Carlson responded to the complaint that his controversial series 'Patriot Purge' was a whitewash or "revisionist history" which he disclosed on the Fourth Watch Podcast hosted by Steve Krakauer.
"I hated what happened on January 6," Carlson said. He then added that "one of my kids was actually in the building when it happened. I was on the phone in real time."
Carlson seems to have been citing his son Buckley Carlson, a staffer for Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican.
Tucker Carlson's 'Patriot Purge' series brought intense review, including from some within Fox News, for its portrayal of the attack as a peaceful protest and the reaction as an overblown and politically motivated crackdown.
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But in his comments on the podcast published Thursday, Carlson said that he disapproved of the "disorder" and "litter" created by the riot but felt the damage done had been exaggerated.
"I just don't like when people break windows or litter. I'm about order and my house is clean, I really believe in that," he said.
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"So if people covering January 6th had been willing to just roughly tell the truth…but not use it as a partisan instrument to suspend civil liberties, I kinda would've just let it lie," he continued.
"So they lie about what actually happened, they repeat the lie with maximum aggression, and over time, that lie solidifies into the common understanding of what happened."
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'Patriot Purge' is a three-part documentary published on the Fox Nation streaming platform in October.
In the series, Carlson claims that the events of January 6 are being practiced as a pretext for persecution of Conservative Americans, likening it to how false claims were used to seduce the public into backing the Iraq War.
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The series on the riot prompted tensions at Fox, and two writers who were paid contributors quit in a rage over the show.
Writers Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes called the documentary a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, which is "riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery and damning omissions."
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Carlson, in the podcast interview, claimed that the mob attack was not an insurrection, which is defined as a "violent uprising against an authority or government."
"Almost a year in, there's not one data point of evidence that it was a planned insurrection, which is to say, an effort to overthrow the U.S. government," Carlson said in the new interview.
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"That's not true, and we would know, and then there's no evidence of racial animus. Once you realize that everybody, including people on my channel, are participating in this lie and calling it an insurrection. Anyone who calls January 6th an insurrection is a liar because there's no evidence."
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