Antifa Activists at Home of Fox Host Tucker Carlson
BALDWIN: Left wing protesters are now targeting Tucker Carlson of Fox News at his house. Police were called to Carlson's Washington, D.C. home last night where members of an anti-fascist group were staging a loud protest. In videos uploaded to Twitter the group can be heard chanting Tucker Carlson. We will fight. We know where you sleep at night. Let's go to Brian Stelter who is our chief media correspondent and host of "RELIABLE SOURCES". What's the news from D.C. police? What are they now saying?</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: We've just learned in the past few minutes there's an open criminal investigation into this protest last night. And so, what it means, Brooke, we could see the police looking into this further, possibly even trying to talk with or arrest some of the protesters. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. What we know for sure is that about 20 people showed up at Carlson's home in northwest D.C. last night. He was not at home, of course, he was at work getting ready for his show on Fox News. His wife was home alone and his wife heard this disturbance outside and heard them knocking on the door and screaming things. She was concerned about a home invasion. She called the police. The police showed up and the police report shows that there was vandalism at the home. Here's the statement, the news statement from the police saying, look, these protesters, some of them broke the law by defacing private property. Quote, MPD takes the violations seriously and we will work to hold those accountable for their unlawful actions. There is currently an open criminal investigation regarding this matter. So, what starts as a left-wing protest, at one of these antifa- affiliated groups. They say they need to speak truth to power and hold Carlson accountable. Look, everybody has first amendment rights. But to show up at someone's house, to be knocking on the door, to be spray painting an anarchy symbol in the driveway, that has been denounced from the right and from the left today. Everyone from folks over at Fox to Stephen Colbert today saying that crosses a line. You shouldn't be showing up at somebody's house like that.</s>BALDWIN: What is Fox saying?</s>STELTER: Fox news has come out and agreed with that assessment. Says this was reprehensible behavior and the executives at Fox have also said, look, temperatures need to be taken down across the board right now. Recent events in the country show we need a more civil respectful conversation and be tolerant of differences. An interesting tone coming from Fox News. I think, look, Brooke, we talked about Fox a lot lately, we talked about Sean Hannity promoting Trump and all the rest. Can you have a lot of criticisms of Fox News and I do, but it crosses a line when you're showing up at somebody's home. Whether you love Tucker Carlson or hate Tucker Carlson I think we can all agree that protesters on a driveway shouting, scaring the anchor's wife is just uncalled for. I'm just glad his kids weren't home. You know, his wife was home. Obviously, it was a disturbing situation and the D.C. police we are now learning are taking it seriously.</s>BALDWIN: Agree. Absolutely overstepping and absolutely outrageous. Brian Stelter, thanks so much for that. And thank you for being with me for the last two hours here on CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in New York. Let's go to Washington. "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.