forth between house speaker nancy pelosi and minority leader kevin mccarthy. all eyes were really trained on officers fanone, gonell and harry dunn and officer hodges as they provided excruciating and harrowing graphic details of what happened that day as they were as the capitol was invaded by hundreds of rioters. fanone described in graphic detail being beat with a metal rod, electroshocked with a taser. he shortly there after suffered from a heart attack, a traumatic brain injury and ptsd. more importantly, all these officers round up their experiences and said what was most disheartening of all were that the people whose lives they saved turned against them. as fanone said, they betrayed their oath, really, in trying to downplay and minimize the
would have seen officer fanone talk about being dragged down the steps by the mob and struck repeatedly with a taser. being beaten with fists. being beaten with what he believed were metal objects. of calling for the rioters to stop their attack and telling them that he had kids. and then passing out unconscious for at least four minutes afterwards and being diagnosed with a heart attack, traumatic brain injury, ptsd. so you can t deny and downplay and whitewash if you actually listened to this hearing. the question is whether people will do that. and it was interesting in harry dunn s testimony, officer dunn, he thanked two republicans that day, one of whom had given him a hug afterwards and pledged to get to the bottom of an endless violence and also kevin
outright denying what happened. i feel like i went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room. but too many are now telling me that hell doesn t exist, or that hell actually wasn t that bad. people need to understand the severity and the magnitude of the event that was happening that day. we were all fighting for our lives to give them to give you guys a chance to go home to your family, to escape. for those of us in the capitol police who serve and revere this institution and who love the capitol building, it was the saddest day for us as well. more than six months later, january 6th still isn t over for me. officers fanone, gonell and dunn speaking about how the memories from january 6th have not faded at all from their minds. the capitol police chief saying
regions of the internet it s being said that you, officer fanone were mistaken for antifa and that s why you were nearly beaten to death that day and carried into the crowd. is there any way that you were mistaken for antifa? well, i was in full uniform. i was like i said, wearing my uniform shirt adorned with the metropolitan police department s patch, i had my badge on until someone ripped it off my chest. i do not believe i was mistaken for a member of antifa. you mentioned in your testimony that there are some people who would prefer that all of this go away, that we not have an investigation. let s let bygone, be bygones, but you seem pretty determined to get the country to focus on this. why is that so important to you? well, first and foremost because of the actions of officers who responded that day,
he s proud of the officers who had the courage to share their stories and equally proud of all who fought like hell to protect our democracy. joining us now is congressman eric swalwell who helped lead the effort to have officer fanone sit down with gop leader mccarthy. we know it happened. officer s fanone s request of mccarthy didn t come true at all. i wonder what you thought watching these men who you ve come to know very well pleading for the truth to simply be respected and heard and believed by everyone, including in that building? i m so grateful for those guys. i m so grateful for the men and women who fought in hand-to-hand combat that day to make sure that every american s vote was counted and that lives were saved. they gave the truth of what happened that day. right now kevin mccarthy and donald trump are trying to erase the heroism. the heroism of those cops will