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Artisan Donald Trump supporters, why do you scream at people for walking across the street?

Three blocks away from the Capitol, why are you known as badasses around the Capitol?

But then Trump supporters come in and you open the fucking doors for him.

You open the doors for him and let them breach the people's house.

Says Joe Scarborough the day after, we've had three Wednesdays in a row.

They were pretty interesting. Obviously the siege on the Capitol, the next Wednesday, Trump was impeached the next Wednesday tomorrow.

You get a new president. I hope we start tapering off on the historic level of Wednesdays here pretty soon.

But that was the day after and a lot of us had the same question. How the heck did a crowd actually get in the Capitol?

Scarborough there was screaming at the Capitol police. I have a buddy who's been doing security around Washington DC for years who says the politicians jump down your throat so much if they're inconvenienced in the least that everybody has gotten scared to like even try to enforce any rules.

Because you get in so much trouble if you ask somebody for their badge, you don't know who I am. Get out of my way. You know that sort of thing.

Anyway, but I thought this piece in the Washington Post was pretty good to give you an idea of what some of the police are dealing with and I've watched video after video now.

I like it when people compare it to a medieval battlefield because that is what it was like.

You had big guys fighting it out for hours hours with sticks and bats and ropes and stuff like that. She's crazy.

Anyway, I'll read this from the Washington Post headline. We got to hold this door and you're going to hear from at least a couple of the police officers we played clips from last week blinded by smoke and choking on gas and bear spray stripped of his radio and badge DC police officer Michael Fennon and his battered colleagues fought to push back rioters trying to force their way into an entrance to the US Capitol.

These are not people who opened the door for rioters. The officers had been at it for hours unaware that others in the mob had already breached a building through different entrances for them.

The West Terrace doors which open into a tunnel like hallway allowing access to an area under the rotunda represented the last stand before the Capitol fell.

Dig in Fennon yelled his voice cracking as he and others were being struck with their own clubs and shields ripped from their hands by rioters.

We got to get these doors shut. An officer since 9-11 the 40-year-old Fennon who had four daughters had been working crime suppression detail in another part of the district.

He and his partner sped to the Capitol in the dispatchers broadcast an urgent citywide call. They were overthrowing the Capitol the seed of the democracy and I blanking went, he said.

The officers at the West Terrace eventually pushed people away from the doors. It was only then that Fennon saw the immense vollele of crowd stretched out in front of him and realized what police were up against. We were battling 50-60 rioters in this tunnel he said in the first public account.

Who fought to protect the Capitol during last week's siege. We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.

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