About ten minutes after that tweet went out, the mob, the crowd surged forward, both inside the Capitol and on the west front. And the Metropolitan police line that had been holding the armed mob back broke at that point. It was its first time in the history of the Metropolitan Police Department that one of their lines broke in that fashion. He knew what he was doing. He didn't want the mob to stop because they were accomplishing his purposes. And you just have to, again, look at the testimony of the people who were there. (56:42–56:52)
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Asserts that the Metropolitan Police Department had never had a line break in that manner before.
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