tucker carlson seeds seethes -- tucker carlson hates passionately. and i know that because he has told us in writing. as dominion reveal tonight, on january 4th, two days before tucker carlson was absolutely certain that congress would smoothly certify joe biden's election on january six, although tucker carlson was afraid to tell his audience that, tucker carlson texts, we are very, very close to being able to avoid trump most nights. i hate him passionately. that is tucker carlson. he's saying he hates donald trump passionately. and that is now the washington posts headline tonight about tucker carlson, saying i hate him passionately. about donald trump. donald trump has been pretending to his audience that his only problem with fox was rupert murdoch, donald trump has been ignoring all of the negative messages by the prime time fox hosts about donald trump, that have been exposed by dominion. and so it is most likely that donald trump will help tucker hide his biggest secret ever from his audience, that he hates donald trump passionately. no one i

that's what tucker carlson said. and then tucker carlson said, he's a demonic force, a destroyer. but he's not going to destroy us. i've been thinking about this every day for four years. you are right, satisfied, i don't want to let him destroy me either. the trump anger spiral is vicious. and look across and says, that's for sure, deadly. there is tucker carlson using the word deadly to describe donald trump. puck across and has spent every night this week on his show telling his audience that the january 6th attack on the capitol was not deadly. tucker carlson has leaned on that word deadly on's program repeatedly to insist to his audience that there was nothing deadly on the attack on the capitol. but on the night of january six, on the night when he's texting his friend, donald trump is deadly. tucker carlson can feel, he can feel what deadly means. and he is saying that what donald trump does is deadly. take a cough and said about donald trump's anger spiral being a vicious, that's for sure. deadly. it's almost consumed me in november when sydney powell attacked us. it was v

about what tucker carlson says. tucker crossing himself is never going to admit on his show that this is how he feels or how he felt about donald trump. so he will just do what fox, i'm sure is going to do, just completely ignore that this is happening. they have the pay, they pay out of pocket and out of the backdoor, they continue to pretend that none of this is real and none of this is happening. >> andrew, i want to read you what andrew, what murdaugh said under oath about why they behaved with trump the way they did. at that network. it said, a at one point you suggested your son lackland that perhaps we could have gone first, but being second would save you from a trump explosion. right? that means, in calling the election. what did you mean it saves us a trump explosion! answer from rupert murdoch. trump still had a huge following. and you know, when he gets mad, he stirs people up. i mean, you would rather not have trump as an enemy he was still president. andrew, that never inhibited me. i started calling d

>> tucker carlson: joe biden?ving the country, and they were upset about murder, an amazing day really. ryan is an attorney, and he joins us to assess all of this thank you for coming on. so, when you take these people seriously, would probably show since they have a problem, that most of us don't, what they are suggesting is disarming a country that owns billions of rounds of ammunition in 400 million firearms, but what they are calling for is a totalitarian state in civil war. you are absolutely right, because who's going to collect fees? who's can it be effectuated by these policies? >> i say, when a politician tells you you don't need a gun, it is time to get a gun. in these comparisons were made into these other countries, that are largely homogenous, mostly isolated countries that do not have borders like we do, or jugs or crime or just flowing across freely, they are able to effectuate some sort of gun control, but it still does not help, gun filings might go down, but i'm not a believer that gun violence i

tucker carlson wants both. and he has had both, as long as he stays loyal to trump and criticizes him gently enough that he does not so enraged the trump base. but as maeve reston was saying, the trump base may not ever know what is in these text or they may not ever know that tucker carlson spoke so disparagingly and disdainfully about trump, because fox is not actually covering this. >> and they are actually not punishing any of their anchors. >> no, not that -- >> you see rupert murdoch basically calling out maria bartiromo, not on our news network, that one right there. and i bet your bottom dollar, she is going to be on tv to more tomorrow. >> tucker carlson remained -- sean hannity -- said, whoa -- >> too far -- >> too far -- and he says other things -- that's find that sean hannity has kind of come around privately and said that he thinks that trump has really hurt himself and hurt the country. but what is he even telling his viewers all these weeks? and that is ultimately what is driving this. it's abou

last night as we've been talking about in last hour, tucker carlson aired security footage from the deadlypicted that day as a peaceful gathering. but before he showed any footage, carlson did exactly what his network is being sued for. he lied and sowed doubt in the results of free and fair 2020 american presidential election. watch. >> the protesters were angry. they believed that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted. they were right. in retrospect, it is clear that 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy given the facts that have since emerged about that election, no honest person can deny it. >> unfairly conducted life long republican chris krebs called it the most secure election in american history. no honest person can deny it was a grave betrayal said tucker. i guess he's not talking about these life long republicans. >> i told him that the stuff that his people were shuttling out to the public was [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were [ bleep ]. >> it was most litigated and most scrutinized and the most audited, it was put through the

this is tucker carlson, this is in 2021, maybe this is the new tucker carlson. let's hear him in 2021. >> i like, if i'm really cornered or something, i lie, i really try not to, i try never to lie on tv. i don't like lying, i certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever. >> so then you have that tucker carlson angry, angry that his network beat us in making the correct call, why would anyone defend that call, my anchor at the news channel, says it should be, they let chris wallace and leland better wreck it too much. this is not a journalist anymore if you are saying, it was a bad call and it was destructive to do your job as the polling unit, that's who he is now. >> and he also understands the business model that you explained. the business model is to be fan service, it's to provide a safe space for the fox listener to make sure that they are given exactly what they want to hear. and he understood that it was dangerous for fox news to tell them something as awful as donald trump had lost the presidential election. so what tucker carlson is mainly i

tucker carlson was then going to distort.can party today that he felt the need to do that. because i think it's broader than -- when donald trump is out of the picture, they're still going to be a whole bunch of people left that's to want to say what -- >> i want to pick up on that issue. you raise that. and representative kinzinger nodded to this right at the end of his comments. and it's that, actually, kevin mccarthy giving tucker carlson exclusive access to that footage was a power play in the context of the republican party. because now all of his conference knows that he and tucker carlson our bodies. and the truth is, tucker carlson has just as much power -- probably more -- than the speaker of the house, the person who is third in line for the presidency, within the context of the republican party. >> but do you think of -- this go after the capitol police? is that a misfire on his part? because he is saying that they were assuring the, you know, peaceful protesters around, like they were sightseers. >> he misrepresen

the actual investigating, never made that determination on their own. >> the same, time what is tucker carlsons still questioning the outcome of the 2020 election. on his, air tonight, last night. we're not, can any of these continuous false claims on the part of, tucker have any impact on the dominion case. >> well sure, ultimately, this is set to go to trial not that long today, i don't expect a motion for summary judgment to be granted in, full they almost never are, when the plate of those recently, judgment and the very well may be a, trial talk is gonna stand, i'll tell you there's nothing the jurors are gonna like less, than someone who is totally unapologetic and i'm repentant. and so be very difficult for talking to explain, after all this time those texas, fugitives it is still peddling the same falsehoods and same lives. a big committee issue for, him but i don't, care that's their business model they have to keep doing it. >> a minute, ago jeremy was saying, successful event today's, they loosened pretty behind of republican voters are, st. idlewood i really six anymore. why isn't

this is sidney powell communicating with tucker carlson on november 17, 2020. the this is after the election. sorry, just saw this. believe i emailed you the affidavit earlier today. more evidence pouring in. tucker says you keep telling our voters millions of votes are changed by software. you've convinced them trump will win. if you don't have conclusive evidence, it's cruel and reckless thing be to keep saying, except that they kept saying it, he kept saying it. katie, let me bring you in here. the question i have is he's essentially warning sidney powell you better bring receipts because i'm putting you on my show and you're getting their hopes up and then he turns around and he keeps saying the thing. where does that leave fox in terms of defamation? >> it leads you directly down the path towards the state of mind of the speaker, of the defamation. the idea that the person when they're relaying the information that they knew that it was false because you have to prove actual malaise when you're dominion voting and you're suing fox news, it's just as importa

of tucker carlson anywhere. but tucker carlson has remained utterly silent about everything said on this network about tucker carlson's lies, as exposed in the dominion lawsuit. imagine the agony this is for the supersensitive tucker carlson, who normally cannot abide a word of criticism and has attacked people on national television who you and i have never heard of before tucker decided they had to be attacked because they said something somewhere that was somehow negative about him. that same supersensitive tucker carlson's abjectly silent tonight about what has already been proved about his lies because he lives in fear of his audience finding out about those lies. tucker carlson and the other hosts at fox live in fear of their audience is finding out that they were disgusted by donald trump. that was sean hannity's word. disgusted. their audiences must never know that. their audiences will never know that, because fox will never tell them any of that. on january 5th, the day before the attack on the capitol

we know who tucker carlson is.on and the words we're getting from the lawsuit, is willing to enrich himself and his business to peddle the most insane conspiracy theorys to a small number of people who eat that up. that is the definition of being an anti-patriot. it is contrary to the facts that you can see if you watch anything about that. so it's not surprising that he cherry picked out of thousands of hours something that supports a completely different narrative. it's enraging. it makes me want to jump through the screen as strangle the guy, it's enraging to see tucker carlson trying to retell history in some perverted way for some tiny, fringe element of our body politic. what is do you think when you hear from republicans pushing back on carlson? >> it gives me hope, because there clearly is a line, and tucker carlson, who crosses that line every single day, crossed that line. so to hear leader mcconnell, in his way, condemn it, to hear senator tillis use a barnyard epi epitaph shows we have the bipartisan ab

there was a knowing lie at fox is a really key component of what's happening next. >> jeremy, tucker carlsonump is a demonic force. laura and tucker talk about sidney powell as an idiot. i think tucker calls her an f word, b word. the hatred that they have for trump is literally exceeds some of the vitriol you hear from democratic elected officials. it is the hatred of their hostage taker. they hate him more than us who say the truth and see the truth and speak the truth. how has this impacted morale? what is it like inside fox news right now today? >> just imagine that you work there and you were a mid-level producer or something, and all of a sudden you have to hand over your private cell phone. that's where a lot of these messages came from, and that's why, you know, i think that the revelations we've seen have been so extraordinary. these weren't company phones by and large. this is rupert murdoch, lachlan mourdock's personal phone. dominion scored a major legal victory over the summer that the judge allowed them to do that. >> why didn't they settle before that? >> that's when fox fired

and they're holding on to, look, tucker carlson disparaging law enforcement, i want to make a point and most of these people will say 20, 30, 40 years old. when tucker was in his twenties and 30s. this is what he was doing, he was out there wearing a bow tie, you know, talking, writing stories, and he is disparaging these people that have taken an oath to defend the constitution, to defend the house, to defend the senate, and to defend america. how dare him, especially in light of the fact that he knows better and he could see that on the text message. >> he also changed, there was a moment where he saw the writing on the wall and he saw that he needed to revamp his career he was trying to do some stuff that he sensed in the republican party that they did not like. and he followed the crowd. i mean, that is what, that is the path that he is on and has become very profitable for him. i'm sure he has a contract, i'm sure he's doing very well, but it is extraordinary the way that he has shifted. when speaking with mccarthy, you rejected the appointment to serve on the house intelligence co

you all of tucker carlson's defense of the january six rioters here. this is a sample of what the fox news audience heard last night. >> very literal about january 6th was organized or violent, it was neither an insurrection nor deadly. >> they were peaceful, they were orderly and make, these were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers. they're not destroying the capitol, they obviously revered the capitol. they're there because they believed the election was stolen from them. >> the protesters were angry, they believed the election they had just voted and had been unfairly conducted. they were right the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy. >> the insurrection wasn't deadly, the rioters were people, by the way, let me take this -- to spread the 2020 election that that my news organization is currently being sued for promoting. that was what fox news broadcast last night. that was what the speaker of the house made possible last night. and the charade is ongoing. this was from tucker carlson's second broadcast on the same subjec

including tucker carlson. and all of the other cable hosts at fox. they were texting and saying, get him to do something. this is terrible, for his legacy, for our country. in the moment, we all felt it. and to this day, most americans still do. the fact that he thinks that he can do this, just shows how calcified that bubble has become around the two to 3 million viewers that count on getting every night. >> ben, it's a test as much as anything of carlson's narrative power, isn't it? that he's trying to effectively, senator mccaskill points out, recreate the events in peoples minds. can that be done? we know that fox is an important cog in this conservative media machine, can they successfully convince their viewers, the american public, more broadly, that what we thought happened on january 6th didn't actually happen. >> you know, i don't think so. there is the sort of who you gonna believe, me or you're lying eyes quality to the in fact people walking around with what he had taking pictures, we saw people bringing other doors in trashing the offic

tucker carlson continues to fuel the fire by pushing election lies to this day.ert murdoch himself admitted in an e-mail to the president of fox news that hosts of his network went too far in pushing trump's lies. what more can you tell us? >> that's exactly right. i have that e-mail right here. this is an e-mail from rupert h murdoch. he describes a meeting with gop lawmakers, mcconnell, graham and other anti-impeachers but still getting mud thrown at us, inferring they're not happy with him. is it unarguable that high profile fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that january 6th an important chance to have the result overturned? maybe sean and laura went too far. all very well for sean to tell you he was in despair about trump, but what did he tell his viewers? today, fox has been arguing that the review of additional documents, that that would help their case. when you see things like this, e-mails like this, it's clear this is not necessarily helpful to their case. >> he himself saying for sean to tell you he was in despair about trump, b

and so it really is as simple as, he wants to do a favor for tucker carlson to keep him happy, and keep him off his back. the politics are not that complicated here. even having said that, it's an exclusive for tucker. once tucker has his way with it, then you guys can have access to it. he has told us in the media that we would be able to go down to this room and view the tapes for ourselves once tucker gets through with them. but, yeah there's a lot of concern on capitol hill about what tucker carlson is going to do with these tapes. particularly, i hear concern about how he will use some of the footage of some of the police officers, and whether there will not be and just stirred up among the right-wing base against individual officers. >> isn't that even bananas, mark? you have the speaker of the house touting exclusive to tucker carlson -- exclusive is what dopes like me in the media, argue with. i've got an exclusive, no, i've got a scoop. the speaker of the house? he's doing tucker carlson's bidding. he's a guy who, we have seen in these dominion filings, has really incendiary te

in tucker carlson.ment for kevi mccarthy that will now be part of his speaker legacy as speaker of the house >> when you kiss isn't jus about kevin mccarthy's legac as speaker what do you make of this motio to dismiss from dominick's team? are we going to see a spate of similar moves from other january 6th defendants if hi successful or even if it is not >> [inaudible] it doesn't really matter where the information came from. the issue is whether the should have been provided this if this is truly jinx -- should have been turned over now what they do though, melissa, and in order to tel you. they look at it and try to narrow it to the senate chamber. and say that this defendant, pezzola, and others were escorted into the chamber. it doesn't matter. the capital was not open to th january general public that. days no one went to there that did not have official business was there in keeping with th law. they all were trespassing goin in there it does not matter how the were treated by capitol police after

so intensely that at times it's been amusing to watch. >> reporter: you can apparently count tucker carlson a among them. i hate him passionately he wrote in a text to a staff member and there really isn't an up side to trump carlson wrote in another message just two days before rioters stormed the u.s. capitol. on air carlson told his viewers something different, something very different. >> what happened today will be used by the people taking power to justify stripping you of the rights you were born with as an american. >> reporter: all while in other text messages calling trump in the aftermath of january 6th a demonic force, a destroyer, adding he is not going to destroy us. in 2020 right after election night carlson lamented this to his viewers. >> what happened last night could not have been worse for this country, for our children, for our grandchildren, for our future. >> reporter: but messages carlson sent to his producer showed he couldn't wait for the four years to be over. we are very, very close to being able to ignore trump most nights. i truly can't wait. days after trump t

what's tucker carlson doing lately? it not something we have echoed or aired on this program but you may have heard about it. he spent last week misleading about the insurrection leading with the man he so passionately hates. just as a jury might use this evidence to convict mr. carlson's employer is one piece of this. but this is also much larger than any particular person. democracy, we know this, you learn it in school and hear about it in these times when we are tested, democracy requires some level of common facts to operate. that's one side of the coin. the other side is also pretty simple, although scary. across history authoritarianism needs propaganda. sometimes more than even violence to maintain its grip on power that otherwise we've seen in history does not survive as well in a truthful environment. that's why the truth is so important. that's why the truth is so scary to the authoritarians wherever they pop-up. and that's where we are. as you can probably tell, the stakes are high. that's our special report

they reveal fox hosts including tucker carlson were increasingly uncomfortable with the way that trump was lying about the 2020 election. we are very, very close to being able to ignore trump most nights. i truly can't wait carlson texted an unknown person on january 4th, 2021, adding i hate him passionately. >> reporter: and back to that 40,000 hours of videotape that tucker carlson has in his possession that house speaker kevin mccarthy told us last night that he expects to release that footage to all of us in the media, lindsey, he hasn't said how or when that will happen. >> okay, ryan nobles, thank you. >>> for more on the fallout from the release of those fox news document, i want to bring in former florida republican congressman carlos curbelo, and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade. carlos, some of these details are eye opening. we mentioned tucker carlson saying he hated trump passion flatly. maria bartiromo texted, she said she told her team they couldn't call biden president-elect at all, not in scripts or banner or an air until this moves through the courts. what do you ma

to the video on fox news do you think tucker carlson handled it appropriately? >> i think he i did. i actually watched half of that and i think whenever you're pushing transparency that isen hard argument to be against. >> i think it's great what he's doing. i think the january 6th committee has deliberately tried to create the impression that most folks who came here were terrorists and that's just wrong. i think a lot of the footage disproves that. >> speaker kevin mccarthy, a man who was fearful for his own life on january 6th, is the reason turker carlson has been given license to try to convince the public that january 6th was a chaotic sightseeing explosion. presumably he remembers it wasn't just a bunch of tourists in strange hats. this is what he had to say this evening. >> do you regret giving him the tapes so he could whitewash. >> no. >> he said it was misleading and that it was offensive, the capitol policee, chief. dopi you have any concerns abou anything that aired? >> i didn't see what was aired tonight and he wanted to give exactly transparency t

i usually don't. >> condemnation from all sides as fox tries to launder the insurrection. >> tucker carlson is a propagandist, publicly pretending to be a news man. >> with the explicit help of republican house leadership. >> speaker mccarthy knows damn well what kind of customer mr. carlson is. >> as abortion bans threaten countless women in texas, one of the five women now suing the state will join me tonight. >> sounds like the pretty twisted plot to a dystopian novel, but it's not. it's exactly what happened to me while pregnant in texas. >> when all in starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, and in the wake of tucker carlson's attempt to discuss deceived his viewers about what happened on jerry six, the stuff we all saw with our own eyes in realtime, we also now have a troll of new documents related to foxes others massive and destructive deception, that would belong trumps big lie. some are not all of the newly released exhibits and dominion voting systems defamation system defense against fox, revealing all sorts of evidence showing that all kinds of fox, fo

the liberal major media outlets quickly reacted calling on tucker carlson to be well edited. will bring you more in the program just a little bit later. in the meantime, washington has asserted that china will keep up in cooperation with russia despite pressure from the west. that is one of the conclusions made by a us intelligence committee at an annual hearing addressing the issue of national threats. let's get the details without is caleb martin in new york. we have yet another hearing going on before the u. s. senate and of course the u. s. senate is being briefed on one of the favorite topics on capitol hill these days. the idea that china is some kind of massive threat to the united states and the world. now, what we heard was basically testimony assessing that despite the efforts by the united states, to whip up hostility to russia and isolate russia around the world. china will continue to cooperate and strengthen its relationship with russia when it comes to diplomacy. when it comes to defense, technology, economic cooperation, etc, the office of director of national

let's consider tucker carlson as exhibit a.sting, destructive, trying to look away, i passionately hate him. those are tucker carlson's words aimed at donald trump, then the president of the united states and his election lies. yet the fox fraud continues, even to this day. this is monday night. >> it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy. given the facts that have since emerged about that election, no honest person can deny it. >> i don't know what he knows about honesty, but how can he do that? does he not know his own words are coming out this had this lawsuit where he says it's bogus? he says trump is a disgrace. he says he hates him. then he peddles him. >> he knows this is coming out. he doesn't care. and it's not just him. he's a microexample of the macroproblem at fox. one of the big questions i have is why they weren't more interested in making this case go away last night when we got these hundreds of pages of undies closed documents, fox news personal sit ises say we know this is false

be censored. thoughts is host tucker. carlson is facing backlash for how he used previously unseen video on the january 6th, the salt on the cap of january, 6th, fax to way alongside tucker colson's. new january 6th fantasy tucker carlson. took a page from george all wells, 1984 and told his view is to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. kevin mccarthy, who is trans wayland, smithers gives all the footage to tiger tucker, shows only the tame pirates and then trump claims the riders refrain. it's like watching the magic so where the magician is wearing sheer sleeves. i urge fox news to order carls in to cease propagating, the big lie on his network and to level with their viewers about the truth. the truth behind the efforts to mislead the public. it's a threat to democracy, pull him off the air. what is that? was that outrage, of course it's fear, it's panic. so the footage clearly shows how one of the january 6th protesters, the star, known as the showman, was apparently given right of passage by police in the congressional building office. as you've been seen, leading him aroun

if you went over to tucker carlson, if you give tucker carlson everything he wants, he is never gonnat you. between marjorie taylor greene and tucker carlson they are even more powerful than donald trump. i mean, donald trump gets his talking points from tucker carlson. >> well, all right. thank you, adam. adam's got the last word. thank you, appreciate it. >> take care. >>> florida republicans are poised to hand gore ron desantis a legislative rin ahead of his presidential bid. the new proposal is on the table. we will explain them ahead. that actively cools, warmsrtd and effortlessly reresponds to both of you. ouour smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per ninight. proven quality sleep. only from m sleep number. a third kid. what if she likes playing golf? it's expensive. we're outlawing golf. wait. can i still play? since we work with emower, we don't have to worry about planning for a third kid. you can still play golf... sometimes. take control of your financial future to empower what's next. whoa. okay. easy does it. we switched to liberty mutual and saved $652. they

texas senate floor majority leader box tucker carlson for unseen footage of the generous six attack on the u.s. the capitol. he also expressed disappointment in house speaker kevin mccarthy forgiven carlson access to the security footage. mr. president. last night, millions of americans turned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television. with contempt for the facts, disregard of the risks knowing full well he was lying, lying to hisan audience fox news host tucker carlson ran a lengthy segment last night arguing the generous six capitol attack was not a violent insurrection. 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 the capitol attack, which we all saw with their own eyes was somehow not an attack at all pretty tried to argue something more than a peaceful sightseeing tour, can you imagine? i'mg nonviolent demonstration a perfectly fine appropriate incidents of people with their opinion. i come so many others who were here in the capitol millions and

fox news navigates this particularly fractious moment in american conservatism. >> what about tucker carlson in particular? because so much of that audience is very loyal to donald trump, and you have these exchanges that tucker had with his producer and other people saying how much he hates donald trump, and we'll put the quotes back on the screen. i hate him personally. i can't handle much more of this. we're very close to being able to ignore donald trump most nights. he's a demonic force, a destroyer. all of that stuff, is that going to harm tucker carlson in particular? is that why we're seeing this january 6th stuff come out at the same time? >> look, in terms of tucker carlson, i think there's a recent "new york times" piece on this a few months ago, which i think highlighted the ways in which tucker has sort of emerged as a force that has his own following beyond trump, and i think that his -- look, his willingness to simultaneously say what he says about trump off air and then being in many ways far more supportive on air, i think it highlights a problem that is clearly endemic at f

storming of the capitol took an unexpected turn in the united states, popular fox news tv presenter tucker carlson showed footage that drastically changes the picture of what happened in january 21 , when trump supporters disputed biden's victory in the presidential election. and allegedly they tried to capture the capitol. and now it turns out that all this time ordinary americans. and the whole world as a whole knows far from everything that happened there then, the journalist managed to get records from surveillance cameras. inside the buildings , such a movie clearly contradicts the official version of events, but the authorities are alternative opinion. even if supported by video evidence. immediately declared deceitful and discrediting democracy our us collective corps aleksey veselovsky figured it out. was there a storm? these footage of the congressional riots on january 6, 2021 flew around the world, they were shown by all tv channels countless times in america, based on these videos, often taken by themselves, the protesters were arrested. about a thousand people, the authorities called

what can you tell us about his particular relationship with tucker carlson? you did that to all of fox news, sean hannity, laura ingraham, but what about tucker? >> today, he was founded by reporters, for days, and days, and is addressing the report on capitol hill. obviously, we spoke to them last week and in the telephone interview is they did the decision to give it to tucker. but, the politics are simple. tucker carlson is the most powerful voice on cable news for the hard right. that is the constituency that kevin mccarthy needs to keep happy. tucker carlson has been critical of kevin mccarthy, say, whose me constituency was the lobbyists of washington. really, it is a symbol, as he wants to do a favor for tucker to keep him happy, and to keep him off his back. the politics are not that complicated here. even said, it's an exclusive for tucker, once he has his way with it, then you guys will have it. he has told us, in the media, we would be able to go down to this room and view the tapes for ourselves once tucker gets there with them. yes, there is a lot

as tucker carlson texted laura ingraham, "sidney powell is lying, it's insane."mplete nut." >> tucker carlson referred to donald trump as "a demonic force." >> the private mockery also targeted trump lawyer rudy giuliani. sean hannity wrote giuliani is "acting like an insane person," while ingraham remarked "such an idiot." >> hasan: oh, my god! do you realize what this means? these people are secretly sane. they also don't respect anyone they have on their show. these guys are texting each other all day about how bullshit fox news is. their group chat is basically msnbc. but of everything we learned out of fox news, there was one text that came out a discovery that truly freaked me out. it is when tucker carlson said fox news had to be more supportive of donald trump selection claims. >> tucker carlson wrote his producer alex pfeiffer: "do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we have lost with our audience? we're playing with fire for real. an alternative like newsmax could be devastating to us." >> hasan: do you understand what he's saying h

. >> how dare tucker carlson say he died from natural causes. yes, it was caused, but it was caused by what was going on on that day. >> reporter: many democrats say that speaker mccarthy should not have given tucker carlson the january 6th tapes, while republicans stopped short of saying he made a mistake. mccarthy has said he will release all of the footage publicly eventually. norah? >> have we heard from speaker mccarthy at all today? >> reporter: not yet. but we're expecting he may address reporters soon. >> thank you. >>> tonight, five texas women are suing the lone star state after they claim that i had were denied medically necessary abortions because their doctors feared being prosecuted over the state's ban on the procedure. the women came forward to tell their stories today on the steps of the state capitol in austin. >> and i needed an abortion to preserve my health, but couldn't get one in texas. >> reporter: anna is one of five women suing the state of texas over its abortion ban. she was denied the procedure at 19 weeks after her

. ~ kevin mccarthy handed to tucker carlson? ., ,, ,., kevin mccarthy handed to tucker carlson?ourse of months looked at this footage, worked with a capital police to ensure that what we release we release in a responsible way and accurately portray the violence that happened on january portray the violence that happened onjanuary six. portray the violence that happened on january six. what we're seeing happening right now is speaker kevin mccarthy succumbing to the trump republicans that are in the republicans that are in the republican party in the house right now. the likes of marjorie taylor greene and jim jordan are leading the way to try and whitewash what happened onjanuary the way to try and whitewash what happened on january six the way to try and whitewash what happened onjanuary six and whitewash the role that president trump played in inciting the violence that occurred on that day. what you are suggesting is there was a price to be paid for the votes he won to be speaker of the house. this is him bowing or nodding to the right of his party.— is him bowing or nodding

tucker carlson cannot whitewash that.'t see with their own eyes what occurred cannot whitewash that. the president is going to stand with the police officers, he's gonna stand for truth. and clearly, that is not what tucker carlson believes in. >> i'm gonna say that sort of sounds like the white house doesn't think fox is a news organization, we gotta leave it there. white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, i so deeply appreciate your time, thanks for coming on the show. >> thank you, thanks alex. appreciate it. >> we have much more ahead tonight, as we await a federal court ruling that could ban an abortion drug nationwide. all eyes on the pharmacies that stop those drugs, and what their next move is. and, as we just said, tucker carlson says capital rioters behaved respectfully on january 6th. could his argument help the rioters in court? stay with us. oh booking.com, ♪ i'm going to somewhere, anywhere. ♪ ♪ a beach house, a treehouse, ♪ ♪ honestly i don't care ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for you booking.c

tucker carlson cannot whitewash that. anyone who doesn't see with their own eyes what occurred cannot whitewash that. and so the president's going to stand with the police officers, he's going to stand for truth, and clearly gnat is not what tucker carlson believes in. >> i'm going to say that sort of sounds like the white house doesn't think fox is a news organization, but we've got to leave it there. white house press secretary karine jean pierre, i appreciate you coming on show. >> we have more on a federal court ruling that could ban an abortion medication nationwide. and as tucker carlson said rioters behaved respectfully on january 6th. could this argument help the rioters in court? stay with us. the rioters in court stay with us >>> a new video released this week is giving us a fresh look what happened in the capitol on january 6th. in it you can see the chaos as rioters trash the capitol hideaway office of republican senator jim rish of idaho. these are as designated just for senators. rioters rifle through the de

defamation lawsuit against fox news after a series of damning revelations, including a text in which tucker carlson wrote that he hates, hates donald trump and i'm quoting him now, passionately. and the u.s. justice department issues a scathing report of the louisville police, finding a pattern of excessive force and racist conduct within the department. we'll bring you the disturbing results of the federal investigation launched after the killing of breonna taylor. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> tonight, russian mercenaries claim they have gained new ground in bakhmut, now a flashpoint in vladamir putin's war against ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy tells me his forces are vowing, vowing to stand strong, even as they acknowledge theeadvancing city. but first, to the war zone. melissa bell has the latest on the battle for bakhmut. >> reporter: bakhmut, now a place of horror and death. before the war, bakhmut was about life. its sculpted hedges and rose gardens regularly instagramed. a picture of

furious toli speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for giving exclusive access to fox news host tucker carlson because mike lindell is worried tucker is going to cherry pick the footage to fit his own narrative, and that's absolutely a hugeiv concern. it's why several national news outlets,na including nbc news, y they've sued for access to that very footage. but getting election deniers like mike lindell, getting them mad at you and just one can of worms. tucker carlson having exclusive access to this footage is concerning because we have a pretty good idea what he might do with it and it's not great. he's already released a three part documentary series entitled patriot purge, that pushed the idea the january 6th attack was a false flag operation. if you're worried at this point who could possibly be worse to give thisly access to, well i mn probably mike lindell because he is angry at tucker carlson because lindell wants the footage for himself presumably to push whatever bonkers narrative he thinks isrs pressi. remember he once claimed he had evidence that would put $300 million in jail fo

and some of those people who are behind bars are now using tucker carlson's edited footage to say wowgoing to get off because tucker is helping us this feels like quite a bit of collusion between some members of the house of representatives, tucker carlson, and the people who engaged in the -- just your thoughts on all of that. >> well, it is just another page out of the trumpist playbook, and that is when you're caught in serious wrongdoing, then you investigate the investigators. you try to discredit what you were involved in and the investigation of that by investigating the investigators. here, they have gone to the extraordinary length of trying to persuade the country not to believe their own eyes, not to believe this footage, not to believe hundreds of police officers that were injured that day, and to make heroes out of these violent hooligans, to somehow claim they're political prisoners, to champion them. you have the former president reportedly doing a music video with some of them. i mean, it is just absurd, but if we ever needed a modern education in the power of the big

angi... and done. >>> well, fox news host tucker carlson has been using his airtime to offer a counter narrative of january 6th portraying the capitol riot as peaceful chaos, it is worth remembering that kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house, who enabled this false narrative by giving tucker carlson access to the surveillance footage in the first place it's worth remembering mr. mccarthy once had a pretty clear understanding what happened that day. >> these men and women in uniform they got overrun, one officer got killed. you don't understand what was transpiring in that moment and that time, people hanging to the ropes. when i got back into my building i found the straps they had. i don't know if they tried to kid nap somebody or whatever but they were well-planned for it. >> fast forward to today and republicans now find themselves in the very uncomfortable position of having to either get onboard with tucker carlson it was alternate reality or actually speak the truth about what happened on january 6th. yesterday senate republican leader mcconnell called carlson's depiction of janua

also, let's not forget, tucker carlson using that big platform to essentially talk up kremlin talking points in the war in ukraine. it just could not be more destructive of the country, of democracy, and it's all about the money. >> given your role in january 6th committee, i wonder if you could let us know the degree to which top fox was a topic of conversation as you are all investigating the roots of the insurrection. as you all were trying to demonstrate, show the american public, what happened that day. was fox something you talked about? was fox something you considered in that attempt to overthrow democracy? >> fox is something we talked about. we did, as you know, look at the effect of social media. and some of the whistleblower insights we got from people with different platforms. on facebook and twitter. we also talked about fox. we looked at academic analysis of how fox played an equally big role in propagating the big lie. we did make the decision, where information we received, was on the basis of expert input. that we were going to rely more on the testimony, the fact ba

this reality is what tucker carlson downplayed last night, by suggesting that the existence of less violent -looking video meant the violence was no big deal. in short, conning people. here's what some republican senators who were there say about carlson's portrayal of what they actually experienced firsthand. >> i think it's bs. i was here. i was down there. and i saw maybe a few tourists and people got got caught up on it things when, you see police barricades breached, when you see police officers assaulted? all of that, i thought was an insurrection at that time. i still think it is an insurrection today. >> i don't know how you would wants to describe it, it was an attack on the capitol. >> as for whether speaker mccarthy made a mistake in giving carlson the video, republicans by a large avoided saying so directly today. utah senator mitt romney, who called carlson's portrayal january 6th, dangerous and disgusting, did say speaker mccarthy made a mistake. carlson, by the way, said this about vetting the video. >> we do take security seriously. so, before airing any of this video, we ch

deciphering this bull [ bleep ] is like staring at an mc escher painting, which incidentally is what tucker carlsonlike he's doing. [ light laughter ] tucker's cherry-picked footage from january 6th was such transparent nonsense that even republican leadership called it out. various gop senators called it dangerous and disgusting and a lie. and one even went so far as to call tucker's report bull [ bleep ]. and i have to say even if you didn't know any of that. just watching what he aired is embarrassing enough on its own for example, tucker tried to claim the infamous footage of missouri senator josh hawley running away from the mob was misleadingly edited by democrats. but tucker's proof for that was very underwhelming >> to prove that josh hawley was a coward, the committee released video of him loping out of building on the afternoon of january 6th with a police escort the tape became a staple on social media democrats laughed with derision. but in fact, the surveillance footage we reviewed showed that famous clip was a sham edited deceptively by the january 6th committee. the clip was propagan