be released. and i think that s important, because there are people who are trying to revise history and pretend as if this never happened or it was no different than a regular tour of the capitol which we all know is a lie, it s just not true. and yet as we just reported, you just heard, this capitol police officer has actually now been indicted for trying to help one of these rioters trying to get away with it. how disturbing is that you to, chief ramsey, knowing how many police officers put their own lives on the line that day to defend the u.s. capitol? it s very disturbing. that s a very serious charge. if the allegations prove to be true, then he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and if convicted, should get a very, very substantial prison time, because you just can t have that sort of thing. and it does take away from the valiant efforts of the men and women of the capitol police and the metropolitan police that defended the capitol that day.
dire trump s directive not to testify. next thursday is the deadline for documents to be submitted by two stop the steal rally organizers. on thursday and friday, the committee has scheduled depositions of three different people who planned and executed the event. thompson making it clear, no one, including the former president, is above the reach of their investigation. i would say this at this point. nobody is off-limits to a subpoena from this committee. reporter: and the committee is hoping their aggressive stance with bannon will send a message to other potential witnesses that they are not messing around. we have the power, basically equivalent to the court, to get to these answers and we are danged determined to do that. reporter: that officer s attorney responded to cnn with a statement saying they plan to do everything they can to fight the charges. he s also getting some support from his police union. the chairman of the capitol police union putting out a
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not diminish the heroic efforts of the united states capitol police officers on january 6th, the bravery and courage exhibited by the vast majority of our employees was inspiring. listen to this, though. capitol police issuing that statement. just overnight, the head of the capitol police union for the officers here, releasing a pretty scathing, very lengthy statement. i ll read a part of it, saying i believe in accountability, even one incident of an officer not fulfilling their duty is one too many. yet we have leaders still on the payroll who completely failed to fulfill their duties up to and during the capitol attack, who have evaded all consequences. some of those leaders that were in charge on january 6th failed m miserably on that day and have been promoted as they hide in plain sight. still a lot of anger.