<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly gave 41,000 hours of exclusive U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from the January 6 riot to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who could begin airing the highly anticipated release on his programs in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>According to an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage">Axios</a> report, sources claim that TV producers for Carlson began sifting through the footage last week on Capitol Hill.</p>
<p>&#8220;[T]here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret,&#8221; Carlson told Axios. &#8220;If there was ever a question that&#8217;s in the public&#8217;s interest to know, it&#8217;s what actually happened on January 6.&#8221;</p>
<p>On January 6, 2021, a crowd entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers meeting to certify President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 election victory. Previous reports said that cameras in and around the Capitol captured more than 14,000 hours of footage between noon and 8 p.m. that day, according to the Capitol Police. However, Axios reported nearly 30,000 more hours of footage exist.</p>
<p>&#8220;By definition, this video will reveal it,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.&#8221;</p>
<p>A FOX News spokesperson confirmed the Axios report to The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>Though congressional committees controlled by Democrats, law enforcement, and others were given access to the archive, Capitol Police had warned that attorneys for January 6 defendants should not be given the footage without &#8220;safeguards in place to prevent its copy and dissemination,&#8221; which alarmed government officials to raise national security concerns.</p>
<p>After a year and a half of investigations and hearings featuring some security video clips, the January 6 Committee released its final report last month, recommended charges against former President Donald Trump, and began releasing dozens of witness materials. McCarthy was one of several House Republicans the January 6 Committee recommended for ethics sanctions after defying its subpoenas.</p>
<p>McCarthy said last month he would push for the disclosure of unreleased U.S. Capitol security footage from that infamous day.</p>
<p>The House speaker told reporters the American public &#8220;should see&#8221; what happened while taking a shot at the January 6 Committee&#8217;s final report that he said was &#8220;written for a political basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking through that,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;I want to be very thoughtful about it. But yes, I&#8217;m engaged to do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>House Republicans Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) independently published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6th-was-pelosis-fault-house-republicans-investigative-report-unveils-counter-narrative-of-u-s-capitol-riot">141-page investigative report</a> last month outlining what they describe as House Democratic leadership and Capitol authorities&#8217; failures that left the complex vulnerable.</p>
<p>Banks, the leader of the effort, said the report &#8220;exposes the partisanship, incompetence, and indifference that led to the disaster on January 6 and it the leading role Speaker Pelosi and her office played in the security failure at the Capitol.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carlson has long pushed for the release of the footage, arguing that Washington, D.C., has &#8220;a regime of secrecy and deceit&#8221; and the Capitol riot itself was an &#8220;outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.</em></p>

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