Tucker Carlson of Fox News is receiving heavy criticism from within the GOP for airing footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege to sanitize the horror of the attack. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave the network access to over 40,000 hours of security footage for their retelling – one that included glaring inaccuracies, distortions, misrepresentations, and omissions all to support Carlson's narrative that what happened was merely a bunch of “sightseers” and not a violent insurrection.

In the footage Carlson aired, he showed a clip of the "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley walking through the Capitol without pushback from police, arguing that officers did not intervene. Several sources on Capitol Hill disagreed, testifying that after the initial wave of rioters stormed the building, officers felt outnumbered and fear escalating the situation, leading to few attempts to oust the mob, which enabled Ch