Tucker Carlson's 4/24/23 monologue that was never aired is finally released by his publisher, Chadwick Moore.
"Carlson planned to tease the first part of a one-hour interview with former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund. In that interview, which Fox owns and refused to air, Sund revealed federal law enforcement and Democratic members of Congress were aware of impending violence during the January 6 election integrity protests but vetoed assistance to cops on the ground," Moore wrote.
"More chilling, and perhaps darkly ironic, Carlson planned to discuss members of the government lobbying to have his show taken off the air," he wrote.
"We have very real issues with what is permissible on air," Ocasio-Cortez said on former White House press secretary
Jen Psaki's MSNBC show on April 23, 2023.
"And we saw that with Jan. 6, and we saw that in the lead up to Jan. 6. And how we navigate questions not just a freedom of speech but also accountability for incitement of violence this is the line that we have to really explore through law as well," she said.
"I believe that when it comes to broadcast television, like Fox News, these are subject to federal law, federal regulation in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't," the congresswoman said.
"When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence very clearly incitement of violence. And that is the line that we have to be willing to contend with," Ocasio-Cortez said.
"Members of Congress aren't allowed to talk like this," he said. "The constitution of the United States prohibits it. American citizens have an inalienable right to critique and criticize their political leaders. Our politicians are not gods. They're instruments of the public's will. They serve the rest of us, not the other way around.
"For that obvious reason, politicians can never censor our speech or try to control what we think. That unchanging fact is the basis of our founding documents, of our political system and of our personal freedoms.
"As a former government official who claims now to be a journalist, Jen Psaki should know this, and defend America's foundational principle. She refuses. Instead, Psaki nods along like a fan as Sandy Cortez calls for law enforcement to shut down news programming."
"January 6th was a violent insurrection they tell us and on the basis of that claim, they've turned the war on terror against America's own citizens," he said. "We believe that is a false characterization, as we've said many times. January 6th was not an insurrection, which is why no one has been charged for that crime. No guns were brought into the Capitol. No plans to overthrow the government have ever been found.
"It was not an insurrection. But there was violence. A Capitol police officer called Michael Byrd executed Ashli Babbit, an unarmed protester, and was praised for doing it by politicians in both parties."
Carlson later sat down with Sund in August for his show on the X social media platform.
