Robert De Niro Says His Heroes Are the Capitol Police Officers and Goes on to List Their Names

EXCERPT:

COLBERT: "Do you have any other heroes? When you think hero, who do you think of? Do you have an American hero?"

DE NIRO: "I don't know. Mandela was a hero to me.

(Applause)

I do think of — I think of the Capitol Police, the guys at Capitol Police.

(Applause)

The Metropolitan Police. Michael Fanone, Aquilino Gonell, Harry Dunn, Daniel Hodges, and everybody else who was involved and affected and hurt by that."

COLBERT: "Can you imagine being Capitol Police now and watching those people marching past you who want to deny that you served them that day?"

DE NIRO: "Yeah. It’s something."