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Testimony footage of former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is played during a January 6th Select Committee hearing.
In the minutes before the tweet, Fox News—on the President's screen—relayed that the Capitol was on lockdown;[220] that Capitol police officers were injured; that rioters were in the building and "just feet from the House chamber."[221] In the minutes afterward, networks would report there was tear gas in the Capitol, forcing Members of Congress to evacuate in protective masks.[222] At 2:39 p.m., Secret Service agents reported that "[m]ore just got in."[223]
"I don't know how they're gonna retake the Capitol building back at this point," one agent wrote to others two minutes later.[224]
At 2:44 p.m., a Capitol police officer shot a rioter named Ashli Babbitt.[225] A handwritten note—dashed off onto a White House pocket card and preserved by the National Archives—read: "1x civilian gunshot wound to chest @ door of House cha[m]ber."[226] One White House employee saw the note on the dining table in front of President Trump.[227] A barrage of text messages inundated Meadows's phone with a consistent plea.[228] Everyone from conservative media personalities to Republican allies in Congress—and even the President’s own family—urged the President to do more:
