Quick heads up for me, there is a bit of cursing in this episode.

From a congressman, you've been warned.

I'm wondering if you could just describe what is it like to walk into the Capitol right now and how it's changed?

When I left, I was able to walk around the outside and that was pretty startling

because it reminded me of when I went to Iraq a few times during the war of the green zone.

Tim Ryan is a Democratic congressman from Ohio.

When I spoke to him over the weekend, he was home in his district, getting ready to fly back to DC for work.

And getting ready to report to a Capitol building that has become an ornate but fully fortified bunker.

It's very un-American, you know, I mean this is not supposed to happen in our country.

And I think that's why so many people I think are moving from a really high level of anger to a level of sadness that it's all come to this.

Congressman Ryan has seen the Capitol change, locked itself down, up close.

He's been working in and around the hill for more than two decades. He started right after college.

And that was pre-9-11. So that was even more open. I mean it was just the playground.

I mean you could just walk anywhere, you're throwing frisbees on the east front of the Capitol and throwing footballs and people walking their dogs.

And I mean it was just completely wide open. And then after 9-11, you know, began the process of the barriers, some of the barriers for cars and this and that.

And the cops and the bombsmith sniffing dogs and that kind of thing.

And I just I don't even have any clue what it's going to look like now.

I just I just my sense is it's going to be very, very much bigger perimeter, more checkpoints.

You know, it's going to it's going to suck. I mean it really is. It's just going to be a whole different ballgame.

I wonder we have just a couple of days until the inauguration and all the security. Does it make you feel safer or something else?

Boy that's a that's a complicated question.

In my mind, you know, I feel like the safety is going to be just fine. I feel like the you know the double perimeter and you know, but at the same time I think a lot of us are carrying a level of

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