Republican senators take a stand against sanitized coverage of January 6th. Several of them are calling

out Fox News for downplaying the violence of that dark day. We'll have those comments in just a moment.

Plus, the latest on the kidnapping in Mexico that ended with two Americans dead and two others in the hospital.

And also, we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a Russian pipeline last year.

That new reporting is straight ahead.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Wednesday, March 8th.

I'm Jonathan Lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us.

And we'll begin this morning with a growing number of Republican senators blasting Fox News and primetime host Tucker Carlson for showing select footage from the January 6th insurrection on his primetime show.

That footage provided by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The Fox News host tried to portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists

sightseers, and that lawmakers who suggested otherwise had lied to the American public,

even alleging some Capitol police officers helped some of the insurrectionists.

In a letter obtained by NBC News, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger called the allegations

that the officers helped any of the insurrectionists false and ripped Fox News for spreading,

quote, offensive and misleading conclusions.

He writes in part this, the program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video.

The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.

He continued this way. The most disturbing accusation from last night

was that our late friend and colleague Brian Sicknick's death had nothing to do with his heroic

actions on January 6th. The department maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had

Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day

he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day.

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