capitol area later on. what made you decide to leave? >> basically, when president trump put his tweet out, we literally left right after it come out. to me, if he would've done that earlier in the day, 1:30, maybe we wouldn't be in this bad of a situation maybe. >> thank you. mister chairman i yield back. >> we left when trump put out his tweet telling us to leave. if he had done that earlier in the day, maybe 1:30 pm instead of after 4 pm, maybe we wouldn't be in this bad situation. today stephen ayers one of the live witnesses at this hearing. at one point in the hearing room, mr. ayers approached members of the capitol police in d. c. metropolitan police who were injured during january six or at the hearing today just watch the proceedings. mr. ayers spoke to each of them