Then at one point, we heard an explosion. And that was a little bit of a sobering moment.
“At one point, members were about to be evacuated when they were told to ‘get to the floor.’ Gradually I was kind of hurt that this was happening, thinking, ‘How could people get by security in one of the top terrorist targets in the country? We should be ready for this.’ I assumed that a few rogues had run by the metal detector. “I didn’t know what to think at that point. Scott Peters, a Democrat from San Diego, was in the House gallery when he saw something he’d never seen before: a nonmember of Congress at the rostrum. But now we know that there’s more people involved. I don’t know if I said this to Sarah or a different reporter, but I did say like, ‘This is how a coup happens and this is how democracy dies and Donald Trump should probably be brought up on treason.’ And I still believe that to this day. … So everybody that I was talking to was committed to staying. “They brought buses to get the members out, and Ruben and other Democrats were like, ‘Do not get on the buses.’ They said that’s how a coup happens: when the electeds are evacuated out of the Capitol or out of the palace. “That’s when Hakeem and Liz Cheney said we’re going to go back and finish the job,” Gomez said. Once police cleared the hallways and escorted the lawmakers to safety, several members of Congress got together and committed to remaining in the building and finishing the certification of the electoral college vote. There’s people trying to break in outside the doors.” “And all of a sudden, they closed the doors on us and they told us to get on the ground. The rioters were too close for the lawmakers to get out safely. He and his colleagues were running across the gallery in hopes of escaping when he saw Capitol Police barricading the door the president uses to enter the chamber for the State of the Union. Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) was in the gallery of the House chamber when the rioters breached the Capitol.
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