were. in breaching the capitol on january 6th. it showed that not only were the proud boys clearly organized into using predetermined strategies to break through their access points to let the crowds into the capital. but the times also showed that hundreds of proud boys had been at the capitol early on the morning of january 6th to do recon and to get a lay of the land. so, can you imagine what a group like that might do with footage like this? security footage, from every camera, in the capital. politico reports, a lawyer for one of the proud boys, who is charged with seditious conspiracy for his role in the attack, has asked prosecutors to determine whether they would, also, be able to access this footage. joining us now is kyle cheney, legal affairs reporter for politico, who was the byline on today s piece reporting that house republicans would be looking at giving january six defendants access to capitol hill security footage from january 6th. kyle,
it, it s a whole different ball game to go through it, and find the relevant material. that is why you are seeing a certain push for having kevin mccarthy release at all, wholesale, to the public. you can crowd source it, have thousands of people, those at home detectives, going through a, trying to find something. that opens up, as you point out, a different can of worms. that is, the security risk and main present. what does the justice department think of this? they are involved in all of these january 6th cases. they, then, presumably, would come through the same footage that is given to the defendants, right? right. they have been relatively silent. they are not brushing this off as a non issue. when it did come up in the proud boys manner, the justice department attorney said, in that case, we are taking this seriously. they have obligations under the law to provide defendants with anything relevant to their cases. they think they have done that, but when there is another 30,
could help put them within reach. from your first big move to retiring poolside and the other goals along the way wealth plan can help get you there. j.p. morgan wealth management. several sources are telling cnn that house speaker kevin mccarthy is handing over access to all capitol hill security footage from the january 6th attack to, of all people, fox news host tucker carlson, one of the most prominent promoters of conspiracy theories about the january 6th insurrection. cnn s alina treen is on capitol hill with more of her reporting. to be clear the concern is he is handing over these sensitive tapes, security footage, to a friendly outlet, but not just