“We pulled the Speaker out into the hallway, and we started running,” Berret recalled. She said that the seriousness of the situation dawned on her at that moment, as she saw other lawmakers’ security details also running to get their protectees to safety.
Simultaneously, Berret testified, she instructed the staffers who were in Pelosi’s office suite to shelter in a windowless conference room that had two sets of double doors, with the interior set being “more hardened” than the other doors. This was the protocol that she and Pelosi’s security detail had prepared, Berret testified.
Berret only learned that the office suite had been breached — and that Barnett had sat himself down in her chair, at her desk — when she saw it all unfold on the television at the undisclosed location to which Pelosi and other congressional leaders had been evacuated. In the rush, Pelosi had left her cell phone behind on the rostrum in the House chamber, and Berret realized that she had left her personal cell phone, along with her purse, at her desk.
“The First Doors Had Broken, So We Knew It Was Bad.”
At the same time, Berret said, she was frantically trying to get Capitol Police to evacuate her colleagues, the staff members who had sheltered in the “safe room” — which itself appeared to be on the verge of being breached.
“The first doors had broken, so we knew it was bad,” Berret said, adding that rioters were banging on the second, “hardened” set of doors. The eight staffers, meanwhile, had turned off all the lights in the room and set their phones to silent. Berret said she was communicating with them by text message only.
“I was trying to tell them everything would be okay, without knowing that,” she testified. “To us, it was a very bleak situation, but I couldn’t tell them that,” she added, noting that Capitol Police were not able to get through the rioters to reach the staffers and get them to safety.
After about three hours, police were able to clear Pelosi’s office suite.
Brazil is looking for an alt-right dictator… Trump wants to be an alt-right dictator… surprised that the stable genius hasn’t put 1 and 1 together yet…
Flashaaway over 1 year ago
Don’t forget the crap your TV and movie production companies spew out.
Daeder over 1 year ago
No, what they say is that the USA doesn’t export anything good anymore.
brwydave Premium Member over 1 year ago
It was nothing more than a normal tourist visit to their seat of government. Very peaceful except for the ANTIFA infiltrators.
ibFrank over 1 year ago
Why wasn’t the pillow man watching their elecion for fraud?
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
Makes you proud of the Republican Party, right Stantis?
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 1 year ago
Republican want nothing but chaos
Odon Premium Member over 1 year ago
Two big exports from the US? Cigarettes and arms.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 1 year ago
Don’t know who is saying that.. but this wave of rebellion is being exported to this side of the fence.. and frankly, we don’t like it.
charliekane over 1 year ago
Looks like ol’ RWR had a point ‘bout us bein’ a ’xample to the world . . .
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
“We pulled the Speaker out into the hallway, and we started running,” Berret recalled. She said that the seriousness of the situation dawned on her at that moment, as she saw other lawmakers’ security details also running to get their protectees to safety.
Simultaneously, Berret testified, she instructed the staffers who were in Pelosi’s office suite to shelter in a windowless conference room that had two sets of double doors, with the interior set being “more hardened” than the other doors. This was the protocol that she and Pelosi’s security detail had prepared, Berret testified.
Berret only learned that the office suite had been breached — and that Barnett had sat himself down in her chair, at her desk — when she saw it all unfold on the television at the undisclosed location to which Pelosi and other congressional leaders had been evacuated. In the rush, Pelosi had left her cell phone behind on the rostrum in the House chamber, and Berret realized that she had left her personal cell phone, along with her purse, at her desk.
“The First Doors Had Broken, So We Knew It Was Bad.”
At the same time, Berret said, she was frantically trying to get Capitol Police to evacuate her colleagues, the staff members who had sheltered in the “safe room” — which itself appeared to be on the verge of being breached.
“The first doors had broken, so we knew it was bad,” Berret said, adding that rioters were banging on the second, “hardened” set of doors. The eight staffers, meanwhile, had turned off all the lights in the room and set their phones to silent. Berret said she was communicating with them by text message only.
“I was trying to tell them everything would be okay, without knowing that,” she testified. “To us, it was a very bleak situation, but I couldn’t tell them that,” she added, noting that Capitol Police were not able to get through the rioters to reach the staffers and get them to safety.
After about three hours, police were able to clear Pelosi’s office suite.
ferddo over 1 year ago
Brazil is looking for an alt-right dictator… Trump wants to be an alt-right dictator… surprised that the stable genius hasn’t put 1 and 1 together yet…
Frankfreak over 1 year ago
We now have the Groucho Oppositional Party. Their motto and party platform is “Whatever it is, I’m against it.”
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
I hope Stantis’ latest cartoon in Counterpoint makes it onto GoComics.
I will give it an advance ‘like’ and appropriate praise for a conservative.