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

From a congressman, you've been warned.

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

When I left, you know, I was able to walk around the outside,

and that was, you know, it 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 D.C. for work. And getting ready to report to a capital 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 the,

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 capital change, lock 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, throwing frisbee's 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 bomb sniffing dogs and that kind of thing.

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