand that people have their opinions.
All I can tell you is that we have one standard, one standard, which is, irrespective of ideology, of politics, in this country, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you&#8217;re upset about or who you&#8217;re upset with. You don&#8217;t get to express that upset with violence. And so we are agnostic as to ideology and focus on the violence.
For even a white-collar, there are situations where white-collar arrests have resulted in shootings. So, there&#8217;s a whole lot of things that goes into the judgment about what is the way to conduct arrests safely and securely that are made, I think appropriately, by the career agents on the ground who have the closest visibility to the circumstances.
And the FBI has a long history of conducting those operations with a far better track record of safety than a lot of other agencies, precisely because those people take it so seriously and so meticulously.</blockquote>

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Chris Wray Responds To Accusations Of FBI’s Political Bias: ‘FBI Is On The American People’s Side’

Chris Wray Responds To Accusations Of FBI's Political Bias: 'FBI Is On The American People's Side'

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A key Republican lawmaker says Fox News host Tucker Carlson does not have unrestricted use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 U.S. Capitol surveillance footage</a>.
“It’s basically controlled access to be able to view tapes. Can’t record, can’t take anything with you,&#8221; Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who chairs the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said in response to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3877350-copies-of-jan-6-clips-given-to-carlson-subject-to-security-review-republicans-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a question from The Hill</a>.
Carlson&#8217;s team &#8220;may request any particular clips they may need, then we&#8217;ll make sure there&#8217;s nothing sensitive, nothing classified, including escape routes,&#8221; Loudermilk <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-fox-news-january-6-police-videos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CBS News</a>. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want al Qaeda to know certain things.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios first reported</a> last week that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared with Carlson 41,000 hours</a> of surveillance footage from January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. A Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the report from Axios was accurate.
On his show, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; Carlson said his team had been granted what they believe to be &#8220;unfettered&#8221; access to the tapes. Carlson said he planned to start sharing what his team found this week.
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Tucker Carlson Announces That His Show Has Been Granted Access To 44k Hours Of Footage From January 6th 
&quot;We believe that access is unfettered. We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see.&quot;
&quot;We&#39;re going to spend the rest of this week taking a look at it,… <a href="https://t.co/sK7691S0n8">https://t.co/sK7691S0n8</a> <a href="https://t.co/GnPvtbENg5">pic.twitter.com/GnPvtbENg5</a>
&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1627851223092035591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/25/news-outlets-mccarthy-capitol-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A variety of media organizations</a> followed suit by asking congressional leadership to give them access to the same footage.
Loudermilk reportedly offered assurance that other news outlets and the public would also get access, eventually. &#8220;Hopefully sooner rather than later, but I think we&#8217;re talking about weeks to months,&#8221; he said.
The congressman also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/28/house-gop-moving-to-let-jan-6-defendants-access-capitol-security-footage-00084763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told POLITICO</a> that House Republicans intend to give January 6 defendants access to relevant documents and video &#8220;on a case-by-case basis, as requested by attorneys representing defendants.”
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McCarthy said last month he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-shares-best-way-to-release-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking to release the tapes</a> because of the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee, which focused heavily on former President Donald Trump in its investigation and final report.
In brief remarks to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times last week</a>, McCarthy boiled down his decision to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-breaks-silence-on-giving-january-6-tapes-to-tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fulfillment of a promise</a>. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.” In addition, McCarthy insisted to the newspaper that his team staff members were taking the matter &#8220;very seriously.”
Over the past week, Democrats issued myriad alarming statements about risks to Capitol security and the potential to fuel Russian propaganda.
In a letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-to-huddle-about-reported-breach-of-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said his team</a> was &#8220;working to confirm the precise nature of the video transfer,&#8221; which he called a &#8220;reported breach,&#8221; and he stated there was &#8220;no indication&#8221; that McCarthy and Carlson followed the same protocols adopted by the January 6 Committee in handling the footage.
A Democratic member of the January 6 Committee, Maryland’s Rep. Jamie Raskin, questioned whether the release of the tapes could <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1627765857131679759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become a “roadmap” for a 2024 “insurrection.”</a>
Some Republicans have cheered the move, including Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-19-republicans-block-kevin-mccarthys-bid-for-house-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed McCarthy&#8217;s bid</a> for speaker earlier this year. &#8220;Thank you [McCarthy] for following through on this!” <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1627735746281934852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she tweeted</a>. &#8220;The public deserves to see everything that was hidden.&#8221;
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) insisted that any disclosure of the January 6 tapes is &#8220;obviously going to be scrutinized to make sure that you&#8217;re not exposing sensitive information.&#8221;

Tucker Carlson’s Use Of January 6 Tapes Is Limited, Republican Says

Tucker Carlson's Use Of January 6 Tapes Is Limited, Republican Says

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Two days after news broke that Fox News host Tucker Carlson received access to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tens of thousands of hours of January 6 U.S. Capitol surveillance footage</a>, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) opened up about why he made the disclosure.
“I promised,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McCarthy told The New York Times</a> on Wednesday. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.”
The speaker said last month he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-shares-best-way-to-release-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking to release the tapes</a> because of the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee, which focused heavily on former President Donald Trump in its investigation and final report, but McCarthy did not divulge how he was planning to do so.
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios first reported</a> on Monday that McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared with Carlson 41,000 hours</a> of surveillance footage from January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. A Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the report from Axios was accurate.
Hours later, Carlson said on his show, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; that his team has been granted what they believe to be &#8220;unfettered&#8221; access to the tapes, and he plans to start sharing what they have found next week.
&#8220;Some of our smartest producers have been there looking at this stuff, trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts, or not, the story that we&#8217;ve been told for more than two years,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;We think already that in some ways it does contradict that story.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson Announces That His Show Has Been Granted Access To 44k Hours Of Footage From January 6th 
&quot;We believe that access is unfettered. We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see.&quot;
&quot;We&#39;re going to spend the rest of this week taking a look at it,… <a href="https://t.co/sK7691S0n8">https://t.co/sK7691S0n8</a> <a href="https://t.co/GnPvtbENg5">pic.twitter.com/GnPvtbENg5</a>
&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1627851223092035591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Some Republicans cheered the move, including Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-19-republicans-block-kevin-mccarthys-bid-for-house-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed McCarthy&#8217;s bid</a> for speaker earlier this year. &#8220;Thank you [McCarthy] for following through on this!” <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1627735746281934852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she tweeted Monday</a>. &#8220;The public deserves to see everything that was hidden.&#8221;
But silence from McCarthy&#8217;s camp up until now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-panel-chairman-issues-warning-over-tucker-carlson-getting-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave Democrats room</a> to issue myriad alarming statements about the nature of the disclosure and risks to Capitol security without any pushback from the source.
In a letter to House Democrats on Tuesday, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-to-huddle-about-reported-breach-of-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said his team</a> is &#8220;working to confirm the precise nature of the video transfer,&#8221; which he called a &#8220;reported breach,&#8221; and he stated there was &#8220;no indication&#8221; that McCarthy and Carlson followed the same protocols adopted by the January 6 Committee in handling the footage.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1628512500437209094" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed with a letter</a> to his colleagues on Wednesday that warned McCarthy is making available &#8220;a treasure trove of closely held information about how the Capitol complex is protected and its public release would compromise the safety of the Legislative Branch and allow those who want to commit another attack to learn how Congress is safeguarded.&#8221;
McCarthy boasted of giving Carlson the tapes in a fundraising email <a href="https://twitter.com/emrwilkins/status/1628472578548408321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported Wednesday</a> by a Bloomberg Government journalist. &#8220;I promised I would give you the truth regarding Jan. 6, and now I am delivering,&#8221; he said.
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McCarthy fundraising off of giving Tucker Carlson access to 1/6 Surveillance tapes <a href="https://t.co/raptge3F5C">pic.twitter.com/raptge3F5C</a>
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That appeal to donors led to a rebuke from at least one of McCarthy&#8217;s Democratic colleagues.
&#8220;Kevin McCarthy undermines security on Capitol Hill &#8211; in ways officials say could endanger the safety of Capitol Police officers &#8211; to feed January 6 footage to a propagandist who downplayed the attack on the Capitol,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1628477110170841093" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA)</a>. &#8220;Now McCarthy is using that to raise money. Absolutely appalling.&#8221;
The New York Times report said McCarthy stated that he planned to share the footage with other news outlets after Carlson&#8217;s exclusive. In addition, McCarthy insisted to the newspaper that his team staff members were taking the matter &#8220;very seriously.”

Kevin McCarthy Breaks Silence On Giving January 6 Tapes To Tucker Carlson

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