her way, the mile and a half from the white house to the capitol, and second of all, that the well, that part, i think, is not very surprising, because once you get away from the immediate area around the white house, the only thing that s going to prevent you from getting to the capitol is traffic. right. 2:15 on a day when the capitol is going through a shutdown, a lot of federal employees are not here, the traffic is not heavy as usual. she just was, you know, obviously, she wasn t concerned about her safety at any of these points. she s blasting through red lights, going at a very high speed. but she does, i mean, i think it s telling that i don t know if she knew where she was going. pennsylvania avenue to the u.s. capitol is a fairly direct route, from the white house to the base of capitol hill. whether she knew that she was that was her next destination or not, she headed to the same to the part of the city that had the greatest on the street security. pete will
the secret service vehicle, and then kept going after they were shooting. remember, all the while, there is this 1-year-old child in the car with her. so what possessed her to do this, what possessed her to do any of these things, to disobey repeated verbal commands to stop, repeated shots fired at her car. we don t know whether, as you re seeing these pictures now, whether she at this point is wounded. we have to assume that she is. these were you saw those shots fired at relatively close range, as she was fleeing. but all the questions, i think, are going to take a while to answer. the police are searching for house in connecticut tonight. they re going to talk to neighbors, her employer. she has some relatives in new york city. they re talking to them, to try to get a better picture of what happened. it was remarkable to me two things. one is that as the story came out that she was able to make her way, the mile and a half from the white house to the capitol, and second of all,
the greatest on the street security. pete williams from nbc news, thank you so much for your time tonight. you bet. joining me now is senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont. he heard the gunshots on capitol hill today. and senator, describe the scene to me. well, i was leaving a meeting in the capitol, going back to my office at the dirkson office building. and about halfway there, i heard these police cars driving furiously down constitutional avenue. their sirens blaring. and then just at that point, i heard four or five gunshots. and, you know, one began then you began to see a whole lot of police officers converging on the scene, telling people to get down, get down. another senator and i ducked behind a car and then we were escorted back into the capitol. it was remarkable to me how efficiently and quickly the capitol police seemed to get the situation under control, keep the lockdown, and then they lifted the lockdown, and then, actually, the congress resume
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the suspect amid the chaos on capitol hill. as we mentioned, one capitol police officer was injured and hospitalized after his squad car crashed during the chase. numerous lawmakers tweeted out their appreciation for capitol police officers in the aftermath of the incident, with this tweet from republican congressman bill shuster striking a typical tone, all of us on capitol hill owe a debt of gratitude to the capitol police who keep us safe every day. it was a little hard to escape the irony, of course, that these police officers were risking their lives to protect the very people like shuster who shut the government down and caused a delay on their paychecks. while capitol police are required to provide protection during a shutdown, they don t get paid for their work until lawmakers decide to fund the government, which could be a little while, when they are paid retroactively. that is cold comfort for the capitol police officers, the federal government workers, who need to pay thei