How Jan. 6 security tapes can be distorted for GOP, Fox purposes

I think there are two parts of this that are deeply concerning. One, of course, is the security part. But the other is, like, what can they practically do with this? Right? It's 44,000 hours of footage. There's a lot in there. Can they actively establish a counter narrative, a visual counter narrative that will go against what the January 6th committee has presented to the American public? I mean, do you think that's possible? Not in any complete way. But remember, what we see from these Republicans in the current investigations. I'm on the oversight committee.

Yeah. I'm on the subcommittee on the weaponization. You're on the committee of the weaponization of the federal government. And what they are trying to accomplish, and they did this a little bit with the impeachment investigation, is a 30-second soundbite that can be then used and spun a web to create an alternative universe. So is it possible that they could cherry pick 30 seconds of video and use that as the basis for a completely fictional narrative? Yes, of course, because it's what they do every day. So the possibilities for someone like Tucker Carlson, who has no relationship with the truth, is to cherry pick various portions of it, try to weave it together to create a false narrative that can then go through the right-wing ecosphere. Hi.

Alex Wagner