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<p>The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., announced Monday that it will not prosecute nine staffers of <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert </em>who <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/at-least-seven-late-show-staffers-arrested-in-us-capitol-for-unlawful-entry">were arrested</a> last month and charged with illegally entering a building on Capitol grounds <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/colbert-reveals-what-really-happened-to-triumph-the-insult-comic-dog-and-late-show-staffers-at-capitol">while recording interviews</a> for the CBS show.</p>
<p>Soon after, guests on Fox News whined about what they viewed as a double standard, given that hundreds of suspects in the Jan. 6 insurrection have been prosecuted.</p>
<p>Fox host Jesse Watters began by calling the staffers “insurrectionists,”<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-tries-to-pin-insurrection-tag-on-colbert-staffers-after-capitol-trespassing"> similar to what others on his network</a> had to say upon learning of their arrests. Watters noted that the attorney who dropped the charges, Matthew Graves, was appointed by President Joe Biden and works under Attorney General Merrick Garland.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-jesse-watters-and-guests-cry-hypocrisy-after-stephen-colbert-staffers-not-prosecuted?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., announced Monday that it will not prosecute nine staffers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert who were arrested last month and charged with illegally entering a building on Capitol grounds while recording interviews for the CBS show.
Soon after, guests on Fox News whined about what they viewed as a double standard, given that hundreds of suspects in the Jan. 6 insurrection have been prosecuted.
Fox host Jesse Watters began by calling the staffers “insurrectionists,” similar to what others on his network had to say upon learning of their arrests. Watters noted that the attorney who dropped the charges, Matthew Graves, was appointed by President Joe Biden and works under Attorney General Merrick Garland.
