good morning. i m peter alexander. we ve live here on capitol hill, where tonight the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack here will hold its first hearing. it will take place in primetime. a chance for that committee to grab the attention of the american public to try to lay out its case. it has now been more than 500 days since the attack in this building. the images haunting. but the impact has been waning over time. the committee that hopes to show donald trump s election with his election loss and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. but as our meet the press first read team puts it, what if folks who watch tonight are part of nearly half americans who already believe donald trump was mainly responsible for what happened on january 6th? and what if the other half of americans do not tune in? the committee does have a lot of work that it has to get done tonight, try to make its case. there are going to be si
on their own video did not do. it was absolutely not do process, they know it, but world saw it and it was abou silencing the voices who wer speaking out against gun violence because they had no interest in taking real action to prevent children in tennessee from being gunne down in their classrooms and what is your reaction now to - sorry go ahead the speaker actually went o fox news the day after and sai that - accused the parents, the toddlers, the teenagers were there of being insurrectionist and trying to rush the chamber doors. none of that ever ever happened at some point in the day there
that actual day. tucker: so things start to fall apart. people stream in the building. you call upwards in the command chain, help me! you don t gate response. what do you you don t get a response. what do you do next? around 2:00 it may have been a little bit after 2:00 i hear an officer say that the capitol was breached. so i ran inside of the building. i ran, you know, to assist. i knew that, um, that location of where the first breach occurred was near where the members of congress would be locked in. we initiated a lockdown, so that means the chamber doors on the senate side and on the house side were locked. so that means the members of congress would be safe inside those locked rooms. tucker: yes. so i ran over to the house side first to make sure those doors were locked and then i ran over to the senate side to make sure that those doors were locked. so i asked over the radio and i say something to the effect t that, um, we need direction! we have hundreds of p
we had no idea that we were te peopg to be facing what we faced on that actual day. so things starg.t to fall apart. people stream in the building. you call upwards in the command chain. u so around two o clock, it may- have been a little bit after a capio clock, i hear a officer say that the capital was breached. so i ran inside of the building around two to to assist. i knew that that location of where the first breach occurred was near where the members ofat congress would be locked in. we initiated a lockdown. . so that means the chamber doors on the senate side in a house.cs i would lock would be sa. so that means the members of congress would be safe inside those locked rooms. thso i ran over to the house sin over to the senate sid first to make sure that thosesoa doors were locked. then i ran over to thesk senatra side to make sure those doors were okay. so i aske thd overat, um the radio, w and i say something to the! effect tha t we need direction.in wsie havede o hu
gallery, and then they said, please take out your gas masks under your seat. i had no idea we had gas masks under our seat. then sadly, the terrifying banging on the chamber doors, those beautiful ceremonial doors that open for a president of head of state. that sound is a terrifying sound. i called family. i scared the heck out of them. i feel bad about that to this day. but as i said, i was more scared for our country that the peaceful transfer of power would interrupt in the this grievous way. i knew lives were in danger and i couldn t see the gravity of the attack on the capitol. we were inside. we heard the rotunda had been breached. put your gas mask on. tear gas had been deployed. we thought maybe 10, 15, 30 insurrectionists. hundreds and hundreds. and people died. our flag be the trump flag used to bludgeon capitol police