Rep. Mikie Sherrill said in a new interview that a suspicious group in the Capitol complex on Jan. 5 -- the day before a pro-Trump mob overran the building and forced Vice President Pence and hundreds of lawmakers into hiding -- was wearing "MAGA hats and Trump things."
Sherrill, D-N. J., has been among several Democrats in Congress who claimed that some of their colleagues may have assisted rioters with "reconnaissance" before they stormed the Capitol. Sherrill revealed the detail about the alleged garb of those she says she saw in the Capitol in an extended interview with CBS New York.
Sherrill also said that if the folks in "MAGA hats and Trump things" were, in fact, conducting reconnaissance, there is a possibility that the yet-to-be-named members of Congress who may or may not have been assisting them did not know what they were doing.
"I think that’s something that really has to be investigated, because there is a possibility that they did not realize what some of these groups were doing, that they were groups of constituents — and they should not have brought them into the Capitol complex," Sherrill also said, according to CBS New York.
She continued: "In fact, they had received, many of the members had received a security brief on Jan. 3, the sergeant-at-arms reposted for the new Congress information that there were no tours allowed, even tours given by members. So they should not have been in there."
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