>>> EVEN AFTER THE CAPITOL WAS
ATTACKED BY A VIOLENT MOB
SEEKING TO STOP THE PEACEFUL
TRANSFER OF POWER A MAJORITY OF
HOUSE REPUBLICANS 139 ALONG WITH
8 SENATE REPUBLICANS VOTED TO DO
WHAT THAT MOB WANTED.
WHICH WAS TO BLOCK THE SEATING
OF THE ELECTORS THAT MADE JOE
BIDEN PRESIDENT.
NONE OF THEM HAVE EXPRESSED
REMORSE OR REGRET.
IN THE HOUSE A BATTLE RAMP
ITTING UP WHETHER REPUBLICAN
WHOSE SIDED WITH THE MOB CAN
BRING GUNS ON TO THE HOUSE
FLOOR.
IT STARTED WHEN METAL DETECTORS
WERE STATIONED NEAR THE HOUSE
CHAMBER AFTER THE RIOT.
SOME REPUBLICANS REFUSED TO GO
THROUGH THEM OR CHECKED WITH
WANDS IF THEY SET THEM OFF.
MEMBERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY
A GUN ON THE HOUSE FLOOR.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN HARRIS
WAS CAUGHT TRYING TO CARRY A GUN
ON TO THE FLOOR AND BARRED
ENTRY.
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE TELL NBC
NEWS THEY ARE INVESTIGATING.
WORTH NOTING HARRIS ALMOST GOT
IN A FISTFIGHT WITH OTHER
MEMBERS ON THE NIGHT OF THE RIOT
WHEN DEMOCRAT CONOR LAMB
CRITICIZED FOR THOSE WHO WON
ELECTION.
AND THE CONGRESSMAN JOINS ME
NOW.
IT’S CLEAR, AND I’VE GOTTEN THIS
LARGELY FROM YOUR REPORTING
ALONG WITH OTHERS, YOU KNOW, IT
WAS A NEW THING TO PUT THESE
METAL DETECTORS ON TO THE HOUSE
FLOOR.
IN THE WAKE OF THIS TRAUMATIC
EVENT WHERE PEOPLE WERE SCARED.
IT’S BECOME A POINT OF
CONTENTION, RIGHT?
WHERE REPUBLICANS HATE IT AND
TRY TO WALK AROUND IT.
WHAT BUILT UP TO THIS MOMENT?
>> YEAH.
SO THE FIRST DAY AFTER THE
JANUARY 6th RIOTS THAT INSTALLED
NEW METAL DETECTORS FRANKLY
ABOUT HALF OF THE REPUBLICAN
CAUCUS JUST IGNORED IT.
SIDE-STEPPED IT.
WALKED THROUGH QUICKLY.
I SAW, LIKE, TEN OF THEM AT ONE
POINT JUST SORT OF BUM RUSH THE
THING AND WALK THROUGH AND THE
COPS ARE KIND OF IN AN
IMPOSSIBLE POSITION, DON’T KNOW
IF THEY HAVE AUTHORITY TO STOP
THE MEMBERS AND MAKE THEM GO
THROUGH THE METAL DETECTOR.
APPARENTLY CONSTITUTIONAL
QUESTIONS ABOUT ARRESTING A
MEMBER OF CONGRESS ON THE WAY TO
A VOTE.
THERE’S ALL SORTS OF ISSUING
HERE.
THEY’VE SLOWLY -- THIS HAS BEEN
ESCALATING NOW FOR TWO WEEKS BUT
THEY’VE PUT DESKS ON THE SIDES,
ROPES AND MADE IT A LOT MORE
DIFFICULT FOR MOBS TO BYPASS
SECURITY.
YESTERDAY THE HARDEST I’VE SEEN
IT AND I ONLY SAW THREE PEOPLE
GELT THROUGH THE SECURITY
WITHOUT BEING WANTEDED DOWN.
THERE ARE STEEP FINES COMING.
EVENTUALLY $5,000 FIRST TIME,
$10,000 THEREAFTER, BUT
BASICALLY IT’S VERY DIFFICULT
FOR THEM TO GET THROUGH AND
HARRIS HAS BEEN A MEMBER SORT OF
RUSHING THROUGH, NOT STOPPING
FOR THE POLICE AND YESTERDAY
WITH THE NEW MEASURES IN PLACE A
COP STOOD IN FRONT OF HIM,
BLOCKED HIM AND HE WAS JUST SORT
OF FORCED TO BE WANTED DOWN.
AT THAT POINT THEY FOUND A GUN
ON HIS SIDE.
SO THIS IS CERTAINLY A
CONCERNING THING, PARTICULARLY
AS YOU NOTED, BECAUSE HE’S A
MEMBER WHO ALMOST GOT INTO A
FIGHT TWO WEEKS AGO.
>> SO HE GETS WANTED DOWN.
THEY FIND A GUN.
A DETAIL YOU HAD.
JUST WENT AND TRIED TO GIVE IT
TO A COLLEAGUE?
IT WAS LIKE, I DON’T WANT YOUR
GUN?
SO I MEAN I THINK A NORMAL
PERSON GOING INTO THE HOUSE
CHAMBER TRYING TO BRING A GUN,
TACKLED TO THE GROUND, ARRESTED.
THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, SORT OF
A QUICK CONVERSATION WHERE HE’S
VERY CLOSE TO THE COP.
THE COP SORT OF SIGNALS TO
ANOTHER OFFICER, HE’S GOT A GUN
ON HIM AND HARRIS SORT OF WALKS
AWAY.
IN THIS SORT OF VESTIBULE AREA
WHERE THERE’S ELEVATORS KIND OF
JUST LIKE MILLING AROUND.
I KIND OF FOLLOWED HIM IN SAW
HIM HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH A
REPUBLICAN WHO’S A FORMER U.S.
ATTORNEY, AND HE WAS BASICALLY
HAVING NONE OF IT.
BASICALLY HARRIS ASKED HIM TO
TAKE HIS GUN FOR HIM AND HE
SAID, I DON’T HAVE A LICENSE FOR
THAT AND NOT DOING IT AND HARRIS
KIND OF MILLED A LITTLE A LITTLE
MORE AND MADE A COUPLE COMMENTS,
REMINDING HIS STAFF TO TELL HIM
TO TAKE OFF HIS GUN OR SOMETHING
AND THEN GOT IN AN ELEVATOR AND
LEFT.
SEVEN MINUTES LATER WAS BACK.
I DON’T KNOW WHERE HE PUT THE
GOWN.
BACK
GUN.
BACK IN HIS OFFICE, BACK ON THE
HOUSE FLOOR AND WENT THROUGH THE
METAL DETECTORS WITH NO PROBLEM.
>> HOUSE RULES, CAN’T BRING A
GUN ON THE FLOOR.
PLACES IN AMERICAN LIFE YOU
CAN’T BRING A GUN.
AT REPUBLICANS SAYING TRYING TO
DISARM ULTIMATELY COMING TO
DISARM MANY, MANY MORE.
THE HOUSE FLOOR SEEMS LIKE A
GOOD PLACE NOT TO HAVE A GUN.