rachel scott at the capitol. reporter: he s the hero officer seen directing senator mitt romney to safety, as the rioters drew even closer. today, officer eugene goodman describing that experience for the first time since insurrection. i was just in go mode, you know what i mean? reporter: on the podcast three brothers no sense, goodman didn t even know the mob was nearly upon him, steps away from the senate chamber. when you see me come up the stairs and you see me look, before i had went down the stairs to look at the door people were actually out there and standing around and all that kind of stuff, so i told them i think they re downstairs. so when i went down there and i get confronted and i was like oh, they re actually in the building. i didn t i honestly didn t know that they were that far in the building. reporter: goodman describing how he and his fellow officers didn t want to escalate the sitd wags. it could have been easily been a blood bath, so kudos to