Posted on 03/10/2023 7:09:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In the name of transparency, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has vowed to release the Jan. 6, 2021, security footage to the general public.
During an interview with Breitbart, McCarthy explained the more than 40,000 hours of tape will need to be reviewed first to address any security concerns.
The pledge comes after the California Republican gave the footage to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who has been covering portions of the previously unseen video this week.
“We just want to make sure we go through them all, and it takes time,” McCarthy said. “The first thing that Tucker said too, he didn’t want to show any exits to cause any problems. We asked the Capitol Police, ‘Were there any concerns?’ They came back with one, and we mitigated that, but it was interesting, that one that they had a problem with, Eric Swalwell had had up on the internet for the last two years showing that part.”
He went on to defend releasing the footage to Carlson, despite criticism from those on the left and right.
“Well this is all about transparency,” McCarthy said, explaining his decision to release the tapes. “I think it’s better for transparency that anyone can make their own decision up, and as we walk through these, these are many more hours of tapes than the January 6 committee told us. It’s not 14,000. It’s 42,000 hours. We want to make sure for security purposes our certain exits aren’t shown and others. But you know the most interesting thing, when I had the team talk to the Capitol Police about making sure they had no problems with the exit and so on, they said January 6 never asked them that. They showed the exit of the vice president. They showed the exit from my office. They literally had then Speaker Pelosi’s daughter showing the secure location that they take the leadership. That’s not supposed to be known to anybody, and CNN reported it, and I don’t remember the press ever getting upset with that. So what we want to do is make sure we have this out that everybody can see it.”
Carlson blasted the D.C. uniparty after Democrat and Republican criticism about his coverage of the tapes.
"They're on the same side! The Senate majority leader joins the Senate minority leader. [Sens.] Thom Tillis, Mitt Romney, they're all on the same side, so it's actually not about left and right, it’s not about Republican and Democrat," he said. "Here you have people with shared interests, the open borders people, the people like Mitch McConnell who are living in splendor on Chinese money, the people who underneath it all have everything in common are all aligned against everyone else…"
Good, Murdoch can’t shut THAT down like he did with Tucker.
Wow he really is surprising me that he’s actually doing what he said he’d do.
“ Wow he really is surprising me that he’s actually doing what he said he’d do”
But I’m pretty confident that he won’t.
Release the Kraken !
“Democracy dies in darkness,” isn’t that what you incessantly parrot, lefties?
I’m not a “fan” of McCarthy but I have been impressed with him so far....
McCarthy has a lot of penance to do, but this is a good start.
Two weeks
Very good. They should have done that to begin with.
I want to see the original tapes - the 5 minutes of tapes MSNBC has been showing for two years - the ones before liberal ‘producers’ sped them up and doctored them for effect.
Excellent. How about a nice Blu-Ray gift set with trading cards of all of the Commie J6 Commission culprits and corrupt politicians. I’ll order one right now.
Has to be reviewed first before releasing to the public but not Tucker. Will never be released.
...when I had the team talk to the Capitol Police about making sure they had no problems with the exit and so on, they said January 6 never asked them that. They showed the exit of the vice president. They showed the exit from my office. They literally had then Speaker Pelosi’s daughter showing the secure location that they take the leadership. That’s not supposed to be known to anybody, and CNN reported it, and I don’t remember the press ever getting upset with that.This needs to be sung loudly and frequently.
Though I’m Catholic, I agree that it was wrong, before the Reformation, that the church did not allow scripture to be printed in local languages on the basis that the people needed the church to teach and explain. These tapes strike me as the same: the establishment won’t be able to state the same reason, but the reason is the same: we need the approved narrative fed to us, and anything that would allow the people to study the evidence and draw their own conclusions is not acceptable. They’re good at lying, and it will be interesting to see what cover they come up with to hide their real motivation
Git er dun. ASAP
I'm sure many comments on this thread will be people admitting they may have judged him prematurely. /s
IF he does this, this will go far in redeeming his reputation for RINO.
It’s about damn time!
It’s PAST time already!
We The People have the right to see EVERYTHING!
Ashli Babbitt videos are the ones that
Need to be Closely analyzed.
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Shamans “GO HOME” video is Epic,
Perhaps a Retrial ? He certainly is
No Ray Epps !
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Of course this may be all Kabuki for
Crashing the Economy now.
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