Now John Solomon and others are filling in the gaps. Solomon, formerly of The Associated Press and The Washington Post, is part of a group of veteran reporters who make up JustTheNews.com.
Solomon on Thursday night began posting his reporting from the tapes and the tapes themselves.
“We’re going to have many days of this. This will probably stretch for several weeks,” Solomon said on American Family Radio in an interview Thursday.
The videos will also be posted to Rumble.
More than 840 people have been arrested in relation to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, which has been described as an "insurrection" against the government by Democrats and the liberal news media.
Federal prosecutors have charged nearly 950 people in 48 states with taking part. Approximately 10 individuals have been arrested on a series of charges that relate to assaulting a member of the media or destroying their equipment.
Numerous participants have been convicted and jailed.
Exactly how many people died that day remains a matter of some debate and supposed facts sometimes changed as various news outlets tried to determine the cause of the deaths.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy previously released the tapes to former Fox News show host Tucker Carlson.
“There’s going to always be debate about who did what on Jan. 6, but there should be no debate about the security of the Capitol,” Solomon said. “Unfortunately, the Jan. 6 Democrat-led committee kept that conversation from being had. Why? Because it was a failure of Nancy Pelosi and her security team.”
Solomon said his reporting “will show the American public what needs to be fixed and hopefully create a roadmap for people to get it done before anything else terrible happens at the Capitol.”
The Jan. 6 Committee was made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, all selected by then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Republicans on the committee were Trump-despising lawmakers Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
The committee chair was Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
The committee held its final public meeting Dec. 19, 2022 and concluded that former president Donald Trump was responsible for the march on the Capitol. The committee also claimed to lay out evidence it said showed Trump should be tried on multiple charges.
Solomon: Jan. 6 was preventable
“When you take a look at the full body of the evidence, and I've now looked through hundreds of hours of videotape through various sources, some of this approved by Speaker McCarthy who made good on his promise to continue to get this out. When you look at the sum total of it, you're going to see what so many experts have said: the Jan. 6th attack was completely preventable,” Solomon said.
Solomon’s reporting corroborates what others have reported in conclusions from various department studies.
“Intelligence failures. Security planning failures,” he said.
People can see footage that shows a "security lapse" that allowed hundreds of people to flow into the Capitol uncontested, Solomon told AFR, when police officers om the outside were trying hard to keep people from coming out.
"A door was left wide open, and hundreds of people got into the Capitol uncontested. This is something Sen. Ron Johnson has been talking about,” Solomon said.
Johnson (R-Wisconsin) was called a racist in the days after the event when he told the Joe Pags Show podcast that he’d have been more concerned for his safety had it been “tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters” storming the Capitol.
The Capitol riot was roughly six months removed from America’s summer of racial unrest. Numbers from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project said 93% of protests following the death of George Floyd were peaceful, but television screens were filled with images of angry crowds, looting and property damage.
The report concluded demonstrations turned violent in about 200 locations.
Many have rejected comparisons between the summer riots and the Jan. 6 event, but the fact remains that by the turn of the calendar there had been riots without repercussions for the rioters. So it’s not hard to believe Capitol protestors, now many facing prison, have drawn similar conclusions.
Pelosi’s peculiar path to safety
Solomon said his reporting will show a peculiar exit from the Capitol by Pelosi.
“We are going to show the moment that Capitol Police evacuated Speaker Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, through a secret tunnel," Solomon said of that footage. "People are going to see some pretty extraordinary behavior. It's going to look more like a Hollywood movie set than an escape route for the Speaker."
These are the types of things missing from the committee’s report, Solomon said.
“We're going to be able to show the American public what needs to be fixed," he predicted, "and hopefully create a roadmap for people to get it done before anything else terrible happens at the capitol.”
Unfortunately, something terrible could happen tomorrow as easily as it did on Jan. 6.
“We are no safer at the U.S. Capitol today than we were on January 5th, 2021," Solomon warned. "In other words, the security failures have not been learned. They have not been fixed, and one of America's great institutions of freedom remains vulnerable."
