House Republicans are moving forward with their promise to release all 40,000+ hours of CCTV footage from the events of January 6, 2021. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) joins Glenn to announce the release of 5,000 hours of footage, partially in response to the FBI’s arrest of Blaze Media journalist Steve Baker. Plus, he tells Glenn that the House plans to release the rest of the footage over the next 8 weeks.
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Congressman Loudermilk is on now. He has an announcement of his own today, that I think kind of ties into this. But I don't know what it is. Barry, welcome to the program.
BARRY: Glenn, it's always good to be with you. Not necessarily under these circumstances. But thank you and Steve for the resilience through all this. It's terrible. It's ridiculous. But it's sort of like what my dad told me. He was a medic in World War II. Was involved in the D-Day invasion. Battle of the Bulge, all the way into Germany.
And he used to tell me that, Glenn, they don't shoot at you until you're taking their ground.
GLENN: I know.
BARRY: And we must be over the target. We're taking this --
GLENN: Well, we know, we are, Barry.
You've been a big part of helping us get access to all of the video footage.
And we know we are.
The more footage that is released, the more this looks like a total and complete setup and lie.
BARRY: Well, that's part of the transparency part of the Constitution. That's why we have the freedom of the press, to be able to be transparent and hold government accountable.
And this is why they're trying to strip away, and as you just said, if you're going to go after Steve Baker, you need to go after the dozens of other reporters, that were present, in the Capitol that day. Who didn't do anything wrong. That's why we wanted to make sure that we got these video, regarding Steve and where he was, out early.
GLENN: And I know you guys have worked all night to do that. We got it early, early this morning. And I can't thank you enough for that, Congressman.
BARRY: Yeah. And our staff, I cannot commend them enough. I mean, we have this blue-like thing going through everywhere.
I think half our staff has been sick. Including me this week. But they stayed late. And got this done.
But they were also pushing to make sure we were doing something else today. Literally, just before I came on. Speaker Johnson released what we've been working on, over the past the several -- several weeks.
Is today, I did additional 5,000 hours of video footage.
Will be available on Rumble.
It's going to be rolling out throughout the day. It's taken us a while to get this because it's a technical process.
You've got to convert these video from the CCTV format, into an internet-friendly format. And when we first started doing this, when Speaker Johnson said, let's get them all out there. It was just taking our investigative team, of full-time -- just trying to get all this processed, which was taking us away from the other parts of the investigation.
GLENN: So how many -- how many hours are there in total?
I mean, I know you're going to release 5,000 hours. Is that all of it? Or...
RIKKI: No, no.
We're going to continue doing. Our goal is to continue doing about 1200 hours a day, if we can, through the processing.
So what we've done, I just went to the speaker. I said, look, it's taking all of our time.
I agree with you. We should get all of this on you the there.
But it's taking our investigative teams time just doing this.
And it's taking away from the other important points of investigating January 6. The light and selective committee.
And how they violated rules. And how their report is just a fabrication.
And so I suggested, can we just contract?
Can we find a contractor?
And hire a contractor to come in, and start the process of getting all these videos uploaded. And so he approved it.
And so it took us just a little bit of time to get the contract done. The contractor is working on getting the videos uploaded.
So the 5,000 will be available today.
It may take a little while for them to propagate through the system on rumble.
But we are going to continue every week, with rolling out more and more, just -- you know, anticipating some technical issues or whatever.
We're looking at maybe eight weeks.
That we should have all 40,000 hours up.
GLENN: Barry, is this because of Steve or partly because of what's going on, or the timing?
BARRY: The videos that we're releasing the prioritization of which videos of which we decided to do first.
Is partially because of what Steve is going through.
We -- because that is important to get those angles and those things out.
And it helps us to work on both at one time. And so that was part of it, because we see the direction that certain people are going, and what they're trying to cover up.
And so, we're going to get all the video out there. But we did prioritize some of these angles, and these footages.
And that's what we're looking at. What are the most important to support, the findings in our investigation. As well as, I mean, Steve has been a great team player with us. You know, he gets information. And when he gets something that he thinks is valuable to our investigation. He'll share it with us.
GLENN: We offered it all to -- he offered all of it to the FBI. And, I mean, on day one, when he had it. He was like, if you need it, you can have it.
I mean, he was documenting -- I don't want to get into it.
Congressman Barry Loudermilk from Georgia. Thank you, sincerely, thank you. Appreciate it.
BARRY: Thank you, Glenn. Well, we appreciate all you're doing, and definitely our prayers are with you. I mean, this is -- this is horrendous. It's terrible. We're going to be there, to make sure that justice is done. And -- and that means that the freedom. Our Constitution is upheld. And the truth be known.
GLENN: Yes. Thank you so much, Congressman. Congressman Barry Loudermilk from Georgia. A true friend indeed.
