WATCH: Ted Cruz Backs Down When Tucker Carlson Calls Him Out On Description of J6 As “Terrorist Attack”

Texas Senator Ted Cruz backed down and appeared to deliver apologetic political spin when speaking on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday,walking back remarks in a Senate committee in which he referred to the events of January 6th, 2021 as a terrorist attack.

Critics of Cruz’s earlier remarks had called him out for exaggerating the nature of the January 6th riot in a bid to gain approval from the media political establishment. One woman, Ashli Babbitt, was shot by a Capitol Police officer in highly questionable circumstances; several other Trump supporters died of medical complications following the event.

Cruz apologized for framing the events as “sloppy.” He went on to make a distinction between the thousands of protestors who arrived at the January 6th event, and the portion of violent rioters who attacked Capitol Police officers and destroyed public property at the building.

Carlson and Cruz engaged in a lengthy debate over Cruz’s semantics, with Cruz citing his record fighting against Democrat attempts to slander conservative patriots as domestic terrorists and place anyone who appeared at the J6 event on a terrorist watch list.

.@RepMattGaetz & @RepMTG Respond To Senator @tedcruz Calling January 6th A "Terrorist Attack"

Rep. @mattgaetz: "The Establishment will never love you Ted." pic.twitter.com/ZVvE7HVfen

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) January 6, 2022