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Steve Baker on the CIA, FBI, Directed Energy Weapons, and the Lies of the J6 Pipe Bomb Case

July 2, 2026

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On the morning of January 6, 2021, someone planted two pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill. The devices were discovered within minutes of each other, just before and just after Vice President Pence gaveled in the certification of the 2020 election. Kamala Harris was inside the DNC at the time. The FBI launched an investigation. A $500,000 reward was offered. And then, for years, nothing. No arrests, no credible public explanation, no resolution. The story simply vanished from the news cycle, buried under the avalanche of information that defines modern life.

That is the puzzle investigative journalist Steve Baker set out to solve. Baker, who was himself prosecuted for entering the Capitol as a journalist on January 6, spent years combing through the 41,000 hours of Capitol Police CCTV footage that House investigators eventually made available to a small group of reporters. What he found, he argues, points not to a lone wolf terrorist but to an inside operation involving the Capitol Police and the CIA — and to a specific person he believes planted the devices.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **Introduction: The Problem of Unresolved Stories** - Tucker Carlson opens by lamenting how the modern information overload prevents the public from ever getting satisfactory resolutions to major events, using the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting as a primary example.
  • 2 (02:45) **January 6th as a Key Unresolved Event** - Carlson argues that January 6th is one of the most important unresolved stories, second only to 9/11, because it produced the largest federal criminal investigation in history, yet the official narrative has largely collapsed.
  • 3 (07:30) **The Forgotten Pipe Bomb Mystery** - Carlson introduces the central mystery of the episode: the pipe bombs planted outside the RNC and DNC on the morning of January 6th, a widely reported story that was never resolved and then quickly forgotten.
  • 4 (13:39) **Steve Baker's Investigation and the Immediate Arrest** - Carlson introduces journalist Steve Baker, who spent years investigating the pipe bomb case and named a suspect, leading to a sudden arrest of a different man, Brian Cole, within days.
  • 5 (19:48) **Steve Baker's First-Hand Account of January 6th** - Baker, who was present at the Capitol and was prosecuted for his journalism, describes his view of the day, arguing it was a manipulated and engineered event, not a spontaneous insurrection.
  • 6 (24:44) **The Setup: Special Forces and the CIA** - Baker reveals his conclusion that January 6th was a setup orchestrated by elements of the Department of Defense, Capitol Police, and the CIA, with the goal of permanently removing Trump from politics.
  • 7 (35:18) **The CIA's Connection and the Capitol Police's Role** - Baker details the CIA's connection to the day, linking it to the 51 intelligence officials who denied the Hunter Biden laptop story, and describes how the Capitol Police were set up as "sacrificial lambs."

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Show Notes

Did you hear the Feds finally arrested someone in the January 6 pipe bombing case? If you think the case has been solved, listen to this.


(00:00) Monologue

(19:48) What Really Was J6?

(30:29) The Mysterious Task Force Orange

(56:48) The Mysterious Pipe Bomb Story

(1:40:08) Was Shauni Kerkhoff Questioned?


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