Four Hours at the Capitol

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"Washington Watch."

Coming up...

Officer Michael Fanone: January 6th started off

pretty much like any other day for me.

Got up, got a workout in.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn : Go and fight in Washington D.C.!

I'll tell you, and at 12:00 today,

we will be contesting the election!

Fanone: But it, it wasn't until I started listening to

the speeches that were given at that rally

on the 6th,

that I felt that, uh,

that day was gonna be a bad day.

Donald Trump Jr. (on radio): These guys better fight for Trump

because if they're not, guess what?

Rudy Giuliani (on radio): Let's have trial by combat!

Fanone: And I could tell,

that today might be a problem.

I've been a police officer now for almost two decades,

and that day,

to think that I,

and a shit ton of my fellow officers

almost lost their lives,

pisses me the fuck off.

Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you very much.

Hold on, let me turn it around, Drew.

All right, let's hope my WiFi stays up this time, guys.

I got up very early on the 6th.

I was trying to get in where President Trump was,

uh, but the line was, probably,

50,000 people in line trying to get in.

Oh, they're not lettin' anybody in anymore.

It's full packed already.

And I saw some friends of mine, and...

they said, "Hey, uh, let's go to the Washington Monument."

So I went to the Washington Monument,

and that's where I saw

a lot of people that I noticed,

and knew who they were.

Proud Boys (chanting): Fuck Antifa...

Eddie Block: Everybody knows me as a Proud Boy,

but that's 'cause I'm the crippled guy on the scooter

who films everything.

Uh, you have to be a man to be a Proud Boy, number one.

We're a group of, uh, men that believe in God,

and we believe the American way of life

is the best way of life.

We're like brothers.

We vet people. We wanna make sure we get the best of the best.

And I'm not talkin' about physical-wise 'cause, I mean, look at me.

We're talkin' about just people with the values that we have.

You know, you don't beat up women,

you, you don't go against, you know, the United States,

stuff like that.

Everybody just started marching down the grass

towards the Capitol.

Let's go!

Block: I'm goin' live. Mask up!

Share this video, guys.

You're walkin' with the Proud Boys

to the State Capitol.

They felt that the election was stolen.

They felt that their vote was taken away from 'em,

and they felt this was the only way to get their voices heard.

Crazy cripple comin' through!

It, it looks like soldiers 'cause we are soldiers.

-Ready? Let's roll! -We're good.

-Block: Whose streets? -Crowd: Our streets!

-Whose streets? -Our streets!

Rep. Buddy Carter: You know, I, I wouldn't say it was a normal day.

We knew that it-- Of course,

we would be voting on

election certification.

You know, they were moving toward the Capitol.

You know, this is America,

and they have every right to do that.

To rally and, and to protest.

Block: Share this video, guys.

You're rollin' with the Proud Boys.

Nobody else is live, but Eddie Block

with the Proud Boys.

Protester (shouts): Do your job!

Rep. Jim McGovern: That morning, I, I showed up to work pretty early.

I could hear people chanting.

I opened the... door,

went out to the balcony, and I could see them,

uh, from a distance.

It just never occurred to me

that a mob would get into the Capitol Building.

Block: They can smell the testosterone comin' towards 'em.

Leah Han: I am a staff assistant

with the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

I just came very early.

I'm the one who usually opens up the office,

so it didn't seem too different that day.

Ethan Nordean: We're goin' this way. You can adjust accordingly.

We're turning-- turning right.

Tayler Hansen: You know, right as I got there,

the energy was just through the roof.

It was seriously something I have never seen before.

I have never seen that many people

in one area

for the support of one president, or one thing.

I mean, it was amazing.

President Donald Trump: We will never give up.

We will never concede. It doesn't happen.

-You don't concede when there's theft involved. -(cheering)

Now it is up to Congress to confront

this egregious assault on our democracy.

And after this,

we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you,

to the Capitol.

Hansen: He told all of us to be out there,

and everyone was just listening,

and we all know with Trump supporters,

I mean, they admire this man.

This man is--

It's-- He's their, he's their savior, essentially.

Other than, you know, our Lord Jesus Christ.

President Trump: Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.

You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

(cheering

And we fight. We fight like hell.

And if you don't fight like hell,

you're not gonna have a country anymore.

Ashley Gilbertson: I turn up at this rally.

You know, when Trump was speaking,

it was blind devotion.

Crowd (chanting): Trump! Trump! Trump!

Gilbertson: When you have the President of the United States,

and he stands up in front of you and says

that your democracy is being stolen

and it is your job to protect it?

You must go to the Capitol and fight?

What're you gonna do?

Rioters (chanting): Fuck Antifa!

Hansen: I saw that first group congregate.

They were Proud Boys.

Proud Boy: Fuck Antifa!

Hansen: I started going with them

when Trump's speech hadn't even gotten near, uh, the end yet.

President Trump: To use a favorite term that all of you people

really came up with:

we will "Stop the Steal."

Man: Proud Boys are out marchin'.

Crowd (chanting): Whose streets? Our streets!

Whose streets? Our streets! Whose streets? Our streets!

Whose streets?

Block: We were just marching.

You know, everybody was just happy, you know?

We're makin' our voices heard. Let's, let's run around here.

We're the new police around here.

Bobby Pickles: Trump, you know, my president asked us to be there,

so I'm gonna go support him.

There's that, that part where he's like, "Yeah,

go to the, go to the Capitol." Right?

And, when that was said, everybody was just like,

"Okay, let's go to the Capitol."

Protesters (chanting): Fuck Antifa!

Fuck Antifa! Fuck Antifa!

Fuck Antifa! Fuck Antifa!

-Fuck Antifa! -Fuck Antifa!

Fuck Antifa!

-Fuck Antifa! -Fuck Antifa!

Pickles: What do you think is gonna happen

when you have that mob mentality kinda thing?

All the right ingredients are there creating a recipe

for what happened.

Protesters (chanting): 1776.

1776!

Pickles: 1776, that was the year that we gained

our independence from England,

so we chant "1776"

because it reminds us of revolting against our government.

Protesters (chanting): 1776.

1776! 1776!

1776!

Pickles: People were pushing in, and I kinda just followed

right along with them.

Block: Somebody yelled, uh, "Hey, they're running."

And next thing you know, the whole crowd

just took off from me.

And I was like, what the--

You know, holy shit. What the hell's goin' on here?

You know, I'm holdin' my camera,

and I was like, "There goes everybody."

Hansen: They're storming it. Storm that shit.

Protester (shouts): Get the rope!

There was no symbol, no sign.

It was just everybody acting in unison.

And then, that's when all hell broke loose.

Protesters (chanting): U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

-Get back! -Get back!