Speaker Johnson wants to blur Jan. 6 footage to protect Capitol rioters

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

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House Speaker Mike Johnson says that when the footage of the deadly January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is released to the public, the faces of the rioters will be blurred to protect them from being charged by the Justice Department. Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney was the vice chair of the House Select Committee that investigated the insurrection. She joins AC360 to discuss Speaker Johnson's decision. She also talks about the current state of the GOP and says this group of Republicans "can't be counted on to defend the Constitution." Plus, the Israeli military says today was the "most intense day since the beginning of the ground operation." CNN Correspondent Jeremy Diamond is in Ashkelon, Israel. He tells Anderson Cooper what's going on in Southern Gaza where Israeli troops have encircled the city of Khan Younis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 new word on how prosecutors plan to use the former
0:04.6	president's embrace of January 6th defendants against him in court. We'll talk
0:08.7	about that and more with Liz Cheney whose new book has plenty to say about
0:12.1	Donald Trump the threat she
0:13.8	believes he poses if re-elected. Also tonight exclusive new reporting and
0:17.6	how much longer Israel might continue high-intensity ground operations in
0:21.0	Gaza which today saw some of the heaviest fighting in the war.
0:24.5	Plus what key voters in a key swing state have to say about their choices for
0:28.1	2024, which John King finds out in the latest edition of our special series of reports all over the map.
0:34.0	Good evening, thanks for joining us again.
0:35.8	Our guests tonight here with me in studio is Liz Cheney, former Wyoming Republican
0:39.6	Congresswoman and Vice Chair of the House January 6 select committee.
0:43.0	Our conversation comes at the end of a day that saw two potentially significant January 6
0:47.6	related developments.
0:48.9	The first involving the evidence that prosecutors in the federal election
0:51.8	subversion case want jurors to see.
0:54.3	The second on what House Speaker Mike Johnson
0:56.5	wants to keep Americans from seeing
0:58.7	in soon-to-be release video of the attack on Congress.
1:01.1	So my conversation with the Congressman Cheney
1:03.8	is going to start in a moment.
1:05.3	First, the latest on both of those stories
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