Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday castigated Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing selectively edited surveillance footage in an attempt to downplay the violence that occurred during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.
“Last night millions of Americans tuned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television,” Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor in which he accused Carlson of “lying to his audience.”
“By diving deep into the waters of conspiracy and cherry-picking from thousands of hours of security footage, Mr. Carlson told the boldfaced lie that that Capitol attack, which we all saw with our own eyes, was somehow not an attack at all.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a prime-time cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night,” Schumer added.
Schumer also chided House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for having provided Carlson with exclusive access to the footage.
“Speaker McCarthy is every bit as culpable as Mr. Carlson,” Schumer said. “Speaker McCarthy’s decision to share security footage with Fox looked like a mistake from the very beginning, but after last night it looks like a disaster. Speaker McCarthy has played … a treacherous game by catering to the hard right.”
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