say, listen, listen to what we re going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what we re going to tell you. watch what we re going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then what today showed was that when he didn t get those people to help him, he turned to the people he knew would listen, his twitter followers, oath keepers. just to underline what we re seeing now, we re seeing, if you put the pictures back up, we re seeing images of some of the police officers that have already testified and specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the capito
specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the capitol on that day that as was announced by the co-chair of today s hearing, congressman jamie raskin of maryland, he has to retire from the capitol police because of the wounds he sustained and big emotional moment for staff sergeant ginel. you saw sheila jackson lee approach him just then and give him a hug. sorry to interrupt. obviously, this was also something we can t ignore, because it s the reality. it s the real one of the many, many real life implications of what happened, which is the people who were there to protect and serve were overrun by this