… civilian had been shot at the entrance to the chamber of the House of Representatives, and he still wouldn't tell the mob to go home. And we also know that When he tweeted at 224 that Mike Pence didn't have the courage, in Trump's words, to do what Trump wanted him to do. 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. (56:10–56:35)
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Asserts that Trump's tweet about Mike Pence led to the mob surging forward at the Capitol.
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