Emergency Washington DC Broadcast: Firsthand Account Of Capitol Hill Siege
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As you might notice, not only am I not in my house, but there's some very serious things that went on today.
And I have to really take a moment to let you know that I could not wait to explain to you what's happening right now in our nation's capital.
As we speak, we are seeing what some are describing as an act of war.
Some are describing even that these are treasonous and actions of traitors.
While some people on the other aisle then are going, this was a revolution.
This is something that happened in our streets, and we're proud of what happened.
Well, despite wherever you land on this spectrum, and if you think today's events were the worst thing you've ever seen, if you thought that they were one of the best things you've ever seen, that's on you.
But my job is to tell you guys the truth and to bring you guys the real stories of what's happening.
This is not the most in-depth episode I've ever done in my life, as on Friday at 2 p.m. Central on my YouTube channel.
I will do the most in-depth video I can possibly when more details come out.
But please track with me.
A lot of you might know that the Capitol building was successfully sieged and occupied by Trump supporters.
No, the violence was not instigated and started by Antifa.
A lot of people say that the violence was by anarchists, and though I would say that there's an opportunity where anarchists might have taken advantage of this situation, we need to be honest with ourselves and we just can't blame small armed anarchists for all of the problems in this country.
Guys, we have a real issue on our hands, something that we need to address.
And I am openly willing to admit that the actions that happened today primarily came from Trump supporters.
And that's truth.
I also want to clear the record on something as well that's very vital.
A lot of people are spreading slander.
They're suggesting that I somehow encouraged people to break into the Capitol building, that I was breaking in with them.
I would like to remind them that as somebody who holds a congressional press license, while we definitely skipped the security gate to get inside as a reporter, it is my job to bring the stories that the journalists who complain about my stories won't bring you.
And so I make it my prerogative to take a lot of heat.
There's a lot of flack right now, so please drop a like, leave a positive comment, show some support, share this live stream to friends.
This is going to be vital, and it's important that we look at every single step and case scenario.
Let's talk about how the day began.
So the day began very peaceful.
It wasn't like, you know, CNN's mostly peaceful.
This was genuinely a good day where Donald Trump spoke.
A lot of patriots and people who really love this country came together to object what they believe was an election that was stolen from them.
And this was momentous.
It's vital that in a republic, people have the right to protest and to feel like if their representatives aren't representing them, that they can protest.
And that's what this was.
But as you might have known already, it didn't end in peace.
It actually ended with extreme violence that actually resulted in the death of one young unarmed woman.
Live ammunition was fired by police, a lot of non-lethal rounds, and here's the story.
So we were meeting by the Washington Monument and we were just gathering together.
You know, I think there was well over 100,000, a couple hundred thousand people, but estimates could be higher, could be a little bit lower.
And we began to march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol building, which goes down a very large boulevard.
And as we marched, I believe it's a little bit over a mile, people were clearly angry.
They were angry, number one, that they believed Mike Pence, who they thought should object to the certification and should do a 10-day audit, was no longer on their side.
They were filled with just the absolute deepest sense of frustration, and you could see it in their faces.
I'm a grown man, and very rarely do I see people so angry, yelling in the streets.
And I mean this, and I will condemn this because I don't think this is what should be done, but I heard a lot of people yelling things like they wanted to execute members of Congress like Nancy Pelosi.
And somebody will already jump in the comment section and pretend like the right wing can never do anything extreme or say anything.
But I have to be real with you guys, whether you like this or not, this whole idea that everything we do is peaceful just isn't true anymore.
We've seen that recently in Salem, Oregon, where there was, got pretty intense.
Not that the people started the violence, the police kind of did, I believe, but things are getting intensified.
And as we walked and we moved in the direction of the Capitol building, a lot of people saw that there was a primary barricade.
And I'm going to present to you guys a video raw and unedited.
I apologize if there's some language, some language in it.
And I also apologize too.
My brain really hurts.
And I'm going to explain that more.
I'm just in a lot of pain right now and I have rashes all over my body and my mouth is burning and my eyes, my eyesight isn't good.
But I want to show you how this started and I'll talk about it.
So there were two young gentlemen who they essentially were taking down an initial barrier and they went right up to the police where they were at a second barrier.
Now, I want you to know there were at least four barriers between the crowd and of course the Capitol building.
Now, the police, as people started ripping down the barriers, these were just Trump supporters.
They were angry.
People started saying, This is our house and we're going to take it.
And my brain kind of broke in this moment because, you know, you have this sense of the government having a certain amount of power.
And when you think of the United States, there's no more iconic building perhaps than maybe the White House itself than the Capitol, right?
With its nice dome top and it looks so beautiful.
It's huge, a great monument to architecture.
And, you know, you just see, you walk by there and you think, this is the government.
This is the center of the free world.
This is the center of the global agenda.
This is, you can't get in there, let alone you can't take it over.
But a few people just ripping down some security barriers was enough to breach the Capitol building, our nation's Capitol building.
I mean, if that doesn't shock you, I really, I don't know what would, because if you're like me, I didn't think people could really like take over the building.
Yes, somebody did get shot and died, but it blew my mind.
And I was kind of like, you could, I had these natural, you know, responses of the, you know, just cursing and stuff, because that's just, I just was like, is this really happening?
And you saw that officer who got injured, the girl, I mean, they were assaulting officers.
And I want to clarify this.
We're going to see this in the future.
This whole back the blue movement on the right, I think is over.
I think it's ended because no one had us seemed to have a real huge issue with attacking police.
A lot of police were badly injured.
And I will say police badly injured a lot of people too.
This was extreme violence.
And in some cases, the Trump supporters did instigate the violence.
And in other cases, the police instigated it.
I'm not about cops behaving inappropriately, but you shouldn't be beating the snot out of officers who are standing and guarding a fence.
I don't think that's the right method, and I don't condone that at all.
I'm frustrated, too, with our country, but this is an officer serving in their job, and they're not firing on you.
They're not attacking you, being aggressive and hitting them.
I want to explain to you kind of what we saw.
And I understand the anger, and I understand the frustration, like I understand the anger and the frustration at Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests and riots.
I just don't always understand why they behave the way they do with that anger and think it's the best form of action.
And that's what I'm processing still right now is like, well, what do I make of this?
We got into the Capitol building.
And I'll tell you, there's a lot more footage going to be on Friday.
It's going to be a piece by piece.
But we got in.
They were shooting rubber bullets and pepper balls.
You guys, I am so, my body is full of hives.
My neck and my face are burned.
I can't eat food.
I've been vomiting all day.
I didn't have a mask.
I did this because I wanted to show you.
But the people started attacking the police officers once they got into the Capitol building.
They were breaking the windows.
They kicked down the doors.
I saw a bigger, you know, kind of an overweight black woman, like an aide in her office, freaking out, standing with a fire extinguisher.
If people try to break down her door, she was behind it.
I could see her in a window.
And I'm just going, this is the most insane thing that we are in a moment where people can go occupy the federal building.
And I go, but of course the police inside aren't going to take this, right?
They got overrun outside.
It was, by the way, like a 45-minute siege that you'll see on Friday where there was this constant fighting back and forth.
And the police were throwing stun grenades and tear gas and using, like I said, pepper balls, rubber balls.
They were using like a beanbag gun.
It knocked somebody off of a scaffolding.
I was climbing the inauguration scaffolding to get better aerial images.
But as we got inside, the police were freaked out.
And people were freaked out.
And no one really knew what was happening.
But then they started charging the police and attacking the police.
Watch.
Yeah, and so, you know, I wanna point this out, and this is very important to understand.
People broke into the Capitol building, but also people say, but it's our house, which is true.
But at the same time, you know, that's why when people started breaking the windows and stuff, I'm going, you know, I kept telling people, you know, you paid for that.
And they were, you know, someone was like, started messing with a copy.
I was like, bro, that's yours, actually.
So you probably shouldn't destroy this stuff in here because you're going to have to pay to replace it.
And I don't get that idea of like destroying the federal property that you paid for.
I do get people frustrated, but then the aggressively just like attacking and assaulting officers.
I mean, to be completely honest, this was something that I don't think the officers were prepared for.
And I don't think Capitol Police knows what to do.
Like you saw, they ended up firing around at firing around at an unarmed girl after a few, several warnings.
And she's now dead.
And I want to bring up the real cost of this too.
Like before we just storm a building as American people, which some people, like I said, you might think that was the best damn thing that's happened this year, which has only been going on for a couple of weeks, but it's a total crap show, if you ask me.
Or you might think this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
And I've seen some people say these people deserve to be shot.
Well, wherever you stand on the line of this, my point is, is that when people do these kinds of things, there's a girl who's dead tonight.
Her family doesn't have her.
Her friends don't have her because of storming the Capitol building.
Now, if it was worth that, and people think that she's just a casualty, well, you can make that up yourself.
But it's like, I just wish that people in these moments, left-wing and right-wing, would understand that there are very serious repercussions for getting heated in the moment.
I saw people's cheeks split open.
Somebody's tooth went through.
My friend Taylor was live streaming and caught the shooting on camera.
And there was just, if you go to my Twitter, at Elijah Schaefer, you can see a lot of more footage.
There's just blood.
The steps were soaked with blood.
And inside, the police just ended up running away.
They were freaked out.
They just filled the hallways with the thickest amount of smoke possible and just evacuated the building.
I mean, people thought that this was going on.
Now, people ask me, why do I call them patriots?
Why do I call them revolutionaries in my tweets?
Well, number one, most self-describe as patriots, just like I don't call Antifa black bloc militants who support communism and anarchy.
Like, I don't say that.
I'm like, oh, they're Antifa.
I just say, oh, yeah, these are like patriots.
It's a common name.
It doesn't mean I'm condoning the violence.
But I also say people say, why did I say revolutionaries?
Because they were calling for a revolution.
In fact, and I hate to say this, well, I don't think most people had violent intentions.
I probably think 99%.
There was a decent amount of talk that I heard from people that was about literally killing members of the Senate.
And I'm sorry.
It's like people say that didn't happen.
Well, it did.
And, you know, I firmly believe that some of the people that entered the building would have killed members of the Senate because I just take them at their word, right?
People always say, well, why do you know that Black Lives Matter is a racist organization?
Because they just say racist stuff.
So I just go, okay, I guess I assume they're racist.
And, you know, people tend to get this white knighting for their own political party.
And I know a lot of you guys are right-wing and conservative.
And they go, well, right-wing people wouldn't do that.
Oh, well, they did.
So you've got to come to terms with what happened today.
Now, that's not to say that I think that a lot of the people who were in there had any intention to do anything wrong besides just occupy a building.
I think a lot of people were just hyped up.
It's also, it is felony and it was a crime.
And I think the FBI is going to be probably showing up to a lot of people's doorsteps.
You know, as we walked in, people began to dismantle Nancy Pelosi's offices with her members.
And just to bring up how frantic things were, I mean, people evacuated so quickly.
The computers were on.
All their emails were up.
Like, people could have stolen the computers of high-ranking officials.
Some of Nancy Pelosi's aides and people just had their, like, literally all their accounts just logged in on the front of their screens with, there was warning signals on their, like an alert on their computer.
And they left in haste.
Like, they freaked out and they left, which shows you how volatile this was and how scary this was.
Now, the military wasn't present.
Now, outside of the building, the police couldn't get in to help with what was happening on the break-in as people broke down windows.
And because this is what they were battling.
Let's play clip three.
This is what was going on outside.
It looks very similar to an extreme BLM riot.
I would say it was more on the ends of like a cry of insurrection to some degree.
But watch this.
So that crowd, there was probably like maybe 50,000 or more people pushing up against the Capitol building.
And the police, I have a lot of video on Friday.
I'm going to show you on the deep show about just all the insanity and the tear gas and stuff.
I've never breathed so much tear gas in my life.
And, you know, I'll say this is like the last time I got like sad at an event.
I haven't gotten sad at one of these things in a long time.
But it's like, this is our country.
You know, whether you liked that this happened or you hated that this happened, I mean, can we all admit at least that it's not good that our country's in this position?
Like, rather than debating about if they were in the right or the wrong, it's like, we got to ask ourselves a bloody good question right now.
And that's, why are we here in our nation?
I mean, did you believe that a Capitol building could get broken into?
Did you believe that that many people would come and would breach the Capitol building?
I mean, people were putting Trump flags and the statues in the Capitol veranda.
They were putting, you know, like Trump flags in the congressional leaders' offices.
I mean, they didn't even lock their doors, kicking down doors.
And I'll say this, and beating the snot out of officers who in many ways were beating them up as well.
But the violence was just so escalating so quickly that I think I realized when officers started pointing live munition guns at us, I'm going, this is very dangerous.
And I think it's so funny that people, a lot of journalists are so mad at me right now.
I'm so mad that I followed the story of a breaking news event that they now know about because I went into the Capitol building with the occupiers that were there.
Well, I'll tell you this.
There's this crazy thing that's called journalisming.
And I made that up, but it's just, you know, it's this old thing that people did where they like risked their safety and their life and they like chased stories and like actually got sources and firsthand accounts and they didn't write, you know, stories off of people's Wikipedia profiles, blogging from their cramped New York apartment, thinking that they're like super cool.
You know, I actually put my reputation, life safety on the line, which I'm not asking any for anyone to give me thanks for.
I'm just saying that should be standard for reporters like I don't.
That should just be like most people.
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And you know I want to.
I want to kind of kind of bring this into perspective too.
The they try to arrest people and I brought up earlier I have a congressional press license because people wondered, like why, how I was allowed in the building and didn't get arrested in all this honestly, the police respect my license and they let me roam freely.
So there's that about it.
And of course, like Keith Olberman and some people are trying to get my press credentials revoked.
I don't know, they all fought for Jim Acosta to have his press credentials.
But of course, if you're not a far left-wing radical, well, of course, you don't deserve to be a member of the press.
Only people who are elitists and of course do other terrible things as well.
Well, anyway, the police tried to close the doors to the veranda and lock everybody into the Capitol so they could make mass arrests.
It did not turn out well for the police.
check this out in this clip.
Okay, so what you were seeing there, and I had, you guys, you might be wondering why some of these clips are edited in a way that you're not seeing much.
It's because on a live stream, I can't showcase like really bloody violence.
But yeah, a lot of these cops got bloodied.
Like they, I have clips that they just, people just beat their way out of the Capitol building and they physically beat their way into it.
Like I know that a lot of people who weren't on the very front of things think that it was like we just like went in, but I was, I stay at the front of events where it's like the most volatile because I think people deserve to see what's actually happening, not get secondhand accounts.
And like if you want to watch all the footage right now, you can after this click, go to my Twitter.
It's all there, a ton of it.
And I have a lot more coming out too.
But I mean, this was from, this was violent from the beginning.
And so it wasn't peaceful.
And I, of course, joked on Twitter and was like, oh, it was mostly peaceful.
And everyone's like, oh, so you condone the violence.
And I'm like, no, I'm just using the narrative mostly peaceful that we always talk about.
And that's the fact that, you know, anything that's violent up until a few people dying is mostly peaceful today.
The only reason why I'm weirded out by the violence is because it was just like a few months ago that right-wing people were like, back the blue, thin line flags.
Like I would like, I was at the last march in November, and or maybe that happened in December, and like a cop would mace a kid in the face and the guy would be like, thank you for serving me, man.
That was really, you have a hard job.
And you're like, you know, like this weird blind allegiance to police is so strange.
I never get that.
But I would say I think the pandemic and watching police enforce unconstitutional lockdowns has actually turned the majority of hardworking Americans against the police.
I could be wrong on that.
But I think when we watch the police enforce unenforceable laws and ruin people's lives, I think, you know, just hardworking Americans, a lot of people's support for police has waned now.
And I think universally it might be the lowest it's ever actually been.
I'm not condemning individual officers.
I'm just saying that, you know, if you're an officer and you're a good officer, I salute you.
But, you know, not all police departments and officers seem to be enforcing the right things.
And I think people are mad at the police.
And I think this was people's anger at the at Congress.
I think, again, I think some people wanted to actually, I think like this is a real thing.
And I know YouTube doesn't like me to say this.
I heard people genuinely calling for the execution of people.
And I think that it's not, that is, that is wrong.
There's no, we should not be going in there and executing people.
That's not a good thing to promote.
I think that a lot of the people who just felt like it was an occupation and a protest probably didn't see a lot of the violence.
But the criticisms of the day are valid.
And a lot of young heated men really, really got aggressive and, you know, took a lot of their anger for the country and their lives out on a lot of officers who I don't think were really doing much wrong.
And a lot of them did use restraint.
I did see a couple officers use excessive force in a few different situations.
That didn't make sense.
But theoretically speaking, I mean, if you were an officer and you were in the Capitol building and the people stormed it, I think you just wouldn't know what to do.
And I'm sure they have training for this.
But ultimately, what I want to say is I was able to get out luckily.
They let me out.
I was able to use my license, get out, and get past police lines.
But at the end of this, what's the cost?
And what do we take away from this?
That's why if you're just here, I told you that there's going to be an in-depth with a ton of videos.
We're going to compile it into a timeline on Friday at 2 p.m. Central on this YouTube channel and on Blazetv.com.
But the takeaway from this that I believe is so important now before we can process it all is that depending on what your echo chamber is or if you're on the left and the right, you're probably going to view this as a completely different event.
You know, but the ultimate thing that I want to bring out is the hypocrisy in our country.
That the left suddenly condemns violence, that suddenly they don't like violent protest, suddenly they're upset about a government building being vandalized and broken into.
Like, where were you in 2020, guys?
I'm glad to know that you guys are upset at people destroying public property and occupying public property illegally and also violently rioting/slash giving some sort of an insurrection.
It's just, it's so interesting to me that the people who were silent in 2020 while Antifa and BLM destroyed America are suddenly like, this is the worst thing that's happened in America.
So to them, you're hypocrites, you're losers, and you need a reality check.
That's true.
But of course, there's also people who just would just think, man, this is not a right thing that are in the middle on the left or right.
They're just going, this is not how to do it.
And that's up to you to decide.
But if you're on the right wing, from talking to a lot of people, a lot of people were really proud of what happened.
They think it was a good thing what they did.
And they think that this was the right course of action.
And I think what's important, though, as we bring this together, those same people to their fault too, is saying, you know, they're always condemning violent riots and insurrection against police and the government in 2020.
And then all of a sudden it's cool for the right wing to do it in 2021.
You know, it is a very interesting hypocrisy that I'm seeing here from both sides in their response to this event.
But if you're like me and the rest of America and you actually take moments to process things before like having your ultimate conclusions of if this was actually a good thing or a bad thing of what was the worst parts, the best parts of this day, I mean, if you're like me and you want to look at it and deconstruct it, well, then luckily for you, 2 p.m. Central on Friday, we will have time to think and discuss.
But I want you to take this away as a conclusion.
No matter what people think this may or may not have achieved, our country is at the brink of civil war.
I believe this is revolution in process.
People think that revolutions are always just good things.
I do believe this is not a civil war because I believe it's not a fight against the people fighting one another.
They're fighting against their government.
But in many ways, I do consider this to be somewhat of a soft act of war.
You can criticize me for that.
I believe that this was the people telling the government, be afraid of us.
We can hurt you.
If we want to, we can take away your power.
Whether that's something that you like or you don't, I don't think any of us should be happy that we're at a point in our country where something like this would even happen.
I want better for America.
I'm not here to say and condemn anybody or to do anything because I don't have all my facts together yet and I'm not understanding exactly fully the reasoning behind everything that was done and I will do my fair investigations.
But don't be happy that we're here in this country.
If you're on, if you disagree or agree, let's all be upset that things like this are taking place in our country.
And who's letting that happen and why did we get here?
They need to be held accountable.
And how we do that, well, time will tell.
But please, please remember the cost.
And for all of you who celebrate tonight, I want to end with what I said earlier.
Someone's dead.
And if it was worth it to you with someone dying, that's up to you.
But I always want you to know that there is a real cost to these events.
And that's what I always don't.
I go to these things and people get so hyped in the moment that they don't realize that you being hyped is now a young woman's dead because you got hyped.
And, you know, again, if that was okay for you, then that's your prerogative.
But, you know, ultimately speaking, it's like, man, a lot of people are badly injured, hurt, including myself.
I'm not badly injured.
I'm just in a lot of pain.
I can't even eat.
My mouth is burns.
My own saliva hurts my throat.
It's very painful.
But I'm grateful to be alive.
I'm grateful to not have any very severe injuries.
And I'm glad that the rest of you here can just appreciate a channel like this where we do our best always to bring a balanced approach to what turned out to be one of the most insane days of my life.
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