According to Axios, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News (Paul Ryan) and Tucker Carlson access to the 41,000 hours of CCTV footage.
Presumably Speaker McCarthy figures this approach will support his previous promise to release and “make public” the full unedited House footage. I’m not sure I would qualify this as fulfilling the pledge. Why is an intermediary needed? Why not just release the footage and let people review it raw and unfiltered?
Via Axios – House Speaker Kevin 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.
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- 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. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.
Why it matters: Carlson has repeatedly questioned official accounts of 1/6, downplaying the insurrection as “vandalism.”
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- Now his shows — “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, and “Tucker Carlson Today” and “Tucker Carlson Originals” on the streaming service Fox Nation — have a massive trove of raw material.
Carlson told me: “[T]here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret.”
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- “If there was ever a question that’s in the public’s interest to know, it’s what actually happened on January 6. By definition, this video will reveal it. It’s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.” (link)
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There could be an entirely appropriate reason for doing it this way, but that has not yet been explained.
This:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/undercover-dc-police-officer-pushed-protesters-toward-capitol-climbed-over-barricade
Once you’ve seen the video of the Antifa idiots changing into Trump gear you know the whole thing was a scam orchestrated by the deep state.
The House should subpoena DHS/DOJ for data on who in their ranks or from outside groups ran the “event”. Must have been a command center somewhere nearby to co-ordinate the players/actors.
Treason/Sedition/Election Interference/RICO House referrals should go to DOJ or it’s just more pantomime.
I would suspect that Carlson has a larger, immediate audience than any audience that would see the videos if McCarthy had just released them. With the Carson filter, it becomes somewhat of a deterrent for CNN/MSNBC to put their initial spin on them. The videos will release through the internet, from the. Carlson review. The only issue would be if Carlson’s team holds back certain videos….and I wouldn’t suspect they’d do that.
Better to have Carlson with the tapes. Millions of people will have access to view the results. Opposed to CNN having them where only dozens of people will see. And half of them won’t believe what they see and still deny it. The other half won’t understand what they’re seeing.
Me thinks Ms. Rion and Mr. Sharp at OANN would have been a better choice.
from 14,000 to 41,000, which number is correct?
44,000 according to Tucker
They don’t want the gifted autists out there noticing things.
No. That footage BELONGS to We The People. Put it out for everyone to watch
Coming soon : The Ray Epps Show .
Ray Epps it appears is just one of many Feds on J6.
i’d like to see him put together a team of journalists to go through it all, much like what Dr. Naomi Wolf did for the Pfizer docs. Then post all on an open site for anyone to access.
Word is, James O’Keefe is looking for a new position.
I’m anxious to see the video from the left side of the Capital….That’s the area I was in….There was ALOT going on that day! I never was at the front center of the Capital – That’s where all the video has been released…Police and protesters became much more aggressive in that area….while people were climbing the walls at the front of the building and the police were trying to stop them…at the very same time police at the side of the building Police were basically standing down – Allowing everyone to walk up a ramp to the same balcony area that people were climbing walls out front ….It was the most surreal day of my life. Based on everything I witnessed that day – The ONLY thing that makes any sense – The breach of our Capital building was Simply “ALLOWED” to happen!
This gives fodder to those who believe that Carlson is Controlled Oppo.
boo
He’s the only one who has been consistant in saying this was NOT an insurrection! It was people being denied their Constitutional right to protest. He has also said that some people were doing bad things but there’s always a few with that many people. Now having the tapes he might see that those who did do “bad things” might have been or were actually Government people egging on others to do things. And some who did where actually responding to the brutal beating of patriotic Americans and people who were being tear gassed for no reason, just to get a response from them.
Why no discussion of the purported emails intra-Fox between Carlson and Ingraham that are highly critical of PDJT, Jan 6 and those questioning election results?
I don’t get why you don’t remember. Fox called Arizona for Biden before all the votes were counted. I don’t think Biden was even ahead in that race.
My point? The Big Boss at Fox didn’t want Trump to win. So, what do you do if you want to keep your job? You row the company boat in the direction your boss wants.
Would anyone without significant resources look thru 41,000 hours of video?
Makes sense to me they have the resources to sift thru and find the clips that matter.
Better for a hundred thousand to sift through portions.
Paul Ryan will censor said footage.
to all the DebbieDowners: do you really see Tucker saying next week, “well, Schiff was right!” ??????
we have seen enough already (Ray Epps, gun in hand of Byrd, beating of the woman) to know it is BAD BAD. The whitewash is over.
Paul Ryan, FOX makes me question.
We’re pretty smart people, give US the raw data.
Better than no access. I’ll leave it at that.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worse.
Tucker not only has a huge amount of viewers, his show content is always trending on twitter. If McCarthy released footage to local media outlets it probably wouldn’t be reported.
There must be ‘national security’ concerns. This article lists ‘government operatives’:
FACT 15: January 6th was a highly coordinated and planned intelligence operation run by the US government against the people of the United States.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/15-facts-on-the-dozens-of-federal-operatives-who-infiltrated-the-trump-crowds-on-january-6th-at-the-us-capitol/
Anyone with a thinking, analytical mind could figure what was going on Jan. 6th, without footage.
The footage can be taken to court as evidence. The contents of “thinking, analytical minds” are irrelevant as proof under our justice system.
The footage will NEVER be “taken to court as evidence.” You really believe ANY court in D.C. will let that happen? The best that can possibly happen this today’s political climate is that the Jan. 6th political prisoners might be viewed in a completely different way. Maybe some form of justice can be finally afforded to them.
I’m glad he has a team going through it. If it were only 14,000 hours it would take one person more than a year and a half to watch it all, and that’s watching 24 hours a day.
14000 hours for a 4 hour event amounts to 3500 cameras recording, and that’s in and around one building?
Right. Now tell me, proggies, that you have not created a surveillance state in our capital.
The contents of the programs Tucker is able to air from this trove of video, will reveal clearly the priorities and allegiances of Fox’s current owners and major shareholders – excuse me, “stakeholders”.