they never told jacob chansley to get out. the head of the capitol police today said he was trying to calm the situation. it was already calm. he was the only protester in the frame. they could have let him outside. they didn t. they helped him. we re not going to speculate as to why we don t know why. all we know is what we see on the tape. no one disputes. we didn t cherry pick it. we didn t make it up. once inside the senate chamber, as we told you, chansley said a prayer thanking god for the kindness of capitol police. good for him. they were kind. this was not a domestic frist. that domestic terrorist. that matters. what matters more, the video we showed you after 26 months, were not shown to jacob chansley s attorneys, a violation of the constitution. he s in jail because of it, because the liars on the januare prosecutors who did their bidding and that means benny thompson, that means adam schiff, liz cheney, these people
air! they won t anterior any question. we have a question, which is in how in a free country, guided by the institution, were these people able to withhold evidence from jacob chansley s lawyer? how could that happen? albert watkins represented chansley at his trial, he had not seen that evidence until monday, and he joins us. if you could restate clearly, just to make sure that i don t want to put words in your mouth, had you seen that clearly exculpatory tape of your client at trial? no. we went through extraordinary efforts on behalf of our client to put him in a position of knowledge. that s my duty as an agent of the court, to make sure that he knew everything that the government had, good and bad, to put him in that position, to make a learned, informed, voluntary decision about whether
and of course the media picked up on this and amplified it as the doj intended. fortune magazine disgraced itself by comparing the man you just saw to isis, saying he had the zeal to kidnap or kill officials. these aren t just lies. these lies destroyed a man. so no matter who you overhead for in the last election, you probably agree that sending someone to prison for four years on the basis of fabricated evidence is the most serious threat to civil liberties we could possibly face. yet here s the thing, leaders in both parties, the party that chansley voted against and the party he voted for have said nothing. not one word about the implications of this videotape. the implications not just for chansley, but for our constitution and our country going forward. instead, ooh, how dare you show this. what is clearly exculpatory evidence. again, it s not just chuck
have this man s life on their hands. they helped withhold the videos from jacob chansley s attorneys. that means the judge who sentenced jacob chansley never saw them either. therefore the judge was able to say that what chansley did was horrific. he apparently had no idea that chansley was wandering around with the cops, walking through doors they opened, and saying prayers for them. we re quoting, you made yourself the center of the riot, said the judge. really? he accused chansley of obstructing the function of government. that s not at all what was happening. he was ambling through the capitol, flanked at all times by armed cops directing his movement. while, prosecutors at the doj, the real villains here, falsely lied in court and said that chansley was, quote, leading the charge into the capitol on january 6th. they said he was, quote, the flag bearer for the mob. apparently because he had a flag. he was alone.
someone named qanon shaman. he was the face of january six, a dangerous conspiracy theorists dressed in outlandish costumes who led the violent insurrection to overthrow american democracy. for these crimes, he was sentenced to nearly for years i prison, far more time than many violent criminals now received. what did jacob chansley do to receive this punishment? to this day, there is dispute over how he got into the capito building. according to our review of the internal surveillance video, it is very clear what happened onc he got inside. virtually every moment of his time inside the capitol was caught on tape. the tapes show the capitol police never stopped jacob chansley. they helped him. they acted as his tour guides. here is video of jacob chansley in the senate chamber. capitol police officers taken t multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him. we counted at least nine officers who were within