GOP Leaders Defend Tucker Carlson's Jan 6 Lies | Jan 6 Fox News' Tucker Carlson link | USA Live News House Majority Leader Steve Scalise defended Fox News personality Tucker Carlson Wednesday after Carlson launched an impassioned effort to explain away the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot The conservative commentator aired a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to millions of viewers on his prime-time show Monday, working to bend perceptions of the violent, grueling siege that played out for the world to see into a narrative favorable to Donald Trump. #gop #houserepublicans #carlson #tuckercarlson #jan6committee #usnewslive #globalaffairs #globalnewslive #worldnewslive