Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene known as for House Speaker Mike Johnson to create a brand new Jan. 6 choose committee that may maintain the unique committee accountable for “all of the lies, deceit, and lives ruined.”
In a put up on X, she stated releasing the tapes of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol will not be sufficient.
“Every member of the Jan. 6 committee, Nancy Pelosi, FBI, DOJ, DC Police, Cap Police, Jan. 6 witnesses who lied, all need to be subpoenaed,” the Georgia Republican stated. “Criminal referrals must be written and prosecutions MUST happen under a Trump DOJ. I’ve said it all along, MAGA did not do this.”
Mr. Johnson introduced Friday that the House Administration Committee will begin releasing many of the safety footage from Jan. 6. Over 40,000 hours of footage might be posted over the subsequent a number of months on the committee web site.
“This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials,” the Louisiana Republican stated.
Not the entire tapes might be made public.
About 5% of the footage might be withheld as a result of it could “involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture,” Mr. Johnson stated.
The Jan. 6 committee initially decided that the assaults have been an tried coup by then-President Donald Trump, and a few Republican lawmakers have known as for investigations into the now-defunct committee.
Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah stated the tapes present a really totally different view of what occurred on the Capitol that day.
“The J6 committee was a sham,” Mr. Nehls stated on X. “I knew it then. Everyone knows it now. Let’s investigate the investigators.”
Mr. Lee the committee’s two Republican members, former Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois of intentionally hiding the safety footage.
“Why didn’t Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger ever refer to any of these tapes? Maybe they never looked for them,” Mr. Lee stated. “Maybe they never even questioned their own narrative. Maybe they were just too busy selectively leaking the text messages of Republicans they wanted to defeat.
“Given the evidence they apparently suppressed, how much footage (and how many other records) do you think Nancy Pelosi and the J6 committee deliberately lost or destroyed?”
Mr. Kinzinger, now a commentator on CNN, mocked Mr. Lee’s feedback.
“Oh ya? What did ya find? Please elaborate with details because you sound very sure,” he stated.
More than 1,100 folks have been charged and about 800 convicted in connection to the Capitol assault, with many receiving a number of years in jail. Enrique Tarrio, chief of the right-wing Proud Boys group, obtained the heaviest sentence but — 22 years in jail.
— Alex Miller contributed to this report.
