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Tucker Carlson’s Clips: Do We Now Know What Really Happened in DC on January 6?

Do we now know what really happened during the “insurrection”? Will we ever? How can conservatives reasonably evaluate competing claims about the events, and the video, of January 6?

Tucker Carlson's Clips: Do We Now Know What Really Happened in DC on January 6?

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released, in an exclusive to FoxNews pundit Tucker Carlson, thousands of hours of security camera footage from in and around the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It shows a much calmer scene than previously released clips, with protestors appearing to walk about taking pictures like tourists, undisturbed by police.

The so-called QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley, appears to be escorted around the building and assisted into the Senate Chamber by officers, where he prayed, thanking God for their assistance.

The Capitol Police chief has since said that Carlson’s selective editing and claims about the video are “outrageous and false”, and that outnumbered officers were attempting deescalation techniques to get protestors, including Chansley, to peacefully leave the building. Chansely, in a signed confession, has said police repeatedly asked him to leave.

Do we now know what really happened during the “insurrection”? Will we ever? How can conservatives reasonably evaluate competing claims about the events, and the video, of January 6.

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48 replies on “Tucker Carlson’s Clips: Do We Now Know What Really Happened in DC on January 6?”

I will say it, the Democrats, especially Schumer, don’t want you to see it, because it was a joke calling it an Insurrection, and they want you to believe them without question. Schumer, calling it a security risk is laughable, like a real terrorist don’t already have this information years ago and thinking you don’t have a brain, but why wouldn’t he think that, we have not made them think different. In my mind, I could never fathom the country going so left, that I think Schumer is playing the game right, because I think the American people are stupid, or choose to remain ignorant.

I guess this was Scott’s filibuster moment to say how little he likes Tucker Carlson. Guess he didn’t want to give Zoe a chance to talk… Yes, he did actually show the footage from people breaking windows. His point was he was not going to repeat it too much because we have seen it endlessly. And he was going to show the stuff you did NOT see. Fair enough.
And yes, you can draw conclusions from the videos. People were mostly peaceful. And a few acted up. I guess Scot didn’t really listen to Tucker when he stated clearly that bad stuff did happen, and people who did it deserve to be punished. But hiding these videos as exculpatory evidence was also wrong. I think a few people are going to see their sentences overturned, and perhaps have large lawsuits against DC.

Yeah, it was a trap, but the Conservative crowd didn’t act as expected. The Leftists expected them to act violently as Leftists do, and in fact planted some Antifa and Fed thugs in the crowd as insurance, but the only real violence was perpetrated by Michael Byrd when he murdered Ashley Babbitt. As usual, the Left needed to foist a series of lies to support their narrative.

Sorry, her name is spelled Ashli. Thanks for correctly remembering what happened to our unarmed woman patriot and American Air Force veteran. May we never forget!!

Steve, I have one thing to say to the notion that the law is knowable in advance: “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in the bill.” We could team up and spend the rest of our lives reading legislation and never find the definition of insurrection that the demon rats are using.

Scott, I don’t believe that Tucker Carlson is trying to ignore the wrong-doing of the Capial rioters. He understands that we have had a constant diet of Nancy Pelosi’s edited film clips and he is trying to present the other side of the arguement.
He takes the time to explain some of the more biased edits the Democrats displayed. Such as the clip of Tom Cotton running away under capital police orders when Democrats cut that clip they made it appear as if he was alone and running out of fear when the entire clip is aired he was one of the last Senators to leave–but the damage was done.
Carlson also proved that officer Sicknick was not struck in the head because he showed video of him wearing a helmet and walking around after the supposed attack had happened.
The only benefit I see from releasing the video to one outlet is that we are able to focus on issues insead of a barrage of competing media trying to one-up each other

Why does Jacob Chansley, or any one deserve weeks in solitary confinement while awaiting a court appearance for a trespassing charge…for which he gets 4 years?
But SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PRIOR to your court appearance is not defensible!!

Scott, I don’t know what you were watching, but footage showing the violence was the first thing shown on the segment. The takeaway I got from it was the lying narrative regarding the Shaman guy. He was led through the Capitol by 2 cops, who walked him past at least 7 more cops and no one was doing anything to haul him away. Nothing. So much for his 42-month sentence for ‘insurrection’. Secondly, all footage was run by the Capitol Police to ensure he wasn’t showing anything that would compromise security in any way. If you go back and watch, there were places where doors were blurred out. Considering there were well over 2 million people protesting outside, the ones that got inside were a tiny fraction of that number. Now if all 2 million were involved, then you’d have an insurrection.

Then there’s the whole Ray Epps thing and the lie they told about the one cop killed supposedly beaten with a fire extinguisher.

The only thing that has everyone’s panties in a knot is that their lies and half-truths are being exposed by the footage that we own, but deserve to see. It is, after all, called The People’s House. I really think you need to watch it again.

The concept of “proportional response” will end America. If you think the Demonrats will refrain from screwing DECENT people when they take power again, you’re a FOOL. Demonrats must be fully punished to deter them. Otherwise, we merely entrench the ratchet effect. Demonrats take us down, then Republicans hold the line, then Demonrats plunge us down further, then Republicans hold the line, etc., etc. (This has been the pattern for 4-5 decades.) Evil must be fully punished. Demonrats continue to perpetrate their despicable conduct because they know that the cowardly Republicans are stupid enough that they’ll never inflict any consequences upon the Left.

Scott – you’re ranting again. Even though you said it yourself — Carlson rolled out the first “package” of counterargument to the sham that the J6 committee perpetrated on the American citizen. Why would Carlson portray – again – the violence and thuggery that did happen (Carlson doesn’t deny that happened, btw) when he simply wants to portray what happened in spades? How much thuggery do we need to see to believe that some of that did occur? Didn’t we see enough with the J6 committee? Is Carlson supposed to roll out 2 minutes of thuggery for every 2 minutes of the QAnon Shaman being given the grand tour?
You also said that McCarthy plans on giving the videos to other parties, not just to Carlson. Maybe, just maybe, Scott, McCarthy can’t trust the media at large and gave “first dibs” to the guy with the widest audience on cable news just to counter the garbage that J6 committee foisted on America.
Give it a rest, Scott. You’re starting to sound like McConnell. Here’s a news flash for you – Carlson isn’t the bad guy. He’s the lone voice in the wilderness — at the moment.

You’re being naive, Scott.
What would be the point of Tucker Carlson playing all the bad stuff? We’ve seen that. For two years. That’s not news. What the Democrats have been hiding from us is!
Few are saying that the bad stuff didn’t happen. What we want to know is WHY it happened – and if there is a possibility that the event was manufactured by our own government, just like the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping was.

Carlson only has airtime for viewable minutes to select and present, from 44,000 hours in order to counter over two years’ worth of the obviously false narrative and biasedly selected clips put forward by the J6 Committee, which had given itself exclusivity of release for over two years. Further, more it is becoming obvious that FBI assets were in fact at play and inciting incidents to create entrapment scenarios. Finally, it must be realized that virtually none of us regular folks have anywhere near the resources available to go through 44,000 hours and get anything meaningful from it, while apparently T. Carlson does have that capability. That it will be more widely released later is fine with me, the current limited focused release prevents the confusion of multiple outlets with different slants cascading over each other and eliminating their usefulness. I believe Carlson was a sound choice to reliably show that the J6 Committee was very definitely only selecting images that supported the narrative they were pushing, and specifically never showing anything that counter that narrative, which was likely actually the vast majority of the video material available. Before any truth can be gleaned from any of this, the obviously false narrative that has been gaslighted upon us for over two years now, must first be crushed!!!

My recurring thought during this segment was that 44000 hours is a fraction over 5 years of footage played in real time and sequentially. I know for a fact that I have neither the time nor the energy to peruse even a fraction of that — let alone analyze it sufficiently to draw valid conclusions about every detail of the events. As has been said by others, Carlson is a messenger that is willing to summarize the footage for the rest of us who have better things to occupy our time than watch three-year-old surveillance footage.
Perhaps I misunderstood the points being made in this segment and the boys (particularly Scott Ott) were not criticizing Carlson for his selective presentation of video clips. Then again, perhaps not ….

From friends who were there, though nowhere near the capitol building, the first they heard that anything was happening was when they got text messages asking if they were okay. The crowd was so large apparently (the friends estimated the size at 2 million,) that had there been an intention to cause harm, there would have been little that security could have done to stop it. The vast majority of the crowd were in fact, peaceful, per Trump’s request.

Assertions to the contrary are political hyperbole that needed refuted. Tucker’s airing of the video were simply showing that claims of an “insurrection” were intentional exaggeration for political effect. Read that as “premeditated disinformation”. (And why “one party” rule – uniparty rule? – needs avoided as much as possible.)

Personally, I believe the portrayal of the protest as being an “insurrection” is sufficient prejudice / dishonesty to argue all J6 committee members be removed from their seats in Congress and denied all accrued benefits. And the same should apply to BOTH Schummer & McConnel. Highly unlikely, but IMHO, such characters have ZERO business in either chamber of Congress.

If nothing else, this footage demonstrates serious, sanction-worthy Brady violations for all the J6 defendants, most notably (right now) for “the Shaman,” who is currently serving a three and a half year sentence (on top of the nearly two years of unconstitutional pre-trial confinement) for his acts shown in this footage.

Under the Brady rule, the prosecution MUST turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense in a meaningful way.

The prosecutors, and possibly the judges themselves, must be sanctioned and the convictions thrown out. This is so anti-American.

Scott: as someone else mentioned, Carlson did show some of the riotous acts–he showed people breaking windows and jumping through that into the capital, as well as people kicking doors open so others can join. He also showed the crowds outside pushing the fences/barricades towards the cops and the capital to break through those barriers. Carlson did not show these clips on an endless loop like other stations did.
But yes, Carlson focused on the more non-violent actions that the J6 Committee did not bother to show.to show his viewers a more balanced look at what happened,

As Rush used to say, “this is Equal Time!”

How anyone can accuse Tucker of “selective editing” after the endless loop of “violent” footage we’ve been subjected to for over two years beats me.

I think the Tucker video segments show how biased and untruthful the Jan 6th committee has been. To wit:
The only person killed that day was Ashley Babbitt.
The Shaman was not leading anyone and was escorted, and he got 4yrs for that?
And how much was the FED involved in incited destruction and mayhem, Ray Epps is key and was never charged with anything.

Roseanne Boyland was beaten to death by cops on the steps of the Capitol that day, and then slandered by allegations that she was a drug addict who died of a drug overdose. (She had been clean for years.) Footage of her beating and death has already been released.

Thanks, I didn’t know that and thought Babbitt was the sole fatality. I’ll look up Roseanne Boyland, do you happen to have a link to the video you mention?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/unbelievably-heartbreaking-j6-video-exclusive-crystal-clear-video-rosanne-boyland-died-steps-us-capitol-police-allegedly-killed-capitol-wont-politicians/ The clip showing her being beaten by a cop with a stick is I think the second one from the top (there are several videos included). It is brief but you can see Boyland lying motionless on the steps and the stick coming down on her. The videos are disturbing. They show bystanders trying to revive her with CPR and trying to carry her to comparative safety. An earlier report with slightly different linked video is here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/new-video-rosanne-boyland-killed-cops-police-prevent-rescue-push-protesters-steps-beat-rosanne-sticks-protesters-attempt-cpr/ BTW several of the people who tried to save her are still in the DC gulag. Use your favorite search engine to search TGP:boyland site:thegatewaypundit.com

The Leftists know what evil they are planning and they needed a psy-op to tell the American people what would happen to patriots if they try to take down the Lefts’ plans. That’s how I see it. Has Tucker Carlson challenged their J6 psychological operation? Yes he has.

I don’t think Tucker tried to show it as a peaceful protest either, he showed some of the violence, but showing the horned leader as walking around slowly with police escort shows what a sham the left is.

They really had it out for him BECAUSE before Ashli was murdered, he prayed for the CAPITOL POLICE AND THANKED THEM!! I had never heard that before, had you?

Scott, no one is saying because there were people walking around taking selfies that it nullifies rioters. That’s a strawman dude. The tapes put things in perspective and that it was not an “insurrection” and also shows the police guilty of entrapment. These tapes were hidden exactly because they show this. No one is saying that it nullifies lawbreakers dude.

“No one is saying that it nullifies lawbreakers dude.”

I read this comment before I watched the video so I paid very close attention to what Scott Ott had to say. I didn’t hear him say that anything nullifies lawbreaking so he didn’t say that either.

In context Scott was saying that there are two (or more) sides to every story and we need all the information, not just the information one or the other side wants to show us, to come to correct conclusions with minimum confirmation bias.

I’ve been involved in prosecutions where entrapment is a very real concern and it’s not a cut-and-dried thing. The entrapment defense is not an easy one to win a case with. There are gray areas where the jury has to decide if entrapment occurred or not.

Notice in your provided legal quote the words “coerce” and “overbearing tactics”. Those are not easy to apply unless they’re way past obvious.

The way ‘entrapment’ is usually presented to juries is “Did the law enforcement agent entice someone to do something illegal that they would not have done anyway?”

For instance, an undercover officer asking a drug dealer to sell him drugs is not entrapment. The dealer held drugs that were for sale, that he sold them to an agent or operative is not entrapment. The dealer was going to sell those drugs and break those laws anyway.

(There was a stupid idea going around back in the ’70’s that if you asked someone if he was a cop before selling him drugs and he was but lied that he wasn’t it was entrapment. It’s not.)

A trickier example is that of Randy Weaver and the short barreled shotgun incident. Would Randy have sawn off a shotgun barrel anyway? Maybe, maybe not. The crux that made it entrapment was that the gun was supplied by an operative and the request to commit an illegal act was made by that operative. If that operative had simply seen Weaver saw off the barrel of his own shotgun, or seen Weaver in possession of such a weapon, entrapment wouldn’t even have been an issue.

It was that operative supplying the weapon and making the request to alter it illegally that put “coercion” and “overbearing tactics” into play as an entrapment defence. That Weaver was not in possession of other weapons similarly altered was the proof he wouldn’t have broken that law of his own volition because he de facto had not.

People heading towards a movable barrier with the clear intent to breach it are not being entrapped if the barrier is removed when they come to it. “Clear intent” can be open to interpretation but if they had breached another barrier of any sort on the way to the one in question — That provides all the intent needed to negate an entrapment defense. It is not required for policemen to be injured or trampled to death to support prosecution for law breaking.

Did someone order all the barriers removed and order the police and security people to welcome and encourage unlawful entry and trespass? That would be clear entrapment.

Were some of the police and security people sympathetic with the crowd and let them trespass while discouraging them to break anything? That’s one of those gray areas. In that case a reasonable court (and prosecutor) would not charge those people with trespass but would absolutely prosecute anyone who did damage to anything.

I don’t think the law is being equally and fairly applied in the situation of 06 January but that’s irrelevant to the argument for ‘insurrection’ and a matter for the courts to hash out. No one has been charged with insurrection and that clearly and unequivocally means there were no insurrectionists. We all know damn well that if the Justice Dept. thought they could make a charge of insurrection stick they sure as hell would try to. Which makes using insurrection as an excuse to be unfair and harsh wholly fictitious.

The people creating that fiction should be held accountable for doing so. Those people are more of a threat to our Democracy than the fictitious insurrectionists by several orders of magnitude.

The idea that this was an insurrection intent on overthrowing the Government of the United States of America is purely absurd. If that applied then the cleaning crews that ‘occupy’ the buildings where Government operates have the potential to seize government power every night. These so-called insurrectionists were no more a threat to our government than those cleaning crews are nightly.

That said, those people created a crisis that our political enemies have applied their ‘never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste’ principle to and have hurt our cause very in giving them that. I have no sympathy for those people beyond what I would apply to any other citizen of the U.S.

The people who did that incursion broke laws. Would they have broken them anyway? — Is a matter for a jury to decide. That’s the way the system is designed to work. If that displeases you take it up with the Founding Fathers.

If justice was really done in this case, not only would some of the prisoners be released, many members of the Capitol Police would be arrested, charged and convicted of obvious entrapment. Pulling the barriers out of the protestors way, opening doors for them, guided tours down the hall, even opening interior doors for them, in addition to the obvious coverup…. certainly seems like entrapment to me.

Entrapment isn’t a crime as far as I’ve ever been able to determine. It’s definitely not a Federal crime.

It is an affirmative legal defense. Where it’s applicable. They’re not the same thing.

Legal operatives try to avoid entrapment because it is a fully vacating complete defense against the charges that stem from it. Sometimes some unscrupulous operatives will sink to entrapment anyway in the hopes that the entrapment defense will be overcome in court. Which, btw, is not all that hard to do.

Because even if inducement leading to entrapment is shown, a finding of predisposition completely blows the entrapment defense out of the water. Predisposition to commit a crime is a matter of argument and is determined by what the trial and appeals courts consider to be material.

I’m not taking the side of the evil people who have tried to use January 6th to their political advantage. I’m merely correcting some obvious misperceptions. I’m not trying to be snarky with you, but you don’t seem to have any idea what you’re talking about in this specific regard.

I understand your anger and I sympathize completely. But anger is not proof in court and no law enforcement people (or politicians, or anyone else) are going to be arrested and tried for entrapment under any circumstances.

The people who tried to turn J6 into an insurrection exaggerated, lied and made false accusations. They accused people of ‘insurrection’ though no charges of insurrection have been filed against even a single person.

Like accusations of insurrection, accusations of criminal entrapment are equally empty hyperbole.

The remedy is not to exaggerate, lie and make false accusations in return. Because eventually the truth will come out, we don’t want to use those tactics just to see them fail miserably and get used against us, again. We want the truth, including the truth that entrapment is NOT a criminal act, to work for us. That’s the only way I can see to win this thing.

I want to win, not have a bunch of irrelevant misinformation being bandied about by people who are rightfully and righteously angry but materially in error. Error is error no matter which side commits it.

This is twice in a row you’ve brought up entrapment without even knowing it’s not a criminal act and not something that can be prosecuted. I humbly suggest you do a little more research before breaking out the torches and pitchforks.

As a matter of fact, it’s probably best to forego the torches and pitchforks altogether. That’s the democracy of the mob. When you see that kind of thing, it’s pretty much always bad.

That’s why the Founding Fathers set up the system we have and went to great lengths to avoid “mob democracy”. If that’s a problem for you then take it up with the Founders.

This is the way. The American Way.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements

Scott, I get what you’re trying to do, but we’re beyond “both sides” and “find a place in the middle” stage in America. The 1/6 Reichstag Fire started from a place of complete dishonesty, and TuCa is just shining a light on it. From the beginning we should have seen all of this footage. From the beginning someone should have told us who gave the order to take down the barriers and open the doors for the supposedly most dangerous rioters in history. Regarding The Shaman, if the footage of him peacefully touring the Capitol is not giving the whole story, why didn’t the 1/6 Show Trial show us footage of all of the violece he committed? Why did they lie about Brian Sicknick? WHy isn’t Ray Epps rotting in jail? Given how the BLAMtifa rioters like to show up and harass Normals at actual peaceful gatherings, where were they that day? Or were they undercover too?
As Rush used to counter the arguments from Leftoids about the need for equal time on his show, “Wrong. I AM the equal time”

I was watching the January 6th house vote live and I saw when the protesters were coming into the Capital. The camera was showing these protesters going into the Capital like tourists, even walking within the ropes. They were taking selfies with the police. What kind of insurrection is that? We have seen hours and hours of tape showing the government’s narrative and being told that this was an insurrection. Why do we need Tucker to show us more? We have to recognize the enemies in our government. It’s not about Democrat or Republican, it’s between good and evil! Trump voters have legitimate concerns about fraud in the election process, and those concerns demand to be answered. Yet all we get is talk about “the Big Lie” and am called “election deniers” or insurrectionists. Is this how over 74mm citizens should be treated? You cannot try to be “fair-minded” when dealing with evil. And that evil will crush everything America stands for if we do not fight it!

I too was watching the proceedings and saw what you saw. I even commented that the protesters were entering the Capital like tourists and staying within the ropes! This country has a big open wound that will only grow bigger because a large portion of the country believes there was voting fraud and instead of answering our legitimate concerns we are mocked about believing the “big lie”. The only big lie I recognize is that we have free and fair elections. Until voting irregularities are addressed, there will be no peace nor healing!

Near the end of this video, Scott says that we need to act like a jury here. 

Ok. Let’s do that. 

In a trial, the prosecution gives it’s opening statements and then the defense gives theirs. In this case, the prosecution has spent three years giving their opening statements. 

Now, after the defense has given five minutes of their perspective, Scott is saying “Wait a minute. That’s too much!”

The reason should be obvious why Tucker had to spend his five minutes on a particular point of view.

Acceptable terms. I find most of the Capitol Police guilty entrapment and one guilty of murder.

I hate speaking for you or anyone else but I sometimes feel the need to amplify on what I get from what you say. I’d greatly appreciate it if you tell me when I get you wrong.

I can take it. Really.

I also greatly appreciate you providing the best and most reasonable argument you can come up with for any topic even when it’s going to cause a knee-jerk reaction from ‘the faithful’.

The fact that you have the courage of character to do that makes you an admirable man whether I agree with what you are (really) saying or not.

I’m not alone here in these things. As you were, carry on.

You’re right. I should not have put those words in quotes because you did not say that. However, you were complaining that Tucker should have taken a more balanced approach with the videos.

I agree that more balance will eventually be necessary and appropriate. But, after years being presented with only one side of the story, the scales are very tilted. We can not begin a balanced analysis until the scales have been somewhat leveled.

This will only matter to conservatives. It won’t change minds to suddenly realize the truth. It’s perplexing how so many people see it so differently. Isn’t it strange?

For Lefties their political beliefs are their religion, so when you contradict their beliefs you are challenging their existence. This is why they get so angry and emotional when faced with facts. For that matter, look how many adopted as their Lord and Savior a cheap Chicago politician. And also note how when his Presdiency didn’t bring meaning to their empty lives, of course it was the fault of us Normals for not believing as well

I watched a video the other day where a guy holding a great big sign saying “Trump is not a racist, he clearly denounces racism and I can prove it!” interviewed passers-by.

The guy had a montage of 20 video clips queued up on his phone where Donald Trump had denounced racism.

When Leftist passers by challenged him he offered to show that montage to them.

Now obviously any video on YouTube can be easily edited to omit parts that don’t convey the desired message but that said … Every Lefty refused to watch the video montage.

They also refused to change their opinion of Trump as a racist.

You’re right, this is clearly a matter of a religion-like faith.

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