House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he will publicly release all Capitol Hill security footage from January 6, 2021, (that is, everything that is not a security concern) as a way to mollify the far right.
“When I ran for Speaker, I promised to make accessible to the American people the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill security taken on January 6, 2021,” Johnson said in a statement. “Truth and transparency are critical. Today, we will begin immediately posting video on a public website and move as quickly as possible to add to the website nearly all of the footage, more than 40,000 hours. In the meantime, a public viewing room will ensure that every citizen can view every minute of the videos uncensored.”
To begin with, the panel began by posting 90 hours of security video that had already been released to media outlets.
