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House Speaker reportedly releases thousands of hours of Jan. 6 surveillance video to Tucker Carlson
Just the News ^ | Updated: February 20, 2023 - 12:35pm | Nick Givas

Posted on 02/20/2023 2:18:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has reportedly released thousands of hours of video surveillance tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

McCarthy "has given Fox News' Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me," Mike Allen reported Monday for Axios.

"Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds," wrote Allen. "Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks."

Less than two hours after calling for "national divorce" on Monday, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene followed with a tweet hailing McCarthy's reported release of the previously withheld security video.

"For all of you that doubted we would release the tapes," Greene tweeted with a link to the Allen report. "Here you go! 

"I'm very happy to be right again in my support for Kevin McCarthy as our Speaker. 

"Americans deserve to see the truth, not a one sided narrative and unfair two tiered justice system."

McCarthy had promised to release the video in a bid to win over conservative holdouts during his fight to become speaker, according to Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; j6; january6; mccarthy; tuckercarlson
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Why just to a cable TV talking head. Kev?

Why not to EVERYONE?

1 posted on 02/20/2023 2:18:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because Cucker is a compliant tool who will do as he’s told, as long as the paychecks keep coming in.


2 posted on 02/20/2023 2:20:17 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
FOX "News" HATES Pres. Trump and LIED on election night,
with so-far no accountability.

FR protects FOX "News" so if a cartoon was posted this would
be taken down.

3 posted on 02/20/2023 2:23:08 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That is over 4.6 years of video


4 posted on 02/20/2023 2:23:55 PM PST by DocRock
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

41k hours divided by (Jan 6) 24 hours ... Equals 10k videos?


5 posted on 02/20/2023 2:28:42 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Boogieman

TC is one of the few people in a position to do some good that has openly stated that the Jan 6 protest was a complete “set-up”.

He got a prodigious staff and the large audience in which to present the evidence......He’s the perfect vehicle.

And you sir, are full of crap.


6 posted on 02/20/2023 2:28:53 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: DocRock

Well, you have a lot of people looking it over. Or crowd-source the review, you could get thousands involved. Each one hundred hours to 5 reviewers.


7 posted on 02/20/2023 2:33:05 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Leep

Hundreds of people filming
.could be couple thousand videos?


8 posted on 02/20/2023 2:33:33 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There are people moving intensely for Speaker McCarthy to grant full access more broadly, not just Tucker.

Just yesterday, a crescendo of criticism was descending on McCarthy for saying he wouldn’t fully release the J6 footage citing national security. That was likely garbled by reporters that want us to distrust McCarthy.

Now McCarthy has responded by granting full access to one media figure. I agree that’s not good enough if indeed that’s accurate. Tucker is not 100% trustworthy because he works for Fox and has said and done some things in the past that give conservatives pause. Personally, I think Tucker’s team will do a good job, but other independent media are also needed to work these massive reviews

McCarthy absolutely must grant full access to others. Mike Lindell’s team would be a confidence booster. I hope he will consider it.


9 posted on 02/20/2023 2:37:33 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess we’ll now find out how much juice Carlson has at that network.


10 posted on 02/20/2023 2:38:56 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Leep

And of that 24 hours only 3 hours of “INSURRECTION a million times worse than Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and the civil war combined.”


11 posted on 02/20/2023 2:39:04 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I want to see inside the chamber


12 posted on 02/20/2023 2:39:24 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: traderrob6

“And you sir, are full of crap.”

At least I’m not cashing a paycheck from people who helped plot the coup against the citizens of the USA, sir.


13 posted on 02/20/2023 2:40:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McCarthy is an eff’n POS. He doesn’t know that the American people are the boss. He trusts one person in the media. Eff the GOP. They are all a bunch of pussies and have zero idea how to fight. Losers, all of them.


14 posted on 02/20/2023 2:40:54 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Organic Panic

You left out The Holocaust and The Armenian Genocide.


15 posted on 02/20/2023 2:41:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why not to EVERYONE?

Who at ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and all the rest would air it? But you knew that.........

16 posted on 02/20/2023 2:41:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: ConservativeInPA

Tucker is controlled opposition.


17 posted on 02/20/2023 2:42:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: traderrob6

Should be interesting TC shows for a while


18 posted on 02/20/2023 2:42:42 PM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s a stupid move. Release them to everyone.

The stupid party never ceases to amaze me on how they can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Why not just give ammo to the other networks to say “oh he just released them to Fox News.”


19 posted on 02/20/2023 2:44:25 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If he had released to the alphabets also, they would have the talking points out there BEFORE Tucker’s crew could dig into it!! WE ALL know the drill with the major alphabets!!!


20 posted on 02/20/2023 2:45:18 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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