out there standing around and i told them i think they re downstairs. so when i went down there and, i get confronted, i think, oh they re actually in the building. i deny honestly didn t know they were that far in the building. they locked arms on me right away and see [inaudible] it was not a matter of leaving them alone. i think they would ve followed me anyway. i ve heard of stories of people being armed. i don t know for fact. i heard that they were actually officers that were a part of this ride group who were emailing them and, they themselves you just never know. it could ve went it could ve easily been a bloodbath. so kudos to everybody who showed a measure of restraint in regards to deadly force because they could ve been bad. really bad. yeah. officer goodman returned to work after the riot. he remains a u.s. capitol police officer. the slow drip of new information coming from investigations into that riot continue today. once significant development concer
they were not the real electors. they sent those forged documents. they signed them. sent them into congress to be counted in the electoral college. sent the documents to the national archives as well last night on the show. we talked about new reporting from politico, which indicates that investigators. open a federal investigation, into one set of these forged fake republican electors. from arizona. from that reporting investigation. also reported on attorneys general in at least two states referring this matter formally to federal prosecutors. to the u.s. attorneys in their states as a matter for potential federal, criminal prosecution. now tonight, the story moves forward. thanks to a very rare interview that cnn s court with deputy attorney general lisa monaco. cnn has the u.s. justice department commenting on the record for the first time on the requests that they have received from state officials and others to investigate these forgeries, to investigate the republican
Tomorrow night, i will be joined by democratic congresswoman alexandra or kasia cortez. with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. t the networks o happy to have you here. this is the splash headline at the front page of cnn.com right now. as federal prosecutors looking at fake elector certificates. alas, we have confirmation of what might be coming on here. as you know, we ve been following pretty closely, the new revelations and reporting into republicans in multiple states after the last election, creating these fake documents. these forgeries. in which they asserted that they were the electors from their states. even though they really weren t.
For some reason there seems to be this attitude of not accountability. like, i can say or do anything i want. today we are standing together. it stops today. after the press conference, congressman rodgers updated repeated his apology in a tweet and congresswoman beatty accepted the apology. that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. f my colleagues at the networks o if you are regular viewer of the show, and then you will probably recognize this. this quite nutty thing that happened at the state capitol in lansing, michigan, back on december 14th of 2020. a group of 16 michigan republicans came to a side door at the state capital and tried to get in. . you now, inside the capitol at