<p>A key Republican lawmaker says Fox News host Tucker Carlson does not have unrestricted use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 U.S. Capitol surveillance footage</a>.</p>
<p>“It’s basically controlled access to be able to view tapes. Can’t record, can’t take anything with you,&#8221; Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who chairs the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said in response to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3877350-copies-of-jan-6-clips-given-to-carlson-subject-to-security-review-republicans-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a question from The Hill</a>.</p>
<p>Carlson&#8217;s team &#8220;may request any particular clips they may need, then we&#8217;ll make sure there&#8217;s nothing sensitive, nothing classified, including escape routes,&#8221; Loudermilk <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-fox-news-january-6-police-videos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CBS News</a>. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want al Qaeda to know certain things.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios first reported</a> last week that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared with Carlson 41,000 hours</a> of surveillance footage from January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. A Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the report from Axios was accurate.</p>
<p>On his show, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; Carlson said his team had been granted what they believe to be &#8220;unfettered&#8221; access to the tapes. Carlson said he planned to start sharing what his team found this week.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tucker Carlson Announces That His Show Has Been Granted Access To 44k Hours Of Footage From January 6th </p>
<p>&quot;We believe that access is unfettered. We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;We&#39;re going to spend the rest of this week taking a look at it,… <a href="https://t.co/GnPvtbENg5">pic.twitter.com/GnPvtbENg5</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1627851223092035591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/25/news-outlets-mccarthy-capitol-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A variety of media organizations</a> followed suit by asking congressional leadership to give them access to the same footage.</p>
<p>Loudermilk reportedly offered assurance that other news outlets and the public would also get access, eventually. &#8220;Hopefully sooner rather than later, but I think we&#8217;re talking about weeks to months,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The congressman also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/28/house-gop-moving-to-let-jan-6-defendants-access-capitol-security-footage-00084763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told POLITICO</a> that House Republicans intend to give January 6 defendants access to relevant documents and video &#8220;on a case-by-case basis, as requested by attorneys representing defendants.”</p>
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<p>McCarthy said last month he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-shares-best-way-to-release-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking to release the tapes</a> because of the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee, which focused heavily on former President Donald Trump in its investigation and final report.</p>
<p>In brief remarks to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times last week</a>, McCarthy boiled down his decision to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-breaks-silence-on-giving-january-6-tapes-to-tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fulfillment of a promise</a>. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.” In addition, McCarthy insisted to the newspaper that his team staff members were taking the matter &#8220;very seriously.”</p>
<p>Over the past week, Democrats issued myriad alarming statements about risks to Capitol security and the potential to fuel Russian propaganda.</p>
<p>In a letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-to-huddle-about-reported-breach-of-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said his team</a> was &#8220;working to confirm the precise nature of the video transfer,&#8221; which he called a &#8220;reported breach,&#8221; and he stated there was &#8220;no indication&#8221; that McCarthy and Carlson followed the same protocols adopted by the January 6 Committee in handling the footage.</p>
<p>A Democratic member of the January 6 Committee, Maryland’s Rep. Jamie Raskin, questioned whether the release of the tapes could <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1627765857131679759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become a “roadmap” for a 2024 “insurrection.”</a></p>
<p>Some Republicans have cheered the move, including Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-19-republicans-block-kevin-mccarthys-bid-for-house-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed McCarthy&#8217;s bid</a> for speaker earlier this year. &#8220;Thank you [McCarthy] for following through on this!” <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1627735746281934852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she tweeted</a>. &#8220;The public deserves to see everything that was hidden.&#8221;</p>
<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) insisted that any disclosure of the January 6 tapes is &#8220;obviously going to be scrutinized to make sure that you&#8217;re not exposing sensitive information.&#8221;</p>

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