Charges DROPPED On Colbert Team’s Capitol Trespassing, Tucker BLASTS Dem’s 1/6 Hypocrisy

Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss the members of the Stephen Colbert show who were arrested in the Capitol last month, and the prosecutor’s decision to not pursue charges against them.

FILE – Stephen Colbert attends the 36th Annual PaleyFest “An Evening with Stephen Colbert” in Los Angeles on March 16, 2019. Colbert says that his staff members arrested at a congressional office building last week were guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry.’ His ‘Late Show’ monologue Monday was his first time addressing the Thursday incident. U.S. Capitol Police detained comics including the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) FILE – In this March 2, 2017 file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York. The National Security Agency’s internal watchdog said Tuesday it would investigate allegations that the agency “improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media” following Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s claims that the NSA tried to shut down his show. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) FILE – Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. David Alan Blair, a Maryland man who used a lacrosse stick attached to a Confederate battle flag to shove a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, to five months in prison, according to a Justice Department spokesman. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)FILE – Stephen Colbert attends the 36th Annual PaleyFest “An Evening with Stephen Colbert” in Los Angeles on March 16, 2019. Colbert says that his staff members arrested at a congressional office building last week were guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry.’ His ‘Late Show’ monologue Monday was his first time addressing the Thursday incident. U.S. Capitol Police detained comics including the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) FILE – In this March 2, 2017 file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York. The National Security Agency’s internal watchdog said Tuesday it would investigate allegations that the agency “improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media” following Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s claims that the NSA tried to shut down his show. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) FILE – Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. David Alan Blair, a Maryland man who used a lacrosse stick attached to a Confederate battle flag to shove a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, to five months in prison, according to a Justice Department spokesman. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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