Dem Rep. Phillips: For 20 Mins. During the Capitol Hill Riot, ‘We Thought Being Taken Hostage’ Was Best-Case Scenario

RUSH EXCERPT:

PHILLIPS: “It was awful. For those of us inside, it was trauma. There were 20 minutes we thought being taken hostage would be the best case scenario. To sit next to close texting and calling loved once saying good-bye are feelings I will never forget. It’s analogous to being on an airplane going down in those last moments. It seems trivial in hindsight. It lives with us. But I want to convert that anger and that trauma to gratitude. Here hosting a lunch right now across the street at the Capitol for 800 capitol police officer and capitol staff unheralded, under appreciated or recognized for what they do every day, particularly on that day to save us, the Capitol, to give us another day to do what’s right. It was an awful day. Staffers, journalists, the Capitol police officers, many of whom, some of who have taken their lives of it. Some of who have resigned. It’s time for Americans to set aside policy issues and start placing the principles of preservation way above it. If we don’t, there is no winner.”