'Disgraceful': Police Officers Slam GOP Denials About Jan. 6 In Searing Testimony

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Four police officers who battled a violent mob of Donald Trump’s supporters in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Tuesday about the horrors they faced that day, as Congress began its formal inquiry into the riot. “I’m sure I was screaming, but I don’t think I could even hear my own voice.” DC Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone testifies during the select committee investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during its first hearing on July 27. House Republican leaders had an opportunity to put five members onto the panel, but pulled all of them when Speaker Nancy Pelosi objected to two members, Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, citing past statements about the election and insurrection that would threaten “the integrity of the investigation.” Roughly 550 people have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, and hundreds more arrests are expected as part of the most sprawling FBI investigation in U.S. history. We have questions about “why Speaker Pelosi didn’t make sure that Capitol Police had all the tools they needed to be prepared for that day,” said House GOP Whip Steve Scalise. “Why would a sergeant-at-arms, when you have an insurrection going on ― or a protest out here ― you got a line being broken, and you’re the sergeant-at-arms, why would your first response be, ‘I’ve got to send a note to the Speaker to see if it’s OK to do my job?’” D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn testify before the House select committee.