Fox host Tucker Carlson is facing blowback from Republican leaders for peddling new falsehoods about the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) doubles down on his decision to give Carlson riot security footage.
A lawyer representing one of five Proud Boys members on trial for seditious conspiracy asked a federal judge to throw out the case Thursday, saying that federal prosecutors hid "plainly exculpatory" US Capitol security footage played on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show.
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