Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's always pulling for Team USA.

I'm Elise Jordan on this Wednesday, July 28th.

We'll start out with the news.

We begin with the Capitol Riot investigation and the emotional testimony we heard yesterday from officers who responded to the January 6th insurrection.

In visceral, unsparing language, they shared their

experience defending the U.S. Capitol. They wore witness for history about battling the mob of rioters

who stormed the Capitol to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as a democratically elected

president. Here are some of the most disturbing, heart-wrenching moments of their testimony at yesterday's

hearing.

In January 6th, for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol than my entire

deployment to Iraq.

The writers call me a traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I,

I, an army veteran and a police officer, should be executed. The writers attempted to breach

the Capitol were shouting, Trump sent us, pick the right side.

We won Trump.

I bivably heard officers screaming in agony and pain, just an arm length from me.

I didn't know at that time, but that was Officer Hodges, and he's here today to testify.

I, too, was being crushed by the other writers.

I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall, thinking to myself,

this is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance.

I ended up on my hands and knees and blind. The medical mask I was wearing at the time to protect myself from the coronavirus was pulled up over my eyes so I couldn't see.

I braced myself against the impact of their blows and feared the worst. I was effectively defenseless

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