Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “mostly peaceful chaos,” with Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina blasting those remarks as “bulls---.” Carlson aired select clips of new Jan. 6 security footage given to him by Speaker Kevin McCarthy during his show Monday night and downplayed the violent insurrection that injured 140 police officers, calling most of the rioters “sightseers,” not “insurrectionists.” |