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McCarthy Hands Fox News Propagandist Tucker Carlson ‘Massive Trove’ of 41,000 Hours of Capitol Footage From January 6
As the nation last week was focused on bombshell revelations allegedly exposing Fox News as “a propaganda network” that is “void of the most basic journalistic ethics,” Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was handing over to that network’s top propagandist, Tucker Carlson, 41,000 hours of footage from the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
“Now his shows — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Fox News, and ‘Tucker Carlson Today’ and ‘Tucker Carlson Originals’ on the streaming service Fox Nation — have a massive trove of raw material,” Axios’ Mike Allen notes in an exclusive report.
“Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks,” Axios adds, noting that “Carlson has repeatedly questioned official accounts of 1/6, downplaying the insurrection as ‘vandalism.'”
Indeed, on the same night last year in June as the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was presenting its evidence on national TV, Tucker Carlson declared, “it tells you a lot about the priorities of a ruling class that the rest of us are getting yet another lecture about January 6th tonight from our moral inferiors, no less. An outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards, that took place more than a year and a half ago, but they’ve never stopped talking about it.”
Carlson on his Fox News primetime show that night called the Committee’s hearing “deranged,” and bragged, “we’re not playing along. This is the only hour on an American news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. They are lying, and we are not going to help them do it. What we will do instead is to try to tell you the truth. We’ve attempted to do that since the day this happened.”
He did not stop there.
Carlson called it “vandalism” and flat-out denied it was an insurrection.
“We hated seeing vandalism at the U.S. Capitol a year and a half ago, and we said so at the time, but we did not think it was an insurrection because it was not an insurrection. It was not even close to an insurrection. Not a single person in the crowd that day was found to be carrying a firearm – some insurrection.”
Last week a legal court filing from Dominion Voting Systems alleged that Fox News’ top brass, from Rupert Murdoch on down – including Carlson – knew Donald Trump was lying about the election being stolen.
In an opinion piece at MSNBC, senior fellow for Media Matters for America Matt Gertz writes: “Out of fear that Fox News’s audience was leaving for its competitors, the brief alleges, the network chose to buttress President Donald Trump’s lie that the election had been stolen from him, helping to set the stage for the Jan. 6 insurrection.”
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, appearing to depart from official administration messaging, told Americans affected by the federal government shutdown and the loss of essential food assistance programs such as SNAP that their government is “failing” them.
“My message to America is, first, the fact that your government is failing you right now,” Secretary Rollins told reporters on Friday at a press conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
“That poverty is not red or blue. It is not a Republican or Democrat issue,” she continued.
“It doesn’t matter who you voted for, or even if you voted, that if you are in a position where you can’t feed your family, and you’re relying on that $187 a month for an average family in the SNAP program, that we have failed you,” she admitted.
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Speaker Johnson, who opposes any measures to fund food stamps or other safety-net programs without reopening the government, quickly stepped in.
“And it’s — clarifying,” Johnson said. “When she says, ‘we have failed you,’ she means ‘we, the Democrats,’ okay?”
“Because, as we’ve just explained, Republicans have voted 14 times to get this done,” he said of Senate votes to pass the House’s clean continuing resolution.
Democrats have refused to vote to reopen the government without legislation that would restore the Obamacare premium subsidies. Without those funds, some Americans are already seeing premiums for next year skyrocket.
Rollins was not the only Republican on Friday who appeared to veer from the GOP’s standard message.
U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke told Fox Business that inflation and food prices are high — contrary to remarks President Donald Trump has repeatedly made.
Brooke Rollins: “My message to America is your government is failing you right now … we have failed you.” pic.twitter.com/p65YRjcS8Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2025
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In a rare break from President Donald Trump and Republican orthodoxy, one GOP congressman is acknowledging what many Americans already feel: times are tough.
“Our economy is not great,” U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who served as Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, told Fox Business on Friday.
“There’s a lot of strain” on the economy, he added, while talking about the federal government shutdown, now in its 31st day.
“This injects another degree of uncertainty, distraction, in the economy, and it’s going to affect, and we’re gonna see WIC go away. We’re gonna see benefits of people that really need help. They won’t be able to get it.”
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Speaking about President Trump’s highly controversial plan to allow massive amounts of beef from Argentina into the U.S., Zinke admitted that inflation and prices are high. President Trump has repeatedly claimed he has brought food prices far down, and inflation to at or near “zero.” Both claims are overall false.
“I do know what the president was doing,” on Argentinian beef, Zinke said.
“He’s looking at high inflation, high cost, high beef, and no different than what he’s doing with oil prices and commodities — bringing the cost down because the consumer price inflation’s a really big deal.”
Rep. Ryan Zinke: “Our economy is not great.” pic.twitter.com/o9rhgTLig1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2025
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The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the impending shutdown of SNAP benefits and for its own decision not to use the $5–$6 billion in contingency funds that Democrats say could keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program running after Friday.
Vice President JD Vance was asked about the 42 million people who are expected to lose their SNAP benefits this weekend, and why the administration has found ways to pay troops and federal law enforcement but not low-income Americans who rely on the government to help them pay for food.
“Would there be some push, perhaps, in the next 48 hours so Americans don’t go hungry?” the reporter asked.
“Well, here’s the problem,” Vance replied, explaining that in prior shutdowns, “sometimes the president has tried to make the shutdown as painful as possible on the American people.”
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“I give the President of the United States great credit and the entire team for trying to make this as painless as possible,” he said, before blaming Democrats.
“The Democrats are acting irresponsibly,” Vance told reporters, claiming that President Trump “doesn’t want the American people to suffer because of it.”
“But look, right now,” he continued, “this government, this administration, we’re like guys running around, you know, with a leak in a dam wall, trying to plug it with bubble gum.”
He challenged Democrats to “just stop this entire charade and reopen the government so that we don’t have to try to make this thing work on a shoestring budget, which is what we’re trying to do.”
Democrats have refused to vote to reopen the government because they are trying to get Republicans to vote to reinstate the Obamacare subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Some Americans are starting to see premiums double and triple.
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“The unfortunate reality, and we’re starting to see this with our aviation industry, we’re gonna find out the hard way with SNAP benefits,” Vance said.
“The American people are already suffering, and the suffering is gonna get a lot worse,” he declared. “Not because the President of the United States has failed to make the shutdown painless. He’s tried to do everything that he can to make it as un-painless as possible.”
“The reason that pain is coming, and the reason it’s building is because we’re not passing the clean bill to reopen the government, it’s a very easy thing to do,” he claimed.
Vance went on to blame President Joe Biden for Obamacare premiums skyrocketing.
JD Vance: “The suffering is going to get a lot worse.” pic.twitter.com/uRebgVlSZq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 30, 2025
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