After House Republicans failed to gain any traction from holding hours of hearings in which they berated former Twitter executives for briefly suppressing a half-baked story about Hunter Biden in 2020, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy launched another attempt to use government power to boost right-wing conspiracy theories by giving Fox host Tucker Carlson unlimited access to more than 14,000 hours of footage recorded in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Carlson, is one of many elite Republican figures who have tried to shift blame for the violent attack of that date from supporters of disgraced ex-president Donald Trump to unspecified "agents provocateur" supposedly working for the FBI. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and other far-right members of Congress have long sought to release all surveillance video in the desperate hope to find anyone they could accuse of being a federal manipulator.
