that. there s no doubt that it included individuals that we would call militia violent extremists and in some instances individuals who were racially motivated, violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race. this, of course, is a far cry from the claims we ve heard from many trump-supporting republicans, who have been trying to push this lie that it was actually members of antifa dressed up, disguised as trump supporters who are really to blame for the attack. for instance, republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, who used the accounts of an alleged eyewitness to make these wild allegations just last week. a very few didn t share the jovial, friendly earnest demeanor of the great majority. some obviously didn t fit in. and he describes four different types of people. plain clothes militants. agents provocateurs, fake trump protesters and disciplined uniform column, the people who probably planned this. director wray today essentially said sen
such an overwhelming security failure that left those people dead and more than 130 police officers injured. that s right. four law enforcement officers will break their silence about what happened that day. some of them under intense scrutiny for decisions they made. exactly what sort of tactics, what sort of preparation was made. there s a lot of questions related to the national guard. why they did not respond more quickly. these are important questions that deserve serious answers. and this is just one of several high stakes hearings on the hill today. we re covering all of it. let s begin with crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz. good morning. we re glad you re here. it s a really significant day. this is a really significant hearing to get the american people those answers they deserve, questions about security failures, all of this. we are learning that one of the officials that is going to testify today is steven sund, the former chief of the u.s. c
whether this was an armed insurrection because he said, when i think of armed, i think of firearms. just to fact check that, there were arrests that did have to do with firearms but a number of weapons that clearly were not firearms but deadly weapons. well, i think it s total rubbish. i think he has a political agenda. he wasn t listening to the people who were actually there trying to fight the insurrectionists. you will also recall johnson wasn t sure this was actually an insurrection. i don t know what he thought it was. did he think it was a walk in the park? and what mr. sund said, he said these people came with equipment and with climbing gear. these are people intent on getting into that capitol one way or another. if you were just going to a trump rally, you could just listen to the former president and whatever he would say, and then go your merry way. there were a lot of people who did that. but the people who invaded the capitol had an agenda and that s what the
going into arms. we have three big important tools now. i would recommend it to my family. there s never been a journey like it. there s never been a journey so successful. we began it together four years ago, and it is far from being over. the leader of the republican party, and i hope he is once again the leader of our great country. i would know that mbs, his sins are not just the murder of one journalist. if we impose sanctions on the people who carry out the murder, then we look weak when we don t impose similar sanctions on the person who ordered the murder. toof knock the biden administration that sent the message to mohammed bin salman that he has immunity. it s the trump administration that did that. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. we have breaking news here tonight. new york governor andrew c