Posted on 03/13/2023 9:43:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he will “slowly roll out” the security footage recorded during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach to news outlets.
“We will slowly roll out to every individual news agency, they can come see the tapes as well,” McCarthy told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“Let everyone see them to bring their own judgment,” he added. “The first thing I found is that the January 6 committee was not honest with us. That it’s not 14,000 hours of tapes, there’s 41,000 hours of tapes.”
McCarthy has provided Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6. The host then aired some of the clips on March 6.
“Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection,” Carlson said during his program. “In fact, it demolishes that claim.”
Footage shown by Carlson raised questions about “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s time in the Capitol and U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s death.
McCarthy’s decision to share the footage with Carlson has been criticized by Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
When asked if he had any regret over sharing the footage with Carlson, McCarthy stood by his decision.
“I didn’t give the tapes. I allowed him to come see them, just like an exclusive with anybody else,” McCarthy said. “My goal here is transparency.”
The top House Republican added that it was important to have “equal justice,” pointing to protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020.
“The one thing I understand in America, we should have equal justice,” he said. “What really raises the point with me is, why did I watch federal courts, why did I watch cities burn, federal agencies or something, and nobody arrested there? I think we should have equal justice across this country.
“And it’s really concerning to me, since we’ve taken the majority, the things I have learned that government has done, that withheld information from the American people. That will not happen on our watch, regardless of what information says or doesn’t say,” he added.
“I think transparency is best and allow the American public to see it all. And we need to have equal justice across this nation,” he concluded.
Last week, in an interview with Breitbart News, McCarthy said that the security footage of Jan. 6 must go through a security review before a full public release.
“We just want to make sure we go through them all, and it takes time,” he said.
Separately on Sunday, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that McCarthy had assured him that the Jan. 6 footage would be made available to all media.
“He has given me assurance, he’s going to turn it over to the entire media, I think. I believe in the fourth estate freedom of press, and I think the American people deserve to see all the footage from that day,” McCaul said.
The Texas lawmaker warned that the footage is not going to show “tourism at the Capitol.”
“It’s going to show a very dark, tragic day that I witnessed firsthand, that included our Capitol Police being assaulted, 140 of them injured, two pipe bombs,” McCaul said. “One Capitol Police officer killed, and a protester killed. That’s not—that’s not a good day.”
He added that what happened on Jan. 6 could have been prevented.
“I think it should have been prevented had we had good intelligence that day beforehand,” he said.
Also on Sunday, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that McCarthy shouldn’t have released the footage to Carlson alone.
“What I do regret probably as much as anything about the release of the 41,000 hours is it was released to one person in primetime who is, you know, rather sensational in his approach and rather than just releasing it to everybody,” Cramer said.
He added: “I think transparency absolutely is the best way to go. I think Kevin McCarthy’s right to do it. I just wish he would’ve released it to everybody at the same time.”
Cramer said he was frustrated that much attention is still being paid to what happened on Jan. 6.
“We should be talking about the southern border,” Cramer said. “We should be talking about China and the challenge it possesses, and talking about inflation and a budget that drives up deficits forever.
“Those are winning arguments for Republicans, not relitigating Jan. 6.”
“Slowly”?
This century?? Will the issue STILL be relevent and in the memory of a living American??
PLEASE STOP LYING RINO!
I like the slowly approach. It keeps the story in the news longer that the Dims are lying cheats willing to put in prison anyone who disagrees with them.
The media will simply make its own misleading excerpts of the tapes to push the insurrection agenda.
They lie just as much as Democrats, don’t they?
My brain picked up the words “slow” and “roll”.
Agree. And, when (not if) the Pravda media selectively edits video it will be a great opportunity for counter arguments with supporting video - keeping this story in the news cycle. Critiquing each lot of video vs. a quick dump into the memory hole.
Maybe this data will finally awaken some in media to ask hard questions about Epps, the prior media/DNC narrative, Pelosi’s purposeful refusal to act on security concerns, murder of Ashli Babit, treatment of J6 protesters, etc. Hopefully not just Fox but other 2nd tier smaller media sources as well.
This should also be true for ALL aspects of Government.
McCaul sounds like the usual RINO idiot. Apparently, he could not be bothered to look at the video Carlson showed.
All video, especially any presently sequestered as “security” must be released. Put on WWW and let humanity sift thru it.
Roll it out slow to keep your mind on the BANK FAILURES, and I have to protect some of my friends.......Mc Carthy
RINO’s desperately trying to maintain their victim status.
If thr goal is transparency then dump the files unedited onto Rumble, Odyssey and YouTube. Eta 1 week for upload time
Somebody needs to tell Marjorie Taylor Greene to give her boyfriend a good, swift kick in the ass to make him move faster.
What also needs to be released are the security tapes located inside the capitol for the period of time that began about 30 minutes prior to the crowd approaching the capitol doors. Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins asked FBI Director Chris Wray if there were feds dressed like MAGAs waiting inside the capitol when the real MAGAs arrived. Of course Wray said he could not speak about an investigation that was underway. That phrase seems to be his favorite hide behind when he doesn’t want to talk. Rep. Higgins immediately advised Wray that the only acceptable answer to his question was an emphatic no, and there was nothing preventing him from responding except his desire not to lie under oath.
Director Wray seems to think that we common folks have “STUPID” tattooed on our foreheads.
NO! put it all out there for ANYONE to see it. Should go first to defense lawyers for J6 prisoners. IT’s way too long that this has been purposely hidden from the public to support the J6 Committee’s narrative of the “insurection”
Enough is enough!
Hey, McCarthy, good idea ... go slow. But first do a prisoner swap of J6 Committee members for the Patriots in DC jails. When you run out of them, start shipping RINOs and ‘Crats for the exchange. Might speed up the trials.
Bear in mind the FBI has been caught destroying evidence in other cases, so really, all evidence they control today should be considered ‘tainted’ in ALL CURRENT COURT CASES.
THIS IS STUPID. RELEASE IT ALL NOW.
YOU ARE PLAYING STUPID POLITICS WITH IT????
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