Fact Check: Were Rioters at the Capitol Antifa Members in Disguise as Gaetz says?
On 1/7/21 at 7:50 PM EST
The theory spread through Facebook, Twitter and into Congress.
The Claim
During his post-raid election-certification speech in which he objected to Arizona s electoral votes, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)advanced the theory that some people who invaded the Capitol were antifa, according to a
Washington Times story that was later retracted. I don t know if the reports are true, but
The Washington Times has just reported some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters they were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa, he said.
reporter: now, these are allegations that moore has denied. in the meantime, the democrat in this race, doug jones, has an event this afternoon with the mayor-elect of birmingham. jones has benefited from this scandal. in fact his campaign has raised about a quarter of a million dollars a day since news of this scandal broke. so both sides again knowing there are only 25 days left until this special election and going full throttle at this point here in alabama. a quarter million dollars a day, that s not chump change, that s for sure. thanks so much, maya rodriguez. let s bring in lauren zelt, and former romney/ryan advisor. also peter emerson. with a welcome to you both, peter, i m going to start with you here. even if you disagree with roy moore s political positions, can you understand why some of his supporters are standing by him? no, i really can t. and i ll tell you why. the interview with representative brooks that you just showed where he said let s
if what we re hearing from representative brooks is correct. i also want to show you here third base, just the street view. this is where we believe the gunman walked up. there is a parking lot here. this is the area behind the third base dugout. you can see the fencing. we should point out, the shooter never made it onto the field. he remained in this back area but was still able to fire shots. this street view is right here. so brianna, that is what we know. we do know that after a certain period of time, all those folks who were kind of hiding out in this first base dugout, they started to hear some more shooting. they were unclear where those shots were coming from. we do know that that was capitol hill returning fire at the gunman. brianna? rene marsh, thank you so much for that. i m here with a republican from
of libya? that is a yes or no question, madam secretary. i m sorry. did you ever personally speak to ambassador stevens of a we don t know the answer. did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in in may? yes or no, please. yes, i believe i did. and when was that? i don t recall. that was a tense a tense exchange between the two. and to be clear, it wasn t while events were happening in benghazi. representative brooks was asking if you had ever spoken to chris stevens by phone after he was appointed by ambassador. this is maybe the worst exchange for hillary clinton of the entire day. she s giving this sort of heartfelt explanation for why this was a terrible period in her life. everything that she did to try to get to the bottom of what had happened and she s admitting that she perhaps didn t speak to this ambassador for months. now, obviously hillary clinton can t remember every conversation she had three years ago and she oversaw more than