Tester: D.C. Insurrection Was A Terrorist Act
On Wednesday, pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., breaking down doors and forcing their way into both the Senate and House chambers. MTPR’s Aaron Bolton spoke with Montana’s Democratic Sen. Jon Tester about what he calls an attempted coup.
Aaron Bolton If you could just walk me through your experience at the Capitol yesterday as the mob breached the doors of the Capitol.
Jon Tester I did not go to the joint session. I was in my office preparing remarks to be delivered after the Pennsylvania objection. And I was watching this on TV at the time as I was working here in the office. The mob was getting bigger and bigger. And then I saw them break through the line of the fences that they put up. And and pretty soon they were inside the Capitol. They had broken out windows using crowbars to, to, to, to break out windows or pull down doors or whatever would be. I found out since that when they hit the doors