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A former White House official described as an employee with national security responsibilities told the select committee investigating Jan. 6 that former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail feared for their lives.
“Members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives,” the official said. “There was a lot of yelling, a lot of very personal calls over the radio, so it was disturbing. I don’t like talking about it, but there were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth. It was getting — for whatever the reason was on the ground, the VP detail thought that this was about to get very ugly.
The official said he entered the message about Secret Service at the Capitol into the NSC chat log because “if they’re running out of options, and they’re getting nervous, it sounds, like, that we came very close to either Service having to use lethal options or worse.” Pence's security detail feared for their lives on Jan. 6, White House official testifies Govt-and-politics Live updates | Trump didn't follow riot script set for him Govt-and-politics Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides' pleas to call off Capitol mob Takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearings Trump 'could not be moved' amid violence The House Jan.
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