also kept a lid on that videoooe footage. and in in some cases, dojts did not share it with criminal defendants who d beeged onn chan on january six in violation of . their constitutional rights. so we felt it wa so we felt it c anrvice to bring what we could to you. there was no justificationd for keeping the secret any longer. a poand a powerful argument to e made that sunlight is always and everywhere. the best disinfectant. it and in fact, because it waso soe video evidence, it is to some extent self-explanatory. anyone could look at the tapapee and decide what he or she thinks of it.very c so the tape we showed lastlearla night indicated very clearlys et that capitol hill police in pro some cases escorted protestersha through the capitol as if they were giving a tour. they did that with jacob.sley translate the so-called q and uncommon ad qanot one poit they even tried to open locked doors on channelize behalf. beha he was sentenced to four years in prison for his cr
johnson spent twenty two years as a capitol police officer on january six . he says he was in char in charge ofght in the securing the certification of the presidential election. he was right in the middle of it. if anyone was tart, johnson was .here is mo here s more of our siret dow interview with him. or miss johnson, thank you formh joining us and thank you for having me. here is parts oside, here what looked. we now know that hugf the partsa the federal government were aware that there was goingw ther to be something big happening at the capitol on januar to beyu they knew they were going to bee big demonstrations there and they prepare od for that. t but the capitol police on which you serve for twenty two years, did not seem prepared at all.n and of course, that would be the front lin prepare in d preparedness. was the capitol police prepare? d that day the front line p officers and supervisorsrepare a not prepared for that at all. when you say did you, you had no ide
to begin the evacuation of senators himself w. evacuation d the person that i thought was going to authorize as thes quic evacuation didn t do it.klcould. i wanted to get those members of congres s out as quickly as i could. that s why i initiated, youevaci know, those evacuations, mone being disciplined. ongres its wasn t as important as not getting the members of congresse and their staff to safety. footage we reviewed seem tsacco. to bolster johnson s count. evf the video shows johnsontors f conducting the evacuation of resenators from the chamber. yet tark johnson was not. rewarded for what he did. he was punished.a ma a photo emerged of johnson g wearing a maggert outside the capitol. ca that picture cost him his career. sometimes i look at ite with and like, thank you, god , forde blessing me with this hat. , wow!and sometimes i m like,, i wish this had never came in. my life. a biden voter, johnson says he a donned the hat in an effort to rescue fellow officers he believed were
so he reached over. and i didn t know what he was doing. i didn t know if he was going to hit me. and he putga h a megata hat on s head. tryin so sg o as i was still tryingd to walk down the steps, then he acts with the hat back and i said, well, i would like to keep it because i , you know, the hats want to help me.o yes. your passport through the crowd. yeah, exactly. so the capitol police is by serves bot definition, non partisan. it serves both parties ipanrtie the congress, protects members of both parties. 100%. 1 and it00%. has to be that way in the wake of january six . yo u saw what looked like partisanship at the capitol police. did you perceive that? i m still shocked because as a capitol police officer, we even had a we had our chief ofe wa police at the time, his name cad was, well, stephenson. and he he called for a all the officers who was at work that day. he called fo y to comed . all and we all went to we all went to emancipation hall in the the cbc. bla
footage. and there was a reason for whi that. so a small incl group of people, which include the leaders of the democratic party and their allies in the media, hadt you a complete monopoly on what you were allowedo to know about wht happened, what actually happened inon the capital on january 6th. and they defended that monopoly with great ferocity as monopolies tend to do so.po the moment wliste broks e that monopoly simply by getting access to the footage is not hard. that s what you re suppose to dk to do when you work in the news business. other media outletsth went a outl they all did. and we jusets t couldn twe resie to be self-referential, but it it s too hilarious. so we assembled a montage here it is .hing n what we saw tonight, alison,ewhb from tucker is nothing new .o hesa has been trying to sanitize the very real violence that weth all saw unfold at the u.s. capitol . forty one thousand hours ofil footage from an attempted coup. how on earth i is federal evidence. how