Far-left U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) defended the January 6 Committee’s decision to withhold security camera footage from the protests, arguing that it represented a “security risk” despite the fact that citizens are allowed to book tours of the Capitol Building.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked Raskin for his reaction to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to release the footage, as well as the reasoning behind the committee’s decision to withhold the tapes.
“Speaker Johnson is clearly on the run from the Maga, the extreme Maga caucus. Uhm, Chip Roy and the strongest pro-Trump elements,” Raskin said. The January 6 committee member went on to claim that Johnson was already facing a motion to vacate due to last week’s continuing budget resolution and decided to release the tapes in order to “placate” the “extreme Maga Republicans.”
“Obviously, Tucker Carlson did his best to torture out of tens of thousands of hours of footage, some kind of concocted story, which of course went nowhere. We went through all of that,” Raskin said, referencing a previous batch of footage that was released by the then-Fox News host. Carlson’s footage…
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