under trump for four years. the former marine was brought into the white house by top asea advisor michael flynn. he alerted mark meadows the national guard had still not arrived at the capitol on january 6th. a source tells cnn his inaction led to her resignation that night. he said that we could make the rinos do the right thing, is the way he phrased it. and no one spoke up initially, because i think everyone was trying to process what he meant by that. reporter: now she will testify about what he experienced in the white house that day. it was clear that it was escalating and escalating quickly, so when that tweet the mike pence tweet was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. reporter: the kent state graduate had spent her adult life working in politics spending her summers interning for portman,
mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou
mindedness, they know that they are supposed to engage the cameras and it is up to them. reporter: the 13-year-old was a passenger in a suspected stolen car when officers ride to stop it, police say he jumped out and started running. and then right as he turns and appears to raise his hands, he is shot at least once. leaving him now paralyzed from the waste down his attorneys say. and for you all at least it is clear that his hands are up. his hands are up. there was no justification for the officer to shoot. and he was unarmed. clearly unarmed. reporter: at least some bystanders on the scene appear to agree. one witness who didn t want to be identified said is hands was up. i seen the cop run up to that boy and start shooting. reporter: but the attorney at the shooting officer is looking less at where the hands where and more what he said his client thought was in them. the attorney wrote to cnn in
reporter: ball s camera being off was inadvertent, his attorney told cnn, but inexcusable the teen s attorneys say. maybe it was a temporary absentmindedness they were involved in a pursuit. they know they re supposed to engage their body cameras. reporter: the 13-year-old was a suspect in a stolen car when officers tried to stop it. police say he jumped out and started running, and right as he turns and appears to raise his hands, he s shot at least once leaving him now paralyzed from the waist down, his attorneys say. and for you all, at least, it s clear that his hands are up. his hands are up, there was no justification for the officer to shoot. reporter: and he was unarmed. clearly unarmed. reporter: and at least some bystanders on the scene appear to agree. one witness who didn t want to be identified said his hands was up, and i seen the cop run right up to that boy
i asked her what she witnessed whenever she went to go get her boys. take a listen. i didn t see no one cop running with me or no one cop run in there with me. they weren t doing nothing. they did not do anything. i m telling you they they were more brutal on us parents than even going out there to do what they were doing to us outside instead of doing it not shooter. reporter: gomez told me that since she has shared her account, her story of what she witnessed last that tuesday when the shooting took place, she has received a call from law enforcement informing her that she if she continued to share that account, that story, that she could be facing potential obstruction of justice charges. now, we did reach out to the district attorney christina bus by now overseeing this investigation to ask if she had any response to that. her office has not turned our request for any comment at this