House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner said House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to make public the Capitol security video footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot is an important step for Americans to learn the truth about what happened that day.

“It’s important for Americans to know the truth,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “This has been fraught with an unbelievable amount of misinformation and untruths and I think this, you know when you see the footage yourself, it’s going to give you an understanding of what was there and what occurred that day. Because we’re currently only depending on really partisan descriptions of what happened. Now the American people can see.”

Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, recently gave the go-ahead for the House Administration Committee to start releasing most of the security footage. Over 40,000 hours of footage will be posted over the next several months on the committee website.

Not all of the tapes will be made public. About 5% of the footage will be withheld because it may “involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture,” Mr. Johnson said.

On the NBC show, host Kristen Welker asked Mr. Turner what he thought of his Republican colleagues cherry-picking the footage to further some conspiracy theories.

Mr. Turner, Ohio Republican, said the footage has been cherry-picked by both sides, especially the House Jan. 6 committee, after

He wouldn’t answer a question about a social media post that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared suggesting that the riot was an inside job by the Capitol Police.

“You’ll have to talk to Marjorie Taylor Greene about that,” Mr. Turner said. “But what I will say is I think it’s important that the speaker has taken this step because now people can see the truth.”

The Democratic-run Jan. 6 committee said the attack on the Capitol was a coup by then-President Donald Trump. Some Republican lawmakers have now called for an investigation of the now-defunct committee.

“Every member of the Jan. 6 committee, Nancy Pelosi, FBI, DOJ, DC Police, Cap Police, Jan 6 witnesses who lied, all need to be subpoenaed,” Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, wrote on X. “Criminal referrals must be written and prosecutions MUST happen under a Trump DOJ. I’ve said it all along, MAGA did not do this.”

Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah previously said the tapes show a very different view of what happened at the Capitol that day.

“The J6 committee was a sham,” Mr. Nehls said on X. “I knew it then. Everyone knows it now. Let’s investigate the investigators.”

Mr. Lee accused two of the committee’s prominent members, former Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a Republican, and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a Democrat, of deliberately hiding the security footage.

“Why didn’t Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger ever refer to any of these tapes? Maybe they never looked for them,” Mr. Lee said. “Maybe they never even questioned their own narrative. Maybe they were just too busy selectively leaking the text messages of Republicans they wanted to defeat.

“Given the evidence they apparently suppressed, how much footage (and how many other records) do you think Nancy Pelosi and the J6 committee deliberately lost or destroyed?”

Over 1,100 people were charged in connection to the Capitol attack. Some of the longest sentences are for over 15 years, with Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, founder of the right-wing Proud Boys group, being sentenced to 22 years in prison.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.