Video from that day shows officers following Chansley around the building, and an officer walks into the chamber with Chansley and continues to ask rioters to leave.Īdditionally, Capitol Police officers have testified at several January 6 trials that after the initial wave of rioters entered the building, they felt outnumbered and were afraid of escalating violence by engaging with the mob.

Prosecutors say that Chansley disobeyed that request and walked to the Senate floor. In court documents, however, prosecutors say that Capitol Police officers repeatedly tried to engage with Chansley and others in the crowd, asking them to leave. There is no audio in the videos, and it is not clear whether the officers and Chansley are talking to each other. In a second clip, Chansley, still flanked by the two original officers, walks between a group of about half a dozen officers and none appear to try to step in. In one clip, Chansley is shown with two officers who attempt to open a door near the Senate chamber. Here’s what was in the footage that aired Monday:Ĭarlson claimed that new Capitol security footage taken on January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” walking through the Capitol without pushback from police. Multiple sources on Capitol Hill, however, told CNN that Carlson’s show provided only one clip to review and not the others. In the end, the only change that we made was in blurring the details of a single interior door in the Capitol building.” “We’re happy to say their reservations were minor and for the most part they were reasonable.

“We do take security seriously, so before airing any of this video we checked first with the Capitol Police,” Carlson said. Samuel Corum/Getty Images/FILEĪnalysis: Tucker Carlson, with help from Kevin McCarthy, tries to sanitize the very real violence of the January 6 attack Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on Januin Washington, DC. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S.

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