“You know, great sympathy for the police. We were — the truth is that while there were close moments, generally members in the Senate were pretty sequestered from what was going on that day and I think the emotions — I had a meeting the other day with Officer Gordon right there, with a couple of members of my family. And he was telling me what his — what had led up to this moment with him,” the Missouri Republican said.
It became clear that some senators previously had no idea how close the attack came to them while Capitol Police raced to secure the chamber doors and then later ushered them to a safe location.
Hawaii Democrat Mazie K. Hirono said she wasn’t aware that the rioters were 58 paces from where senators were evacuated, which Swalwell described and said he paced out himself.
“So it is true that it could have been [worse]. What I did think when we were finally in the secure area for us, when we finally saw what was going on, the thought definitely entered my mind, ‘If this mob caught any of us, we would have been badly hurt.’ And now I hear that they were willing to murder us ... watching all of this. It was just horrendous.”
After Swalwell described House members reaching under their chairs for the masks and showed footage and photographs of House members hiding under chairs in the galleries, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz, leaned over to Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., to ask a question.
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