January 6 Committee Shows Previously Unseen Footage of Capitol Riot

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot released never-before-seen footage of the riot during its first hearing on Thursday.

The new footage shows rioters smashing windows and forcing their way through barricades.

“I need support,” one officer can be heard saying in body-camera footage of another officer being pushed by crowds. “We lost the line.”

One clip shows a rioter reading a newly posted tweet from then-president Donald Trump attacking then–vice president Mike Pence. As the rioter read the tweet over a bullhorn, some began to chant, “Hang Mike Pence.”

Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Thursday that, according to testimony from former White House staffers, Trump said the supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were “doing what they should be doing.”