More details about what occurred on the day of Jan. 6, 2021, will be revealed in the days to come, according to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.).
“In the end, transparency is the best disinfectant,” Scalise said at a March 8 press conference in Washington while discussing new security footage of the Capitol breach that aired on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on March 6–7.
When asked by one reporter whether he agreed with Carlson’s depiction of the breach as “peaceful,” the congressman noted that the Fox News host had also criticized the protesters who had engaged in criminal activity.
As for the complaints of some that the security footage Carlson used was selectively edited, Scalise asserted that the previously available footage had been released by the House’s “partisan” Jan. 6 Committee, and that those videos had been “cherry-picked” to present one side of the story….