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  • it was not until approximately 2:50 p.m. About six minutes after the shooting downstairs, remaining members, staff and journalists in the gallery were finally able to flee.

  • And this security footage video, you can see them exiting many members, air still wearing their gas masks.

  • They walked just feet away from where Capitol police are holding an insurrectionist at gunpoint just minutes earlier, that insurrectionist had tried to open the gallery door and, thankfully, was stopped by a tactical team.

  • Throughout this presentation, we have been very careful to not share where members of Congress were taken on the paths they followed to get out and off the floors.

  • But that very issue was under discussion by the insurrectionist themselves.

  • One example comes from an FBI affidavit, which stated that a leader of a militia group known as the Oath Keepers received messages while he was at the Capitol.

  • The leader was given directions toe where representatives were thought to be sheltering and instructions to quote turn on gas, seal them In this new security footage of the senators and staff leaving the chamber will be displayed on the screens.

  • It is silent.

  • You know how close you came to the mob.

  • Some of you, I understand, could hear them.

  • But most of the public does not know how close these rioters came to you.

  • As you were moving through that hallway, I paced it off.

  • You were just 58 steps away from where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them.

  • Additional security footage shows how leader Schumer and the members of his protective detail had a near miss with the mob.

  • They came within just yards of riders and had to turn around here.

  • In this new video, you see Leader Schumer walking up a ramp, going up the ramp with his detail.

  • He'll soon go out of you.

  • Seconds later, they return and run back down the hallway and officers immediately shut the door and use their bodies to keep them safe.

it was not until approximately 2:50 p.m. About six minutes after the shooting downstairs, remaining members, staff and journalists in the gallery were finally able to flee.

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