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[indistinct clamor on video]

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[indistinct shouting on video]

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[indistinct shouting and clamor]

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[angry man]
<i>Let's go, D. Hodges!</i>

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<i>I'm walking here!</i>

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[Daniel] Ow!

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<i>Cut it out, cut it out!</i>

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[♪]

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DANIEL [Daniel]
When I first learned
about that video

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that went around
on the internet

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about our defense
in the tunnel,

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I hit play,
and I watched what happened,

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and I hit pause,
and I wrote down what happened.

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And I kept doing that
until I reached the end.

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[indistinct shouting on video]

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[crying on video]

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[Daniel]
I was embarrassed.

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No one wants their 15 minutes of
fame to be crying out for help,

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you know, especially if your job
is a police officer.

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But ultimately, I'm glad that
it got out and got around,

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because it's important
to get the truth out

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about what happened.

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[♪]

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I almost feel like somebody else
took these photos.

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But it was me.

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I will always think about
what happened that day.

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I will always have these photos
to tell these stories.

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I'm trying to capture images
showing you one of the most

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important times
in American history.

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And I can't wait for the day
where I think that my son

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will be interested so I can
explain to him what happened,

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that I was there
at the Capitol building.

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I was scared for my fucking
life, and you know,

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I thought about you.

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[Erica]
There's no way I can forget.

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When footage of that day
was replayed,

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and even today is replayed,
I change the channel.

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And I still don't like
to watch it. I just, I can't.

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I didn't want to think about it
anymore.

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I really, I tried really hard,
as best I could,

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to block that day out.

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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I didn't really share
immediately with, like, family

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what really went down, um,
but I've thought about

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January 6th a lot, you know
and trying to wrap

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my head around really
what happened that day.

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[Chief Contee]
When I look back
and I think back,

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the gravity of everything
that that happened,

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this is history. People be
talking about this for years.

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And here I sit dead center,

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four days on the job...

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four days and the weight
of the world on your shoulders.

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I want everyone to know,

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there was a huge price to pay

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for our democracy on that day.

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[Daniel]
Sure, where do you
want me to go?

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[man]
Right back in the... [inaudible]

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[Daniel]
I was there,
I knew what happened,

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I was there all day,
and it's rare that you get

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the opportunity to put your
finger on the scale of history.

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And influence things in a way

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that brings the truth to light.

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[♪]

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[pencil screeching]

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[Rep. Jamie Raskin]
My dad said democracy
needs the ground to stand on,

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and that ground is the truth.

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So, we gotta tell the truth.

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If we can handle it.

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The greatest strength
of democracy is that

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it comes from the people.

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The weakness of democracy
is that it has so many enemies,

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other pretenders to the throne.

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They always describe
Donald Trump

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as a larger-than-life figure.

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I'm appreciating that people
are not larger than life,

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people are just the right size
for a democracy

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where everybody gets one vote,

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one voice, and we need
everybody to participate.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Chairman Thompson]
Good afternoon. When I think
about the most basic way

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to explain the importance of
elections in the United States,

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there's a phrase that always
comes to mind.

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It may sound straightforward,
but it's meaningful...

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[Rep. Raskin]
Sometimes the truth is like
a second chance,

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and I believe that.

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[footsteps]

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[clears throat]

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You ready?

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[♪]

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[distant police siren]

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[indistinct speech]

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[pedestrian]
Morning, morning.

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[cheering]

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[street seller]
Ten bucks, ten bucks.
Hats and shirts.

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[Chief Contee]
I'm a native son.

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This is the city that raised me,
and, you know,

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as crazy as this sounds,
I felt like everything

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that I had gone through here
in this city prepared me

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to be the chief of police
that I was on that day.

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[♪]

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[Chief Contee]
I officially took over the job
as chief of police

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on January the 2nd, so 4 days
before January the 6th.

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Whether that was destiny
or whether it was just you know,

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I drew the short straw,
I don't know.

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- Whose streets?
- Our streets.

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- Whose streets?
- Our streets.

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- Whose streets?
- Our streets.

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[Chief Contee]
It conjures up memories
of what happened on that day,

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kind of hits you in the gut.

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The officers are here below,
I mean look at these people

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that are standing overhead,
right,

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and we're not knowing
who's armed in the crowd.

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We had already recovered
firearms and so forth, so...

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I mean, there's just
a huge sense of vulnerability.

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People were running for their
lives that day,

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and it didn't matter,
it didn't matter what side

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of the fence you were on,
Republican or Democrat,

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it didn't matter.

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And for people to pretend
like nothing happened...

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it really, really angers me.

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[car whooshing]

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[street seller]
Hats and shirts, ten bucks!

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That day, I rode into work
and there were a lot of people

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already out at like 6:30,
7:00 in the morning,

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converging on downtown.

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[cars whooshing,
honking in the back]

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MPD's role,
it's unique in our city.

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There are different entities
that work together in order

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to provide safety
and security in our city.

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You have the United States
Secret Service

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who has responsibility
for the White House itself.

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You have the United States
Capitol Police

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that are responsible
for the Capitol,

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and the Metropolitan
Police Department

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is responsible for all
of the rest of the city

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where people eat, live,
work everyday in our city.

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Go Trump!

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USA, USA!

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Come and get your Trump hats.

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Here it is folks!

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Good morning, everyone.

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[Chief Contee]
With all the rhetoric
that was happening

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leading up to January 6th,
we expected something big.

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Certainly, there was a lot of
internet chatter and you know,

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intelligence information going
back and forth that said

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a whole bunch
of different things.

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We had requested support from
other law enforcement agencies,

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and we requested the services
of the National Guard

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from the Secretary of the Army
to assist us in managing traffic

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so that police officers
would not be tied up

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dealing with traffic control.

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But there was a lot of back
and forth

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and a lot of discussion
about optics.

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And even once they got approval,
I was told the National Guard

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could not move East of 9th
Street without the approval

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of the Secretary of the Army.

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And quite frankly,
I was a little shocked.

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We would need approval at that
level of government to move

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personnel, you know, a few
blocks over from where they are.

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I mean that is, that's like,
like huge, right?

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That never happens.

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[♪]

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[Mel]
I'd been documenting protests
and marches for over a year

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at that point, it seems like.

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I started going to Trump rallies

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because Trump
is a part of the story.

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As a photographer,
what was very significant to me

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are the people and the people
that were there to attend

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the rally.

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[♪]

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[Mel]
Part of the reason I do
what I do when it comes

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to these protests is document,
you know, the both sides.

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I mean, here's this young Black
wearing a fucking

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Make America
Great Again red cap.

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I couldn't believe it.

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What the fuck are you doing?
What are you doing here?

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Why, ugh. [indistinct speech]

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Why am I here? Man,
I'm here for President Trump.

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I'm here put that energy
in a bucket, man, like...

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You start talking to these MAGA
people, and you just become

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fascinated with their values

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and their thought process

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and why they believe
what they believe.

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[protestor]
...understand and know
that this is a cause

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must also understand that
it is a righteous cause.

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[indistinct crowd chatter]

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[Mel]
This is where I knew,
and I was like, "Ah, shit,

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we got the Confederate
flag out this bad boy?"

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Fucking crazy.

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It's the first time I've ever
seen a Confederate
flag in person.

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I've never seen one in
my life right before my eyes.

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No.

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This is the first time,
Washington, DC,

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January 6th, 2021.

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[indistinct crowd chatter]

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I thought, you might need to
definitely more than usual,

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keep your head on a swivel.

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[♪]

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[Daniel]
I follow the news. I'm aware
of the political climate

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in this country
and how divisive things

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have been in recent times.

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So, I'd absolutely understand
when communities of color feel

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feel like they've been
mistreated by law enforcement

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because there is
absolutely a history
of that in this country.

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And, I'm not
ignorant of the past.

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I am not ignorant
of the present.

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[♪]

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[Daniel]
With that said, in 2020,
we would work 18 hours a day

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with no days off
for like a month at least,

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and from a law enforcement
perspective,

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that was the
backdrop for January 6th.

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[indistinct speech]

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[Daniel]
That day, we're posted
along Constitution Avenue.

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The thing that really stood out
were those who were wearing

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ballistic vests, helmets,
goggles, fire gloves,

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backpacks packed full
of who knows what,

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that was concerning obviously
but that in it of itself isn't

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something that we
can stop people for.

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[MPD]
Keep it going, come on,
keep the march going.

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You've got a great march
going here, come on.

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[Daniel]
At one point, some people
with tact gear came up

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to one of my colleagues

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and said, "Is this all
the police officers you have?"

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And my colleague looked down
at him, and was just confused,

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like, uh, didn't know
how to respond.

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And then the guy also said,
"Do you really think
you could stop us?

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So that was rather ominous.

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[Chief Contee]
So, I'm checking out
the landscape of the city.

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- Whose streets?
- Our streets!

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- Whose streets?
- Our streets!

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[Chief Contee]
I'm in the car, and there
were a group of individuals

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marching in formation, which
is what caught my attention.

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They were walking
towards the US Capitol.

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And I took a picture of that.

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[crowd] [chanting]
Where's Antifa?

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Where's Antifa?

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Where's Antifa?

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[Chief Contee]
Some of them were wearing
orange skull caps,

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and they had, like,
these ballistic vests on.

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Obviously, I'm thinking about,
you know, some type of training,

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prior law enforcement,
potentially military, potentially.

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I'm thinking about
all those things.

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And I reached out to our
Homeland Security Chief

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and I said, "Hey,
I just noticed this.

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We need to make sure that we're
communicating with Capitol,

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that this is coming their way."

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[crowd] [chanting]
Fuck Antifa!

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Fuck Antifa!

249
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Fuck Antifa!

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00:15:35,716 --> 00:15:39,546
[crowd clamoring]

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[Mel]
I said let me go see
how many people are really

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at this damn thing.

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Got all the way up, went up
this riser and then it was like,

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holy shit.

255
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This is thousands of people.

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Thousands.

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When I saw that,
I was like, goddamn.

258
00:16:00,741 --> 00:16:05,137
There's definitely going to be
some agitators

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amongst a crowd
of this size.

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[crowd] [chanting]
Trump! Trump! Trump!

261
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Whooooo!

262
00:16:13,276 --> 00:16:17,106
[cheering]

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00:16:26,767 --> 00:16:29,292
[President Trump]
The media will not show
the magnitude of this crowd.

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These people are not going
to take it any longer.

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They're not going to
take it any longer.

266
00:16:37,517 --> 00:16:40,781
I just really want to
see what they do.

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00:16:40,868 --> 00:16:42,087
I just want to see
how they cover it.

268
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I've never seen
anything like it.

269
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It'd be really great if we...

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- [Erica's mother] Take this now?
- [Erica] Yep.

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See ya, Mom!

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[Erica's mother]
Bye-bye, have a good day.

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00:16:58,277 --> 00:16:59,322
[Erica]
You too.

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[♪]

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[Erica]
That day, I was so excited

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for this certification
of these votes.

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00:17:11,551 --> 00:17:16,643
I had never experienced
that, and so I drove to work

278
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really excited,
I got all dressed up.

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I've always worked in spaces
that are meant to advocate

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or uplift the Black community.

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And when Donald Trump
became president, it was,

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it was a challenging time,
to say the least.

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00:17:34,835 --> 00:17:37,534
Um, so it felt like it
was a new day, you know?

284
00:17:37,621 --> 00:17:41,973
Joe Biden campaigned
on a message of unity,

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and it was something that
we had not heard in a few years,

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so I was really,
really, really excited

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00:17:47,761 --> 00:17:50,590
to see what the future
held.

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00:17:50,677 --> 00:17:55,639
[indistinct speech in distance]

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[Rep. Raskin]
I remember driving
down North Capitol Street,

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passing Lincoln's cottage
and the Rock Creek Cemetery,

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00:18:05,562 --> 00:18:08,217
which is acres of tombstones.

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00:18:09,870 --> 00:18:13,352
My whole life, I've thought
a lot about Abraham Lincoln.

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That day, I thought
about Lincoln

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losing his son in 1862

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00:18:20,490 --> 00:18:23,188
near the beginning
of the Civil War,

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00:18:23,275 --> 00:18:27,497
and not being able to properly
grieve for his son

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00:18:27,584 --> 00:18:29,847
and being pulled
immediately into all of

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00:18:29,934 --> 00:18:34,330
the military
planning and everything.

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[Rep. Raskin] I want to thank
all of you for coming

300
00:18:36,158 --> 00:18:40,031
and sharing our grief.

301
00:18:40,118 --> 00:18:44,209
Sharing our joy also,
about the life of Tommy.

302
00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,300
I've lost something
so fundamental,

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00:18:48,387 --> 00:18:52,217
so elemental in my life
I am not sure at times

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00:18:52,304 --> 00:18:54,306
that I even
recognize the world.

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00:19:00,007 --> 00:19:06,449
Uh, my son Tommy had taken
his life on December 31st, 2020,

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um, after...

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00:19:10,192 --> 00:19:11,584
um...

308
00:19:11,671 --> 00:19:15,109
a long seesaw battle
with depression.

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00:19:15,197 --> 00:19:19,375
[♪]

310
00:19:19,462 --> 00:19:23,292
[indistinct chatter]

311
00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:32,170
This was obviously
an overwhelming trauma

312
00:19:32,257 --> 00:19:35,608
and catastrophe
in the life of our family.

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We had his graveside service,
on January 5th.

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00:19:43,225 --> 00:19:46,750
The next day,
January 6th...

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was the day
constitutionally assigned for

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00:19:50,841 --> 00:19:52,669
Congress to meet
in joint session

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00:19:52,756 --> 00:19:55,106
to receive
the Electoral College votes.

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The Speaker called to ask if
I could come in,

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and I told her
that I could come

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00:20:00,938 --> 00:20:05,638
because the Democrats
had an extremely
narrow majority,

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00:20:05,725 --> 00:20:08,424
and of course I was miserable

322
00:20:08,511 --> 00:20:14,125
and I was grieving, but the
truth is that I knew that Tommy

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would be in my heart,
he would be in my chest.

324
00:20:18,172 --> 00:20:20,131
I felt him there
from the beginning,

325
00:20:20,218 --> 00:20:24,178
and I knew that he would
want me to be hanging tough.

326
00:20:25,441 --> 00:20:28,313
That became
a governing logic for me

327
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,446
in everything
that was to come.

328
00:20:30,533 --> 00:20:34,232
[♪]

329
00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:40,282
[Rep. Raskin]
Our youngest daughter, Tabitha,
decided to come with me,

330
00:20:42,066 --> 00:20:44,373
and so did my son-in-law, Hank,

331
00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,244
who's married
to our daughter Hannah.

332
00:20:49,769 --> 00:20:51,989
We looked out the window and
we could see these streams

333
00:20:52,076 --> 00:20:55,079
of protestors coming
towards the Capitol.

334
00:20:56,254 --> 00:20:58,387
I just had never
seen that before.

335
00:20:58,474 --> 00:20:59,779
[crowd] [chanting]
Where's Antifa?

336
00:20:59,866 --> 00:21:01,085
Where's Antifa?

337
00:21:01,172 --> 00:21:02,434
Where's Antifa?

338
00:21:02,521 --> 00:21:08,701
[indistinct clamor]

339
00:21:08,788 --> 00:21:13,750
[Chief Contee] My assumption
was that the Capitol police
were well prepared,

340
00:21:13,837 --> 00:21:16,318
much like the Metropolitan
Police Department.

341
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:19,973
What I saw
that was concerning to me

342
00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:21,801
is that there were not
very many

343
00:21:21,888 --> 00:21:25,675
Capitol police officers there
at the, at the bike rack.

344
00:21:25,762 --> 00:21:28,112
And this was really the first
point where they

345
00:21:28,199 --> 00:21:30,288
had to confront
some of the protestors.

346
00:21:30,375 --> 00:21:33,857
[clamoring]

347
00:21:33,944 --> 00:21:36,512
And I'm not exactly sure
strategically

348
00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:38,601
why they were
deployed that way.

349
00:21:38,688 --> 00:21:42,996
[crowd] [chanting]
USA. USA. USA. USA.

350
00:21:43,083 --> 00:21:46,913
[crowd clamoring]

351
00:21:55,487 --> 00:21:58,055
[man]
They breached the area here.

352
00:21:58,142 --> 00:21:59,143
Holy shit, guys.

353
00:22:03,582 --> 00:22:04,714
Holy shit, holy shit.

354
00:22:12,678 --> 00:22:13,723
[man]
Let's go!!

355
00:22:13,810 --> 00:22:18,641
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

356
00:22:18,728 --> 00:22:20,991
[Chief Contee]
If that had been defended
differently, you know--

357
00:22:21,078 --> 00:22:23,123
I can Monday-morning
quarterback it, but you know,

358
00:22:23,385 --> 00:22:25,517
what if there were
enough people there

359
00:22:25,604 --> 00:22:27,563
when that initial group
came there?

360
00:22:27,650 --> 00:22:29,521
You know, would things
have been different?

361
00:22:36,049 --> 00:22:38,487
[Rep. Raskin]
We looked out the
window and Tabitha said,

362
00:22:38,574 --> 00:22:41,011
"Are the police gonna be able
to stop all these people?"

363
00:22:41,098 --> 00:22:44,754
And I said, "Yeah, it'll
be safe, it's the Capitol."

364
00:22:44,841 --> 00:22:46,669
[indistinct shouting]

365
00:22:46,756 --> 00:22:49,846
[Erica]
We saw the protestors were
getting closer to the building,

366
00:22:49,933 --> 00:22:53,371
but I didn't take it seriously
because I thought the Capitol

367
00:22:53,458 --> 00:22:55,808
was one of the safest
buildings in the world.

368
00:22:55,895 --> 00:22:57,854
[protestor]
This is our house!

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00:22:57,941 --> 00:23:00,726
[Erica]
We had been hearing chatter
of a potential protest,

370
00:23:00,813 --> 00:23:03,686
but that wasn't
out of the ordinary,

371
00:23:04,208 --> 00:23:06,558
so I just figured, you know,
that's what comes with
the territory of the day.

372
00:23:09,169 --> 00:23:12,390
[chanting]
USA! USA!

373
00:23:12,477 --> 00:23:14,653
[Rep. Raskin] I did
feel more nervous about it,

374
00:23:14,740 --> 00:23:17,395
but the Capitol police
felt like they were ready,
they were on top of it,

375
00:23:17,482 --> 00:23:20,790
so I gave Tabitha
and Hank a kiss goodbye,

376
00:23:20,877 --> 00:23:22,966
I said, "I'll see you out
at the floor," you know,

377
00:23:23,053 --> 00:23:26,012
"I'll be able to look up
at you in the gallery."

378
00:23:26,099 --> 00:23:27,971
[reporter]
<i>Rhonda, we're also seeing
Senators gather</i>

379
00:23:28,058 --> 00:23:32,105
<i>and prepare to
walk over to the House Chamber.</i>

380
00:23:32,192 --> 00:23:34,368
[Erica]
We were preparing for there
to be a convening

381
00:23:34,456 --> 00:23:37,197
of the full body of Congress
to certify these votes.

382
00:23:37,284 --> 00:23:40,070
I was really excited
just, just to be there.

383
00:23:40,157 --> 00:23:43,247
And I remember House Majority
Whip Jim Clyburn

384
00:23:43,334 --> 00:23:45,989
doing his various press
interviews and taking
kind of a selfie

385
00:23:46,076 --> 00:23:49,949
of myself with the
Congressman, as I do.

386
00:23:50,036 --> 00:23:53,605
[indistinct chatter]

387
00:23:53,692 --> 00:23:56,956
[Erica]
I was recording the Senators
walking over

388
00:23:57,043 --> 00:24:00,482
and posting it to Instagram, and
I think I said something like,

389
00:24:00,569 --> 00:24:03,049
"Let the certification begin,"
or something cheesy like that.

390
00:24:03,136 --> 00:24:04,703
[chuckles]

391
00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:06,009
[gavel bangs]

392
00:24:06,096 --> 00:24:07,793
Madam Speaker,
members of Congress,

393
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,405
pursuant to the Constitution and
the laws of the United States...

394
00:24:11,493 --> 00:24:14,452
On the House floor,
they passed out the memo

395
00:24:14,539 --> 00:24:16,759
from Vice President Pence

396
00:24:16,846 --> 00:24:18,848
saying that he was not going

397
00:24:18,935 --> 00:24:22,068
to assert unilateral powers

398
00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:25,594
to reject Electoral College
votes from the states.

399
00:24:25,681 --> 00:24:27,291
That memo told you precisely

400
00:24:27,378 --> 00:24:29,249
what Trump was trying
to get him to do,

401
00:24:29,336 --> 00:24:30,947
and he explained
why he couldn't do it

402
00:24:31,034 --> 00:24:34,211
and why it was not consistent
with the Constitution.

403
00:24:34,298 --> 00:24:36,866
So, I breathed a sigh of relief
because that was good news.

404
00:24:36,953 --> 00:24:38,955
After ascertainment
has been had

405
00:24:39,042 --> 00:24:42,915
that the certificates are
authentic and correct in form,

406
00:24:43,002 --> 00:24:45,527
the tellers will count and
make a list of the votes...

407
00:24:45,614 --> 00:24:47,485
[Erica]
A lot of us went into the
Congressman's office because

408
00:24:47,572 --> 00:24:49,705
the Congressman was
on the House floor

409
00:24:49,792 --> 00:24:52,185
dealing with
the certification by then.

410
00:24:52,272 --> 00:24:54,492
Outside of the Congressmen's
window,

411
00:24:54,579 --> 00:24:58,365
we could see the protestors
were getting closer,

412
00:24:58,452 --> 00:25:01,281
and it just seemed like they
were getting closer and closer.

413
00:25:01,368 --> 00:25:03,675
[indistinct cheering]

414
00:25:03,762 --> 00:25:06,635
[Erica]
But even then, I was just like,
"That's closer than usual,

415
00:25:06,722 --> 00:25:08,332
but you know,
Capitol police will be fine."

416
00:25:08,419 --> 00:25:13,903
[indistinct crowd cheering]

417
00:25:13,990 --> 00:25:15,339
[crowd] [chanting]
Our house!

418
00:25:16,732 --> 00:25:18,951
[chanting]
USA! USA!

419
00:25:19,038 --> 00:25:22,955
USA! USA! USA!

420
00:25:23,042 --> 00:25:25,088
USA! USA!

421
00:25:25,175 --> 00:25:26,568
Let's go, let's go.

422
00:25:26,655 --> 00:25:30,180
[clamoring]

423
00:25:35,402 --> 00:25:39,624
[Chief Contee] While that
first wave of people breached
the West Side of the Capitol,

424
00:25:39,711 --> 00:25:43,454
we get the call that
we have a suspicious package,

425
00:25:43,541 --> 00:25:48,024
one at the RNC, another
suspicious package at the DNC.

426
00:25:48,111 --> 00:25:50,766
And these things turned out
to be, like, real pipe bombs.

427
00:25:50,853 --> 00:25:53,638
[crowd] We the people!
We the people!

428
00:25:53,725 --> 00:25:55,597
[Chief Contee]
And almost simultaneously,

429
00:25:55,684 --> 00:25:59,296
we also get the call
as the Metropolitan
Police Department

430
00:25:59,383 --> 00:26:02,647
to come in to assist with
what's going on at the Capitol.

431
00:26:02,734 --> 00:26:06,825
[♪]

432
00:26:08,522 --> 00:26:11,787
And this is local law
enforcement coming to the aid
of the federal government.

433
00:26:11,874 --> 00:26:13,440
We don't do that in the
Metropolitan Police Department.

434
00:26:13,527 --> 00:26:15,747
It's not our area
of responsibility.

435
00:26:15,834 --> 00:26:19,621
[♪]

436
00:26:24,364 --> 00:26:25,801
[Christina Laury]
We were broken up
into three squads,

437
00:26:25,888 --> 00:26:27,933
and I remember we're getting
ready for the day,

438
00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:29,631
and we're like it's just
going to be a normal day,

439
00:26:29,718 --> 00:26:31,502
you know they just needed
more manpower just in case.

440
00:26:31,589 --> 00:26:34,505
And within seconds,
the radio goes off.

441
00:26:34,592 --> 00:26:37,377
And everything just changed.

442
00:26:37,464 --> 00:26:40,554
The mood that we were just in
30 seconds ago was, was gone.

443
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:47,083
[crowd] [chanting]
USA! USA! USA! USA!

444
00:26:47,170 --> 00:26:49,825
[Chief Contee]
The scene was so chaotic
on the West front of the Capitol

445
00:26:49,912 --> 00:26:52,044
that the US Capitol police

446
00:26:52,131 --> 00:26:54,743
requested the services
of the National Guard.

447
00:26:54,830 --> 00:27:00,792
[♪]

448
00:27:06,406 --> 00:27:08,844
Every minute was precious,
as far as I'm concerned.

449
00:27:08,931 --> 00:27:10,584
We got what's happening
at the Capitol.

450
00:27:10,672 --> 00:27:13,762
We got pipe bombs at the RNC
and DNC-- real pipe bombs.

451
00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:16,547
We got members deployed there,
and we still have this

452
00:27:16,634 --> 00:27:19,463
large group of people that
have not even stepped off

453
00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:22,248
from the Ellipse to make
their way towards the Capitol.

454
00:27:22,335 --> 00:27:25,512
Right here, we're going
to walk down to the Capitol!

455
00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:28,428
[crowd cheering]

456
00:27:31,518 --> 00:27:34,957
[President Trump]
The kind of pride and boldness
that they need

457
00:27:35,044 --> 00:27:36,698
to take back our country.

458
00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:40,353
So, let's walk down
Pennsylvania Avenue.

459
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,964
I want to thank you all,

460
00:27:42,051 --> 00:27:45,663
God bless you
and God bless America.

461
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:47,099
Thank you all for being here.

462
00:27:47,186 --> 00:27:48,927
This is incredible.
Thank you very much.

463
00:27:49,014 --> 00:27:52,104
[crowd]
Whooooo!

464
00:27:52,191 --> 00:27:56,021
[chanting]
1776! 1776!

465
00:27:56,108 --> 00:27:58,241
[Chief Contee]
After the President finished
his speech,

466
00:27:58,328 --> 00:27:59,808
there was just like, you know,

467
00:27:59,895 --> 00:28:02,985
wave after wave
after wave of people,

468
00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:05,988
who didn't even have a barricade
to walk by at this point.

469
00:28:06,075 --> 00:28:07,685
I mean, it's just a mob
of people.

470
00:28:07,772 --> 00:28:11,254
[indistinct crowd chatter]

471
00:28:11,341 --> 00:28:13,082
[Mel]
On the way to the Capitol
building--

472
00:28:21,133 --> 00:28:23,222
- Whose flag?
- Our flag!

473
00:28:23,309 --> 00:28:25,442
Whose streets?
Our streets!

474
00:28:25,964 --> 00:28:27,487
- Yeah!
- God Bless America, baby!

475
00:28:27,574 --> 00:28:28,532
MEL
How you feeling, Nate?

476
00:28:29,315 --> 00:28:31,535
[Nate] Oh, I'm feeling ready,
bro. Readier than ever.

477
00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:34,930
[woman] They're
evacuating the building.

478
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:37,106
[man] Occupy the Capitol.
Our building.

479
00:28:37,193 --> 00:28:38,237
[woman] They're
evacuating the building.

480
00:28:38,324 --> 00:28:39,325
[man]
Nobody else's building.

481
00:28:39,412 --> 00:28:40,500
It's ours...

482
00:28:40,587 --> 00:28:43,199
<i>♪ ...marching on ♪</i>

483
00:28:43,286 --> 00:28:45,984
<i>♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪</i>

484
00:28:46,071 --> 00:28:50,597
Then, once I got to the Capitol,
the "oh shit" moment

485
00:28:50,684 --> 00:28:53,644
really happened
where you're like, fuck!

486
00:28:53,731 --> 00:28:54,863
[crowd]
We live for freedom!

487
00:28:56,647 --> 00:28:58,127
Come see it.

488
00:28:58,214 --> 00:28:59,302
Come see these people
take this house back.

489
00:28:59,389 --> 00:29:00,607
Come see it.

490
00:29:02,479 --> 00:29:07,179
[Mel]
This looks like some shit
out of a crazy-ass movie set.

491
00:29:07,266 --> 00:29:08,833
[protestor]
This is democracy!

492
00:29:09,094 --> 00:29:11,575
This is what you get
with rule of the mob!

493
00:29:11,967 --> 00:29:14,752
[Mel]
I get up to this structure,
and I just hear people saying,

494
00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:16,623
"Everyone gotta get off,
it's too many people,

495
00:29:16,710 --> 00:29:18,103
this is gonna collapse."

496
00:29:20,323 --> 00:29:21,541
[woman]
Stop the steal!

497
00:29:25,807 --> 00:29:27,547
[Mel]
Where are people gonna go?

498
00:29:27,634 --> 00:29:29,680
Are people actually gonna
go in the fucking building?

499
00:29:29,767 --> 00:29:31,247
Like what the hell is happening?

500
00:29:31,334 --> 00:29:32,552
Where are the police?

501
00:29:32,639 --> 00:29:34,250
[crowd] [chanting]
We want Trump!

502
00:29:34,337 --> 00:29:36,034
We want Trump!

503
00:29:36,121 --> 00:29:37,557
[man]
We're at the gate,
we're coming through

504
00:29:37,644 --> 00:29:39,124
this motherfucker tonight.

505
00:29:39,211 --> 00:29:40,430
We're at the door.

506
00:29:40,517 --> 00:29:42,214
We're right here,
we're coming in.

507
00:29:42,301 --> 00:29:44,042
We're not stopping, goddamnit!

508
00:29:44,521 --> 00:29:46,479
This is our house
motherfuckers!

509
00:29:47,045 --> 00:29:48,090
[crowd] [chanting]
USA!

510
00:29:55,488 --> 00:29:57,577
DC [MPD] 42,
disregard Constitution.

511
00:29:57,664 --> 00:29:59,710
[indistinct]
...will respond over there.

512
00:29:59,797 --> 00:30:01,581
[Daniel]
We received the order
to go to the Capitol,

513
00:30:01,668 --> 00:30:03,888
and we were putting on our gear
when eventually our sergeant

514
00:30:03,975 --> 00:30:06,412
said, "All right, that's enough,
whatever you got on
is gonna be it.

515
00:30:06,499 --> 00:30:07,979
It's time to move."

516
00:30:08,066 --> 00:30:10,677
So, we all got in the van
and started driving.

517
00:30:10,764 --> 00:30:14,551
[honking and siren wailing]

518
00:30:19,991 --> 00:30:22,951
[Christina]
I was racing faster than
I've ever driven a police car

519
00:30:23,038 --> 00:30:24,213
in my life to get down there.

520
00:30:24,474 --> 00:30:27,085
[distant police siren]

521
00:30:27,172 --> 00:30:29,348
[Christina]
When we got out of the car,
there were thousands

522
00:30:29,435 --> 00:30:30,480
and thousands of people.

523
00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:34,527
[clamoring]

524
00:30:34,614 --> 00:30:36,703
[Christina]
There was no orders
at that point.

525
00:30:36,790 --> 00:30:39,619
There was too much going on
to have any type of orders,

526
00:30:39,706 --> 00:30:41,708
and I did not think that
we were going to be able

527
00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:43,406
to get through the crowd.

528
00:30:43,493 --> 00:30:44,668
I didn't think they would
allow us to get through.

529
00:30:44,755 --> 00:30:48,628
[clamoring]

530
00:30:54,939 --> 00:30:57,072
[woman]
This is our 1776.

531
00:30:57,159 --> 00:31:00,031
We need to continue
to storm this Capitol.

532
00:31:00,118 --> 00:31:03,252
Do not let police through,
they are traitors.

533
00:31:03,339 --> 00:31:05,907
[indistinct crowd speech]

534
00:31:18,397 --> 00:31:21,139
[crowd clamoring]

535
00:31:23,968 --> 00:31:25,143
[Daniel]
There were so many people.

536
00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:29,974
They had us comically
outnumbered.

537
00:31:32,281 --> 00:31:34,283
One guy asked me,
"Are you my brother?"

538
00:31:34,370 --> 00:31:36,676
It took me a second to process
what he was asking me.

539
00:31:36,763 --> 00:31:39,723
"Do you actually think
I want to overthrow
the government with you?"

540
00:31:39,810 --> 00:31:42,552
[clamoring]

541
00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:45,337
If it was just the couple
hundred that committed

542
00:31:45,424 --> 00:31:48,297
the extreme acts of violence,
we coulda handled that.

543
00:31:48,384 --> 00:31:51,213
It's the thousands and thousands
of people backing them up.

544
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,564
[clamoring]

545
00:31:54,651 --> 00:31:56,044
[Daniel] It was the crowd
that was the weapon.

546
00:31:56,131 --> 00:32:00,918
[clamoring]

547
00:32:01,005 --> 00:32:03,877
[Christina]
I'm seeing objects
being flown at us,

548
00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:05,227
screaming at other
officers to duck

549
00:32:05,314 --> 00:32:06,880
because they're about
to get hit with a brick.

550
00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:14,018
[Daniel]
They started attacking us.

551
00:32:14,105 --> 00:32:15,889
One guy tried to grab my baton.

552
00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:17,979
I was taking blows
from all sides.

553
00:32:18,066 --> 00:32:20,546
I felt something heavy
come down into my head.

554
00:32:20,633 --> 00:32:22,722
Eventually I went to the ground,

555
00:32:24,811 --> 00:32:28,163
and the guy I was wrestling with
kicked me in the chest.

556
00:32:30,948 --> 00:32:32,950
The medical mask I was wearing
at the time had actually

557
00:32:33,037 --> 00:32:36,258
gotten pulled up over my eyes,
so when I was on the ground

558
00:32:36,345 --> 00:32:39,783
on all fours I was also blind,
and I was afraid I was just

559
00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,567
about to get dogpiled
and destroyed.

560
00:32:41,654 --> 00:32:45,658
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

561
00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:53,666
I lost my radio, my baton,

562
00:32:55,712 --> 00:32:58,932
uh, I can't remember now, but
a few other pieces of equipment.

563
00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:01,022
You couldn't defend yourself
and your gear at the same time,

564
00:33:01,109 --> 00:33:02,545
so you just had to let it go.

565
00:33:07,289 --> 00:33:10,944
When I, thankfully
got back up on my feet,

566
00:33:11,032 --> 00:33:12,511
I led my platoon
through the crowd

567
00:33:12,598 --> 00:33:14,992
until we got to
the terrace proper,

568
00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:17,777
and we joined Capitol police
and the rest of MPD there.

569
00:33:21,477 --> 00:33:23,305
You couldn't get any closer
to the Capitol at that point

570
00:33:23,392 --> 00:33:25,307
without going inside, honestly.

571
00:33:25,394 --> 00:33:28,223
So, I knew at that point
that it was imperative

572
00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:29,572
that we keep them out.

573
00:33:33,619 --> 00:33:35,404
Fuck you!

574
00:33:35,491 --> 00:33:36,492
Fuck you!

575
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,453
You're a fucking scumbag!
Scumbag!

576
00:33:41,540 --> 00:33:43,586
You're all fucking scumbags!

577
00:33:43,673 --> 00:33:46,415
You swore a fucking
oath to this country!

578
00:33:46,502 --> 00:33:48,678
That's me right there.

579
00:33:48,765 --> 00:33:51,637
Once I got to the Capitol,
as I walk down the steps

580
00:33:51,724 --> 00:33:53,726
to the West Front,
on this white marble

581
00:33:53,813 --> 00:33:57,078
you're seeing police officers'
gear, blood,

582
00:33:57,165 --> 00:34:00,298
anything and everything that you
can think of that would happen

583
00:34:00,385 --> 00:34:03,301
in a fight, it was happening
right there on the West Front.

584
00:34:08,176 --> 00:34:09,699
[indistinct clamoring]

585
00:34:09,786 --> 00:34:13,442
Well, fuck you guys! You
can't call yourselves Americans!

586
00:34:13,529 --> 00:34:16,358
You broke your fucking
oath today!

587
00:34:16,445 --> 00:34:18,577
1776, man!

588
00:34:18,664 --> 00:34:21,798
[indistinct clamor continues]

589
00:34:22,799 --> 00:34:25,671
[Christina]
When we go through our training,
we are required to get sprayed

590
00:34:25,758 --> 00:34:29,240
with OC, which is pepper spray,
so we know how we react,

591
00:34:29,327 --> 00:34:30,850
we know how our body reacts.

592
00:34:30,937 --> 00:34:32,678
It was not fun.

593
00:34:32,765 --> 00:34:35,116
It lasts for about 45 minutes
before you can see again,

594
00:34:35,203 --> 00:34:36,813
you feel better again.

595
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:38,380
Bear mace--

596
00:34:38,467 --> 00:34:43,167
compared to that,
OC is, like, on level 10.

597
00:34:43,863 --> 00:34:45,213
I was just blinded.

598
00:34:47,171 --> 00:34:48,477
[MPD] You okay?

599
00:34:48,564 --> 00:34:49,782
[Christina]
I just can't open my eyes.

600
00:34:49,869 --> 00:34:51,132
[MPD]
Okay, need some more water?

601
00:34:53,743 --> 00:34:55,005
[Christina]
Oh, my God.

602
00:34:55,092 --> 00:34:56,441
[MPD]
I know. You're blinded, right?

603
00:34:58,139 --> 00:35:00,053
They're throwing shit,
so I'm just going to put this
on top of your head.

604
00:35:00,141 --> 00:35:01,533
Alright.

605
00:35:01,620 --> 00:35:02,882
- [MPD] Just in case.
- [Christina] Alright.

606
00:35:02,969 --> 00:35:04,536
[MPD]
I don't want you to get hit.

607
00:35:04,623 --> 00:35:06,538
You're just hopeless
and helpless at that point.

608
00:35:06,625 --> 00:35:07,844
[indistinct speech]

609
00:35:07,931 --> 00:35:09,106
- Can I get more water?
- [MPD] Yeah.

610
00:35:09,193 --> 00:35:11,152
[indistinct speech]

611
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,068
[crowd clamoring in the back]

612
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:25,644
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

613
00:35:34,653 --> 00:35:35,915
[man]
I'm representing our president.

614
00:35:36,002 --> 00:35:37,656
He won this election.

615
00:35:37,743 --> 00:35:40,529
This was stolen from us,
and a million people

616
00:35:40,616 --> 00:35:42,313
are standing in front of
the Capitol, and we know it.

617
00:35:47,405 --> 00:35:49,364
[Vice President Pence]
Are there any objections
to counting the certificate

618
00:35:49,451 --> 00:35:51,496
of vote from the state
of Arizona?

619
00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:54,673
[Rep. Raskin]
We began the counting of
Electoral College votes,

620
00:35:54,978 --> 00:35:57,459
and Arizona was the first one
where there were objections.

621
00:35:58,068 --> 00:36:00,897
[Vice President Pence]
Is the objection in writing
and signed by a Senator?

622
00:36:00,984 --> 00:36:02,986
- Yes, it is.
- It is.

623
00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:05,249
[subdued applause]

624
00:36:05,336 --> 00:36:08,644
[Rep. Raskin]
Something like 50 or 60
Republicans got up to object.

625
00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:12,038
And at that point, the joint
session immediately breaks,

626
00:36:12,125 --> 00:36:13,649
and the House and the Senate
resolve into

627
00:36:13,736 --> 00:36:17,566
our separate chambers
to debate the challenges.

628
00:36:17,653 --> 00:36:22,658
I look back up in the gallery
to see that Tabitha
and Hank were there.

629
00:36:22,745 --> 00:36:25,878
And then it was my turn
to get up,

630
00:36:25,965 --> 00:36:30,056
my basic point was going
to be that the election is over.

631
00:36:30,143 --> 00:36:33,756
It's not our job to vote for the
person we want to be President;

632
00:36:33,843 --> 00:36:39,631
it's our job to certify
the votes that have come in
from the governors.

633
00:36:39,718 --> 00:36:41,154
That's what the job is.

634
00:36:41,242 --> 00:36:44,027
But before getting into it,
I took a second

635
00:36:44,114 --> 00:36:47,422
just to thank the Speaker
and all of the Members

636
00:36:47,509 --> 00:36:50,599
for their condolences.

637
00:36:50,686 --> 00:36:53,819
The gentleman is recognized
without objection for five
minutes.

638
00:36:53,906 --> 00:36:55,908
Madam Speaker,
I wanna thank you first,

639
00:36:55,995 --> 00:36:58,824
and-- and all my dear, beloved
colleagues for your love

640
00:36:58,911 --> 00:37:00,304
and tenderness,
which my family

641
00:37:00,391 --> 00:37:02,698
and I will never forget.

642
00:37:02,785 --> 00:37:06,179
And then, there was this
huge standing ovation...

643
00:37:06,267 --> 00:37:09,008
[applause]

644
00:37:11,402 --> 00:37:15,145
[♪]

645
00:37:24,241 --> 00:37:26,635
[Rep. Raskin]
It was jarring
and disorienting for me

646
00:37:26,722 --> 00:37:30,639
because I could kind of see

647
00:37:30,726 --> 00:37:35,165
them looking at me,

648
00:37:35,252 --> 00:37:37,950
or into me as

649
00:37:38,037 --> 00:37:42,346
a person embodying
tragedy at that point.

650
00:37:45,567 --> 00:37:48,396
It was really a lovely,
wonderful gesture,

651
00:37:48,483 --> 00:37:51,703
but I'm not sure
I totally understood it.

652
00:37:51,790 --> 00:37:57,796
But then I started thinking,
in my kind of sleepless,

653
00:37:57,883 --> 00:38:04,542
disjointed way, "Well, maybe
everyone's love of Tommy,

654
00:38:04,629 --> 00:38:08,372
or sympathy for our family,
would lead to an end

655
00:38:08,459 --> 00:38:11,244
of all of this fighting
over the election."

656
00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:14,900
Maybe they would withdraw
the Stop the Steal campaign,

657
00:38:14,987 --> 00:38:17,120
and they would stop
telling the Big Lie.

658
00:38:17,207 --> 00:38:20,166
It was obviously
a completely irrational thought,

659
00:38:20,253 --> 00:38:23,039
but that's what passed
through my mind right there,

660
00:38:23,126 --> 00:38:26,172
because there was this huge
outpouring of emotion

661
00:38:26,259 --> 00:38:27,304
in this standing ovation.

662
00:38:27,391 --> 00:38:30,133
[subdued applause]

663
00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:33,266
[Rep. Raskin] And then it was
over, and then I launched
into my real speech.

664
00:38:33,354 --> 00:38:35,486
Thank you again.

665
00:38:35,573 --> 00:38:40,622
Abraham Lincoln, whose name
is a comfort to us all,

666
00:38:40,709 --> 00:38:42,363
said we've got
the best government...

667
00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:44,974
[Rep. Raskin] So still at that
point, we had no reason to think

668
00:38:45,061 --> 00:38:50,283
that there was medieval-style
fighting breaking out outside.

669
00:38:50,371 --> 00:38:53,504
We were ready in the way
you'd be ready in a courtroom

670
00:38:53,591 --> 00:38:56,899
or a classroom,
but we weren't ready

671
00:38:56,986 --> 00:39:00,642
in the way we
should've been for
what was about to take place.

672
00:39:00,729 --> 00:39:03,340
[crowd clamoring]

673
00:39:06,387 --> 00:39:08,780
[man] Take their guns!
Take their guns!

674
00:39:18,094 --> 00:39:19,312
[Chief Contee]
Robert Glover,
who's now the Commander

675
00:39:19,748 --> 00:39:21,924
of our Special
Operations Division,

676
00:39:22,011 --> 00:39:24,753
I heard some things in his voice
that I've never heard before.

677
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,276
[protestor]
Pull them! Pull them this way!

678
00:39:37,461 --> 00:39:38,636
[Christina]
Commander Glover, you know,

679
00:39:38,723 --> 00:39:40,377
he knew that we were
losing ground,

680
00:39:40,464 --> 00:39:41,813
and he had no problem
letting us know,

681
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:43,815
"We're losing ground,
we need to back up."

682
00:39:43,902 --> 00:39:45,382
Because we were outnumbered.

683
00:39:45,469 --> 00:39:47,558
We were outnumbered.

684
00:39:47,645 --> 00:39:51,519
It was such a wide line of
people going back for--

685
00:39:51,606 --> 00:39:53,346
this is an exaggeration,
but for miles--

686
00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:55,305
you know, that's how it felt.

687
00:39:55,392 --> 00:39:57,699
[protestor]
What are you going to do
when we defend our Constitution

688
00:39:57,786 --> 00:39:58,787
with the Second Amendment?

689
00:39:58,874 --> 00:40:01,485
What are you going to do then?

690
00:40:04,401 --> 00:40:07,186
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

691
00:40:24,029 --> 00:40:26,205
[MPD]
<i>All people must leave
the area immediately.</i>

692
00:40:26,292 --> 00:40:29,861
<i>If you don't follow this order,
it may subject you to arrest.</i>

693
00:40:29,948 --> 00:40:33,212
[Mel]
These police officers were
completely overwhelmed by

694
00:40:33,299 --> 00:40:35,998
the thousands of people that
were next to me, behind me,

695
00:40:36,085 --> 00:40:37,826
around me.

696
00:40:41,046 --> 00:40:43,266
[Mel]
There were definitely
ex-military personnel.

697
00:40:43,353 --> 00:40:45,094
Ex-police.

698
00:40:45,181 --> 00:40:46,878
There were people that
knew what they were doing,

699
00:40:46,965 --> 00:40:50,534
knew how to lead people,
and if I step back,

700
00:40:50,621 --> 00:40:54,059
I can start hearing
people say that, you know,

701
00:40:54,146 --> 00:40:55,626
they are going in.

702
00:40:55,713 --> 00:40:58,324
This is, you know,
"We are going to go inside,

703
00:40:58,411 --> 00:41:02,590
Donald Trump is meeting us here,
and if you don't let us in,

704
00:41:02,677 --> 00:41:04,722
we're going
to fuck some shit up."

705
00:41:04,809 --> 00:41:07,899
[man] Right now,
the people in the Capitol
are sheltering in place.

706
00:41:07,986 --> 00:41:09,379
We have the Capitol.

707
00:41:11,555 --> 00:41:13,731
[Chief Contee] There's just
so much that's going on.

708
00:41:13,818 --> 00:41:16,952
And from a command standpoint--
a Chief of Police standpoint--

709
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:19,650
I need to be in a position
where I can command

710
00:41:19,737 --> 00:41:21,304
what's happening
for the entire city,

711
00:41:21,391 --> 00:41:23,480
and the mayor needs to know

712
00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:25,830
exactly what's going on
at that point.

713
00:41:25,917 --> 00:41:28,746
And I told her that I would
meet her at our command center.

714
00:41:28,833 --> 00:41:30,879
[indistinct speech]

715
00:41:30,966 --> 00:41:35,274
[indistinct crowd speech]

716
00:41:35,361 --> 00:41:38,016
[Chief Contee]
Now I have a view of what's
happening at the Capitol.

717
00:41:38,103 --> 00:41:39,888
I have a view of what's
happening at the Ellipse,

718
00:41:39,975 --> 00:41:42,368
I have a view of what's
happening at Freedom Plaza.

719
00:41:42,455 --> 00:41:43,935
I was sending
everything that I had

720
00:41:44,022 --> 00:41:46,111
because our democracy
was under attack.

721
00:41:46,198 --> 00:41:50,246
What we really needed to see
were National Guardsmen

722
00:41:50,333 --> 00:41:51,552
at the US Capitol.

723
00:42:00,517 --> 00:42:02,475
At that point,
we had a phone call

724
00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:04,477
that was convened by myself,

725
00:42:04,565 --> 00:42:05,957
by the Mayor of the District
of Columbia,

726
00:42:06,610 --> 00:42:09,221
several representatives
of the DC National Guard,

727
00:42:09,308 --> 00:42:12,224
the US Capitol Police Chief,
where he essentially was

728
00:42:12,311 --> 00:42:15,314
pleading for assistance
from the National Guard.

729
00:42:15,401 --> 00:42:17,403
I just simply said,
"Wait a minute.

730
00:42:17,490 --> 00:42:21,233
What I hear is the Chief
of the Capitol Police

731
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,975
asking for additional resources
from the National Guard

732
00:42:24,062 --> 00:42:27,022
to be deployed
to the US Capitol.

733
00:42:27,109 --> 00:42:28,763
Chief, is that
what you're saying?'

734
00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:30,765
This is on a bridge call.

735
00:42:30,852 --> 00:42:32,593
He said, "That is exactly
what I'm saying."

736
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,377
Chief Sund said that.

737
00:42:34,464 --> 00:42:38,381
In response to that,
whoever on the other side,

738
00:42:38,468 --> 00:42:42,646
from the representatives
from the Defense Department,

739
00:42:42,733 --> 00:42:47,042
the discussion then switched
to talking about optics,

740
00:42:47,129 --> 00:42:49,392
and boots on the ground,
and what that would look like,

741
00:42:49,479 --> 00:42:52,221
which, you know,
in a crisis situation,

742
00:42:52,308 --> 00:42:55,224
I don't care what it looks like.
It looks like help to me.

743
00:42:55,311 --> 00:42:59,881
[crowd clamoring]

744
00:43:11,109 --> 00:43:14,025
[Chief Contee]
So, I asked all who
were on this call,

745
00:43:14,112 --> 00:43:16,854
"Are you saying that you're
not going to deploy personnel?"

746
00:43:16,941 --> 00:43:19,901
"No, we're not saying that,
what we are saying is that

747
00:43:19,988 --> 00:43:21,816
optics, and this and that
and so forth."

748
00:43:21,903 --> 00:43:23,339
It was very disturbing.

749
00:43:23,426 --> 00:43:27,256
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

750
00:43:53,586 --> 00:43:57,678
This is a bad situation,
we have to do the best we can

751
00:43:57,765 --> 00:44:01,203
to defend this Capitol,
to defend our democracy

752
00:44:01,290 --> 00:44:02,465
with everything that we got.

753
00:44:02,552 --> 00:44:06,295
[♪]

754
00:44:08,210 --> 00:44:11,300
Apparently, the National
Guard were blocks away.

755
00:44:11,779 --> 00:44:14,651
That makes me mad,
because I don't even know-

756
00:44:14,738 --> 00:44:18,829
I don't even wanna know
how many officers were there

757
00:44:18,916 --> 00:44:20,178
that could have helped us...

758
00:44:21,919 --> 00:44:23,791
I don't even wanna know,
because that will just

759
00:44:25,401 --> 00:44:26,707
blow me up.

760
00:44:28,143 --> 00:44:31,102
As someone who served six years
in the Virginia National Guard,

761
00:44:31,189 --> 00:44:34,192
I was aware of the National
Guard and how they could

762
00:44:34,279 --> 00:44:35,846
possibly respond.

763
00:44:35,933 --> 00:44:39,023
I also knew that they
take time to respond.

764
00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:42,244
I don't know why anyone
would've delayed that.

765
00:44:42,331 --> 00:44:45,203
[clamoring]

766
00:44:48,380 --> 00:44:52,297
My officers didn't know that
not only were they breaching

767
00:44:52,384 --> 00:44:56,084
the West Side of the Capitol,
the East Side of the Capitol

768
00:44:56,171 --> 00:44:57,738
was also being breached.

769
00:44:57,825 --> 00:45:01,393
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

770
00:45:05,484 --> 00:45:09,053
[crowd] [chanting]
USA! USA! USA!

771
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,804
So, they had essentially
been surrounded.

772
00:45:26,288 --> 00:45:29,378
It just kept getting crazier
and crazier and crazier...

773
00:45:29,465 --> 00:45:31,510
[crowd clamoring]

774
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,654
[protestor]
We're taking it!

775
00:45:44,741 --> 00:45:46,047
We're storming the House!

776
00:45:50,486 --> 00:45:54,098
I was saying to people,
"Where are we going?
What are we doing?"

777
00:45:54,185 --> 00:45:57,928
It was a lot of, we, we,
we, we, we to comfort them,

778
00:45:58,015 --> 00:45:59,712
you know?

779
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,890
And it's also a way to comfort
myself to like, you know,

780
00:46:02,977 --> 00:46:06,241
so I can feel safer to let
you know that I am not a threat.

781
00:46:06,328 --> 00:46:08,460
I have cameras,
but not a threat.

782
00:46:08,547 --> 00:46:14,336
[indistinct speech]

783
00:46:18,949 --> 00:46:22,474
[indistinct speech]

784
00:46:38,490 --> 00:46:39,840
It's gonna be a stampede.

785
00:46:40,318 --> 00:46:41,580
In my mind, I'm like, "I don't
know if I'm being dramatic,

786
00:46:41,667 --> 00:46:43,234
but this might turn
into a stampede."

787
00:46:43,321 --> 00:46:46,063
I don't know if we can
control this or contain it.

788
00:46:46,585 --> 00:46:48,849
[clamoring]

789
00:46:48,936 --> 00:46:52,853
[♪]

790
00:46:59,033 --> 00:47:02,384
[officer coughing]

791
00:47:13,438 --> 00:47:19,009
[Erica]
I remember watching as police
officers were clearly exhausted.

792
00:47:19,096 --> 00:47:20,576
It started to look abnormal.

793
00:47:22,578 --> 00:47:25,015
And then there was like
a beeping in the office.

794
00:47:25,102 --> 00:47:27,191
[device beeping]

795
00:47:27,278 --> 00:47:29,193
[Erica]
I guess there's some sort of
security device in the office

796
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,761
that I never knew existed.

797
00:47:31,848 --> 00:47:33,458
Then we started getting
directives from

798
00:47:33,545 --> 00:47:35,808
our chief of staff,
from the office manager.

799
00:47:35,896 --> 00:47:38,028
She told me to wear flats,

800
00:47:38,115 --> 00:47:39,725
and she told me
to pack up my bags.

801
00:47:39,812 --> 00:47:42,424
[indistinct speech]

802
00:47:54,175 --> 00:47:57,439
[newscaster]
<i>Person outside has attempted
to enter on the Senate side</i>

803
00:47:57,526 --> 00:47:59,528
<i>of the building.</i>

804
00:47:59,615 --> 00:48:02,009
[Erica]
We had a television in the
office, we also had windows,

805
00:48:02,096 --> 00:48:04,489
so we could see that they
were clearly, you know,

806
00:48:04,576 --> 00:48:05,838
closing in on us.

807
00:48:05,926 --> 00:48:07,928
[indistinct shouting]

808
00:48:11,148 --> 00:48:14,456
But despite the beeping,
despite huddling

809
00:48:14,543 --> 00:48:18,068
in the Congressman's office,
nothing made it real

810
00:48:18,155 --> 00:48:20,592
until those people
actually got inside.

811
00:48:24,814 --> 00:48:27,208
[clamoring]

812
00:48:33,475 --> 00:48:38,262
[Rep. Raskin]
I first got a text from a
friend in California saying,

813
00:48:38,349 --> 00:48:39,872
"Are you okay?
Is everything alright?"

814
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,179
And I said, "Yes,
what do you mean?"

815
00:48:42,266 --> 00:48:45,139
And she said, "There's
a breach in the Capitol.

816
00:48:45,226 --> 00:48:47,315
There's violence outside."

817
00:48:47,402 --> 00:48:49,360
And I looked around the room
and I noticed that

818
00:48:49,447 --> 00:48:52,015
lots of people
were getting messages

819
00:48:52,102 --> 00:48:53,799
and people
were beginning to talk.

820
00:48:53,886 --> 00:48:55,714
[indistinct chatter]

821
00:48:55,801 --> 00:48:59,544
[clamoring]

822
00:49:06,899 --> 00:49:10,903
[Rep. Raskin]
Within a couple of minutes,
Speaker Pelosi's security detail

823
00:49:10,991 --> 00:49:12,993
escorted her off of the floor.

824
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,081
[crowd clamoring , cheering]

825
00:49:14,168 --> 00:49:15,212
[device beeping]

826
00:49:25,527 --> 00:49:27,485
[Rep. Raskin]
Some people on our side
of the aisle began to scream,

827
00:49:27,572 --> 00:49:30,445
"This is because of you,
this is what you wanted."

828
00:49:30,532 --> 00:49:32,925
[indistinct speech]

829
00:49:33,013 --> 00:49:35,624
[Rep. Raskin]
I immediately looked back up
into the gallery.

830
00:49:35,711 --> 00:49:37,843
Tabitha and Hank
were no longer there.

831
00:49:37,930 --> 00:49:40,890
[♪]

832
00:49:40,977 --> 00:49:42,805
[indistinct speech in the back]

833
00:50:05,828 --> 00:50:07,917
Oh, Nancy!

834
00:50:08,004 --> 00:50:09,875
Where are you, Nancy?

835
00:50:09,962 --> 00:50:13,009
[Erica]
Our office was right above
Nancy Pelosi's office,

836
00:50:13,096 --> 00:50:14,750
the Speaker of the House.

837
00:50:14,837 --> 00:50:17,840
Three of my colleagues went out,
and our staff assistant

838
00:50:17,927 --> 00:50:22,584
said she came
face to face with one of
the insurrectionists.

839
00:50:22,671 --> 00:50:25,108
We were in the room,
and she was banging on the door,

840
00:50:25,195 --> 00:50:26,501
and she said, "They're inside.

841
00:50:26,588 --> 00:50:28,459
They're inside. Let me in!"

842
00:50:28,546 --> 00:50:30,244
They were extremely rattled.

843
00:50:30,331 --> 00:50:32,115
And they said that we
needed to stay here.

844
00:50:32,202 --> 00:50:34,117
Like we cannot leave.

845
00:50:34,204 --> 00:50:36,554
That was, I think
the turning point for me.

846
00:50:36,641 --> 00:50:41,994
[♪]

847
00:50:42,082 --> 00:50:44,519
[Rep. Raskin]
I called Julie,
my Chief of Staff,

848
00:50:44,606 --> 00:50:48,175
and she said they were
back in Steny's office.

849
00:50:49,350 --> 00:50:51,308
They had locked the door.

850
00:50:51,395 --> 00:50:54,746
She said they had pushed all the
furniture up against the door.

851
00:50:59,490 --> 00:51:03,233
The kids were hiding under,

852
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,670
uh, a desk.

853
00:51:05,757 --> 00:51:10,327
And I learned later that Julie
had taken the-- the fire pick

854
00:51:10,414 --> 00:51:13,722
outta the fireplace and was
wielding it as-- as a weapon.

855
00:51:13,809 --> 00:51:16,290
And I told her to protect
them with her life.

856
00:51:16,855 --> 00:51:19,075
[crowd clamoring]

857
00:51:19,162 --> 00:51:20,468
[protestor]
This is our fucking house.

858
00:51:20,555 --> 00:51:21,817
Our house.

859
00:51:28,867 --> 00:51:30,695
[Erica]
I heard the elevator open,

860
00:51:30,782 --> 00:51:32,958
and I heard them
come up the stairwell,

861
00:51:33,045 --> 00:51:35,613
and so we decided
to stay in place,

862
00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:39,356
turn the lights out and to
just be as quiet as possible

863
00:51:39,443 --> 00:51:41,053
and to barricade the doors.

864
00:51:42,403 --> 00:51:45,014
I had to assume the worst.

865
00:51:45,101 --> 00:51:47,190
I had to assume these
people were armed.

866
00:51:48,365 --> 00:51:49,932
You kind of go
into survival mode,

867
00:51:50,019 --> 00:51:52,413
like I remember essentially
casing the office, like,

868
00:51:52,500 --> 00:51:54,589
"What can I use as a weapon?"

869
00:51:54,676 --> 00:51:57,722
I remember feeling like

870
00:51:57,809 --> 00:52:02,423
whatever is in here that is
heavy is what I'll have to use,

871
00:52:02,510 --> 00:52:04,903
you know, if it comes to that.

872
00:52:04,990 --> 00:52:08,603
[helicopter whirring]

873
00:52:14,913 --> 00:52:16,306
[crowd clamoring]

874
00:52:19,483 --> 00:52:22,573
[crowd] [chanting]
We want Trump! We want Trump!

875
00:52:25,097 --> 00:52:26,186
[clamoring]

876
00:52:27,317 --> 00:52:28,927
[man] Fuck you,
you fuckin' tyrants!

877
00:52:34,933 --> 00:52:38,241
Whenever I see footage from that
day, it makes my heart race.

878
00:52:38,328 --> 00:52:40,156
You know, I can feel blood--
my blood pressure shoot up,

879
00:52:43,290 --> 00:52:46,641
and it makes me angry.

880
00:52:46,728 --> 00:52:49,209
[protestor]
Lay down your weapons!

881
00:52:49,296 --> 00:52:52,429
Those weapons belong to us!

882
00:52:52,516 --> 00:52:55,127
That helmet, 4-5-1-8,
belongs to me!

883
00:52:55,215 --> 00:52:59,306
Give me my helmet!
Give me my helmet!

884
00:52:59,393 --> 00:53:01,046
Now, Hodges!

885
00:53:01,133 --> 00:53:03,440
<i>D. Hodges,
lay down your weapons!</i>

886
00:53:03,527 --> 00:53:07,531
<i>4-5-1-8,
give me my helmet!</i>

887
00:53:07,618 --> 00:53:08,706
<i>I want my helmet!</i>

888
00:53:08,793 --> 00:53:10,969
Gimme my helmet!

889
00:53:11,056 --> 00:53:13,537
That helmet belongs to me!

890
00:53:13,624 --> 00:53:15,626
<i>I paid for that helmet!</i>

891
00:53:15,713 --> 00:53:17,628
<i>I paid for that vest!</i>

892
00:53:17,715 --> 00:53:19,239
<i>I paid for your salary!</i>

893
00:53:19,326 --> 00:53:20,327
<i>Traitor!</i>

894
00:53:24,592 --> 00:53:26,855
[man]
You're a bunch of sheep, sheep!

895
00:53:26,942 --> 00:53:29,727
[Daniel]
There was just sensory
overload of threats that,

896
00:53:29,814 --> 00:53:31,947
I'm scanning the crowd
rather than paying attention to

897
00:53:32,034 --> 00:53:34,254
what people are shouting at me
because I'm constantly looking

898
00:53:34,341 --> 00:53:36,473
for, uh, someone who's about
to bring out a gun or a knife

899
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,171
or something because I know
that they have them on them.

900
00:53:39,259 --> 00:53:42,349
And I just have to hope
that if I see that I can
react before they do.

901
00:53:42,436 --> 00:53:44,699
[crowd cheering]

902
00:53:44,786 --> 00:53:47,484
[Daniel]
At one point I look over my
shoulder and I see the officers

903
00:53:47,571 --> 00:53:50,095
trying to hold them back
and failing

904
00:53:50,182 --> 00:53:52,489
because their numbers
are overwhelming.

905
00:53:52,576 --> 00:53:56,145
[shouting indistinctly]

906
00:53:58,190 --> 00:54:02,107
At that point, I see
the line break, essentially.

907
00:54:13,989 --> 00:54:15,599
[man]
You better run, cops!

908
00:54:23,912 --> 00:54:26,393
[crowd chanting]

909
00:54:39,449 --> 00:54:41,582
[Daniel]
Each officer just engages
in a pitched battle

910
00:54:41,669 --> 00:54:43,671
with whatever's
in front of them.

911
00:54:43,758 --> 00:54:46,369
People swinging things at our
heads-- sticks, metal poles.

912
00:54:52,593 --> 00:54:55,247
One Sergeant was hit
with a cattle prod.

913
00:54:56,466 --> 00:54:58,599
There was a sledgehammer.

914
00:54:58,686 --> 00:55:00,122
I had someone try
to gouge my eye out.

915
00:55:05,170 --> 00:55:07,869
These people like to believe
that they support blue lives,

916
00:55:07,956 --> 00:55:12,090
but someone came up to me
while I was surrounded and said,

917
00:55:12,177 --> 00:55:13,918
"Things are gonna get real bad.

918
00:55:14,005 --> 00:55:17,139
We need to get you out of here.
What can I do to help?"

919
00:55:17,226 --> 00:55:19,184
And I said, "Go home."

920
00:55:19,271 --> 00:55:20,969
And he said,
"Not gonna happen."

921
00:55:23,058 --> 00:55:25,408
And at that point,
there's not much left to say.

922
00:55:25,495 --> 00:55:29,499
[crowd clamoring]

923
00:55:40,858 --> 00:55:41,946
[MPD]
Let's go, MPD
double time inside.

924
00:55:42,033 --> 00:55:44,949
Let's go.
Let's go, MPD.

925
00:55:45,036 --> 00:55:46,777
Stop fucking looking
at them, let's go!

926
00:55:46,864 --> 00:55:49,301
Get inside.
Goddamn, let's get inside!

927
00:55:49,389 --> 00:55:51,695
[screams]

928
00:55:51,782 --> 00:55:54,872
[Christina] To be honest,
I don't even remember
getting inside the Capitol.

929
00:55:54,959 --> 00:55:57,092
We were funneled into
the Capitol at some point.

930
00:55:57,179 --> 00:56:00,095
[indistinct shouting]

931
00:56:00,182 --> 00:56:01,662
[Christina]
I don't know anything
about this building.

932
00:56:02,227 --> 00:56:04,316
I remember running up to Capitol
officers, and there was

933
00:56:04,404 --> 00:56:07,145
only a couple of 'em. I would
say, "How do I get here
and here?"

934
00:56:07,232 --> 00:56:09,583
"I don't know.
I don't work in this building."

935
00:56:35,522 --> 00:56:37,132
[crowd] [chanting]
Our house! Whose house?

936
00:56:37,219 --> 00:56:39,003
Our house! Whose house?

937
00:56:39,090 --> 00:56:40,352
Our house! Whose house?

938
00:56:40,918 --> 00:56:42,485
Our house! Whose house?

939
00:56:42,572 --> 00:56:44,226
Our house! Whose house?

940
00:56:44,313 --> 00:56:45,706
Our house! Whose house?

941
00:56:45,793 --> 00:56:47,925
Our house! Whose house?

942
00:56:48,012 --> 00:56:51,233
[Erica]
There were two sets of doors
in the Congressman's office,

943
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:52,930
so my colleagues
on the other side of the office

944
00:56:53,017 --> 00:56:56,804
barricaded one set,
we barricaded the other set.

945
00:56:59,546 --> 00:57:03,158
Um, and you know, there was
just a lot of, you know,

946
00:57:03,245 --> 00:57:05,682
I had a coworker who's
a really good friend of mine,

947
00:57:05,769 --> 00:57:08,468
and she was, you know,
very, very pregnant.

948
00:57:08,555 --> 00:57:09,947
So, you know,
she couldn't do it.

949
00:57:10,034 --> 00:57:14,038
Um, and we had
photographers in the room.

950
00:57:14,125 --> 00:57:16,214
Some of them were taking
pictures instead of helping.

951
00:57:16,301 --> 00:57:18,695
And I remember being really,
really annoyed with them

952
00:57:18,782 --> 00:57:21,002
at the time, 'cause
I was like, you know,

953
00:57:21,089 --> 00:57:22,525
"This is not the time
for your Pulitzer.

954
00:57:22,612 --> 00:57:24,919
Like, this is life or death."

955
00:57:25,006 --> 00:57:26,529
And I mean, in hindsight,
I guess it's,

956
00:57:26,616 --> 00:57:28,009
it's good that
it was documented.

957
00:57:28,096 --> 00:57:31,055
But in the moment,
we are possibly, you know,

958
00:57:31,142 --> 00:57:33,144
fighting for our lives.

959
00:57:33,231 --> 00:57:35,320
We don't know what's
on the other side of that door.

960
00:57:35,407 --> 00:57:37,061
[clamoring]

961
00:57:42,458 --> 00:57:47,724
[knocking and banging the doors]

962
00:57:47,811 --> 00:57:51,075
[Erica]
I vividly remember
hearing someone say,

963
00:57:51,162 --> 00:57:53,600
"They're hiding from us,"
and like kind of laughing.

964
00:57:53,687 --> 00:57:55,558
It felt as if they were like
taunting us, like, you know,

965
00:57:55,645 --> 00:57:57,386
"Hello, anybody in here?"

966
00:57:57,473 --> 00:57:58,953
And they were just banging,
banging, banging on the door.

967
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,086
And every time they
would bang on the door...

968
00:58:05,916 --> 00:58:09,790
[cries]

969
00:58:17,972 --> 00:58:23,281
Um, you think you're over it,
and then you're not.

970
00:58:23,368 --> 00:58:27,721
Um, I just remember every time
they banged on the door,

971
00:58:27,808 --> 00:58:29,200
um, you know,

972
00:58:29,287 --> 00:58:32,334
we would all just run up
and push the door--

973
00:58:32,421 --> 00:58:35,816
I mean, push the--
the table against the door.

974
00:58:35,903 --> 00:58:39,123
Um, and those were
the most terrifying times.

975
00:58:44,607 --> 00:58:47,218
[man]
Hey guys, hey hey!

976
00:58:47,305 --> 00:58:52,049
[crowd clamoring]

977
00:59:02,190 --> 00:59:05,541
[crowd] [chanting]
USA! USA! USA!

978
00:59:05,628 --> 00:59:08,936
USA! USA!
USA!

979
00:59:11,547 --> 00:59:12,896
[protestor]
We need people.

980
00:59:14,637 --> 00:59:17,988
[indistinct shouting]

981
00:59:22,427 --> 00:59:24,125
[Christina]
At some point, I finally
make it into the tunnel.

982
00:59:24,212 --> 00:59:27,258
[clamoring]

983
00:59:27,345 --> 00:59:28,782
[MPD]
Push!

984
00:59:28,869 --> 00:59:30,827
There was no order
to go in there.

985
00:59:30,914 --> 00:59:33,177
I didn't hear about
any level of importance

986
00:59:33,264 --> 00:59:34,962
because I didn't have
my radio at that point.

987
00:59:35,049 --> 00:59:37,834
It was just where the fight was,
and I knew I needed to go to it.

988
00:59:37,921 --> 00:59:41,359
[clamoring]

989
00:59:41,446 --> 00:59:43,753
Now, myself, these officers
that I'm with,

990
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,189
we're essentially trapped
in the Capitol

991
00:59:45,276 --> 00:59:47,627
because you have
these thousands of people

992
00:59:47,714 --> 00:59:50,064
that are now aggressively
trying to get in.

993
00:59:50,151 --> 00:59:54,198
[cheering]

994
00:59:54,285 --> 01:00:00,248
It felt like a, for-real
riot, like pushing back.

995
01:00:05,906 --> 01:00:07,690
[Mel]
Felt like it was organized

996
01:00:07,777 --> 01:00:09,692
and people knew
what they were doing.

997
01:00:09,779 --> 01:00:12,347
You just don't go, you know,
there with tactical gear on

998
01:00:12,434 --> 01:00:14,566
and looking like
you're military personnel

999
01:00:14,654 --> 01:00:16,743
without knowing
what you were doing.

1000
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:18,875
[man]
Supply lines coming through.

1001
01:00:21,835 --> 01:00:23,967
Keep in mind,
we have the vice president

1002
01:00:24,054 --> 01:00:27,188
and other members
of Congress in the building.

1003
01:00:27,275 --> 01:00:29,973
And if the building
is surrounded

1004
01:00:30,060 --> 01:00:34,804
and a person or group
of people access the tunnel,

1005
01:00:34,891 --> 01:00:37,720
it puts the leaders of
our democracy in a very,

1006
01:00:37,807 --> 01:00:40,375
very, very bad situation.

1007
01:00:45,510 --> 01:00:49,471
[banging door]

1008
01:00:49,558 --> 01:00:52,213
[Erica]
We were all just pushing
the table against the door

1009
01:00:52,300 --> 01:00:54,432
with all our might.

1010
01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:56,783
How do we know that
we're not running to the door

1011
01:00:56,870 --> 01:00:59,437
and they're not about to,
like, shoot a bullet through.

1012
01:00:59,524 --> 01:01:01,744
We had literally no idea.

1013
01:01:04,616 --> 01:01:06,140
The news started to spread.

1014
01:01:06,227 --> 01:01:08,533
And I just remember
getting message

1015
01:01:08,620 --> 01:01:12,059
after message after message
asking, you know, if I was okay.

1016
01:01:12,146 --> 01:01:15,062
And I remember saying to
each person, just please pray.

1017
01:01:21,024 --> 01:01:22,373
[Rep. Raskin]
Meantime on the floor,

1018
01:01:22,460 --> 01:01:24,636
it was total chaos
and bedlam by then.

1019
01:01:26,421 --> 01:01:29,729
There was this
extraordinary pounding,

1020
01:01:29,816 --> 01:01:33,471
barreling sound
coming at the center door

1021
01:01:33,558 --> 01:01:35,038
of the House of Representatives.

1022
01:01:35,125 --> 01:01:36,300
[indistinct shouting]

1023
01:01:36,387 --> 01:01:37,998
[woman]
Everybody stay down.

1024
01:01:38,085 --> 01:01:39,477
[clamoring]

1025
01:01:39,564 --> 01:01:43,743
[banging desks]

1026
01:01:46,267 --> 01:01:49,313
[Rep. Raskin]
I'll never forget that sound.
It was really haunting.

1027
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,142
Just the sound
of basically a mob,

1028
01:01:52,229 --> 01:01:55,276
trying to barrel its way in,
smashing up against the door.

1029
01:01:55,363 --> 01:01:58,192
And people began
to run towards the door.

1030
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,761
Then some Capitol officers
came in with their guns

1031
01:02:01,848 --> 01:02:03,675
and told all of us to get back.

1032
01:02:03,763 --> 01:02:06,591
And they stood by the door
with their guns drawn.

1033
01:02:08,942 --> 01:02:11,379
Everybody was imagining that
somebody was gonna come in

1034
01:02:11,466 --> 01:02:14,904
with an AR 15, that there
would be a mass shooting

1035
01:02:14,991 --> 01:02:16,906
and that it would
be focused on

1036
01:02:16,993 --> 01:02:19,126
the Democratic
side of the aisle

1037
01:02:19,213 --> 01:02:20,910
and the Democratic galleries.

1038
01:02:20,997 --> 01:02:23,783
So, they were telling us all
to take off our pins.

1039
01:02:23,870 --> 01:02:25,785
These are the little pins
that get us into the buildings.

1040
01:02:25,872 --> 01:02:27,264
And they're telling us,
take your pins off.

1041
01:02:27,351 --> 01:02:28,875
It makes you recognizable.

1042
01:02:28,962 --> 01:02:30,354
And then the Democrats
were saying,

1043
01:02:30,441 --> 01:02:32,356
get off of the Democratic
side of the aisle.

1044
01:02:32,443 --> 01:02:37,100
[crowd] [chanting]
USA. USA. USA. USA.

1045
01:02:38,972 --> 01:02:42,149
[protestor] [shouting]
USA. USA.

1046
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:48,720
Meantime, we were all being
shepherded towards the front.

1047
01:02:50,810 --> 01:02:54,291
And we got up to the Speaker's
lobby and we went to the right.

1048
01:02:54,378 --> 01:02:58,208
To the left is where there
were a handful of officers.

1049
01:02:58,295 --> 01:03:01,429
And then the mob was on the
other side of the doors there.

1050
01:03:01,516 --> 01:03:02,604
- [indistinct shouting]
- [banging door]

1051
01:03:02,691 --> 01:03:04,127
[protestor]
Let me in!

1052
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,698
[clamoring]

1053
01:03:10,264 --> 01:03:13,354
That's, um...

1054
01:03:13,441 --> 01:03:15,704
that's where one of
the protesters got killed.

1055
01:03:15,791 --> 01:03:17,662
[protestor]
Break that down!

1056
01:03:17,749 --> 01:03:18,925
Break it down. Break that!

1057
01:03:19,012 --> 01:03:20,448
Let's go.

1058
01:03:23,625 --> 01:03:27,281
- [indistinct shouting]
- [clamoring]

1059
01:03:38,683 --> 01:03:39,815
[gunshots]

1060
01:03:40,511 --> 01:03:41,861
[protestor]
That sound like
a fucking gun shot.

1061
01:03:42,818 --> 01:03:44,080
Oh, shit.

1062
01:03:44,167 --> 01:03:47,823
Oh, my God,
a woman has been shot.

1063
01:03:47,910 --> 01:03:52,610
[♪]

1064
01:03:59,835 --> 01:04:01,576
[protestor]
Where's she hit?

1065
01:04:01,663 --> 01:04:04,492
[officer]
Back Up. Back up.

1066
01:04:04,579 --> 01:04:06,189
[man]
Yo medic, where's she hit?

1067
01:04:06,276 --> 01:04:07,538
We can't save her.

1068
01:04:07,799 --> 01:04:09,410
Get the fuck back.
We can't save her!

1069
01:04:09,497 --> 01:04:10,802
[officer]
You guys gotta calm down.

1070
01:04:10,890 --> 01:04:12,630
[protestor]
We got blood on the floor.

1071
01:04:12,717 --> 01:04:15,068
There's blood
on the floor of our fucking...

1072
01:04:15,155 --> 01:04:18,245
[♪]

1073
01:04:22,510 --> 01:04:24,251
[MPD] [over radio]
<i>Report of one shot
in the Capitol.</i>

1074
01:04:24,338 --> 01:04:26,296
<i>Report of a shooting
in the Capitol,</i>

1075
01:04:26,383 --> 01:04:28,037
<i>trying to ascertain
information now.</i>

1076
01:04:28,124 --> 01:04:30,170
<i>Capitol command of recon,
report of one shot.</i>

1077
01:04:30,257 --> 01:04:32,259
<i>Capitol command of recon,
is this gonna be</i>

1078
01:04:32,346 --> 01:04:34,565
<i>an active shooter event,
or is this just one shot?</i>

1079
01:04:34,652 --> 01:04:36,045
<i>I need more information.</i>

1080
01:04:36,132 --> 01:04:37,655
<i>This will be a
report of one shot.</i>

1081
01:04:37,742 --> 01:04:39,788
<i>Unknown about
the victim or the location.</i>

1082
01:04:41,442 --> 01:04:43,226
[Chief Contee]
We just didn't know.

1083
01:04:43,313 --> 01:04:45,489
We were trying
to get confirmation.

1084
01:04:45,576 --> 01:04:47,448
Is anyone shot in the Capitol?

1085
01:04:47,535 --> 01:04:51,234
Were those shots fired?
Were they some type
of incendiary device?

1086
01:04:51,321 --> 01:04:53,193
We don't know.
Was it just a distraction

1087
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,021
to kind of get us
in a different area?

1088
01:04:55,108 --> 01:04:57,023
We did not know.

1089
01:04:57,110 --> 01:05:00,940
And I think that was probably
the scariest thing, not knowing.

1090
01:05:01,027 --> 01:05:03,768
[crowd] [chanting]
We the people! We the people!

1091
01:05:05,857 --> 01:05:06,989
[Mel]
This is...

1092
01:05:14,997 --> 01:05:17,695
It makes you seek
answers. So, what do I do?

1093
01:05:17,782 --> 01:05:19,436
Of course,
I'm talking to people.

1094
01:05:19,523 --> 01:05:21,961
I interview people right
then, right on the steps.

1095
01:05:22,048 --> 01:05:23,440
You know, right there.

1096
01:05:25,399 --> 01:05:28,445
Yeah... look at 'em.

1097
01:05:28,532 --> 01:05:31,666
And you know, I met this woman,
we were probably 10 feet away

1098
01:05:31,753 --> 01:05:34,712
from, you know, where people
were trying to get in.

1099
01:05:34,799 --> 01:05:37,802
She sounded so fucking
nice and so sweet.

1100
01:05:37,889 --> 01:05:39,935
And she was so polite.

1101
01:05:40,022 --> 01:05:42,155
- You okay, baby?
- [Mel] Yeah. I'm good.

1102
01:05:42,242 --> 01:05:43,852
- I'm prepared to die.
- [Mel] Huh?

1103
01:05:43,939 --> 01:05:46,159
- Yes, I'm prepared to die.
- [Mel] Wait a second.

1104
01:05:46,246 --> 01:05:50,772
For my country, and my children
and my grandchildren, all day.

1105
01:05:50,859 --> 01:05:52,774
[Mel] You're saying you're
prepared to die today?

1106
01:05:52,861 --> 01:05:55,995
Yes, I love America.

1107
01:05:56,082 --> 01:05:57,866
And I was like, what?

1108
01:05:57,953 --> 01:05:59,259
You prepared to die?

1109
01:06:01,957 --> 01:06:04,742
I could not fucking believe

1110
01:06:04,829 --> 01:06:07,006
what the fuck
I was seeing and hearing.

1111
01:06:12,185 --> 01:06:14,187
I felt embarrassed, you know,

1112
01:06:14,274 --> 01:06:16,711
for all of us, you know,

1113
01:06:16,798 --> 01:06:21,455
for all of America, you know,
to hear what I was hearing,

1114
01:06:21,542 --> 01:06:25,024
to see what I was seeing, to
document what I was documenting.

1115
01:06:25,111 --> 01:06:28,636
[clamoring]

1116
01:06:36,296 --> 01:06:40,952
[woman]
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

1117
01:06:45,783 --> 01:06:46,958
We were all scared.

1118
01:06:58,231 --> 01:07:01,234
[cheering]

1119
01:07:01,321 --> 01:07:03,671
The manpower we had inside
the tunnel that day,

1120
01:07:03,758 --> 01:07:05,760
which seemed like
a lot, wasn't enough.

1121
01:07:05,847 --> 01:07:10,373
It was about maybe four
or five-ish people could
fit in there wide.

1122
01:07:10,460 --> 01:07:13,333
And it was a few dozen
officers in there

1123
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:15,378
trying to hold back
the crowd outside.

1124
01:07:15,465 --> 01:07:18,686
[clamoring]

1125
01:07:25,562 --> 01:07:29,088
[indistinct shouting]

1126
01:07:30,959 --> 01:07:32,743
[Daniel]
You could see officers who were

1127
01:07:32,830 --> 01:07:35,398
getting injured at the front,
falling out, coming to the back.

1128
01:07:37,835 --> 01:07:40,925
The boiler room in the Capitol
became our decon room.

1129
01:07:43,276 --> 01:07:45,669
There were so many officers that
had their hands on their knees

1130
01:07:45,756 --> 01:07:49,325
because they couldn't see
because they're shut down

1131
01:07:49,412 --> 01:07:51,327
from the chemicals that
were just used against them.

1132
01:07:51,414 --> 01:07:53,982
And as those officers fell back,
we would move forward

1133
01:07:54,069 --> 01:07:55,853
and continue moving forward

1134
01:07:55,940 --> 01:08:01,903
until it was your turn
at the front, essentially.

1135
01:08:03,774 --> 01:08:04,993
[Christina]
It felt like war.

1136
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,691
[crowd chanting]

1137
01:08:10,433 --> 01:08:14,394
[indistinct shouting]

1138
01:08:18,789 --> 01:08:21,662
[Mel]
I'm seeing scenes unfold

1139
01:08:22,793 --> 01:08:24,795
all around me.

1140
01:08:24,882 --> 01:08:26,928
This is our country!

1141
01:08:27,015 --> 01:08:29,191
This is our country!

1142
01:08:29,278 --> 01:08:30,627
Yeah!

1143
01:08:30,714 --> 01:08:32,803
[cheering]

1144
01:08:32,890 --> 01:08:34,979
[Mel]
I'm seeing anxiety.

1145
01:08:37,765 --> 01:08:39,593
I'm seeing sadness.

1146
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,161
I'm seeing pain.

1147
01:08:44,337 --> 01:08:47,427
[crowd screaming, shouting]

1148
01:08:52,954 --> 01:08:54,173
You know...

1149
01:08:55,783 --> 01:08:58,873
twice when
I was there, you know,

1150
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,223
I felt the emotion to cry.

1151
01:09:03,269 --> 01:09:05,140
And quite frankly,
probably I didn't stop myself.

1152
01:09:05,227 --> 01:09:07,882
Some shit distracted me
from that emotion.

1153
01:09:07,969 --> 01:09:10,189
It's like, Oh, shit,
there's a hockey stick.

1154
01:09:10,276 --> 01:09:12,452
Oh, shit, where the fuck did
they get a ladder from?

1155
01:09:12,539 --> 01:09:14,193
Oh, shit,
what is this tubing?

1156
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:15,846
Where the hell
did that come from?

1157
01:09:15,933 --> 01:09:18,022
The guy's head is all red
from pepper spray

1158
01:09:18,109 --> 01:09:19,546
and looks like he can't breathe.

1159
01:09:19,633 --> 01:09:22,331
Oh, shit, I'm getting
soaked up by the gas,

1160
01:09:22,418 --> 01:09:24,551
and I can't fucking breathe,

1161
01:09:24,638 --> 01:09:26,509
and this shit hurts my eyes.

1162
01:09:26,596 --> 01:09:29,120
And why are people
keep returning

1163
01:09:29,208 --> 01:09:32,298
back to the front lines
to do it over and over again?

1164
01:09:32,385 --> 01:09:34,517
What is, what are they thinking?

1165
01:09:34,604 --> 01:09:38,217
[clamoring]

1166
01:09:40,741 --> 01:09:43,744
[♪]

1167
01:09:43,831 --> 01:09:46,094
[Daniel]
I knew that this had to be
the biggest news story

1168
01:09:46,181 --> 01:09:47,748
in the world right now,

1169
01:09:47,835 --> 01:09:49,706
the United States
Capitol being under siege.

1170
01:09:49,793 --> 01:09:55,059
So, someone had to be trying
to get us help somewhere.

1171
01:09:55,146 --> 01:09:56,757
I was thinking, you know,

1172
01:09:56,844 --> 01:09:58,933
I hope I can hold on until
reinforcements gets here.

1173
01:09:59,020 --> 01:10:00,369
[shouting]

1174
01:10:00,456 --> 01:10:03,154
[crowd]
Our house! Our house!

1175
01:10:20,650 --> 01:10:22,913
[Rep. Raskin]
We went down some stairwells,

1176
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:24,001
and they tried to keep us
together,

1177
01:10:24,088 --> 01:10:26,917
and we were running for safety.

1178
01:10:32,532 --> 01:10:35,535
All that shit...!

1179
01:10:35,622 --> 01:10:39,713
At that point, I was most
concerned for Tabitha,

1180
01:10:40,017 --> 01:10:42,368
Hank, and Julie
and wanting to make sure

1181
01:10:42,455 --> 01:10:44,848
that they would get outta
that room, which was
still where the mob was.

1182
01:10:44,935 --> 01:10:49,244
[crowd] [chanting]
USA! USA! USA!

1183
01:10:49,331 --> 01:10:51,551
[Rep. Raskin]
And I just kept doing the same
thing over and over again,

1184
01:10:51,638 --> 01:10:54,293
calling the Capitol
police, calling Julie.

1185
01:10:54,380 --> 01:10:57,121
I was obviously profoundly
concerned for them.

1186
01:11:06,305 --> 01:11:08,872
I just wanted to make sure
they were in touch

1187
01:11:08,959 --> 01:11:12,223
so they knew who to open
the door for and who not to.

1188
01:11:22,886 --> 01:11:26,281
[loud shouting]

1189
01:11:26,368 --> 01:11:29,719
[indistinct chatter]

1190
01:11:32,331 --> 01:11:34,724
These people had made it clear
that they wanted

1191
01:11:34,811 --> 01:11:36,596
to kill certain
members of Congress.

1192
01:11:36,683 --> 01:11:38,641
And even if they got one person,

1193
01:11:38,728 --> 01:11:40,730
that would change
the balance of power.

1194
01:11:40,817 --> 01:11:43,211
So, you know,

1195
01:11:43,298 --> 01:11:46,257
I was definitely motivated to--

1196
01:11:48,912 --> 01:11:50,044
to win the fight.

1197
01:11:50,131 --> 01:11:53,352
[clamoring]

1198
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,355
[Daniel]
I found myself at the front
of the line in the tunnel...

1199
01:11:59,445 --> 01:12:02,665
and I braced myself
against the doorframe

1200
01:12:02,752 --> 01:12:06,365
so that any backward
force I experienced

1201
01:12:06,452 --> 01:12:08,149
wasn't pushed
on the officers behind me,

1202
01:12:08,236 --> 01:12:10,499
but rather against the frame
of the building itself.

1203
01:12:10,586 --> 01:12:13,546
[clamoring]

1204
01:12:23,294 --> 01:12:25,558
[Daniel]
Unfortunately,
it backfired on me.

1205
01:12:25,645 --> 01:12:27,124
My arms were trapped.

1206
01:12:27,211 --> 01:12:30,214
I was essentially
standing up straight,

1207
01:12:30,301 --> 01:12:33,740
unable to defend myself
and at their mercy.

1208
01:12:33,827 --> 01:12:39,789
[screaming and shouting]

1209
01:12:54,325 --> 01:12:56,850
[Daniel]
The man to my front, I remember

1210
01:12:56,937 --> 01:12:59,896
him just screaming at me

1211
01:12:59,983 --> 01:13:03,813
and, like, spit
or some kind of foam

1212
01:13:03,900 --> 01:13:05,728
coming out of his mouth.

1213
01:13:05,815 --> 01:13:09,515
It sounds, like, made up,
but that's what I remember.

1214
01:13:13,432 --> 01:13:17,653
[groaning, yelling]

1215
01:13:20,743 --> 01:13:23,485
He also was able
to wrestle away my baton

1216
01:13:23,572 --> 01:13:26,183
and beat me in the head
with it.

1217
01:13:26,270 --> 01:13:31,014
I could taste blood
coming out of my mouth.

1218
01:13:34,365 --> 01:13:35,889
[siren wailing]

1219
01:13:35,976 --> 01:13:37,281
[shouting]

1220
01:13:37,368 --> 01:13:42,069
[crowd] [chanting]
Heave ho! Heave ho!

1221
01:13:42,156 --> 01:13:48,554
Heave ho! Heave ho!

1222
01:13:48,641 --> 01:13:53,210
[Daniel]
I could feel just starting
to lose all of my perception,

1223
01:13:54,995 --> 01:13:57,519
and I was worried
that I would fall out there

1224
01:13:57,606 --> 01:14:00,609
and become a liability to my
colleagues and then, you know,

1225
01:14:00,696 --> 01:14:03,786
eventually be dragged out
and killed.

1226
01:14:03,873 --> 01:14:05,005
Um...

1227
01:14:08,791 --> 01:14:11,315
I remember someone just
chanting, "Fight for Trump.

1228
01:14:11,402 --> 01:14:17,365
Fight for Trump.
Fight for Trump."

1229
01:14:25,852 --> 01:14:28,507
Thankfully, the other officers
behind me heard me

1230
01:14:28,594 --> 01:14:31,422
and were able to create
enough space to get
me out of there.

1231
01:14:34,425 --> 01:14:35,992
Everyone who worked
that day was injured.

1232
01:14:36,079 --> 01:14:37,298
Everyone was attacked.

1233
01:14:41,911 --> 01:14:44,087
Sometimes at great
personal cost.

1234
01:14:50,354 --> 01:14:54,402
[Christina]
The difference between
your typical angry riot

1235
01:14:54,489 --> 01:14:57,144
versus this was, this was...

1236
01:14:57,231 --> 01:14:58,493
it was personal.

1237
01:14:58,580 --> 01:15:01,278
And they were not stopping.

1238
01:15:01,365 --> 01:15:04,847
I wanna go home, and I want
every single officer that's
here to go home.

1239
01:15:04,934 --> 01:15:08,198
And my job right now,

1240
01:15:08,285 --> 01:15:11,593
their job right now is to figure
out a way to make that happen.

1241
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,075
They fought like
hell, for hours.

1242
01:15:15,162 --> 01:15:17,773
That's not training that
police officers normally get.

1243
01:15:17,860 --> 01:15:19,993
Maybe the military,
they're trained for war,

1244
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:23,213
fighting for hours,
days, months on end.

1245
01:15:23,300 --> 01:15:26,390
The fight that these
officers had in them,

1246
01:15:26,477 --> 01:15:29,350
even when they were injured,
to see them injured

1247
01:15:29,437 --> 01:15:31,744
and then get back
into the fight.

1248
01:15:31,831 --> 01:15:37,576
[♪]

1249
01:15:37,663 --> 01:15:40,666
[Daniel]
The fight wasn't over yet, and
the fight needed everybody

1250
01:15:40,753 --> 01:15:44,278
that was able.
And I'm not dead yet.

1251
01:15:44,365 --> 01:15:47,194
[laughs] Uh, I was still,
uh, still in the fight.

1252
01:15:50,414 --> 01:15:54,244
[crowd] [chanting]
Freedom, freedom, freedom.

1253
01:15:54,331 --> 01:15:57,204
[crowd clamoring]

1254
01:15:57,291 --> 01:16:00,163
[Mel]
It was like complete
chaos all around me.

1255
01:16:01,730 --> 01:16:04,777
I'm seeing one of
the darkest days

1256
01:16:04,864 --> 01:16:07,170
in modern history.

1257
01:16:07,257 --> 01:16:10,086
I was scared
for my fucking life,

1258
01:16:10,173 --> 01:16:12,523
but all I can think about is

1259
01:16:12,611 --> 01:16:15,309
making sure that I document

1260
01:16:15,396 --> 01:16:17,964
what's going on
to the best of my abilities.

1261
01:16:25,362 --> 01:16:28,757
[indistinct shouting]

1262
01:16:28,844 --> 01:16:32,500
[♪]

1263
01:16:39,376 --> 01:16:40,639
Back up.

1264
01:16:59,092 --> 01:17:01,224
[grunting]

1265
01:17:40,437 --> 01:17:41,525
[sighs]

1266
01:17:43,745 --> 01:17:46,008
[Mel]
When I captured this image

1267
01:17:46,095 --> 01:17:49,490
and saw the police officer
that I now know

1268
01:17:49,577 --> 01:17:51,144
to be Michael Fanone,

1269
01:17:51,666 --> 01:17:53,886
get pulled down

1270
01:17:53,973 --> 01:17:58,412
from where he was
trying to stop the mob

1271
01:17:58,499 --> 01:18:01,067
of MAGA people
from getting inside...

1272
01:18:03,286 --> 01:18:04,635
[scoffs]

1273
01:18:04,723 --> 01:18:07,203
[♪]

1274
01:18:07,290 --> 01:18:09,597
I'm like reliving it
in my brain right now.

1275
01:18:09,684 --> 01:18:15,124
Like, I have all of the frames
just going in my head.

1276
01:18:18,171 --> 01:18:21,435
The look
on this man's face was,

1277
01:18:21,522 --> 01:18:25,265
"I am about to fucking die."

1278
01:18:26,309 --> 01:18:29,748
You don't see police officers
look like that very often.

1279
01:18:32,011 --> 01:18:37,146
Police officers are
stoic, proud, in control.

1280
01:18:37,233 --> 01:18:41,150
This officer was not in control
of a motherfucking thing.

1281
01:18:41,237 --> 01:18:43,631
If they wanted to kill him,
they would've killed him.

1282
01:18:44,763 --> 01:18:48,070
The man pleaded for his life,
told people he has kids.

1283
01:18:50,899 --> 01:18:54,207
Well, I'm thinking like, holy
shit, this man is about to die.

1284
01:18:54,294 --> 01:18:57,906
And here I am about
to capture this shit.

1285
01:18:57,993 --> 01:19:03,433
[♪]

1286
01:19:05,871 --> 01:19:08,395
It's kind of crazy 'cause
if I had to put, you know,

1287
01:19:08,482 --> 01:19:11,964
a dollar on it, I would
say everyone there is,
"Blue Lives Matter,

1288
01:19:12,051 --> 01:19:13,792
Blue Lives Matter."

1289
01:19:15,010 --> 01:19:17,186
They didn't fucking
matter that day.

1290
01:19:17,273 --> 01:19:19,362
I felt for him.

1291
01:19:20,842 --> 01:19:22,191
I have a son.

1292
01:19:22,278 --> 01:19:25,151
I thought about
what it would feel like for him

1293
01:19:25,238 --> 01:19:28,023
if some shit happened to me.

1294
01:19:28,110 --> 01:19:31,070
You know, that's
another human being.

1295
01:19:31,157 --> 01:19:33,376
Are there times that I
don't feel bad for cops?

1296
01:19:33,463 --> 01:19:34,769
Fucking right.

1297
01:19:39,426 --> 01:19:43,343
Derek Chauvin could kiss
my black ass, straight up.

1298
01:19:48,087 --> 01:19:51,351
That could be fucking me.
That coulda been any of us.

1299
01:19:51,438 --> 01:19:55,529
Like, I'm pissed off right now,
just by talking about, you know,

1300
01:19:55,616 --> 01:19:58,314
the, what happened
to George Floyd.

1301
01:19:58,401 --> 01:20:02,362
And what's happened to many,

1302
01:20:02,449 --> 01:20:05,060
many other people that have died

1303
01:20:06,322 --> 01:20:08,107
in the hands of police.

1304
01:20:08,194 --> 01:20:09,282
You know, it's,

1305
01:20:14,069 --> 01:20:18,465
I feel like if you weren't angry
about what happened...

1306
01:20:20,162 --> 01:20:21,816
[sighs]

1307
01:20:21,903 --> 01:20:26,125
...to George Floyd
on that fucking day,

1308
01:20:26,212 --> 01:20:28,736
you're not a fucking human.

1309
01:20:30,042 --> 01:20:34,220
You lack everything that
it takes to be a human being.

1310
01:20:34,307 --> 01:20:37,440
If that shit didn't
piss you the fuck off.

1311
01:20:42,402 --> 01:20:47,363
[♪]

1312
01:20:47,450 --> 01:20:51,106
[Mel]
America has been rearing
its ugly fucking head

1313
01:20:51,193 --> 01:20:55,328
for many fucking years
over and over and over again.

1314
01:20:55,415 --> 01:20:58,070
And I'm documenting it all.

1315
01:20:58,157 --> 01:21:00,463
All I can do is
get these photos out

1316
01:21:00,550 --> 01:21:03,249
and show the world you know,
what I saw.

1317
01:21:06,121 --> 01:21:09,168
This is real-life America.

1318
01:21:14,825 --> 01:21:18,220
So, yeah, I felt for him,
I felt for...

1319
01:21:19,656 --> 01:21:21,702
...us. I felt for Americans.

1320
01:21:21,789 --> 01:21:24,226
I felt for, you
know, this world,

1321
01:21:24,313 --> 01:21:26,620
this is what it's come to.

1322
01:21:28,361 --> 01:21:31,930
[MPD]
Pull. Pull. Pull.

1323
01:21:35,759 --> 01:21:38,762
[indistinct speech]

1324
01:22:00,871 --> 01:22:02,438
I came for fucking war, man.

1325
01:22:04,049 --> 01:22:08,314
We have a national,
international, crisis

1326
01:22:08,401 --> 01:22:12,144
unfolding right here
in the nation's Capitol.

1327
01:22:14,276 --> 01:22:16,626
The gravity
and the weight of that is huge.

1328
01:22:16,713 --> 01:22:19,847
Knowing that the eyes
of the world

1329
01:22:19,934 --> 01:22:23,111
are literally watching
our democracy crumble.

1330
01:22:23,198 --> 01:22:25,766
[cheering]

1331
01:22:25,853 --> 01:22:27,289
[Senator Biden] [on microphone]
At this hour,

1332
01:22:27,376 --> 01:22:30,989
our democracy is under
unprecedented assault,

1333
01:22:31,076 --> 01:22:34,905
unlike anything we've
seen in modern times.

1334
01:22:34,993 --> 01:22:41,260
An assault in the citadel of
Liberty, the Capitol itself.

1335
01:22:41,347 --> 01:22:44,132
An assault on the people's
representatives

1336
01:22:44,480 --> 01:22:47,440
and the Capitol Hill police
sworn to protect them.

1337
01:22:54,490 --> 01:22:57,841
[President Trump] [on video]
We had an election that
was stolen from us.

1338
01:22:58,364 --> 01:23:02,237
It was a landslide election,
and everyone knows it.

1339
01:23:02,324 --> 01:23:05,545
But we can't play into
the hands of these people.

1340
01:23:06,807 --> 01:23:08,591
We have to have peace.

1341
01:23:08,678 --> 01:23:10,158
So go home.

1342
01:23:10,245 --> 01:23:11,507
We love you.

1343
01:23:11,594 --> 01:23:13,118
You're very special.

1344
01:23:13,205 --> 01:23:15,381
You've seen what happens,
you see the way others

1345
01:23:15,468 --> 01:23:17,905
are treated that are so bad
and so evil.

1346
01:23:19,341 --> 01:23:22,910
[cheering, clamoring]

1347
01:23:39,535 --> 01:23:42,625
"I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!"

1348
01:23:42,712 --> 01:23:45,759
[clamoring, indistinct speech]

1349
01:24:05,692 --> 01:24:06,954
'Cause...

1350
01:24:15,049 --> 01:24:19,097
[indistinct shouting]

1351
01:24:29,716 --> 01:24:34,764
[♪]

1352
01:24:41,554 --> 01:24:45,471
[crowd cheering, clamoring]

1353
01:24:45,558 --> 01:24:49,039
[indistinct shouting]

1354
01:24:52,130 --> 01:24:55,785
[indistinct chatter on radio]

1355
01:25:54,844 --> 01:25:56,933
[Mel]
How could anyone be proud
of what they were doing?

1356
01:25:57,020 --> 01:25:59,762
Even if you don't agree
with the election,

1357
01:25:59,849 --> 01:26:01,634
how could you be proud of that?

1358
01:26:01,721 --> 01:26:03,810
You've tried to storm
the fucking

1359
01:26:03,897 --> 01:26:05,942
United States Capitol
building--

1360
01:26:06,029 --> 01:26:10,120
not try to storm--
you did, you got in.

1361
01:26:10,208 --> 01:26:12,210
And people died.

1362
01:26:21,654 --> 01:26:24,265
When I began to see the
magnitude of the violence

1363
01:26:24,352 --> 01:26:28,791
that was taking place,
I just grew more and more,

1364
01:26:28,878 --> 01:26:32,534
I don't wanna say hysterical,
but more and more agitated

1365
01:26:32,621 --> 01:26:36,103
about Tabitha and Hank
not being with us.

1366
01:26:39,149 --> 01:26:41,848
I was aware of not wanting to
create surplus fear

1367
01:26:41,935 --> 01:26:45,155
and anxiety on their part,
but I was pretty angry.

1368
01:26:45,243 --> 01:26:48,855
[crowd] [chanting]
USA. USA. USA.

1369
01:26:48,942 --> 01:26:52,467
USA. USA. USA.

1370
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:56,993
[Erica]
We just sat there in silence.

1371
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,909
I remember thinking
a lot about my mom.

1372
01:27:01,998 --> 01:27:03,522
[sighs]

1373
01:27:03,609 --> 01:27:06,351
You know, I think,

1374
01:27:06,438 --> 01:27:08,266
well, you know,

1375
01:27:08,353 --> 01:27:11,660
my mom lives with me,
she has Alzheimers.

1376
01:27:11,747 --> 01:27:14,272
And I didn't necessarily want to
get in contact with her

1377
01:27:14,359 --> 01:27:16,926
because
I didn't want her to worry,

1378
01:27:17,013 --> 01:27:19,581
I just wanted to be there.

1379
01:27:19,668 --> 01:27:21,496
You know?

1380
01:27:21,583 --> 01:27:23,585
I think that's what
I thought about the most.

1381
01:27:23,672 --> 01:27:27,894
At the end of the day,
I'm kind of all she has.

1382
01:27:27,981 --> 01:27:29,939
So...

1383
01:27:32,594 --> 01:27:36,250
[crowd]
Stop the steal, stop the steal,
stop the steal.

1384
01:27:46,565 --> 01:27:51,134
[crowd] [chanting]
USA. USA. USA.

1385
01:28:01,101 --> 01:28:04,539
[siren wailing]

1386
01:28:12,199 --> 01:28:14,288
[Chief Contee]
We reached out far
and wide as we could

1387
01:28:14,375 --> 01:28:17,291
to get people here
to support us.

1388
01:28:17,378 --> 01:28:19,728
So, whether the National Guard
showed up, didn't showed up,

1389
01:28:19,815 --> 01:28:22,165
whatever the case may be,
there were police officers

1390
01:28:22,252 --> 01:28:25,299
that we were calling on from
all around this area to assist.

1391
01:28:25,386 --> 01:28:28,737
[siren chirping]

1392
01:28:28,824 --> 01:28:31,479
[indistinct radio chatter]

1393
01:28:34,743 --> 01:28:35,962
[protestor] [on speaker]
We love you, President Trump.

1394
01:28:40,532 --> 01:28:43,143
- [banging windows]
- Traitors!

1395
01:28:43,230 --> 01:28:44,710
Traitors!

1396
01:28:50,542 --> 01:28:54,372
- [explosion]
- My God. Oh, my fucking God.

1397
01:28:54,459 --> 01:28:55,808
[fires smoke]

1398
01:28:55,895 --> 01:28:58,724
[clamoring]

1399
01:29:02,728 --> 01:29:06,384
When I saw that manpower
coming with the munitions

1400
01:29:06,471 --> 01:29:10,605
that we needed to handle the--
this crowd, that was...

1401
01:29:10,692 --> 01:29:13,173
"Okay, we're gonna
get through this."

1402
01:29:13,260 --> 01:29:17,003
[explosion, clamor]

1403
01:29:17,090 --> 01:29:19,353
[Chief Contee]
Normally, it's
the federal government

1404
01:29:19,440 --> 01:29:21,529
that's coming to the aid
of local law enforcement,

1405
01:29:21,616 --> 01:29:24,184
local jurisdictions.

1406
01:29:24,271 --> 01:29:28,275
That day, local jurisdictions

1407
01:29:28,362 --> 01:29:30,538
came to support
the federal government.

1408
01:29:33,367 --> 01:29:35,021
Some of them are MPD officers,

1409
01:29:35,108 --> 01:29:37,023
some of 'em are
Virginia State Police.

1410
01:29:37,110 --> 01:29:40,418
You start seeing them
push the crowd back.

1411
01:29:42,507 --> 01:29:45,161
[indistinct speech, clamoring]

1412
01:29:46,511 --> 01:29:47,903
[smoke grenades blast]

1413
01:29:53,605 --> 01:29:57,217
[coughing]

1414
01:30:00,873 --> 01:30:04,006
[Chief Contee]
They're coming down
the West Front of the Capitol.

1415
01:30:04,093 --> 01:30:06,139
I, I remember having
a sense of like,

1416
01:30:06,226 --> 01:30:07,662
like, we taking it back.

1417
01:30:26,289 --> 01:30:28,204
[Erica]
We kept hearing those knocks.

1418
01:30:28,291 --> 01:30:34,341
One time, it was just such
a violent shaking of the door.

1419
01:30:34,428 --> 01:30:36,865
And that's when they,
they just kicked it in...

1420
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,391
and their guns drawn.

1421
01:30:42,828 --> 01:30:45,483
That was by far the
scariest moment of my life

1422
01:30:45,570 --> 01:30:47,485
'cause I did not know
who kicked the door in,

1423
01:30:47,572 --> 01:30:49,138
and I saw all those guns.

1424
01:30:50,966 --> 01:30:54,492
And we just had our hands up,
and we had our hands up
for a long time.

1425
01:30:56,494 --> 01:30:59,409
You know, it's not a good
feeling having to walk around

1426
01:30:59,497 --> 01:31:02,978
the halls of Congress with your
hands up past insurrectionists

1427
01:31:03,065 --> 01:31:05,981
who actually should
have their hands up.

1428
01:31:06,068 --> 01:31:08,506
You know,
that's not a good feeling.

1429
01:31:13,772 --> 01:31:15,861
I will never forget,

1430
01:31:15,948 --> 01:31:19,038
in front of Congressman
Steny Hoyer's office,

1431
01:31:19,125 --> 01:31:22,868
there was a poster of John Lewis
that referenced, you know,

1432
01:31:22,955 --> 01:31:24,609
getting in good trouble,

1433
01:31:24,696 --> 01:31:27,176
and the poster
was ripped to shreds.

1434
01:31:27,263 --> 01:31:30,876
[♪]

1435
01:31:34,096 --> 01:31:36,751
I just remember how
hateful that was,

1436
01:31:36,838 --> 01:31:39,362
to come in and rip up the poster
the way they did

1437
01:31:39,449 --> 01:31:41,539
and to just desecrate
the Capitol the way they did.

1438
01:31:41,626 --> 01:31:44,280
And I remember also walking past

1439
01:31:44,367 --> 01:31:47,109
one of the insurrectionists
that they had handcuffed.

1440
01:31:47,196 --> 01:31:50,286
And I just remember
looking at him, and he laughed.

1441
01:31:50,373 --> 01:31:52,811
You know,
it was... it was funny to him.

1442
01:31:52,898 --> 01:31:54,813
It was unnerving.

1443
01:31:59,121 --> 01:32:02,037
[Rep. Raskin] Finally,
Tabitha and Hank and Julie

1444
01:32:02,124 --> 01:32:05,214
were brought over to us
by the officers,

1445
01:32:05,301 --> 01:32:06,999
and it was tearful.

1446
01:32:08,174 --> 01:32:10,045
I was racked with
a lot of guilt.

1447
01:32:12,874 --> 01:32:16,922
I got someone who works with me
on my staff to drive them home.

1448
01:32:17,009 --> 01:32:19,751
Before they left, I gave them
a big hug, and it was again,

1449
01:32:19,838 --> 01:32:25,234
really emotional.
And I... said I was sorry.

1450
01:32:25,321 --> 01:32:28,890
And I said to Tabitha,
"The next time you come back

1451
01:32:28,977 --> 01:32:30,936
to the Capitol,
it's not gonna be like this."

1452
01:32:31,023 --> 01:32:33,852
And then she said,
"I don't want to come
back to the Capitol."

1453
01:32:35,462 --> 01:32:40,206
And it just...
it just rocked me.

1454
01:32:42,512 --> 01:32:46,299
[♪]

1455
01:32:49,911 --> 01:32:52,000
[Mel] I turned
the ISO up on my camera,

1456
01:32:52,087 --> 01:32:55,264
and I had this dark photo
of this flag waving

1457
01:32:55,351 --> 01:32:58,746
and smoke,
this tear gas is coming down,

1458
01:32:58,833 --> 01:33:02,750
and there's hardly
any more people at the top.

1459
01:33:02,837 --> 01:33:06,841
It just was weirdly over.

1460
01:33:06,928 --> 01:33:09,714
[indistinct shouting]

1461
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:17,243
[man] [on video]
So, earlier there was a lot
of people out here,

1462
01:33:17,330 --> 01:33:18,897
and I guess
it's thinned out a little bit.

1463
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:23,249
Oh, so somebody got a souvenir.

1464
01:33:23,336 --> 01:33:24,424
Jesus.

1465
01:33:25,817 --> 01:33:28,210
You know,
I walked two blocks,

1466
01:33:28,297 --> 01:33:30,822
called a Uber.

1467
01:33:30,909 --> 01:33:36,175
I just remember looking at
who my driver was gonna be,

1468
01:33:36,262 --> 01:33:39,178
and I was so relieved that
this driver was a Black man...

1469
01:33:40,745 --> 01:33:44,139
because I really honestly
couldn't deal

1470
01:33:44,226 --> 01:33:47,403
with any more
white folks that day.

1471
01:33:47,490 --> 01:33:49,667
I couldn't, I was just over it.

1472
01:33:51,407 --> 01:33:53,453
I needed that at that moment.

1473
01:33:53,540 --> 01:33:58,893
I needed someone that
I could relate to,

1474
01:33:58,980 --> 01:34:01,635
that was on the same
wavelength as me,

1475
01:34:01,722 --> 01:34:04,551
that was the same...
that was a brother.

1476
01:34:04,638 --> 01:34:06,596
Like, I needed to tell that
Black man,

1477
01:34:06,684 --> 01:34:09,382
like,
what I just went through.

1478
01:34:09,469 --> 01:34:11,210
Then I went up to the room

1479
01:34:11,297 --> 01:34:15,170
and, um, almost started crying.

1480
01:34:18,739 --> 01:34:21,307
I almost started,
and I stopped myself

1481
01:34:21,394 --> 01:34:23,701
and I was like, "Alright,
well, I got fucking work to do.

1482
01:34:23,788 --> 01:34:26,486
Let's not go through this
emotional shit right now.

1483
01:34:26,573 --> 01:34:29,402
You gotta fucking just focus

1484
01:34:29,489 --> 01:34:32,318
and get this job done."

1485
01:34:32,405 --> 01:34:33,885
[indistinct speech]

1486
01:34:33,972 --> 01:34:36,061
And I'm thinking
about my boy who's over there.

1487
01:34:36,148 --> 01:34:38,411
You know, it's like I'm trying
to fucking make it home

1488
01:34:38,498 --> 01:34:42,720
and get the fuck up
out of here so I can see my son.

1489
01:34:46,767 --> 01:34:50,597
[indistinct remarks]

1490
01:34:50,684 --> 01:34:54,906
[♪]

1491
01:34:54,993 --> 01:34:58,344
[Daniel]
Eventually, the fatigue
of the day caught up with me,

1492
01:34:58,431 --> 01:35:00,825
and when I saw that
I could take a break,

1493
01:35:00,912 --> 01:35:03,436
I went back inside and sat down.

1494
01:35:03,523 --> 01:35:08,963
I found out later on
I had a large contusion
underneath my hair.

1495
01:35:09,050 --> 01:35:11,009
Then I had a headache
for about two weeks.

1496
01:35:11,096 --> 01:35:14,708
So, I likely had a concussion.

1497
01:35:14,795 --> 01:35:17,319
If I had taken
another blow like that,

1498
01:35:17,406 --> 01:35:19,147
especially in the same place,
that very easily could have

1499
01:35:19,234 --> 01:35:23,325
caused serious brain
damage or been fatal.

1500
01:35:23,412 --> 01:35:27,155
[♪]

1501
01:35:28,113 --> 01:35:31,246
[Rep. Raskin]
Our cops ended up
with broken jaws, broken necks,

1502
01:35:31,333 --> 01:35:33,335
broken arms, legs, fingers.

1503
01:35:33,422 --> 01:35:35,424
One officer lost three fingers.

1504
01:35:35,511 --> 01:35:39,167
People had traumatic
brain injury,

1505
01:35:39,254 --> 01:35:43,041
dozens and dozens ending up with
Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

1506
01:35:44,651 --> 01:35:48,176
It was just hard to believe that
this was going on in America.

1507
01:35:48,263 --> 01:35:52,311
And it was going on, you know,
downstairs from where we were,

1508
01:35:52,398 --> 01:35:55,749
and Donald Trump wasn't
doing anything to stop it.

1509
01:35:55,836 --> 01:35:58,926
And the National Guard
was just absent...

1510
01:36:00,232 --> 01:36:02,190
and we were dumbfounded.

1511
01:36:20,252 --> 01:36:22,950
[reporter]
<i>Congressman Raskin
is joining us now.</i>

1512
01:36:23,037 --> 01:36:25,344
<i>Congressman, obviously you
can't share everything with us,</i>

1513
01:36:25,431 --> 01:36:28,521
<i>but what have you learned
about what comes next?</i>

1514
01:36:28,608 --> 01:36:31,263
[Rep. Raskin] [on telephone]
<i>I don't know, but I'll tell you
this but every single member</i>

1515
01:36:31,350 --> 01:36:35,745
<i>that I've spoken to
is absolutely determined
to have us complete</i>

1516
01:36:35,833 --> 01:36:38,357
<i>the counting of the
Electoral College votes,</i>

1517
01:36:38,444 --> 01:36:41,839
<i>and, uh,
American constitutional
democracy will prevail.</i>

1518
01:36:41,926 --> 01:36:45,494
[siren wailing]

1519
01:36:57,855 --> 01:37:03,121
[♪]

1520
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:19,354
- [birds chirping]
- [wind blowing]

1521
01:37:37,503 --> 01:37:38,896
[Rep. Raskin]
Nobody ever said
it would be easy.

1522
01:37:40,810 --> 01:37:42,943
But healing begins
with the truth.

1523
01:37:44,771 --> 01:37:48,253
I mean, there was an effort
almost instantly to bury

1524
01:37:48,340 --> 01:37:52,561
and rewrite the history
of what happened on January 6th.

1525
01:37:52,648 --> 01:37:55,303
You don't almost knock over the
government of the United States

1526
01:37:55,390 --> 01:37:57,131
by accident.

1527
01:37:57,218 --> 01:38:01,919
It's not an impulse move.

1528
01:38:02,006 --> 01:38:05,748
This was an organized
attack on the government.

1529
01:38:05,835 --> 01:38:09,143
if you allow for
there to be confusion,

1530
01:38:09,230 --> 01:38:11,102
propaganda
and disinformation about it.

1531
01:38:11,189 --> 01:38:15,454
Then that's very dangerous
because it conditions

1532
01:38:15,541 --> 01:38:17,195
the society to accept it

1533
01:38:17,282 --> 01:38:20,763
and licenses political violence
in the future.

1534
01:38:20,850 --> 01:38:24,506
[♪]

1535
01:38:24,593 --> 01:38:26,378
[Christina]
It was a traumatic experience,

1536
01:38:26,465 --> 01:38:30,773
probably the most traumatic
event that I've dealt with.

1537
01:38:30,860 --> 01:38:38,477
But, for me, it's more of
losing trust in people.

1538
01:38:38,564 --> 01:38:40,870
You're talking about thousands
and thousands of people

1539
01:38:40,958 --> 01:38:46,441
that were willing to hurt us
to get what they want...

1540
01:38:47,790 --> 01:38:49,488
but then the next day,
probably go back to

1541
01:38:49,575 --> 01:38:51,490
respecting law enforcement, right?

1542
01:38:51,577 --> 01:38:53,318
How does that work?
How does that make sense?

1543
01:38:53,405 --> 01:38:56,582
How am I supposed
to respect that and trust you?

1544
01:38:59,367 --> 01:39:03,719
It was embarrassing,
to see what I was seeing,

1545
01:39:03,806 --> 01:39:07,636
you know,
to be an American.

1546
01:39:09,987 --> 01:39:12,598
The type of things

1547
01:39:12,685 --> 01:39:16,558
that happened
that day, you know,

1548
01:39:16,645 --> 01:39:19,822
theoretically
are not supposed to happen

1549
01:39:21,172 --> 01:39:23,435
in this country.

1550
01:39:23,522 --> 01:39:28,527
We're America, the greatest
country in the world.

1551
01:39:35,490 --> 01:39:40,452
My photos are showing you
things that you already know.

1552
01:39:44,456 --> 01:39:46,719
It's not really
exposing anything,

1553
01:39:46,806 --> 01:39:49,591
it's just showing
you what's real.

1554
01:39:50,723 --> 01:39:55,075
Hopefully, you know, the photos
help make life better for...

1555
01:39:55,162 --> 01:39:59,123
Like, hopefully, my son doesn't
have to have a movement.

1556
01:39:59,210 --> 01:40:02,691
Be a part of a movement
like what I've been a part of,

1557
01:40:02,778 --> 01:40:05,651
or what my parents have been
a part of in the '60s.

1558
01:40:07,392 --> 01:40:10,351
But chances are,
he will be

1559
01:40:10,438 --> 01:40:12,701
because that's the way
the world works, you know.

1560
01:40:14,268 --> 01:40:16,531
The world is not perfect

1561
01:40:16,618 --> 01:40:19,491
and it can be
fucked up sometimes.

1562
01:40:24,365 --> 01:40:26,063
[Rep. Raskin]
A violent insurrection
to overturn the election

1563
01:40:26,150 --> 01:40:28,369
is not an abstract thing,
as we've heard.

1564
01:40:28,456 --> 01:40:30,197
Hundreds of people
were bloodied,

1565
01:40:30,284 --> 01:40:32,373
injured, and wounded
in the process,

1566
01:40:32,460 --> 01:40:36,377
including more than
150 police officers,

1567
01:40:36,464 --> 01:40:39,467
some of them
sitting in this room today.

1568
01:40:39,554 --> 01:40:41,774
[Daniel]
It's a dark day for America.

1569
01:40:41,861 --> 01:40:46,257
The Confederate flag was inside
the United States Capitol,

1570
01:40:46,344 --> 01:40:49,129
the flag of traitors,
and I say that as someone

1571
01:40:49,216 --> 01:40:52,001
born below the Mason-Dixon line,
who loves the South.

1572
01:40:53,742 --> 01:40:57,224
White supremacists rummaging

1573
01:40:57,311 --> 01:41:01,272
through the belongings
of our elected leaders.

1574
01:41:01,359 --> 01:41:05,276
[♪]

1575
01:41:05,363 --> 01:41:07,974
It's hard to imagine how that
could be victory, right?

1576
01:41:12,021 --> 01:41:15,503
But power was transferred
that day peacefully.

1577
01:41:15,590 --> 01:41:19,464
The terrorists, very fortunate
that they got to go home,

1578
01:41:19,551 --> 01:41:21,770
but more of them are getting
arrested every day.

1579
01:41:24,338 --> 01:41:26,514
And, um,
victory doesn't always look like

1580
01:41:26,601 --> 01:41:30,127
what we want it to look like,
but we did win.

1581
01:41:30,214 --> 01:41:31,345
We won that day.

1582
01:41:33,739 --> 01:41:36,437
[indistinct speech]

1583
01:41:36,524 --> 01:41:38,613
[Erica] When you go
through something like
that, you don't really think

1584
01:41:38,700 --> 01:41:40,833
about the impact it had on you

1585
01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:43,836
until you decide
to talk about it again,

1586
01:41:43,923 --> 01:41:46,621
and then a lot of that
fear and terror

1587
01:41:46,708 --> 01:41:49,798
and pain comes back.

1588
01:41:49,885 --> 01:41:51,887
But, you know,
I don't know that there's

1589
01:41:51,974 --> 01:41:54,629
a whole lot of use
in being angry.

1590
01:41:54,716 --> 01:41:57,284
I think that anger
should be channeled

1591
01:41:57,371 --> 01:42:00,069
into the work that
we should continue to do.

1592
01:42:00,157 --> 01:42:01,810
That's why I stayed that night.

1593
01:42:04,073 --> 01:42:07,425
Being there, you know,
in the face of terrorism

1594
01:42:07,512 --> 01:42:09,601
and showing them that,
you know,

1595
01:42:09,688 --> 01:42:13,344
despite your attack on
democracy, democracy prevailed.

1596
01:42:15,041 --> 01:42:16,999
[Chief Contee]
This is not the end of the book.

1597
01:42:17,086 --> 01:42:19,393
It's not the last
chapter of the book.

1598
01:42:19,480 --> 01:42:23,832
So, while I have an appreciation
for being

1599
01:42:23,919 --> 01:42:27,923
part of this historically
significant event...

1600
01:42:29,447 --> 01:42:32,537
I take comfort in knowing
that it's not the last chapter.

1601
01:42:34,234 --> 01:42:36,889
I think about what's ahead.

1602
01:42:36,976 --> 01:42:40,588
How strong we are.

1603
01:42:40,675 --> 01:42:44,157
After enduring all of these
things yet here I stand,

1604
01:42:44,244 --> 01:42:45,898
our country.

1605
01:42:45,985 --> 01:42:49,510
After going through all
the things that we go through,

1606
01:42:49,597 --> 01:42:52,383
democracy still moves forward.

1607
01:42:52,470 --> 01:42:55,516
And our last chapter is
still yet to be written.

1608
01:42:56,865 --> 01:42:58,737
[indistinct speech]

1609
01:42:58,824 --> 01:43:00,652
[Rep. Raskin]
But this is not the
problem of one party,

1610
01:43:00,739 --> 01:43:03,959
it is the problem of
the whole country now.

1611
01:43:04,046 --> 01:43:06,048
American democracy,
Mr. Chairman,

1612
01:43:06,135 --> 01:43:08,355
is a precious inheritance,

1613
01:43:08,442 --> 01:43:11,140
something rare
in the history of the world.

1614
01:43:11,228 --> 01:43:13,142
So, justice is part
of what we're doing,

1615
01:43:13,230 --> 01:43:15,232
but I would say
paramount is the truth.

1616
01:43:15,319 --> 01:43:17,364
We want to set out

1617
01:43:17,451 --> 01:43:20,628
a complete,
detailed historical record

1618
01:43:20,715 --> 01:43:22,674
of what happened and why.

1619
01:43:22,761 --> 01:43:24,763
And we've come a long way,

1620
01:43:24,850 --> 01:43:28,027
but obviously the progress

1621
01:43:28,114 --> 01:43:31,248
can be lost also
in the wink of an eye.

1622
01:43:33,902 --> 01:43:37,689
In a world of insurgent
authoritarianism,

1623
01:43:37,776 --> 01:43:41,562
of racism and antisemitism,
let's all hang tough for

1624
01:43:41,649 --> 01:43:43,347
American democracy.

1625
01:43:43,434 --> 01:43:45,653
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I yield back.

1626
01:43:50,005 --> 01:43:53,661
So, eternal vigilance,
that's the price of our liberty.

1627
01:43:53,748 --> 01:43:55,620
That's the price
of our democracy.

1628
01:43:55,707 --> 01:43:57,186
We've all got
to stay on the case.

1629
01:43:57,274 --> 01:43:59,363
It's something we
take care of together.

1630
01:44:12,985 --> 01:44:19,948
[♪]