The vast majority of the more than 14,000 hours of footage from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 remains obscured from public scrutiny.
That changed in the voting for speaker of the House as conservatives led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz negotiated for the release of the tapes as a concession Rep. Kevin McCarthy would have to make to obtain the necessary number of votes to become speaker.
As the new Congress convened and McCarthy took the gavel, he said he intends to release all of the J6 tapes as the “public should see what happened” that day rather than rely on the report from the House Select Committee.
McCarthy’s announcement sent the Left into panic mode.
