[SOUND] It's the anniversary of January 6, and in commemoration of that,
we have done the official network approved solemn anchor outfit,
white shirt, muted tie, message reverence.
But actually, if you take three steps back as historical events go for
being honest now, January 6 barely rates as a footnote.
Really not a lot happened that day, if you think about it.
>> Okay, so in that clip, in just a few seconds, Tucker Carlson
manages to do the two things he does best, be wrong and be awful.
Obviously, objectively, historically, it's a significant event, every bit of it, not
just on January 6, but the entire movement to overturn the results of an election.
A president refusing to concede,
refusing to go to the inauguration, sending a mob of insane people,
then breaking into the capitol, and it's obviously wrong.
But let's also talk about how awful he is, the mockery.
It's very somber, it's very reverent, people died,
even if he only wanted to talk about Ashley Babbitt.
To mock the idea that this is a somber occasion is objectively awful,
but that's of course by design, Bret.
>> Yeah, I love it.
He said Ashley Babbitt dying was nothing.
I love that point.
>> It's not particularly important, if you take a few steps back,
Ashley Babbitt dying just isn't that important, According to Tucker Carlson.
for all the nothing stories that republicans harp on and right wingers and
fascist harp on over and over again, nebulous things that aren't actually
stories, but rather the specter of a possibility of a story happening.
I'm talking about critical race theory.
I watched Fox News yesterday because there was supposed to be someone on there and
we were supposed to record it But they got bumped.
and watching people complain about nonsense on that
show nonstop on that network, nonstop.
It pales in comparison the things that they complain about as direct threats.
Like the possibility of critical race theory funding being made available
though never called critical race theory.
They talked about that for like 10 minutes and
nowhere in any of that story Did people break into the capitol building, that
thing on the same merchandise that you buy when you're buying like something for
your truck that has a giant flag and like trump's face also on Mount Rushmore.
Like they tried to burn it, They tried to destroy it.
They broke windows, they climbed walls, they chanted hang Mike Pence.
Where are you Nancy?
We wanna kill you.
That's what they did.
They tried to stop democracy from happening.
They tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power, and
we're looking at a video right now where a police officer led them the other way.
Otherwise they would have been right where the people in actually
overseeing the transfer of power and making sure that what the founders,
what America is all about could continue to happen to happen.
But no, it's nothing.
>> Third day on the job, the capital gets breached and then they blame me and
President Trump and many other Republican members of Congress for doing it.
I was so shocked and I'll tell you what was so shocking is I thought what you just
said, I thought the capitol was the most secure building in our country, at least.
>> With thousands of cameras.
>> Well, there are lots of cameras, but you can't see the video footage.
I don't know why.
>> That's interesting.
So Marjorie Greene hasn't had an issue with January 6 since it happened.
She hasn't seemed to be bothered by the violence about the attempted murder of
cops and all that, about the attempt to overthrow democracy, to kill Nancy Pelosi,
to hang Mike Pence.
And I didn't realize the whole time she doesn't think that there's footage from
it, but but there is Marjorie Greene, like she just missed it.
Maybe there's a chance to win her over to her cause.
Let's play a little representative sample of the video that is actually abundantly
available.
I know Marjorie Greene, that's pretty shocking stuff, isn't it?
Well it turns out there's actually hours and
hours of that, very similar in many cases to that.
If it's not clear from the video because of course it is admittedly chaotic,
those are cops in riot equipment trying to stop our elected representatives from
being assassinated by your political friends and allies.
And those are conservatives trying to kill them with hockey sticks and
flagpoles and stuff like that.
That's actually been available since the sixth in many cases Marjorie Greene.
So I would consider looking into it.
I mean we're already having the hearings.
I feel like you should probably be prepped for them.
>> In the video, it clearly shows an individual taking photos of
a security checkpoint in the basement.
>> Actually, what they were taking a picture of is I took the family and
of course the other folks are with them have two young kids that wanted to see
the little trains hat take congressman.
So I took them to show them where the trolley was in the raven tunnel.
>> But why do you think pictures were being taken up a stairwell around
security?
>> If you go to that stairwell, there's a golden eagle sconce that's on the wall,
that's why he's taking a picture of.
So that is Representative Barry Loudermilk responding to concerns about
the fact that he spent more than a year denying having taken anyone on any
tours of the capitol grounds in advance of the January 6 insurrection.
We found out that in fact he did, that some of those on the tours took photos
that at least seemed a little bit suspicious taking photos of stairwells and
things like that and that one of the individuals who went on the tour did not
necessarily, we don't know yet, breached the capitol but
was filmed on January 6 in DC making threatening comments which we'll get to.
Now he has a response.
He says, no they weren't taking suspicious photos of a stairwell.
They were taking photos of the little trains or
maybe it was a golden eagle statue or maybe, as is being reported Newsweek,
it was pictures of children's artwork that they were taking photos.
They weren't taking photos of the tunnels or anything like that.
So generally as a rule David, when you start giving lots of reasons for
a thing, it makes it more suspicious rather than less, what do you think?
>> Well pretty soon Loudermilk is gonna say,
no they were taking pictures of the elf on the shelf.
I mean this is absurd.
I've seen that eagle sconce, that's not something anybody would take a picture of.
I sort of get sure kids may wanna see the little train that shuttles through
the congressional office buildings.
Okay, that sort of makes sense.
But there's still no reasonable explanation for why people would be taking
pictures of the stairwells in that area, other than they wanted to know for
their own, I don't know related to January 6, what the layout was, and
where the stairwells were, and helping their friends.
That's the logical explanation, and Loudermilk,
I hope this guy has to go under oath and make these same claims because
then he'll be looking at a perjury and contempt of Congress and everything else.