Excerpts from the recorded testimony of an anonymous witness were shown on July 21 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The hearing focused on what former President Donald Trump was doing during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an effort to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
The unnamed witness, described as a “White House security official,” said that agents on former Vice President Mike Pence’s security team called over the radio that they were starting to fear for their own lives.
“There was a lot of yelling, a lot of very personal calls over the radio. It was disturbing. I don’t like talking about it,” the witness testified, adding that “there were calls to say goodbye to family members.”
“It was getting – for whatever reason on the ground – the VP detail thought this was going to get very ugly,” they added.
The witness added that it felt like the Capitol attack was about to go to “a whole ‘nother level” as rioters got close to the vice president and were chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.
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