Republicans Threaten To Release Surveillance Footage From Day BEFORE Capitol Riot

Republicans in the House of Representatives have made an odd threat to Democrats and the January 6th Committee: We'll release footage from the day BEFORE the riot if you don't stop! These Republicans claim that the video footage from January 5th will clear Representative Barry Loudermilk of the accusations that he gave a "reconnaissance" tour of the Capitol the day before the riot, but if that's true, why not just release it and clear this whole thing up? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this bizarre threat.

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Republicans in the house of representatives have issued a threat to Democrats and the January 6th select committee. And the threat is related to revelations last week, that Republican representative Barry louder milk allegedly on January 5th was giving tours of the capital, which have been described as reconnaissance tours. And so Republicans in the house after the select committee said, Hey, representative, ladder milk. We want you to come talk to the committee about what you did. We have seen the video evidence. The committee says that undercuts your claim that these were just ordinary people. Nobody wearing mag hats committee says the footage shows the opposite. Well, now Republicans are saying, okay, committee, if you don't release the footage, then we will, because that footage absolutely exonerates our members and shows that there was nothing nefarious about those tours.

Okay. okay. So do it. I mean, for real, like if you have video evidence that clears one of your own members, why are you even issuing this threat? Why are you even saying, like, if you don't do what we want, we're gonna just release it and be like, okay, here it is. There you go. Dude's clear. Let's move on. I mean, honestly, I know nothing about louder milk by the way, other than these stories. But if he is innocent, let's prove him innocent. Let's move on. Let's not focus on somebody who didn't do anything wrong. If the guy's name is being besmirched and you can clear it. Why not just clear it, that makes absolutely zero sense, but that's what these Republicans are claiming. And that is why, of course, I don't believe them as I've always said with regards to whether it's the, you know, oh, all the claims of election fraud, whether it's the January 6th committee, we've got all this evidence that proves you're wrong, fantastic release it.

If there's actually evidence of wrongdoing or evidence that proves that wrongdoing didn't happen. Why not just release it instead of talking about it for months and months and months. And the answer is usually very simple because you don't actually have it because said evidence either doesn't exist or it doesn't claim what you claim it claims. And I think that's the situation we have here with louder milk. Now. Sure. It would cost the Republicans about $20,000, according to a report from the hill, uh, to get this footage and store it on hard drives today. It's a lot of video. It's literally thousands of hours. You got lots of videos from lots of different angles. Okay. But 20 grand, I would think some of you, especially since it's campaign season, maybe get 20 people to donate a thousand dollars from their political action committees and buy the footage, buy the servers, buy the hard drives that you need to store this stuff. So you can clear your names. I mean, 20 grand

For who bring in a million dollars a quarter in their campaign fundraising. That's not much money folks for these guys. It really is not hell. You could ask one of your donors. Could you give us 20 grand so we can go buy some external hard drives, you know, so we can clear our members. 20 grand is a small price to pay for full exoneration in this issue.