him a message that said the following take down the part about being in the building. they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charged. look out. and said to him, obstruction of justice is a very serious allegation. and also said, i m a police officer who agrees with your political stance. so based on that, and several other messages in which he keeps telling the man to take down social media suggesting he was in the capitol, he s chargesed with obstruction of jut is. leigh ann, capitol police. what do you hear? reporter: capitol police responded. michael riley put on administrative leave. he s been with the police force, capitol police force, for 25 years. he actually was a capitol police officer of the month back in february of 2011, but head of the capitol police tom major did put out a statement saying that obstruction of justice is a very serious allegation. he goes on to say the department was notified about this
accuser, had issues. a history of depression and alcohol abuse. and she waited years to come forward. michelle lafrance is described as a scorned ex-girlfriend, a woman looking for revenge. all did all that go through? remind no, i don t believe it did because after she leaves paul in january, february of 2011, it s 14 months before she gets up the courage to come forward to the police to tell the police which he knows fully expecting that she will be arrested. do i need to? lawyer as paul waited for his trial to start, he told us he wasn t worried. there s really nothing that puts you at that crime? no. no i witnesses. i think it s going to go rather well for me. coming up, the prosecution is feeling confident to. did someone leave digital tracks? we did a search for the toll
organizations as well as the city handing out bottled water to families who need it. and although the power is coming back, problems in texas still remain. and this is what we ve seen across the state, water pipes bursting and firefighters responding to reports of possible fires. this catastrophe unfolding in so many ways for several days. the storms that plagued the south now moving east, blowing snow and ice, rain and wind. and tonight, looming questions about why ercot, the private company that runs about 90% of the texas power grid, was not prepared for a weather event like this, when conditions were even worse than in february of 2011, when ice and cold knocked out power to more than 3 million across texas, just as the state was hosting the super bowl. every ten years it seems we get a really bad one. and in the last one, federal reports suggested, we need to winterize for the lowest known temperatures. texas didn t do that. reporter: the state s independent grid system, the o
review it in camera, and going back even further to fast and furious. yes. the vision of the death of a border patrol agent. fast and furious, we issued subpoenas. mr. issa sent subpoenas in february of 2011 and we had a hearing in june with experts about proceeding to contempt. what does it take to go to contempt. that was the first time in june when we got any production. the production was largely publicly available information. and we went we spent most of the year trying to get information out of the justice department. at the time we were also working with whistle blowers who were providing us documents and chairman issa at the time in october issued another subpoena that was to the justice
you had to go down there and review it in cam camera and investigate the death of a border patrol agent. yes. they sent subpoenas in february of 2011. we had a hearing in june. with experts about proceedings of contempt. what does it take to go to contempt? that was the first time in june when we got any production. the production was largely publicly available frchltion information. we spent most of the year to get information from the justice department. we were also working with whistleblowers who were providing us with documents. the chairman then in october issued another subpoena to the