“It tells you a lot about the priorities of our ruling class that the rest of us are getting another lecture on Jan. 6 tonight – no less than our morals,” he said at the opening of his Fox News show, which began. at the same time as listening. “They are lying and we are not going to help them do that,” he added. Fox News, the country’s leading cable news channel, announced before the hearings that it would not broadcast them live, as any other major network planned to do, but would cover it as “as required by the news.” The network was covered by the Fox Business Network and streamed the processes over the internet. The House committee that investigated the January 6 uprising and Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 election promised a video that it had never seen before at its public hearings. Mr. Carlson, who has repeatedly downplayed the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, referred to the events of that day as a “forgettably small” outbreak of violence. He went on to refer to gas prices and inflation, saying: “This country has never been closer to its history in a nuclear war.” “The whole thing is offensive, in fact, it is misleading,” he added. Carlson’s colleague at Fox News, Sean Hannity, whose show follows that of Mr Carlson, described the committee’s hearings as “the most boring, the most boring, there is absolutely nothing new, long hours of democratic fundraising disguised as an audition” of January 6. “
