Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene known as on Home Speaker Mike Johnson to create a brand new choose committee on January 6 that will maintain the unique committee accountable for “all of the lies, deception and destruction of lives.”

In a publish on X, she mentioned that releasing tapes of the assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 will not be sufficient.

“Each member of the January sixth Fee, Nancy Pelosi, the FBI, the Division of Justice, the D.C. police, the Cape Police, the January sixth witnesses who lied, all of them must be subpoenaed,” the Georgia Republican mentioned. “Legal referrals have to be written and prosecutions should happen below Trump’s Division of Justice. “I mentioned it on a regular basis, MAGA didn’t do that.”

Johnson introduced on Friday that the Home Administration Committee will start releasing a lot of the safety footage from January 6. Greater than 40,000 hours of footage might be revealed over the following few months on the committee’s web site.

“This determination will present hundreds of thousands of People, legal defendants, public curiosity organizations, and the media the power to see for themselves what occurred that day, somewhat than having to depend on the interpretation of a small group of presidency officers.” He mentioned.

Not all tapes might be revealed.

Johnson mentioned about 5% of the footage might be withheld as a result of it could “include delicate safety info associated to the constructing’s structure.”

The January 6 Fee initially decided that the assaults have been an tried coup by former President Donald Trump, and a few Republican lawmakers have known as for investigations into the now-defunct fee.

Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah mentioned the tapes present a really totally different view of what occurred on the Capitol that day.

“The J6 fee was a sham,” Mr Niles mentioned on the X programme. I knew it then. Everybody is aware of that now. Let’s test with investigators.”

Mr. Lee accused the 2 Republican members of the committee, former Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, of deliberately concealing the safety footage.

“Why did Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger by no means check with any of those tapes? Possibly they by no means regarded for them. Possibly they by no means questioned their story. Possibly they have been too busy selectively leaking textual content messages to Republicans they wished to defeat,” Mr. Lee mentioned.

“Given the proof they apparently hid, how a lot footage (and what number of different data) do you suppose Nancy Pelosi and the J6 Committee misplaced or deliberately destroyed?”

Mr. Kinzinger, now a commentator for CNN, mocked Mr. Lee’s feedback.

“Sure? What did you discover? Please elaborate since you appear so positive.”

Greater than 1,100 individuals have been charged and about 800 convicted in reference to the Capitol assault, a lot of whom have been sentenced to a number of years in jail. Enrique Tarrio, chief of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, obtained the harshest sentence but – 22 years in jail.