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Speaker 1: I am your host of this solo pod. I'm ANGELAUII,
Speaker 1: and today we are talking about something that is near
Speaker 1: and dear to my heart, a very sobering reality. Just
Speaker 1: five years ago, on January sixth, twenty twenty one, the
Speaker 1: world that I knew it, the Capitol Hill that I
Speaker 1: worked on, that built my career professionally, was changed forever.
Speaker 1: On that day, Donald Trump denied election results that were
Speaker 1: very clear and encouraged protesters, an angry mob from all
Speaker 1: over the country that had descended onto the United States
Speaker 1: Capital to challenge election results, to push back, telling them
Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party what had stolen the election, that
Speaker 1: it had been rigged, that he never saw rigging like
Speaker 1: that before. He blamed tech companies and everyone else for
Speaker 1: an election outcome that was clear and decisive on the
Speaker 1: other side of a COVID nineteen pandemic, on the other
Speaker 1: side of George Floyd's murder, and the people who always
Speaker 1: talked about backing the Blue the people who always talked
Speaker 1: about blue lives matter.
Speaker 2: This is what they did instead.
Speaker 3: O gun, We're.
Speaker 2: Gonna stop this crowd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this he said, you know, do you think
Speaker 4: your p shooter guns are going to stop this crowd,
Speaker 4: meaning that they're willing to get shot to accomplish their
Speaker 4: goal to go inside the building and carry out whatever
Speaker 4: violence they had in mind.
Speaker 5: A lot of people who maybe didn't know the context
Speaker 5: of January sixth, would ask why were there's no arrests?
Speaker 4: Could you just explain that. Sure, to make an arrest,
Speaker 4: you they require usually at least two officers, and once
Speaker 4: you have someone under arrest, you are responsible for them.
Speaker 4: You are responsible for their health and their safety, and
Speaker 4: you're responsible for transporting them securely to jail to where
Speaker 4: they would be processed. I mean, we couldn't guarantee our
Speaker 4: own health and safety, let alone those of anyone else.
Speaker 4: And if we were to try to make arrests, every
Speaker 4: rest would require at least one officer leaving the scene,
Speaker 4: and we needed every single officer we had. So it
Speaker 4: was just it was not feasible to make any rest.
Speaker 4: It would be irresponsible, it would be ineffective to our
Speaker 4: own defense, it would be dangerous. It was just not possible. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's so many of them, so a few of us
Speaker 4: that you know, once we lose the line, there's no
Speaker 4: way of getting it back. So they break through and
Speaker 4: it devolves in the the West Front. It devolves into
Speaker 4: a series of pitched battles in between individuals. And I
Speaker 4: can't commit to an attack on anyone because once I do,
Speaker 4: ten more people are gonna come at me. Scott pushes
Speaker 4: me on the chest, pushing me back. This Champo over here,
Speaker 4: thanks the capital belongs to him, and here I get
Speaker 4: pinned against this wist tile wall. You can hear it
Speaker 4: right here. That's me screaming because someone of the guy
Speaker 4: in the strided sweater thing is reaching underneath my visor
Speaker 4: and trying to gouge out my eye with.
Speaker 2: His thumb, trying to goadge out his eyes.
Speaker 1: And that is Officer Danny Hodges, who is a Capitolhill
Speaker 1: police officer, talking about his experience. And what NPR did
Speaker 1: is they showed footage from the bodycam footage of officers
Speaker 1: and allowed them to respond to what was happening on
Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one. Next, I want you to
Speaker 1: hear from at the time the Commander in Chief, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump at this rally, which really ended up being a riot.
Speaker 5: And again, most people would stand there at nine o'clock
Speaker 5: in the evening and say I want to thank you
Speaker 5: very much, and they go off to some other life.
Speaker 5: But I said, something's wrong here, something's really wrong. Can't
Speaker 5: have happened. And we fight. We fight like hell. And
Speaker 5: if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to
Speaker 5: have a country anymore. Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors
Speaker 5: have not yet begun, my fellow Americans, for our movement,
Speaker 5: for our children, and for our beloved country. And I
Speaker 5: say this, despite all that's happened, the best is yet
Speaker 5: to come. So we're going to we're going to walk
Speaker 5: down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're going
Speaker 5: to the Capitol and we're going to and give the
Speaker 5: Democrats are hopeless. They're never voting for anything, not even
Speaker 5: one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans,
Speaker 5: the weak ones, because the strong ones don't need any
Speaker 5: of our help. We're going to try and give them
Speaker 5: the kind of pride and boldness that they need to
Speaker 5: take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 6: Thank you all.
Speaker 5: God bless you and God bless America.
Speaker 6: Thank you all for being here.
Speaker 5: This is incredible. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: So now I want to bring in someone who also
Speaker 1: was there that day on January sixth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: His name is Officer Harry Dunn. He's a Capitol Hill
Speaker 1: police officer. Folks who became like family to me, and
Speaker 1: Harry is one of them. So let's bring him in.
Speaker 1: I want you all to hear from him. Hi, Harry,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here today.
Speaker 6: Hey angela happy New Year to you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: I know you are running all over the place today
Speaker 1: having to relive this really awful experience, But I do
Speaker 1: think it's important for those people who are at home, Harry,
Speaker 1: who may have never set foot on Capitol grounds, to
Speaker 1: talk about what happened that day and what your experience was.
Speaker 1: We know when Donald Trump came in this term, he
Speaker 1: pardoned more than sixteen hundred people who were affiliated with
Speaker 1: the violence and the havoc that was reaked on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: So can you talk a little bit about your experience
Speaker 1: and what you saw that day?
Speaker 7: Sure, one thing that you just said actually really stood
Speaker 7: out to me, just that quickly people that have made
Speaker 7: never stood foot on Capitol ground or the Capitol they
Speaker 7: were under attacked that day, whether you stepped there or not,
Speaker 7: because your representatives were under attacked, the people that represent
Speaker 7: you in the communities wherever you're listening to the show from.
Speaker 7: They wanted to overturn your vote or not even counter
Speaker 7: your vote. They wanted what they wanted to install install
Speaker 7: Donald Trump to be president again when he lost an election.
Speaker 7: There was no evidence of that to the contrary to
Speaker 7: say that he didn't lose it. But I say this often,
Speaker 7: we don't need people to tell us what happened on
Speaker 7: January sixth. You know I've been doing it because clearly
Speaker 7: there's a battle going on right now, people conflating, not
Speaker 7: even complaining, just with out lying about what happened on
Speaker 7: that day versus what happened. We don't need people to
Speaker 7: tell us, Like we saw the footage that you just
Speaker 7: played that just press play. You don't need anybody to
Speaker 7: analyze that footage. But it's unfortunate that we have to
Speaker 7: push back and say, yes, it's really happened, and it
Speaker 7: was one hundred times worse than what the footage actually shows.
Speaker 7: That nobody in their right mind watches that footage and say,
Speaker 7: oh wow, that's that's an acceptable thing to do. If
Speaker 7: somebody is thinking that, like they need they say one
Speaker 7: hundred miles from me, like, that's not this isn't cool.
Speaker 7: But these people, these terrorists, these thugs, insurrectionists attacked me
Speaker 7: and my coworkers and everybody else listening like this was
Speaker 7: an attack on American principles, American democracy and free and
Speaker 7: fair elections, all because of one man. Donald Trump solely,
Speaker 7: solely could have prevented January sixth. If Donald Trump didn't
Speaker 7: tell his writers to go to the Capitol, they wouldn't
Speaker 7: have been there. They were emboldened the most powerful person
Speaker 7: and the are going to be the world told them
Speaker 7: to go to the Capitol. Now listen, when my mom
Speaker 7: tell me to do something, I don't care who tell
Speaker 7: me to the contrary, my mama said do it, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna do it. Imagine the most powerful person in the
Speaker 7: world giving you marching orders. You're like, oh, okay, we
Speaker 7: can do this. So that's where the audacity came from
Speaker 7: of these individuals feelings they had the right to do
Speaker 7: what they were doing. They thought that they were right.
Speaker 7: Now they're stupid for thinking that, But that goes to
Speaker 7: the mindset of the people that were there and the
Speaker 7: power and the whole that Donald Trump has over them.
Speaker 1: Well, what's scary now, Officer Done, is you know, we
Speaker 1: all know what happened, but if you go to official
Speaker 1: government websites now, the way that they are framing January
Speaker 1: sixth is vastly different than what we are seeing with
Speaker 1: our own two eyes. So I do think it's important
Speaker 1: for people to understand when you say, me and my
Speaker 1: colleagues were attacked, what was that experience?
Speaker 2: What was your role? Where were you on January sixth?
Speaker 6: Sure? So, I fortunately I was blessed.
Speaker 7: I didn't suffer a lot of the physical attacks that
Speaker 7: a lot of my coworkers did.
Speaker 6: I was on an Overwatch post.
Speaker 7: I had a long rifle attached to me, and I
Speaker 7: was kind of like Overwatch, and I made the conscious
Speaker 7: decision not to go down in the crowd because that
Speaker 7: weapon's going to get snatched from me and you're just
Speaker 7: going to be outnumbered, like one person. You know, I
Speaker 7: feel like I could throw hands a little bit, you know,
Speaker 7: one person going in there he's not going to make
Speaker 7: a big difference. When you got all those people down there,
Speaker 7: we needed help from the National Guard.
Speaker 6: We needed help.
Speaker 7: Like people asked, well, how did the rioters finally get
Speaker 7: under control? It wasn't no secret code that we use
Speaker 7: or some magic word. Help backup arrived. The National Guard
Speaker 7: showed up. Law enforcement showed up from all other precincts
Speaker 7: and jurisdictions across from the eastern the eastern East coast,
Speaker 7: from New Jersey, Virginia, New York.
Speaker 6: There were officers all up North Carolina.
Speaker 7: People came to help, and that's how we finally got
Speaker 7: the crowds under control. But these people were beating officers,
Speaker 7: calling us traders and talking about we can do this
Speaker 7: the hard way, the easy way of the hard way.
Speaker 7: We don't want to hurt you, but we will. These
Speaker 7: are quotes from them. Stand with us. They're telling stand
Speaker 7: with us, We're here to stop the Still these are
Speaker 7: quotes from that day.
Speaker 1: When you think about how long it took, one of
Speaker 1: the things that we hear often from members of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is that Donald Trump refused to send in
Speaker 1: the National Guard. If you can recount at that time,
Speaker 1: like how long you remember it taking How long was.
Speaker 2: It before the National Guard arrived?
Speaker 6: Well, thim's a blur. Time is a blur that day. No,
Speaker 6: I don't. I don't have any at least in that moment.
Speaker 7: Obviously, in the aftermath and being able to see for
Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty seven, one hundred and eighty nine
Speaker 7: or whatever the exact number was, we're able to see
Speaker 7: three plus hours. But in that moment, I didn't know
Speaker 7: whether it was ten minutes or four hours. I didn't know.
Speaker 7: The only thing we were working focused on is survival.
Speaker 7: As a police officer, your goal at the end of
Speaker 7: the day is to go home. Some people did not
Speaker 7: go home at the end of their shift that day,
Speaker 7: and we were all focused a man, woman, black, white,
Speaker 7: getting each other home to their loved ones and to
Speaker 7: their families.
Speaker 1: And that's I think is the part to me, And
Speaker 1: maybe this is my bias, so I'll acknowledge that the
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill Police is built different to me. Officer done like,
Speaker 1: these are the people who when we worked super late
Speaker 1: at night, I'm walking around the building like Longworth or
Speaker 1: ray Burn with no shoes on feet are done.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: These are the people who, when I could finally put
Speaker 1: those shoes back on. They will walk us to our cars.
Speaker 1: They're asking about our families. They met, some of them
Speaker 1: met my parents. You know, the ones that are checking
Speaker 1: you and screening you when you first get in. How's
Speaker 1: your mom doing, how's your dad doing? Like they're different.
Speaker 1: It's not like a traditional police force, so these it
Speaker 1: felt like family.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking now there are.
Speaker 1: Some like the guy I cannot think of his officer's name,
Speaker 1: but you probably know who I'm talking about behind cannon
Speaker 1: that he's at. I'm sorry, y'all, this is and I'm
Speaker 1: not shaming, but he's a chubby or white guy, older
Speaker 1: and he's always yelling at people, even in the crosswalk.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's still there, but like, right,
Speaker 1: but there are the exception and not the norm.
Speaker 2: And so what I what I'm curious.
Speaker 1: About is like what you all were thinking, because even
Speaker 1: though we weren't your colleagues in uniform, we were your
Speaker 1: colleagues too.
Speaker 2: We're your extended family too.
Speaker 1: What were some of the thoughts you had about folks
Speaker 1: you really cared about and if they were okay.
Speaker 6: Keeping them safe?
Speaker 7: And if you look the number one goal of the
Speaker 7: Capitol Police is to create a safe environment so Congress
Speaker 7: can fulfill their constitutional obligations. That's literally the mission statement
Speaker 7: of Capitol Police. And I would like to say say
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, that mission was upheld.
Speaker 7: Now it took a hell of a detour, you know,
Speaker 7: it took a moment, but Congress went back and certified
Speaker 7: the election in the wee hours of the morning, early
Speaker 7: in the morning. So that's one of the things that
Speaker 7: make me proud. I remember seeing I never it was
Speaker 7: an officer in the midst of the chaos, and this
Speaker 7: image always stands in my head was carrying what appeared
Speaker 7: to be a staff member, carrying them running through the
Speaker 7: crypt as rioters were approaching. I don't know if the
Speaker 7: person was hurt. I don't I don't even know who
Speaker 7: the officer was. I just saw somebody and they were
Speaker 7: carrying that person like a football, and they would just
Speaker 7: keep these people safe. And not one member got hurt,
Speaker 7: not one staffer got hurt, Not even a hair on
Speaker 7: their head was harmed.
Speaker 6: And I'd take very much, very pride in that.
Speaker 7: And like you said, Capitol Police are different than your
Speaker 7: normal police force, and I just take pride in that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I thank you so much officer them for your time.
Speaker 1: I know that you're going to continue to do this work.
Speaker 1: What's the thing that you would tell people at home
Speaker 1: to do to make sure that one we remember what
Speaker 1: happened and we prevent what happens going forward.
Speaker 2: What would you tell us to do?
Speaker 7: Stay engaged? Simple, simple, right, But it's so easy to
Speaker 7: check out. Listen a lot of people. I think when
Speaker 7: somebody tells you, hey, everything's going to be all right,
Speaker 7: whether it's you're going through a breakup or whether you're
Speaker 7: dealing with the Hey, it's gonna be okay, I don't know.
Speaker 7: That's the biggest gas lighting phrase I've ever heard of
Speaker 7: my life.
Speaker 6: It's going to be okay. We don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know if we're going to survive these next
Speaker 7: three years coming up with this Trump administry.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 7: However, I do know if we don't show up, if
Speaker 7: we just roll over and accept it, then we absolutely
Speaker 7: will not survive it. But showing up gives us a
Speaker 7: fighting chance. So stay engaged, stay involved, stay in the game.
Speaker 7: Do whatever you can do, whether it's calling, whether it's
Speaker 7: calling educating a friend, registering somebody to vote. Voting is
Speaker 7: just something you have to do something to stay engaged,
Speaker 7: to stay involved, because you don't want to just say
Speaker 7: damn if I could have, I should have, could have
Speaker 7: would have do so well.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that you stay engaged. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for practicing what you preach, for joining me and
Speaker 1: please come back to an Officer Done.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you absolutely.
Speaker 1: Likewise, well, y'all, we are just getting started into this show.
Speaker 1: Officer Done is tremendous, so brave for sharing his story
Speaker 1: consistently on and off air, making sure that we know
Speaker 1: to stay engaged, and on that I think in order
Speaker 1: to stay engaged, we have to understand the facts. So
Speaker 1: I want to take us back into January sixth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, and what I want to do first actually
Speaker 1: is bring in the clip that I recorded. It was
Speaker 1: the Instagram Live right when all this was going on,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you, as I was recording this particular clip,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about all of my Hill family. I
Speaker 1: was calling my members and telling them to please not
Speaker 1: move from where they were, to stay locked in their
Speaker 1: offices in case they thought they could move around. I
Speaker 1: remember Congressman Joyce Beatty was having a meeting organizing meeting
Speaker 1: for the Congressional Black Caucus, and she began her tenure.
Speaker 1: I asked her to please not leave her office. I
Speaker 1: called Congressman Carson and Congressman Thompson. I was texting and
Speaker 1: Congressman Cleaver asking them where they were in one particular moment.
Speaker 1: We have a Congressional Black Caucus family thread, and that
Speaker 1: is with my former team, and Brandon and Stephanie were
Speaker 1: already off the Hill, as was I, but our sister
Speaker 1: LaTrece Powell was still there and she worked for Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: and we saw that Nancy Pelosi was a prime target.
Speaker 1: The Republican Party has long made Nancy Pelosi a boogeyman,
Speaker 1: and so we began to think about Trees, and so
Speaker 1: we asked Trees where she was. And we didn't hear
Speaker 1: from Latrese for three hours, and I was so scared
Speaker 1: in the midst of that I recorded this video. I
Speaker 1: just am kind of in shock. I'm not in shock
Speaker 1: that this is happening. I'm not in shock that the
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill police, not all of them, because there are
Speaker 1: some great officers, but there are definitely some who were
Speaker 1: taking selfies with protesters, with terrorists and there were those who.
Speaker 2: Helped to move the gates.
Speaker 1: And so when I think about Congressman Cleaver or Congressman
Speaker 1: Carson or Congressman Jeffries, or Congresswoman Omar or Congresswoman Presley
Speaker 1: or congressmanber Bass or the new chair of the Congressional
Speaker 1: Black Caucus, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, I'm thinking about people who
Speaker 1: are my family members, congress Congressman GK. Butterfield, who are
Speaker 1: in these buildings on the House floor to do the
Speaker 1: people's business.
Speaker 2: You know, staffers who.
Speaker 1: Are working to ensure that the whole of America is good,
Speaker 1: whether you voted for their bosses or not. Right, the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, this is not a game.
Speaker 1: It's never been a game. It was not a game
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was campaigning off this bullshit in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a game when I was.
Speaker 1: On CNN arguing with people who did not have the
Speaker 1: credibility to even be sitting opposite of me. This has
Speaker 1: never been a joke. It's never been about a rating.
Speaker 1: This has never been about, you know, a divided America,
Speaker 1: and we tap into it and study the impact. This
Speaker 1: was always going to be the consequence of giving airtime,
Speaker 1: on social media, on cable news, on radio to domestic terrorists.
Speaker 1: This was always going to be the consequence of this,
Speaker 1: And so what we really have to imagine is how
Speaker 1: long we are going to continue to be terrorized, because
Speaker 1: that's what's been going on since fourteen ninety two. It's
Speaker 1: not a surprise that white people who are threatened that
Speaker 1: their power is gone will behave this way.
Speaker 2: It's not surprising to any.
Speaker 1: Of us because it happens in our neighborhoods. It happens
Speaker 1: every time someone in our family is pulled over by
Speaker 1: a police officer. This is what happen, happens, This is
Speaker 1: what we are telling you, this is what we've been saying.
Speaker 1: So when you talk to me about how defund the
Speaker 1: police is terrorism, when you talk to me and you
Speaker 1: tell me how Black Lives Matter is terrorism, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to say shit else to me about that,
Speaker 1: because it's not real. The terrorists are the folks who
Speaker 1: are on my TV right now, making it so. Members
Speaker 1: of Congress who I love and even those who I don't,
Speaker 1: are stuck in their offices, stuck together in undisclosed locations,
Speaker 1: afraid and really ready to go home. But don't know
Speaker 1: where all the protesters may be, the folks who are
Speaker 1: concerned that there might be another explosive device in the Capitol.
Speaker 1: At the bottom line is we're talking about what domestic
Speaker 1: terrorism looks like. And I think that what you are
Speaker 1: very clear about. No matter how they try to whitewash
Speaker 1: pun intended history, it was a terrorist attack on Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill that day. And it wasn't a foreign terrorist attack
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill that day. It was a domestic terrorist
Speaker 1: attack encouraged incited by the commander in chief at that time.
Speaker 1: So I want to remind you again with your own
Speaker 1: two eyes of what that terrorist attack looks like.
Speaker 2: Let's throw the clip.
Speaker 6: That's why do you want to go?
Speaker 3: You want to go back to.
Speaker 6: Get what is your kids? Now?
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 5: It's my partner, Mike staying there, Buddy, Mike, it's Jimmy.
Speaker 6: I'm here.
Speaker 8: Take Mike, I'm here for you.
Speaker 6: Come on, dud Well, Mike, Buddy, We're going to hellcott sit. No,
Speaker 6: k take that doorback. Yeah we did, Yes, we did.
Speaker 5: We took the funt door back all outside.
Speaker 9: Do you even remember saying that?
Speaker 6: No? No, It's like.
Speaker 8: In character, I was always like a pretty mission focused
Speaker 8: cop and that was a goal plus like I mean shit,
Speaker 8: I guess like subconsciously I was thinking if I just
Speaker 8: went through all of that and we lost the goddamn door.
Speaker 10: OK.
Speaker 1: That was former officer Michael Fanone who suffered a mild
Speaker 1: heart attack in that clip. That's what was happening. And
Speaker 1: so I think it's important as people tried to whitewash
Speaker 1: history and claim that it was patriots that descended down
Speaker 1: on the Capitol, that we remember the officers like Michael
Speaker 1: Fanon who were standing trying to guard and protect democracy,
Speaker 1: literally with their own lives on the line. There's one
Speaker 1: other that I think is important to hear from UH
Speaker 1: as we talk about what happened that day, who had
Speaker 1: what constitutional requirement to fulfill. One of those people was
Speaker 1: Mike Pince, whose memory was jogged right in time to
Speaker 1: run for president in twenty twenty four, and in that
Speaker 1: presidential announcement he had this to say.
Speaker 10: It begins with a promise that I made to the
Speaker 10: American people and to Almighty God, and it ends with
Speaker 10: different visions for the future of our nation and our party.
Speaker 10: January sixth was a tragic day in the life of
Speaker 10: our nation. But thanks to the courage of law enforcement.
Speaker 10: The violence was quelled and we reconvened the Congress the
Speaker 10: very same day to complete the work of the American
Speaker 10: people under the Constitution of the United States. As I've
Speaker 10: said many times, on that fateful day, President Trump's words
Speaker 10: were reckless. I endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol.
Speaker 10: But the American people deserve to know.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 10: On that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose
Speaker 10: between him and the Constitution. Now voters will be faced
Speaker 10: with the same choice. I chose the Constitution, and I
Speaker 10: always will. My former running mate continues to insist that
Speaker 10: I had the right to overturn the election. But President
Speaker 10: Trump was wrong then and he's wrong now. I will
Speaker 10: always believe, by God's grace, I did my duty that day.
Speaker 10: I kept my oath to ensure the peaceful transfer of
Speaker 10: power under the Constitution of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Vice President Mike Pince was loud then in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four preparing to run for president, but he's quiet now.
Speaker 1: He's quiet in the face of governmental websites being changed
Speaker 1: to tell a completely different story. Despite the fact that
Speaker 1: Mike Pence himself his name plastered across hanging gallows with
Speaker 1: a noose attached, with threats being experienced, people literally going
Speaker 1: throughout the Capitol to hunt him down. And while they
Speaker 1: were doing that, moderately encouraged by Donald Trump, who called
Speaker 1: Mike pincer coward, who urged him to do the right thing,
Speaker 1: which was opposite of Spike Lee's do the right thing
Speaker 1: and actually the very wrong thing. This is the same
Speaker 1: man who, in his silence, I don't know if he
Speaker 1: ever told Donald Trump that he should call in the
Speaker 1: National Guard, but what we know is it took the
Speaker 1: National Guard a long time to get there. With Mike
Speaker 1: Pence's life on the line, Nancy Pelosi's, Hakim Jeffreys, Jim Clyburns,
Speaker 1: Benny Gordon Thompson, Everybody's life on the line, and not
Speaker 1: to forget all of the many staffers, and if you
Speaker 1: think they were going to be checking for who was
Speaker 1: a Democrat or a Republican, you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Everybody's life was on the line that day.
Speaker 1: And that is why I cannot understand why, on a
Speaker 1: bipartisan level, there wasn't an all out effort to ensure
Speaker 1: that this man who put democracy on the line, who
Speaker 1: demonstrated just how fragule. It was to this country wasn't
Speaker 1: challenged in a more forceful way, except for when greed
Speaker 1: gets in the way. But nonetheless, the National Guard was
Speaker 1: hours late to show up.
Speaker 2: And here's what this gentleman had to say about that.
Speaker 11: What I can tell you with absolute certainty is that
Speaker 11: we had a force equipped and ready to respond, and
Speaker 11: despite the inaccuracies of the Dodig report, we had a
Speaker 11: plan and would have liked the opportunity to try. Instead,
Speaker 11: we waited for hours less than two miles east of
Speaker 11: the Capitol building, absolutely frustrating, knowing our capital had been
Speaker 11: breached and not understanding why we had not received the
Speaker 11: authorization to respond. I cannot tell you the number of
Speaker 11: times someone has asked me where were you? Where was
Speaker 11: the National Guard? Or how can you call yourselves capital guardians?
Speaker 11: There's no easy response to those questions. And the truth
Speaker 11: is we were there and we were ready. We just
Speaker 11: weren't authorized to respond, and that is difficult to explain.
Speaker 11: The soldiers and airmen of the DC National Guard deserve better.
Speaker 2: And we all deserve better.
Speaker 1: And I think that the reality of it is is
Speaker 1: we have found out since then this full year, this
Speaker 1: past fell year twenty twenty five, that Donald Trump knows
Speaker 1: exactly how to call on the National Guard. He knows
Speaker 1: how to call on the National Guard for everything.
Speaker 2: That does not matter.
Speaker 1: But he does not know, or did not know, or
Speaker 1: pretended not to know, how to call on the National
Speaker 1: Guard when it mattered. Most the people who he has
Speaker 1: to work with day in and day out to sign
Speaker 1: sign bills into law, he turned a blind eye to them.
Speaker 1: The staffers that work tirelessly to ensure that the American
Speaker 1: people are protected and covered and policy is fought for,
Speaker 1: whether you agree with the solutions or not. He turned
Speaker 1: a blind eye to all of them. But the National Guard.
Speaker 1: He can call the National Guard in the cities over
Speaker 1: full crime. He can call the National Guard into cities
Speaker 1: when he thinks that immigrants are the real problem. He
Speaker 1: can call in the National Guard for everything and anything
Speaker 1: other than to protect the capital, to allow them to
Speaker 1: fulfill their duty of being capital guardians. And despite all
Speaker 1: of that recklessness, the wanton disregard for life, the irresponsibility
Speaker 1: that your president had that day, they're rewriting the history
Speaker 1: and we will not allow them to do that. Five
Speaker 1: years later, it was still one of the worst terrorist
Speaker 1: attacks domestically on our soil, and.
Speaker 2: We should never never veer from that truth.
Speaker 1: I just want to take this moment to shout out
Speaker 1: someone who at the time was a member of Congress
Speaker 1: representing Delaware, an House member representing Delaware. Now she is
Speaker 1: a member of Congress, but as the first black woman Senator,
Speaker 1: things could have gone very differently for Lisa Blant Rochester
Speaker 1: on January sixth, twenty twenty one. But she chose to
Speaker 1: call on a higher power. She chose to summon the
Speaker 1: heavens and pray. And I think in moments like these,
Speaker 1: when we feel like things are completely beyond our control,
Speaker 1: it is our obligation to call on something bigger, someone
Speaker 1: bigger than ourselves, because it's like, what else can you
Speaker 1: do when you can literally hear bullets ringing out? In
Speaker 1: this video that's going to play next, she called on
Speaker 1: She got on her knees and she called out to God.
Speaker 9: This is video from and said the House yes earlier.
Speaker 9: So where this is being shot from is actually the
Speaker 9: side of the House chamber where the first lady.
Speaker 6: Normally say yes correct during.
Speaker 9: A stadium There you can see members of Congress. That's
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Speaker 6: Correct, you remember speak there you go and you can.
Speaker 6: Let's listen.
Speaker 9: And that woman there is a number of Congress I
Speaker 9: think time they got pooh exactly.
Speaker 6: She appears to.
Speaker 3: Be making a video or a statement because she's getting
Speaker 3: this one of the speech.
Speaker 6: She's praying, she is proud.
Speaker 3: And that I will stay down, Stay down, shouts a
Speaker 3: member of Congress inside the hallowed halls of our United
Speaker 3: States cons.
Speaker 9: And that's not a shower cap. That's the kind of
Speaker 9: masks there that are under the seat in the event
Speaker 9: of some kind of chemical agent being released in the chamber.
Speaker 9: So remember we reported earlier that members have been instructed
Speaker 9: to use the gas mask under their seats and have
Speaker 9: them ready or to shelter under their chairs. And this
Speaker 9: is the video showing that in fact, many.
Speaker 11: Did do that.
Speaker 1: Well, this is why it is important to recall history correctly.
Speaker 1: It is important to recall history with people who were
Speaker 1: actually there, who know what happened, who experienced it firsthand,
Speaker 1: whose responsibility it was to be guardians of the Capitol.
Speaker 1: I want to point out to you that that is
Speaker 1: what happened on January sixth, twenty twenty one. And when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was sworn in last year on Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Day, one of his first acts was to pardon
Speaker 1: the sixteen hundred men and women and people who were
Speaker 1: involved in that terrorist attack on the Capitol building.
Speaker 2: That insurrection.
Speaker 1: He partned sixteen hundred people, and since then several of
Speaker 1: them have been rearrested thirty three at least thirty three
Speaker 1: who were pardoned, have now been convicted of, or charged
Speaker 1: with or arrested for additional crimes since that violent attack
Speaker 1: on the Capitol. This is coming from a report from
Speaker 1: where are they now? The perpetrators of January sixth and
Speaker 1: the Defenders of democracy who stop them? From the House
Speaker 1: Committee on the Judiciary led by Congressman Jamie Raskin. Some
Speaker 1: of the crimes that they have the rioters were convicted
Speaker 1: of or have been charged with or arrested for include
Speaker 1: child sexual assault, production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, rape,
Speaker 1: conspiracy to commit murder of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, kidnapping,
Speaker 1: sexual assault, aggravated robbery, reckless homicide, driving under the influence
Speaker 1: causing death, illegal possession of firearms, domestic violence by strangulation, burglary, vandalism,
Speaker 1: grand theft, stalking, violation of protective orders, threatening public officials,
Speaker 1: and drug trafficking. If you're wondering why there's this long
Speaker 1: list of bolonious activity from insurrectionists, I'd invite you to
Speaker 1: look at your president, who was also had a laundry
Speaker 1: list of felonies that he's either been charged with, accused
Speaker 1: of and died it for, or investigated about.
Speaker 2: With that, y'all, Welcome home.
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