here s how jamie raskin writes it. from that day, from the floor of the house. quote, boom. i hear the sound i will never forget. a sound like a battering ramp. the sound of a group of people barrelling up against the central door. with some huge hard thick object. hell bent on entering the house chamber. pressing furniture against the door. and run to the door to help protect it. we are then quickly told to get back by capitol police officers. who rush in and defend the entrance with their guns drawn. the pounding accelerates and we can hear the sound of angry chanting out there. hang mike pence. also we want trump. we want trump. someone official calls upon us to evacuate. calmly. everyone moves. some people run. to the speakers lobby. carrying gas masks.
we are then quickly told to get back by capitol police officers. who rush in and defend the entrance with their guns drawn. the pounding accelerates and we can hear the sound of angry macho chanting out there, too hang mike pence, hang mike pence. also we want trump, we want trump. someone official calls upon us to evacuate. calmly. everyone moves. some people run. to the speakers lobby. carrying gas masks. i look up to the gallery to see our colleagues who have been frozen in place on the democratic side crouching and sliding through the rows to make their way to the galleria above the republican side. i see new hampshire representative and california representative gera jacobs, only her fourth day on the job crueling their way over to the gallery above the republican side. we escape and reunited later a colleague tells me they decide ds to cross over to the republican side because they thought a mass shooter who entered would be less likely to aim the republican side of the house
someone official calls upon us to evacuate right away, calmly. everyone moves, some people run, to the speakers lobby, carrying their gas masks. i look up to the gallery, against your colleagues, you ve been frozen in place on the democratic side, now awkwardly crouching in sliding through the rows to make their way to the gallery above the republican side. i see new hampshire representative annie kuster, and california represent sarah jacobs, who s only one for three on the job, crawling their way. over to the gallery above the republican side. when we escape in our reunited you later, a colleague tells me they decide to cross over to the republican side because they thought a mass shooter who would enter would be less likely to aim at the republican side of the house. meantime, the offices up there have locked on the doors to keep the rioters from breaking in, but they will now presumably unlock him to get her colleagues out. i feel strange but leaving them up there, but then again,
0 preserve his communications related to the january 6th attack on the capital, including his communications with former president trump, and others at the trump white house. they are asking him to come in for a transcribed interview, asking him to commit a transcri interviewed. they are not subpoenaing him, nor are they raising that prospect, of course, that kind of prospect looms in an investigation in which lots of other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they released a series of his texts. his communications with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in particular. the reason they have released those texts it appears is to make the case both to him and the public. that he is an important fact witness for the investigation. and they need to ask him asks about what he knows. he may know stuff other people don t. now the tv host in question is a man named sean hannitity. he s a prime time week night host at the fox news channel. and regardless