carl cheney at politico today. house gop moving to let january 6th defendants access capitol security footage. jamie writes, house republicans are moving to provide defendants in january 6th related cases access to thousands of hours of internal capitol security footage. a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021 s violent attack. according to congressman barry loudermilk, the georgian republican who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over that material. it is our intention to make available any relevant documents or videos on a case by case basis as requested by attorneys representing defendants of january 6th. which is quite a statement of principles. first tucker carlson, then the january 6th defendants, and then, maybe, you guys. i mean, hey, what could go wrong here? you might remember that last summer the new york times did an incredible investigative video piece showing just how instrumental the far-right militia group, the proud boys
kyle cheney and politico today. house gop moving to let january 6th defendants access capitol security footage. cheney writes house republicans are moving to provide defendants inov january 6th related cases access to thousands of hours of inarnl capitol security footage. according to congressman barry loudermilk, the republican who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over that material, it is our intention to make availableio any relevant information. which is quite a statement of principles. first tucker carlson, then the january 6th defendants and then maybe you guys. i mean, hey, what could go wrong here? you might remember last summer the new york times did an incredible t investigative vide piece showing just how
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how much their accident cget the best result possible. we re just getting this in to cnn. kevin mccarthy is granting january 6 defendants access to the thousands of hours of capitol security footage from that day. the house speaker has already given the footage to fox news tucker carlson. cnn s manu raju is following this on capitol hill for us. i know you just caught up with the speaker. what did he tell you? reporter: yeah, he is defending his decision to give early access to this video to tucker carlson. he said it is not unusual in his view of giving an exclusive, any network getting an exclusive, comparing it to past reports at cnn and other networks and saying that it is essentially nothing different. there is something different here in that carlson has been someone who downplayed the january 6th atack, giving him
that is going to raise all kinds of questions going forward. is it going to change how fox operates? i think certainly not while this lawsuit is going on because that could become a problem in their lawsuit, but what it does after that remains to be seen. let me turn to mccarthy s decision to give fox host tucker carlson early access to capitol security footage he s releasing involving the january 6th defendants. let s listen to the speaker s explanation listen to this. are you concerned about the fact that carlson s down-play i think sunshine matters. i don t care what side of the issue you are. that s why i think putting it out to the american public it s the truth, it s exactly what transpired that day. how can mccarthy say this is about transparency when so far he s only giving access to