juntos con smokey bear podemos hacerlo! go to smokeybear.com to learn more about wildfire prevention. at 2:12 p.m., using a police shield, a proud boy breaks a window on the capitol s west side and the mob starts pouring in. josh pruitt jumps a railing and follows other proud boys through a now open door. what did you do? walk in through a front door being held open by cops waving
aren t you so fucking proud? by 4:00, vice president pence was calling the acting secretary of defense, demanding he clear the capitol. a moment later, battle raging, trump finally tweets a pretaped statement. i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. but you have to go home now. then, inexplicably, tells the mob you re very special. donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just put out a tweet, it s a minute long remember asked everybody to go home. josh pruitt, who claims he was only in the capitol for a half hour. it got a little too rowdy for me in there personally. so i decided to leave. says he believes it was all a setup. i think they let a bunch of people in so they could use their facial recognition and get every trump supporter with charges that they could.
u.s. house of representatives, members and their staff just steps away. reinforcements arrive. three uniformed officers holding the doors step aside. all that separates members of congress from the mob is a wood and glass door barricaded with furniture. he s got a gun! in that split second, ashli babbitt tries to climb through a broken window. that s one of the hardest parts about seeing the video, is you just want to grab her and shake her and be like, damn it, ashli, why did you have to do that? [ sound of gunfire ] it sounded like a fucking gunshot. ashli babbitt is shot. i know gunshots pretty well. i knew that this was real and
one officer, daniel hodges, screaming as his body is pressed into the door. officer michael fanone had heard the radio calls and rushed to help. this is not a law enforcement operation. his body camera captures the moment he faced the mob of thousands. we were in a medieval battle. this is hand to hand combat in its most brutal form. the rioters had come armed and were fighting to get inside. they hit police with bats, sticks. batons. tasers. guys were bleeding. these were officers that i think under normal circumstances, they would be in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. but they weren t because there was nowhere to go. if you left that line, we were going to lose that door and that just wasn t an option.
gene is great. he did a great job. there were a lot of eugene goodmans that day that did a lot of graeat, heroic things, and people will never know their name. there are now hundreds in the mob. you work for us! roaming halls, banging on doors, taking photos and videos. defend your constitution! defend your liberty! some members of congress are being escorted to safety but behind doors, staffers and news media are in hiding. i remember telling my colleagues, we need to go into lockdown. inside house speaker pelosi s office, her staffers rushed to a conference room, locked the door. among them, alisa and kelsey, speaking exclusively to cnn. then we started hearing the banging. and, like, the hooting and the hollering. nancy!