A cameraman who captured a crucial Jan. 5 meeting ahead of the Capitol attack spoke for hours with the panel probing the insurrection.
“We walked through my footage in detail,” Nick Quested said in an interview.
What happened: The documentarian whose film crew captured a key Jan. 5 meeting between leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys testified for hours Tuesday to the Jan. 6 select committee.
Nick Quested, executive director and owner of Goldcrest Films, says the panel asked him extensive questions about the footage he captured on Jan. 5 and 6. That included significant behind-the-scenes exchanges with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and harrowing moments of violence during the assault on the Capitol.
“We walked through my footage in detail,” Quested said in a phone interview.
Knowing Enrique Tarrio: Quested’s footage has become crucial evidence to both the select committee — which is probing the role of domestic extremism in the Jan. 6 attack — and the Justice Department, which has already used it to help issue charges against a handful of defendants who breached the Capitol. But his footage of Proud Boys, and in particular Tarrio’s meeting with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes on Jan. 5, has provided unparalleled insight into the groups who helped drive the earliest and most aggressive breaches of the Capitol.
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DOJ vs. Select committee: Quested says he’s been subpoenaed by the Justice Department and was initially treated like a co-conspirator of the Proud Boys, though he says he doesn’t feel pressure from DOJ like he did at the outset. Quested said the Justice Department’s questions for him were narrowly focused on the actions of the Proud Boys during key time periods on Jan. 5 and 6, while the select committee had a “much broader” set of questions.
He had praise for how the committee is conducting the investigation. “They’ve done an incredible amount of hard work and have an exceptional grasp,” Quested said of the panel’s insight into the motivations of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. He added that this was a “constitutional attack” that was “very serious.”
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A cameraman who captured a crucial Jan. 5 meeting ahead of the Capitol attack spoke for hours with the panel probing the insurrection.
"We walked through my footage in detail," Nick Quested said in an interview. https://t.co/B0wDW7NV79
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