all tours are shut down. that was true in the last congress, and was reiterated on january 3rd in the new congress, that there would be no tours allowed, even tourists given by members. so, to see these groups around the capitol complex was really striking. it was so odd to see them, that my chief of staff called. the sergeant in arms to say what was going on? congress woman mikie sherrill of new jersey. she saying that her chief of staff, actually, called the house sergeant in arms, on january 5th, the day before the january 6th attack. to say, hey, what we are seeing here seems off. this stands out to us from a security perspective. this is something that shouldn t be happening at anytime right now, let alone the day before this big event is planned in washington. her chief of staff called house arms to raise the alarm and say, what s going on. and of course, the following day, the capital was attacked. and it was a week after the
there shouldn t have been any tours, of any kind, happening inside the capitol complex. this was a time when the capital was closed to the public, close to all tours. and, let s be honest, this was a day, january 5th, the day before trump had called for a wild protest of his supporters in washington. this was a day when this member of congress, and other members of congress, were bracing for potential violence. in d.c., around wild, rally that trump had planned for his supporters at the very next day. so, it was a little unnerving. what were members of congress doing, showing people around inside the capitol complex, just one day before the attack. i m a former navy helicopter pilot. i served for almost ten years, and so, at every duty station, whether it was in bahrain, or any other place, and another place that was i would enter as america remember. we would receive
january 3rd in the new congress, that there would be no tours allowed, even tourists given by members. so, to see these groups around the capitol complex was really striking. it was so odd to see them, but my chief of staff called the sergeant in arms to say what was going on? congress woman mikie sherrill of new jersey. she saying that her chief of staff, actually, called the house sergeant in arms, on january 5th, the day before the january 6th attack. to say, hey, what we are seeing here seems off. this stands out to us from a security perspective. this is something that shouldn t be happening at anytime right now, let alone the day before this big event is planned in washington. her chief of staff called house arms to raise the alarm and say, what s going on. and of course, the following day, the capital was attacked. and it was a week after the attack the congress when michael cheryl of new jersey made these claims public, and
what seemed even more worrying about it was that on january 5th, the day before the attack, there shouldn t have been any tours, of any kind, happening inside the capitol complex. this was a time when the capital was closed to the public, close to all tours. and, let s be honest, this was a day, january 5th, the day before trump had called for a wild protest of his supporters in washington. this was a day when this member of congress, and other members of congress, were bracing for potential violence. in d. c., around wild, rally that trump had planned for his supporters at the very next day. so, it was a little unnerving. what were members of congress doing, showing people around inside the capitol complex, just one day before the attack? i m a former navy helicopter pilot. i served for almost ten years, and so, at every duty station, whether it was in bahrain, or any other place, and another place that was i would enter as america remember.
with me, an msnbc physician and former obama white house policy director. doctor, i know sometimes when we take through those numbers, those numbers are potentially missing context, so what more do you want our viewers and listeners to understand about those numbers and where we are in this moment? i think a very important kind of feature for those numbers is that the number one, not only are the cases going up but we are starting to see hospitalizations going up. i m in the d.c. area. we are starting to see it. it is certainly nowhere near what we saw with omicron, but we don t want to wait till that happens. then on top of that deaths have been coming down. about 300 deaths a day, but we are still starting to see that plateau a bit. that tells me that the next weeks, those numbers are likely going to continue to go up and the other thing i will tell you that we should just reinforces that only half of the americans