political statement to decide whether or not this is a sham or not, but i know my injuries, my fellow officer s injuries, we didn t ask for this to happen to us. we didn t ask for all those people to come to the capitol and assault us. some of them in the crowd were even saying, we re doing this for you. so let me get this straight, you re attacking me because i want you to attack me? that s not a sham, that s being assaulted. for those people who continue to say this is a sham, this is devastating for us, demoralizing. however, we are still going to continue to do our job without thinking too much about politics. the other day, we still have a job to do. and i know if i were still working and i would be on restricted duties, i would still be protecting the same members who are saying the same thing.
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but the other day, my experience and the experience from the other officers, some of us who are still suffering from those injuries more than six months later. and leading to further rehabilitation and surgeries down the road, especially me next month possibly. those are still real for us, the trauma, the blows, the surgery, the physical therapy twice a week or three times a week. as many times as we need to. those are not a sham. the sham is not acknowledging somewhat actually happened, which was an attack on our democracy and on our democratic process. think about this, if this is not when the vice president was inside the chambers, and that s when the security, when you have
tonight, house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing to say whether he will testify in front of the january 6 select committee about his phone call with former president trump that day. i think if they had the five members that we, the republicans want to put on there, we would gladly go. we see it as a sham. it s not something that s serious. outfront now, capitol police sergeant ghaquilino gone. here is some of the very powerful testimony that you gave. i too was being crushed by the rioters. i could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, this is how i m going to die, defending this entrance. it was 4:26 p.m.
after giving cpr to one of the rioters who breached the capitol in an effort to save her life, that i finally had a chance to let my own family know that i was alive. sergeant gonell, it was an emotional, i know for you, hard for all of us to watch you speaking about your experience. you know, you re in some of these videos that we re looking at here, crushed by the crowd. you were beaten with a flagpole. you thought you were going to die. so now, kevin mccarthy says he s not going to testify, calling the committee itself a sham. what s your response to that, to call that committee, this search to the truth a sham? well, first of all, making a