Tucker Carlson News: Fox News host calls GOP critics ‘sociopaths’ as White House says clips ‘not credible’

A video has resurfaced showing Tucker Carlson warning about the dangers of conspiracy theories — as he continues to use his platform at Fox News to push his own.

The footage, from a 2006 speech, was posted on Twitter this week as he came under fire for misrepresenting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to his viewers.

“In a democracy, it’s important that people have, that citizens have, a common frame of reference for reality,” Carlson said.

“There needs to be a place where any citizen can go and look at the facts of what happened yesterday and say, you know what, I agree that’s probably pretty much what happened.”

Cooper spoke with former DC Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fannone, who was assaulted during the riot. The pair discussed Carlson’s recent insistence that the rioters who attacked the Capitol and its police on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to keep Donald Trump in power were simply “sightseers.”

Graig Graziosi reports on Cooper’s removal of Carlson.

Former Fox host Gretchen Carlson is joining the pile-on against her old network after its star opinion host Tucker Carlson predictably used exclusive access to security footage from Jan. 6 to misrepresent the attack on Congress as a peaceful protest.

Ms. Carlson, who is no relation to her former colleague, furiously condemned the network and criticized the channel’s journalists for covering Carlson’s comments and the resulting backlash as if they were somehow unrelated to the situation.

Notably, her criticism comes just days after Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz revealed on air that Fox bosses have banned him and others from speaking about the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit the network is facing for its platform of the lies that led to the attack.

John Bowden has the story from Washington, DC.

“We agree with the manager of The Capitol Police and the broad array of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false portrayal of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law — which cost police officers their lives,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement obtained by The independent.

Gustaf Kilander reports a rare rebuke from the White House.

Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after a fall at a Washington DC hotel.

The Senate Republican leader was attending a private dinner at a hotel Wednesday night when he tripped and fell, his spokesman said.

The 81-year-old was taken to hospital where he is being treated.

No further details have been released about his condition.

The accident came days after the Kentucky lawmaker became one of the most vocal members of the GOP to condemn Tucker Carlson for his attempt to misrepresent the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 on his Fox News show.

Donald Trump avoided addressing the revelation hosted by Fox News Tucker Carlson once wrote that he “passionately” hates the former president while praising Carlson for his misleading coverage of the January 6, 2021 uprising.

“We’re very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson told an unidentified Fox News staffer just two days before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to court documents. “I really can’t wait.”

“I hate him passionately,” he added.

There was little new in what he presented on Tuesday night which Andrew Feinberg reports.

House speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he did not see Tucker Carlsons show where he aired cherry-picked video footage from the Jan. 6 riot Fox news Monday evening.

The Republican The Speaker of the House gave the footage to the right-wing cable news host who has often downplayed the events of January 6, 2021 when supporters of the former president Donald Trump raided the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Erik Garcia filed this report from Capitol Hill.

Louis Chilton reports on what The view said host.