Fox News Claim January 6 Peaceful

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Old PBS interview March 7, 2023, about Fox News claim that January 6 was not an insurrection.

January 6, 2021.

Transcript

Fox personality Tucker Carlson this week is releasing security video from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, using footage exclusively provided to him by House Speaker Kevin MaCarthy, to falsely portray the riot as a peaceful gathering. James Sasso, who served as senior investigative counsel for the Jan 6 committee, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss ……………………

James Sasso: It’s just objectively not true.

We watched thousands of hours of violence that happened on January 6 between rioter and police officers, rioters and rioters sometimes. The rioters too, if you look at DOJ filings that we covered and some of the defendants we interviewed, things that they said were pretty explicit about what they were doing there.

They were there at President Trump’s beck and call to try and keep him in power at all - by all means necessary. Some of them mentioned going to Civil War or Revolutionary War depending on which one they wanted to choose. Many of them like Ryan Nichols mentioned dragging. I will just say, members of Congress, although he used more colorful language, through the streets. He mentioned the same about Vice President Pence.

Nicholas Dempsey stood in front of gallows and said members of Congress should all hang. They - a lot of people there were explicitly there to commit violence. And even though a vast majority of the people who were part of the violence that day did not engage in, let’s say hand-to-hand violence or did not destroy the Capitol, or did not do any act of violence, the truth is that those that committed those horrible acts would not have succeeded if it weren’t for the numbers of people who were there to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

And that is an insurrection. The footage that Tucker Carlson showed was very selectively chosen.

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