Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger called Tucker Carlson a 'manipulative son of a b***h' and talked about how he hunkered down in his office with his gun during the January 6 Capitol attack, in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Kinzinger, who will retire from the House at the end of his term, went after Carlson over the Fox News Channel host's rant about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg taking parental leave, during a supply chain crisis, after he and his husband Chasten adopted newborn premature twins. 'And Tucker Carlson took nothing but a cheap shot at him because it was a temporary hit of Pixy Stix or a shot of heroin, it makes people feel great, they stay on. The rage works. And he created rage,' the Illinois Republican observed. 'Talking about Pete Buttigieg learning how to breastfeed - like, c'mon man.' Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger sat down for an interview with S.E. Cupp for Rolling Stone, telling her he thought Tucker Carlson was a 'manipulative son of a b***h' for his attack on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Carlson mocked Buttigieg, who is gay, for taking paternity leave to be at home with his husband Chasten and adopted newborn premature twins Penelope and Joseph Kinzinger suggested Carlson knew better. 'I think Tucker's really smart,' the Illinois Republican said. 'You're a manipulative son of a b***h who abuses your viewers for your own personal profit,' he then added. Kinzinger got onto Carlson because Rolling Stone interviewer, pundit S.E. Cupp, asked him if he supported paid family leave - which progressive House Democrats are trying to include in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill, after the White House chopped it out when the president debuted a framework for the package late last month. Kinzinger, who recently voted for Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, said he supported it. 'I'm supportive of it. I never understood the importance of paternity leave until I saw a lot of my friends start having kids. The devil's in the details. How do we get to an actual agreement?' he said. 'Or is this just going to be a political weapon?' 'We need to rethink how we do things in this country, in terms of encouraging families, encouraging togetherness. People feel so disconnected,' he noted. He also vouched for Buttigieg saying, 'I highly doubt that the secretary was totally disconnected from work.' Chasten Buttigieg and Pete Buttigieg hold their newborn twins Penelope Rose and Joseph August 'Although he probably could have been and should have been,' Kinzinger added. 'But he has deputies, I'm sure he was in touch.' Kinzinger has also stood out on Capitol Hill as only one of two Republicans to serve on the January 6th select committee, which is probing the insurrection. Talking about his experience with Cupp, the congressman said he 'knew' there was going to be violence that day. 'I didn't necessarily know they were going to sack the Capitol, but I knew there was going to be violence,' Kinzinger said. He recalled that he even told that to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on January 4. 'And he was very dismissive of it, of course,' Kinzinger said. The congressman had his staff stay home and he watched former President Donald Trump's speech. 'And it was crazy, like usual,' said Kinzinger, a prominent Trump critic. 'I remember seeing [Donald Trump] Jr. say, "This is now Trump's arty." and I'm like, well that's creepy. And then Trump says, "I'm going to go with you to the Capitol." I'm like, "Man, this is bad,"' he recalled. The congressman said he went down for the opening of the certification of Biden's win and then left. 'And then spent basically the next six hours in my office, hunkered down, with my gun out, prepared to defend against my own party,' he told Cupp. He told her that he was genuinely scared during the riot. 'Yeah. I'd say maybe it's around 2:30 p.m., and there was a moment where I was like, "Man, there's a real sense of evil." I can't explain it any further than that. And I'm not one of these guys that feels evil a lot. But I just felt a real darkness, like a thick, bad feeling,' Kinzinger said. By then, pro-Trump rioters had breached the Capitol Building, meaning they also had access to the Congressional offices. 'And I had been targeted on Twitter that day and prior, like "Hangman's noose. We're coming for you,"' Kinzinger recalled. 'And people know where my office is. So I barricaded myself in here, thinking, "If this is as bad as it seems, they may end up at my office, breaking this crap down, and I may have to do what I can."' Kinzinger told Cupp he 'thought about it' when asked if he believed he might have to use his gun that day. 'If you're already at a point where you're beating down police officers, and you're willing to sack the U.S. Capitol, which hadn't been done in hundreds of years, if you come face-to-face with Chief RINO in his office, who doesn't believe that Donald Trump won reelection, yeah, they're going to try to fight and kill me, and I'm not going to let that happen,' Kinzinger said. Pete Buttigieg defends his paternity leave as 'time to do joyful work' and says the best way to fix supply chain issues is to 'end the pandemic' at briefing celebrating the $1.2T infrastructure plan becoming 'law of the land' Transportation Pete Buttigieg defended his own paternity leave Monday as he pitched the new $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill headed to President Biden's desk and said the White House would 'continue to fight' for family leave legislation. His defense of family leave came even as a group of Democratic moderates pledged to back a White House framework agreement 'in its current form other than technical changes' – meaning without family leave provisions that are a priority for progressive lawmakers. 'The president put forward a framework that he's confident can pass the House and the Senate,' Buttigieg told reporters at the White House Monday. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks to the news media during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 8, 2021. He defended his own paternity leave, and said the White House would fight to extend it 'I think it's also no secret how I feel about family leave and how the president does, which is why ... he campaigned on it and we will continue to fight for it. Then he defended providing time for leave for the birth of a child or to care for a family member – after he took time after he and husband Chasten adopted twins. 'It's talked about as time off. It's time to work. Good work. Joyful work. Meaningful work,' he said. Then, Buttigieg said, speaking as a new parent, about all that would come from a negotiated framework in other areas – he mentioned pre-K, affordable child care, and the extended child tax credit. Buttigieg also cheered House passage of legislation he said would now become 'law of the land.' He said he was 'thankful to everyone who's played a role.' But the White House did not say Biden would not sign legislation that is such a priority immediately. Biden himself said Monday that there was plenty of work to be done to secure enactment of his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better agreement. 'It’s going to be a tough fight. It ain’t over yet, as they say, as the old expression goes,' Biden told reporters. 'It’s going to be a tough fight,' President Joe Biden said of the push to pass his Build Back Better plan All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility