What the GUARDED January 6 footage REALLY holds, according to a journalist with access to the tapes



Steve Baker is a lifelong musician and music industry professional, but he’s known for something far different now.

What started as a fun pastime writing about politics turned into something much bigger.

Baker is now a full-blown investigative journalist, and he’s found himself in a bit of hot water after his coverage of the January 6 protest — which he believes goes much deeper than the mainstream media is telling us.

His footage has been used in several January 6 documentaries, including ones made by the New York Times and HBO, as well as news agencies all over the world.

“Fast-forward two and a half years, and I just got a grand jury subpoena for it,” Baker tells James Poulos. “According to what the FBI told me and my lawyer back 21 months ago, they told me that I was going to be prosecuted for interstate racketeering.”

As no other journalists or peaceful protesters that Baker is aware of have been threatened with the same charge, Baker says “the only thing that we’ve been able to surmise is that they want to charge me with, I guess, the preconceived notion that I knew something was going to happen of an illegal nature, and therefore I traveled across state lines to get to D.C.”

Despite the accusations, Baker is one of only five journalists who have been granted access to over 41,000 hours of footage from the protest.

He notes that he became suspicious of what was really going on during one of the trials last year.

“There was a moment where I felt like that I saw something untoward or something suspicious happening between the lead prosecuting attorney, his name is Jeffrey Nestler, an assistant U.S. attorney, and Judge Amit Mehta, who was sitting on the bench in this particular trial.”

According to Baker, his “antennas went up” when he saw what he believed to be “suppression of evidence” and “collusion.”

That’s when he began digging.

“I backdoored my way into the Capitol to see these videos” as well as “into seeing some of this evidence that was under court seal,” he tells Poulos.

He was able to verify that what he saw in court was in fact a suppression of evidence “that would quite likely be exculpatory evidence for these defendants.”

However, that’s not all Baker has found.

“What we have discovered is not only suppression of evidence, but also the creation out of thin air of evidence that did not exist for the purpose of convicting,” Baker tells Poulos, adding that “there are people who have been scapegoated who have become the patsies, who have become the anointed leaders of the insurrection.”

Those “anointers leaders” were in fact “not at all” and “have been falsely accused.”

While Baker cannot currently release the names of these scapegoats, he will soon be able to take a few Blaze reporters with him into the video room, where he says he will finally be able to “get this off my chest.”


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You won't believe THIS SHOCKING TRUTH buried in the Jan. 6 video archives



House Republicans have announced that members of the media and other qualified individuals will now have access to view footage from January 6.

According to the strict criteria required to view the footage, you have to be a qualifying non-profit organization or a news outlet, among other things.

Sara Gonzales believes that “this obviously is backtracking on the promise that Speaker McCarthy made to the American people when he said we will make all of the footage public.”

Investigative journalist Steve Baker has combed through the 41,000 hours of video, which he says is “a daunting and impossible task” if he wanted to get through all of it.

Baker also says that as he has gone through the footage, he’s found that in footage from certain cameras, there were “three or four hours missing in the middle of the riot itself.”

Some of the cameras have no footage whatsoever, which Baker believes is strange, as the Capitol Police “told us that all of their cameras were functional that day.”

Sara Gonzales finds it all fascinating.

“We are still seeing the FBI and the DOJ put so much concentration on January 6, oftentimes non-violent people who didn’t – they didn’t break anything in the Capitol, they didn’t vandalize anything, they didn’t hit anyone,” Gonzales says.

Baker says that it’s frightening, because the people who are being convicted of some sort of conspiracy to overthrow the government simply used “the words of a founding father,” which he calls “revolutionary-style rhetoric.”

In one of the particular stories that Baker is working on in order to exonerate and find evidence for people who are innocent yet being accused, he believes he saw clear collusion.

“I was sitting in one of the trials back last fall, and in that trial I saw something that did not ring true. It was one of those moments between the judge and the lead prosecuting attorney that I, just by instinct, thought I saw collusion,” he says.

“Body language, the connection didn’t work. I saw the panic of the prosecutor, I saw the panic of the judge in suppressing evidence, and then I started the process of digging myself,” he adds.

In that digging, Baker believes he’s found “evidence tampering, evidence suppression,” and the “creating of evidence that did not exist out of whole cloth.”


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Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6 video: ‘I know DECEPTION when I see it’

Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6 video: ‘I know DECEPTION when I see it’

Beck: The January 6 committee lied to us



For over two years now, the narrative that the January 6 committee has been pushing has dominated our television screens.

Cherry-picked clips have been flashed daily to demonize the men and women who attended the rally.

And finally, the truth is coming out.

Tucker Carlson has received the clips that the left and its allies in the media didn’t want you to see and has begun airing them to the public.

And let’s just say that those who knew we were being lied to about what really happened on January 6 have been vindicated.

One of the most famous clips circulating was that of Senator Josh Hawley running out of the Capitol building. Mainstream media blasted him, calling him a “coward.” However, the clip had been heavily edited.

Carlson says the clip was “propaganda, not evidence,” before showing the rest of the clip. The clip showed more lawmakers running before Hawley — who was at the back of the pack — all being escorted out of the building by Capitol police.

Glenn Beck is not amused. He responds to the now released clip: “Our flag is supposed to stand for justice for all. Josh Hawley didn’t get any justice, but he’s the least of your worries. Will the people on the January 6 committee, led by Adam Schiff, a guy we already know lied about Russian collusion — is that man going to face impeachment? Is there justice for all?”

As Glenn said, Hawley’s story is the least of our worries.

The famous Shaman from the January 6 riot, who has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison, was helped by Capitol police.

That’s right. He was escorted around the Capitol building by police, who even tried to open locked doors for him.

Beck responds, “They were clearly assisting him. Now how did that guy get four years in prison, when he was being escorted by police?”


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