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police officer mike fanone's body camera shows the violence up close on january 6th. >> i was pretty severely beaten. >> reporter: he's one of four officers set to testify tuesday about their harrowing experience but the committee fanone will appear before is itself under attack. right now made up of just seven democrats and two anti-trump republicans, liz cheney and new aappointed adam kinzinger. last week speaker pelosi rejected two of minority leader kevin mccarthy's picks for the passenger so he pulled all five. today mccarthy took the probe a sham and took aim at them. >> aren't they pelosi republicans. >> it's childish. we're doing big things. we're getting the answers to the worst attack on the capitol since the war of 1812. call me whatever thames you want. >> reporter: some reps want to punish kinzinger and cheney for participating. jim jordan who pelosi booted off the panel says their constituents should make that decision. >> i let the voters in the respective districts decide. my hunch is the voters in illinois and wyoming will probably want someone different to represent

mike fanone. he is an officer with the d.c.politan police who you are probably familiar with at this point honestly if you've been watching this program. mike, thanks so much for being with us. your testimony yesterday was so emotional, and i just wonder, what was that like for you? and did you feel that congress was listening? >> i mean, i felt like i had the attention of the members that were there in the committee room. whether or not other members of congress were paying attention or not, i've heard reports that many purported that they were not watching my testimony or that of my colleagues. i find that very telling. >> how so? >> well, i mean, if you have people like kevin mccarthy whose members of his party have been downplaying or denying the events of that day, i think it's, you know, not politically advantageous for him to continue to have to answer questions about the january 6th insurrection, which was at least in part incited by the leader at the time of his political party. so with that understanding, i do underst

republican leader mccarthy refused to meet for many months with officer mike fanone and walking awaymmittee. you know, they have shown that to honor donald trump, you have to dishonor the police and tomorrow will be entirely about honoring the heroes of january 6th. >> and we'll be watching. thank you representative swalwell. appreciate it. >>> you know who has a lot to say about this? matthew doud after the break. there's an america we build and one we explore. one that's been paved and one that's forever wild. but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure. you get both. introducing the wildly civilized all-new 3-row jeep grand cherokee l >>> so we're hours away from the first witness or witnesses testimony in the january 6th commission elsewhere the bipartisan bill is on shaky ground as senators try to work out a compromise as a pandemic of the unvaccinate sdd is makin governments consider stronger measures to fight the spread. i want to discuss this now, former chief strategist for george w. bush matthew doud, the author of the upcoming back "revelations on the riv

not asking tucker carlson to put on the body armor and go and the and hand to hand combat like mike fanone, and daniel hodges, and sergeant gonell did that. day we are not asking for that courage. we are just asking for the decency to acknowledge what they did and recognize the truth of what happened today to our country, in nearly died, sadly it is on life support today. >> the decency question, i think most of your colleagues across the aisle are not so indecent that they would keep that scorn. i would bet, even the people in scorn wouldn't do it to harry dunn's face. much easier to say it here. there's also just some ears plugged, see no evil, hear no evil, let's avoid the whole thing. i think that's cast something over the capital of the past month >> i've done a lot with done, and i saw him before, this harry dunn. now you do see members, chris, they walk by him, they kind of put their head down. i think it is a little bit of guilt that he is being treated the way that he is and that, they might not be saying it themselves, but they are enabling kevin mccarthy and marjorie taylor gree

look, we're going to talk to mike fanone, one of the officers who testified, and we heard him talk aboutt was essentially the effects of hand to hand combat at the hands of a mob. and i think when you hear what these republicans that we just showed are saying, it just shows you that they have to be idiotic to have job security in their party or those hosts, they have to be idiotic to curry favor with the base of the republican party right now. i think it just goes to show you how shameful that is for the party and quite frankly for the country. >> and then there's the lawmaker after lawmaker after lawmaker who said they simply refuse to watch. don't care enough, can't be bothered to watch what these officers had to say. >>> blue lives matter until they don't we would say of some of those folks. >>> brand new justice department decision put one republican congressman in legal jeopardy over his speech ahead of the capitol riot. >>> plus, did jim jordan just turn himself into a potential witness for congressional investigators? ♪ age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision lo

and i want you to listen to this guy, this guy scoffing at mike fanone for being brave enough to talk about the trauma he's suffering nearly seven months after that horrible day. >> watch fanone cite the psychological trauma he endured as an excuse for ditching our bill of rights. >> i've been left with the psychological trauma and the emotional anxiety for having survived such a horrific event. >> trauma. i want to show you another piece of video. laura engram mocking those hero officers with a disrespectful gag award show, and i do mean gag. >> the award for blatant use of partisan politics when facts fail, the award goes to capitol police officer harry dunn. >> i'm a law enforcement officer and i do my best to keep politics out of my job, but in this circumstance i responded, well, i voted for joe biden. does my vote not count? am i nobody? >> that is some twisted you know what. and that is what her audience obviously wants to see. you know what she left out of officer dunn's testimony? you know what happened next, right? you know i know you remember. officer harry dunn was subject

we had officer mike fanone on yesterday.s undenial even as you have some republicans who are denying it. and you mentioned as part of your reporting the delay that it's going to take in standing up this committee and you've spoken to folks who have done this before. >> yes. >> what i found so interesting about that that it's going to take months is that i wonder now about the calculus of republicans in retrospect of not going for the commission, which would have, i think, gotten started much more quickly. >> well, this was one of the arguments. senator richard bur who has a lot of experience on the intelligence committee was telling his republican senator colleagues in private settings, look, you know, it takes a long time for people to get security clearances. you don't want to vote for a commission because this is going to drag on. we should note the commission had an end date that was part of the bill. this does not have an end date. this could go on for as long as democrats want it to go on. and we should also note that

they're smearing metropolitan police department officer mike fanone on fox, on conservative media, all over the place. and i just don't see fop out there decrying it in a way i think you would be if it was, for instance, somebody on msnbc attacking a police officer. do you feel that you cannot be as supportive of the capitol police officers, of the metropolitan police department officers as you would want to be because trump supporters make up most of your union? >> i don't recognize or accept that characterization. i can tell you and i can provide documentation if you'd like of just how involved that the labor committees and the national has been involved. i don't think there's been a week that has gone by since january 6th that we have not been engaged in meaningful discussion and actions on behalf of that incident on that day. so, to suggest that somehow we're ignoring it is not true. we provide and the labor committees have provided and will continue to provide all of the services that are needed for all of these officers because that is what our responsibility is. and as a free so

republican leader mccarthy refused to meet, for many months, with officer mike fanone.king away from the select committee. they have shown that to honor donald trump, you have to dishonor the police and tomorrow will be entirely about honoring the heroes of january 6th. >> we will be watching. thank you very much. >>> so, you know who has a lot to say about this and you don't want to miss it? matthew dowd. after the break. a lot of people think dealing with copd is a walk in the park. if i have something to help me breathe better, everything will be fun and nice. but i still have bad days... flare-ups, (cough cough) which can permanently damage my lungs. my lungs need protection against flare-ups. so it's time to get real. because in the real world... our lungs deserve the real protection of breztri. breztri gives you better breathing... symptom improvement, and flare-up protection. it's the first and only copd medicine proven to reduce flare-ups by 52%. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you h

tucker carlson to put on the body armor and go and in hand-to-hand combat with the insurrections as mike fanoneiel hodges and harry dunn and gemmel did that day. we are asking them to acknowledge what they did and recognize the truth of what happened that day of our country. sadly, it's on life support today. >> the decency question, i guess i think most of your colleagues across the aisle are not so indecent that they would heap that scorn and i would bet that, you know, even the people heaping the scorn wouldn't, like, do it to harry cambodian u dunn's face. but what there is instead this kind of ear is plugged see no evil, here no evil, let's avoid the whole thing, which i think has cast a pall over the capitol for months. >> i have been with harry dunn a lot. he is a big booming with a smile on his face always. i saw him before this and i have seen him since. now you see members walk by and they kind of put their head down. i think it's a little bit of guilt that he is being treated the way he is and that they may not be saying it themselves but they are enabling kevin mccarthy and marjorie

people to see the humanity of these officers, but the brokenness individually, i've gotten to know mike fanone very well. it's important to hear that they actually did win that day. it took a lot of human control. hundreds of officers were injured, some seriously injured, and they won. and that's a reminder, look, i'm a military guy. military people and police officers kind of have the same, in essence, kind of shared brotherhood, if you will. and i looked at these tough people who are willing to show their vulnerability to 350 million americans, which is not something that, you know, police officers are usually excited to do, and they needed to be reminded of that. it caught me off guard, but i think it's important just to show people that these are human beings, and i think yesterday did a good job of showing the humanity of it outside of the cold political calculations that everybody takes every day out here. >> that fox personality, by the way, never served a day in uniform in her -- in her -- life. i just want to be precise on that. >> interesting. >> you're a lieutenant colonel in the u.

. >> reporter: he hasn't gotten any death threats like metropolitan police officer mike fanone who received >> i wish they would have killed all you couscum bags. >> what did you feel of that? >> it makes me so upset. >> reporter: the veteran says it's no worse than when rioters hurled racial slurs at him. >> it was almost just as hurtful because i pride myself on my credibi credibility, my integrity, my honor. >> reporter: he often works six days a week while juggling therapy. >> it's lonely doing this. that's why me and mike have i believe such a strong relationship. we have the same goal in mind and that's about accountability and justice and the truth. >> reporter: even at the highest levels. >> there was an attack carried out on january 6th and a hit man sent them. >> reporter: who were you talking about? >> there was a rally prior to the attack. there was a rally. those facts exist. there were quotes said like we got to fight like hell or you won't have a country left. >> are you talking about the former president? >> those were his words. >> did you think the former president should

you know, mike fanone, i remember him from my time in mpd. he is a very good police officer., he's also very outspoken. none of them deserved what took place there. now there were issues. there were break downs in intelligence and break down in operational planning, all those kinds of things. but that is not the fault of the men and women you see out there fighting. >> correct. >> they did everything they possibly could to protect the capitol. and now for people who while this was going on were no doubt hiding in a secure room in a capitol somewhere, you know, now all of a sudden this was just the regular tour of the building or, no, kisses and hugs between the police officers and the insurrectionists. i mean it's embarrassing. it makes me angry. >> there are the four officers right now. two of them from the capitol police force, two of them from the metropolitan police department here in washington, d.c. and officer fanone, the second from the left there who you were his chief when you were head of the metropolitan police department here in d.c., he tried to get a meeting wi

metropolitan police officer michael fanone with us now. mike, what do you think about this video?it feel to watch this? we see your badge being stolen, your radio stolen like they're souvenirs or something. >> i think i want to -- sometimes i watch it, i get very emotional. seeing it now, i mean, i guess i've seen it so many times that i've just kind of disconnected myself from, you know, from those moments. >> you were talking about this in the commercial break. i asked you, you know, is it hard for you to watch, does it retraumatize you. you said that actually it was seeing the video from that kind of third-party perspective the first time that was really the thing that stunned you the most. and now you see things over and over and it's sort of a different experience. it's not as bad as the first time that you saw it. >> yeah, i mean, i think that's part of the job of law enforcement. you know, we encounter traumatic events on a daily basis. i've got 20 years of law enforcement, of compartmentalizing events. maybe not this extreme, but, you know, definitely traumatic events whic

fanone. who defended the capitol on january 6th. mikemean to be honest with you, i wouldn't make recommendations to speaker pelosi as to how to conduct the special committee. i don't think that's my place. but i do think liz cheney and adam kinzinger would be well suited for that position. >> well, not a recommendation. would you like to see that? do you think that would be helpful in your estimation? >> i do. >> we're hearing homeland security officials are worried about more violence this summer. they warn that right-wing conspiracy theorists think the former president is going to be reinstated in august. do you think people understand january 6th could happen again, there's a possibility with all these conspiracy theories, that people could be angry if in fact, or when that does not happen? >> it doesn't surprise me, again. you know, i feel like the republican party has been given ample opportunities to put this, you know, the rhetoric which led to the january 6 insurrection to bed, and they have deviated from that. you know, what i s

mike, it's jimmy. i'm here. >> almost all of that was from your body camera footage. can you walk us through what we've just seen, officer fanone? >> i believe the first portion of that video began that was my body worn camera footage from the crypt area of the capitol rotunda. it was there that i first heard the 1033 or distress call come out from the lower west terrace tunnel, which i didn't realize at the time was only a few hundred yards away from where i was at. i told my partner, jimmy albright, who was there with me, that there was a 1033 coming out from the lower west terrace. we tried to get our bearings and figure out which way that might be. we asked a group of capitol police officers and they directed us down a set of stairs. from there, jimmy and i walked down to the lower west terrace tunnel. the first thing i remember was seeing a buddy of mine, sergeant bill bogner, who's an administrative sergeant. he used to work in my district. now he works over at the academy. he was unable to see. he has been sprayed in the face with bear mace. i went up to him and told him, hey, it's fanone. i remember he stretched out his

fanone suffered brain injury and a heart attack. he was invited by the house speaker nancy pelosi to attend today's vote on capitol hill. and he joins me now. mikeank you, sir. how are you? >> i'm hanging in there. thanks for having me on. >> only two republicans, just two, some of your colleagues who also defended the capitol on the sixth joined you back at the scene of the crime. that's what it is, a scene of the crime, to witness the vote today. gop sources tell our correspondent here that they were embarrassed to see officers like you today. what were you thinking watching all of this unfold? >> um, i mean, i was -- i was shocked but not surprised. >> that simple? >> that simple. i mean, i'm done, like, i don't know whatever excuses could be made for -- for the republican party at this point. they've been given ample opportunities to, you know, to have an exit ramp from the previous administration and they've chose to embrace that administration and doing so on the backs of hundred of police officers that responded to the insurrection which was incited by that president and his supporters on january 6th. >> this is a party of supporting law

mike, it's jimmy. i'm here. >> almost all of that was from your body camera footage. can you walk us through what we've just seen, officer fanone? >> i believe the first portion of that video began that was my body worn camera footage from the crypt area of the capitol rotunda. it was there that i first heard the 1033 or distress call come out from the lower west terrace tunnel, which i didn't realize at the time was only a few hundred yards away from where i was at. i told my partner, jimmy albright, who was there with me, that there was a 1033 coming out from the lower west terrace. we tried to get our bearings and figure out which way that might be. we asked a group of capitol police officers and they directed us down a set of stairs. from there, jimmy and i walked down to the lower west terrace tunnel. the first thing i remember was seeing a buddy of mine, sergeant bill bogner, who's an administrative sergeant. he used to work in my district. now he works over at the academy. he was unable to see. he has been sprayed in the face with bear mace. i went up to him and told him, hey, it's fanone. i remember he stretched out his