>> Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez recently sort of came clean with her fans
about the experience of being there in the Capitol when the violence was happening coming so close
to this mob of people who, probably to a man or a woman would have loved to have seen her die.
And for a lot of people, that sparked quite a bit of empathy for the congresswoman,
but not for everybody, not for Tucker Carlson. Here's what he had to say.
>> As if you need more evidence that it's all about what's good for Sandy Cortez and her friends
and not about what's good for you, because nobody cares about that.
What's your new position, her revised position on defunding the police. This is from the other day.
>> Many of us nearly and narrowly escaped death. There were
members of Capitol Police who were quite heroic. We have many officers and there was it.
There were also black and brown officers that were confronting white supremacists
and putting themselves not just to protect members, but they put themselves in harm's way.
>> Narrowly escaped death. When the most harrowing thing you've done in life
is passed freshman sociology at Boston University, every day is a brand new drama.
Sandy's heart is still beating fast, but she likes the cops now despite the
fact they're white supremacists. What a difference a day makes.
>> Okay, so I made clear what I thought about this and the damage board this morning. I'll
have more to say, but I wanted to let both of you get in. That is a multimillionaire
cable host with a massive audience who did a whole segment about how
she shouldn't have felt afraid and it's laughable that she did.
>> This is somebody who when protester showed up to his house and knocked on his door
delved into hysterics in response, Tucker Carlson
and lied to his audience saying that they broke his door. And when reporters just fact
checked and checked police reports, no, there is no instance of property damage.
There was no offense as described by Tucker. It was pure sensationalism,
pure hysterics from like what you said a pampered multi-millionaire. It's unconscionable to act like
they are unjustified in being upset or traumatized by what happened. They were in a building
with spotty information, learning of horrific new developments like panic buttons being removed.
Having their fellow members tweet out locations of significant members of
Congress are important members of Congress. And what I can imagine they were they were thinking
is these people wanna kill us. As you've said before the program, John, these are people who
people like Tucker and other Fox hosts have inspired their audience to want to kill.
There have been instances of attempted violence by Fox viewers,
because of people they just saw repeatedly on Fox. If you remember the MAGA bomber
who was mailing bombs to prominent Democrats, he was going off of Fox targets including
Robert De Niro. There was no real connection to democratic power and in Robert De Niro.
It was just that he had insulted Trump and Fox made a spectacle of it.
Argued in court that, that guy's day revolved
around Fox programming and consuming Fox programming. So Tucker knows how they fed into
this and they know is the actual consequences, and he's downplaying, and it's very cruel.
>> Yeah, Ken, thoughts? >> Yeah, we cover national security.
And so I talk to a lot of folks in the law enforcement intelligence to me, I can tell you
that's what they thought as well. And they thought that there was mortal, danger to
officials in Congress. And so I would say, are you saying that they're crazy to overstate this?
I mean, I'm not psychic, I can't kind of project what would have happened if they got there,
but that's the point of view of officials and experts and that's why they moved them to secure
location. So I don't know it's just ridiculous but I also want to point out I think it's funny that
Tucker is, what was the barb he said, she studied sociology in Boston University.
This was the guy who wore a bow tie until like a few years ago. Have we
all forgotten that? That was what he was. Like you said, he's like this intellectual
millionaire guy that he spends every one of these episodes of his show
decrying. It's ridiculous how much he's tried to distance himself from that.
>> I love that like if they need to, they'll say, look at her, she was just a bartender. She just
did jobs like that. Now, I need her to just to be a student. Tucker Carlson is insanely wealthy. Did
you know he doesn't have creases in his palms, because he's never had to pick up anything.
The him mocking anyone for their life experiences is just it'd be comical if it wasn't
so disgusting, but that's it. That wasn't Alex Jones. This is the big guy at Fox News who did a
segment about how a congresswoman, we should mock her, because she's afraid that she nearly died.
But you attempt to bamboozle his audience about what happened there. He also said
it was not an act of racism. It was not an insurrection. It wasn't an armed invasion
by a brigade of dangerous white supremacist. It wasn't, those are lies. And he, by the way,
he's obviously a little bit concerned about calls going around about how
much culpability people have for spreading election misinformation.
Fox spread hundreds and hundreds, and hundreds of times come up with any conspiracy theory you want.
They'll have a Dominion machine here. They'll have a shadowy figure talking through a voice modulator
over there and Tucker Carlson was engaged int that too. He was a little bit distracted by all the
vaccine related misinformation he was spreading, but he did spread some around the election.
He said no reasonable person thinks, but it was a fair election. But anyway, in case you're just
coming into this, the representatives of the US say that Capitol rioters meant to capture
and assassinate officials. We found out earlier today from the Washington Post that about one
minute after Mike Pence was hustled out of the chamber, a group charged up the stairs to a second
floor landing in the senate chasing a Capitol Police Officer drew them away from the Senate.
They're within a minute of getting Mike Pence. So this wasn't just a thing where they were going
for the democrats, they were gladly going for Mike Pence to and it was very close.
The whole thing is just so disgusting and it's even more disgusting,
and know that not only will there be no consequences.
Just as there were no consequences after a year of Tucker Carlson telling people
to not worry about the pandemic as hundreds of thousands of people died,
but his role at Fox News has actually been expanded. They now cover his content in the
morning shows. He's being put in charge of more of their news side,
making ever more money as he is spreading just hatred and conspiracy theories and filth.
And maintaining all the while this facade that he's a different sort of Republican,
that he's a populist that we should consider working with him honestly.
The whole thing is just disgusting. >> It's disingenuous. I mean,
Tucker's, he's shrewd. He's not moron completely. He's racist and he's bigoted, but he can see
where the winds are blowing and he picks up on the populist trends and tries to speak to it.
So I think that hoodwinks some more, I don't know, gullible lefty thinkers,
especially when it comes to like antitrust, but he's by no means sincere. His populism
ultimately puts people of color women, marginalized groups, immigrants, etc.,
on the front lines. Those the first people to go and Tucker's populist utopia.
And I also want to point like that, that line you put up on the screen in the graphic,
every aspect of that was false. It was every single thing is provably false. They were
armed like as you said they wanted to kill they wanted to kill people. It was it was an
insurrection and there were white supremacist and white nationalists embedded in the group.
You saw a guy with a camp Auschwitz hoodie in the crowd. They were there were fringe
white nationalist elements in this crowd to act like this was just some purely
consumer concern citizen activist burgade who just got a little too rambunctious
is purely insincere, but it is Tucker's MO.
That's how he operates. >> Yeah. They beat a cop to death.
He's a complete fraud and utter fraud. Sorry, Ken, last thoughts on this.
>> I'm just gonna add, beat a cop with and the blue Lives Matter flag in view
of the camera. I mean, I can't think of anything that embodies more
just bundle of contradictions at work in this kind of a movement than that harrowing image.