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There are several interesting elements to both the media story of Carlson v. Fox News and the inherent newsworthiness of the entire piece. We suggest you listen to all of it but we will give you a brief summary: According to Steven Sund, the former Chief of the Capitol Police, there was a stunning refusal to share intelligence with him before the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. There was a stunning refusal to provide him help when he asked for it. There was a similarly stunning refusal to help protect the White House in May of 2020 or to prosecute those rioters.
Mind you, this is all according to Sund. Others may tell a different story, and the documentary and similar evidence might tell a story that either backs him up or contradicts him. But if he is to be believed, then the best-case scenario is that many people in the federal government knew that there was likely to be violence on January 6, 2021, and seemingly decided to make the situation worse.
The other element to the story is the media element. This is probably the most in-your-face episode aired by Carlson yet toward Fox News, after the first one. He is saying that there was a previously recorded interview with this man, probably substantially similar to the one he just aired. But he couldn’t get the recording, so he had to basically redo it and, we guess, act surprised.
Why didn’t Fox News air the interview? It seems almost certainly newsworthy, if it is substantially similar to this one. Yes, it would have been awkward to show an interview with Carlson after he was taken off the air, but its extremely newsworthy, whether his story holds up or is debunked.