Incident obviously on the capitol, his name is preston fairland. He once actually led Michelle Obamas security detail. A secret Service Agent as you said once led Michelle Obamas security detail. She even mentions him in her memoir becoming. She talks hubt him briefly in the book. She also attended a Memorial Service for their father who was a Police Officer and died in a motorcycle accident. Now as for Scott Fairland whos charged with his participation in the capitol insurrection, whats really interesting, pam, one of the charges hes facing is an assault on an Police Officer. Hes captured on video that the fbi now has and they say on that video you see him pushing and shoving and hitting a Police Officer. He is the brother of this secret Service Agent, preston fairland iii. A lawyer who represents Scott Fairland says that the brother knew nothing about this, didnt even know that he was coming here. So theyre saying that the brother had nothing to do with this obviously. But certainly
killing our democracy. exhibit a. a new jersey gym owner and former mma fighter pleading guilty today to assaulting a police officer at the capitol on january 6th. the first of the rioters to be convicted of violence against police defending the seed of our democracy that day. body cam footage shows scott fairland is following and taunting officers as they made their way through the mob shoving one and punching him in the head. we have not bleeped the language, so you can see it and hear it as it really happened. you guys got no idea what the f you re doing. no idea. talk to me, bro. get f out of here.
and stop covering up the murder. he s actually right about one thing. the authorities could be more transparent about this whole situation. they haven t released the officer who fired the shot, right? but he didn t tell the full story. ashley babbitt tragically was killed while she was breaking into the speaker s lobby, right outside the house chamber, while lawmakers were evacuating. the officer who pulled the trigger was the only guy between the rioters and ms. babbitt, and the lawmakers on the other side. maybe congressman g congressman think some of them said hang mike pence. some said we want to shoot nancy pelosi in the brain. lieutenants to what scott fairland said after he shortly picked up a baton on the ground. we re patriots too!
even falsely blame the fbi. all this after 21 republicans voted against awarding congressional medals to the ives who defended their lives. reporter: newly released footage somehow an up-close look at what officers went through during the january 6th attack. these new videos revealed after cnn and other media outlets sued for them in court, showing scott fairland, a gym owner from new jersey, taunting, then shoving an officer, and punching him in the face. another video, taken from an officer s body cam, showing thomas webster, a former marine and retired nypd officer seen here, wearing a red coat, threatening police with a flagpole before tackling one
don t you talk to me. the. get the f out of here. cnn s jessica schneider joins me now. those aren t the only videos, are they? cnn has fought for and won the release of three different sets of videos, videos shown in court or in the case of scott fairland shown to a judge privately, and we were expecting potentially the release of more videos in the weeks to come and what s remarkable about these videos is we re seeing this close-up on-the-ground look at some of the most violent pro-trump mob people who were at capitol that day. we saw the video of scott fairlam and saw him taunting law enforcement and then punch an officer and there s video of thomas webster, a retired new york city police officer, a former marine, and the video shows him yelling profanities at