 Kevin McCarthy decided to take all the footage from January 16th. And there's a huge quantity of footage from all the cameras inside the Capitol. And he decided to take all that footage and release it to the media. But he decided to give Tucker Carlson exclusivity for a few weeks or a few days. I don't know. But for a while, so that Tucker Carlson can tell his story. And then, and only after Tucker Carlson edits the video, released the rest of it to the rest of the media. And I think he did this supposedly as part of the deal in order to become speaker, that he cut with some of the opposing House members who are even more Trump, even more supportive of Trump than Trump himself, even more supportive of Trump than Kevin McCarthy is. And part of their commitment was to do whatever they could to whitewash the January 6th events. So look, I said this from January 6th. I mean, I saw the video live. I saw people breaking into the Capitol. Don't tell me the doors were open to them. I'm sure some doors were open, but I saw people breaking in. I saw people climbing up the walls. This, the video is now showing people climbing up the walls. I saw people beat up cops. I saw people break down barriers. This is not a few demonstrators walking around and then the doors happening if you open so they meandered in. Even the people who meandered in saw other protesters breaking in, saw other protesters, rioters really beating up cops. And they decided to just stroll along into the House of Representatives and into the Senate chamber. And, you know, they just happened to be chanting something about Hang, you know, Hang Mike Pence as Mike Pence was inside there. They just happened to try to break into the chamber where the Senate was discussing certifying the vote. It's just an accident. They were just tourists. They had to see Washington, D.C. I mean, give me a break. I've been to the Capitol. I've been to the tunnels under the Capitol. I've roamed around the corridors of the Capitol. Not as a tourist, but meeting people. And getting in, look, you go through security, you go, I mean, it's a whole process. You don't just meander in. So if they were allowed to meander in, it's because the cops were afraid of them. And you can see cops being afraid of them. You can see cops being chased. We saw the videos. So don't believe your eyes. Believe Tucker Carlson. Don't believe your eyes. Believe the editing of Tucker Carlson. And people defending this, it's just unbelievable. I mean, Fox has basically become a network that doesn't even try to pretend that they are seeking facts. I mean, they always were biased. But now they're just lying and embracing the lie, and doubling up on the lie, and reaffirming the lie. They're taking hours and hours of video and screening it down to a few people meandering down the corridors, not doing anything nasty. Well, evading, evading, not ignoring, evading everything else that's on those videos, and selling this as the truth, as the official story, as the non-democrat story, or the non-mainstream story, or the non-establishment story. And therefore, the correct story, because anything that's anti-establishment is correct. A crazy man. A crazy man is walking around with a whole get-up, and the cops are watching him. But generally, the cops are not engaging with these people. But they're watching him because he's a nutcase walking around the Capitol, inside the building, yelling and chanting. And how is it presented by Tucker Carlson? They're escorting him. They're showing him around. They're being tour guides. Just like, I mean, when I went to the Capitol, I was shown in, and five or six policemen just showed me around. Escorted by security, give me a break. This was clearly a riot. This was clearly an attempt to intimidate my pens, congressmen, senators, into reversing an election. This was clearly violent. And if this had been staged by Antifa or the left, the same people today saying, oh, they're just tourists would have demanded the death penalty for treason for every single one of them. And here we go. The people accusing me of TDS. This is so predictable. I said it at the beginning of the show. So predictable. So, I mean, just think about what would have happened if these were leftists. Not in terms of the cop's response. But think about what would have happened if these were leftists in terms of the way Fox would have covered it. Wake Tucker Carlson would have covered it. He would have edited it to show exactly the opposite. This is pure partisan, tribal lying. And this is a network now that now has to please a subsection of the Republican faithful, a subsection that wants them to lie, that rewards them for lying, that increases the readings for lying. And it's just stunning. It's stunning how bad Fox has become and how disgusting it is. And how this is a network I used to watch. I think a lot of us used to watch. And we have a lawsuit now against Fox by Dominion. The material coming out from Discovery, I've talked about it on the show, is unbelievable in terms of the double-facedness obvious dishonesty and obvious lies that Fox was telling. Fox is now basically an arm of the Republican Party. And not just of any Republican Party. It is an arm of, I think, the worst elements within the Republican Party. It is an extension of Trumpism. It's an extension of Trump. Why anybody watches this network, I have no idea. I don't understand. It is lost all credibly. Granted, there's no news. Do you know who the most? This is funny, actually funny. So the survey is now about the American people's distrust of the media. And they asked them, do you trust this? Which networks do you trust? And basically, American people don't trust any of them. I mean, NBC, CBS, ABC, Dubehara, then Fox and CNN, and MSNBC, and obviously all those. But what network do you think? What news show do you think is trusted the most by Americans? Just shows you how dumb people are. NPR is not trusted. NPR is, again, way down. It's below NBC, CBS, and ABC. It's down. I don't have the actual list right in front of me, but it's down there. I noticed that. But what is number one? That I noticed. Do you know what number one is? Like, 46% or maybe it's 51% of Americans trust this network. Not CNN. CNN is way down. 46%, 51% of BBC. Man's a God of Right. Man's a West God of Right. BBC, the BBC, the British broadcasting service. Now, let me just be clear. The BBC is super leftist. It was leftist before MSNBC was ever invented. It's been leftist forever. It is basically, it's funded by the British government. It's dominated by the left. It always has been. It's awful. It's horrible. And yet, Americans are so disgusted by their own media that they're willing to accept leftist propaganda from the Brits because they have a great accent. Because it's not American. And they lie in more subtle, British, sophisticated ways. Anyway, you know, I've thought Haka Karsan was beneath contempt for a long time. And he's only sinking further into a swamp of Fox News' own making. You know, we kind of expect this kind of stuff from the left, but now the right is exactly the same. There's no difference between, I mean, CNN is better than Fox. You know, Fox is basically MSNBC. MSNBC and Fox are both in the gutter. They're both just propaganda arms of their political parties. And I think they should be viewed for that. And remember, Fox is not the most consistently crazy right network. There's a whole bunch of networks to the right of Fox. What we're really missing in the US is a kind of a center right. What Fox used to be, a kind of a center right. It's interesting that Murdoch, I don't think, is anywhere near as crazy as Fox is. Murdoch is actually turned away from Donald Trump. And it's not, I don't think, well, back Donald Trump. The New York Post, which is a Murdoch newspaper, has turned away from Trump, is clearly endorsing DeSantis. But Tucker Carlson is all in, all in on the crazies, all in on the nutcases. Now, I've had white hair for a long, long time. You can find videos of me. And it's never been black. Never had black hair. Always had brown hair. Trump did not cause this. Trump is the least of my problems in life. My grandfather had white, white hair and complete head of white hair. But no, Tucker Carlson is beneath CNN by a mile. He is, he is, what's the woman's name in MSNBC, the propagandist, the leftist propagandist? I would watch CNN any day over Tucker Carlson. But what's the woman, what's the woman, you know, I've showed videos of Tucker Carlson and his complete and utter nonsense. Yeah, he's Rachel Maddow. He is the moral and journalistic equivalent of Rachel Maddow. That is the reality, which I know you guys don't want to hear and you don't want to believe. And you will stick to your right wing propaganda no matter what. And, you know, you cannot even entertain in your mind the possibility that the right can be as bad as the left. I mean, you're so enamored with this that it's, but yes, you know what, this is the Tucker Carlson that said that what made America great was beautiful scenery and God and faith. That's the Tucker Carlson. And yep, yeah, and it's the most popular political TV show, it's I think the most popular TV show in the United States. This is where we are. I mean, partially that's because the left has so many fragmented TV shows, it all gets fragmented. But yeah, I mean, because Tucker Carlson has this unbelievably dedicated, blind, obedient audience that will take anything from him, anything. And the fact that he is the most popular TV talk show host today, I mean, I used to think Bill O'Reilly was awful and terrible and a pragmatist in the middle of the road, nothing. And he makes Tucker Carlson, I mean, now I miss Bill O'Reilly. Where's Bill O'Reilly? And Bill O'Reilly was horrible. And he had the biggest show on television. Bill O'Reilly was by far the biggest show on television. He appeared on the show a number of times, a number of times. And yeah, Bill O'Reilly never sunk to the lows that Tucker Carlson has sunk to. And Bill O'Reilly had me on, Tucker Carlson has not. So there you go. Bill O'Reilly was nuts, what does that say about Tucker? And Bill O'Reilly was just huge, huge at the time. So the size of the audience does not impress me. It more is an indication of the state of America and what Americans value and what Americans want to hear and what interests Americans. Much more than what, yeah, than the other way around. So to me, the fact that so many Americans listen to Tucker Carlson says a lot about America, state of America and the state of kind of, and again, what Americans are looking for in their television. 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