{"id":144683,"date":"2021-02-18T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=144683"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:13:43","slug":"cnn-nbc-purchased-video-for-35000-from-man-charged-in-u-s-capitol-riot-court-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-nbc-purchased-video-for-35000-from-man-charged-in-u-s-capitol-riot-court-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN, NBC Purchased Video For $35,000 From Man Charged In U.S. Capitol Riot: Court Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-nbc-purchased-video-for-35000-from-man-charged-in-u-s-capitol-riot-court-docs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=144683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Standoff.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN and NBC News each purchased video from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol for $35,000 from a man who has been accused of being a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/09\/john-sullivan-utah-activist-in-capitol-riot-faces-more-charges\/\">left-wing grifter<\/a>\u201d who was later charged by prosecutors for his alleged activities during the riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant, John Sullivan of Utah, has maintained that he attends raucous demonstrations as a journalist, sharing videos through his Insurgence USA website and social media platforms,\u201d Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/16\/judge-ban-riot-twitter-and-facebook-469219\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSullivan\u2019s defense attorney even filed invoices with the court showing that CNN and NBC each paid Sullivan\u2019s firm $35,000 last month for rights to video he filmed of chaotic scenes outside and inside the Capitol, including the deadly shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors, however, say that not only is Sullivan not an innocent bystander, they allege that he was an instigator who acted in a manner to cause additional chaos during the riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the guise of journalism \u2026. he is engaged in and incited violent activity, including the kind of destructive society we saw on Jan. 6,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Candice Wong wrote in court documents. \u201cThe defendant, according to his own video footage, apparently exhorted others to \u2018burn this (expletive) down,\u2019 \u2018break that (expletive),\u2019 and \u2014 amid the smashing of the speaker\u2019s lobby doors \u2014 \u2018Go! Go! Get this (expletive)!\u2019 He celebrated the breach of the Capitol as \u2018revolutionary history.\u2019 He boasted of how \u2018it\u2019s only a little jail time \u2026 I do this all the time.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, 26, was arrested last month and has been charged in a six-count federal indictment that includes \u201cobstruction of an official proceeding; civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building,\u201d The Desert News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/utah\/2021\/2\/17\/22287763\/activist-capitol-riot-video-sold-nbc-cnn-35k-each-john-sullivan-federal-charges\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for CNN claimed that they decided to stop using the video footage that they purchased from him after they learned about his alleged role in the riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 6th, CNN was contacted by a reputable agent regarding an eye-witness video from the Capitol Hill riots,\u201d a spokesperson for CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/17\/accused-capitol-rioter-john-sullivan-sold-footage-for-35k-to-nbc-cnn\/\">said<\/a> in a statement provided to the New York Post. \u201cThe company entered into a one-week agreement for use of 44-seconds of key content, which was attributed to the witness on air. When his role in the event was later called into question, the company informed staff to cease all use of the video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal law enforcement officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/storytelling\/capitol-riot-mob-arrests\/\">charged<\/a> well over 200 people for crimes that they allegedly committed during the January 6 riot. Democrats immediately seized on the opportunity and launched a second impeachment effort against then-President Donald Trump that did not conclude until weeks after Trump left office. The U.S. Senate ultimately voted to acquit Trump of the charges filed against him by House Democrats, who claimed that he had incited the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN and NBC News each purchased video from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol for $35,000 from a man who has been accused of being a \u201cleft-wing grifter\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181465,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Standoff.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN, NBC Purchased Video For $35,000 From Man Charged In U.S. Capitol Riot: Court Docs","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Standoff.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN, NBC Purchased Video For $35,000 From Man Charged In U.S. Capitol Riot: Court Docs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}