officers, pulled them into the crowd and beat on the officers with sticks, while another rioters is seen throwing objects or at least one object at police. what s key in all of these videos is that capitol police actually succeeded in holding the line until the building was cleared out. no rioters actually made it inside the capitol from this particular entry point. some officers have since said that they didn t even know the capitol had already been breached in other spots. another part of that video shows an officer up high, trying to fight back rioters with his foot while more fights break out. and rioters throughout this, bashing capitol police officers with anything they could find, baton, crutches, other objects, including some of the police s own riot shields, so this is a three-hour video. it s taken from a capitol police surveillance camera. that s why it s fixed in one spot. that s why there s no sound, and poppy, prosecutors have been using this video and other videos in cou
new developments in the capitol riot investigation. the justice department just released the longest video yet of the january 6th insurrection. it s three hours long, graphic video there that took place in the capitol tunnel. the video shows some of the most violent confrontations with rioters as police desperately tried to hold the line. let me bring in my colleague jessica schneider, what more does this video show? poppy, it shows three hours worth of that battle with the capitol police and the rioters. all the while, the capitol police holding them back. this is video cnn had to pseudo obtain from the justice department. it s the most in-depth look we have seen from the particular location on the lower west terrace of the capitol. it s a video that shows out the drawn out battle between rioters and capitol police. wires grabbed two of the police
fabulous job with doing that, what better way to reach to american culture, and say, hey, get yourself vaccinated so you can knock out the thugs, knock out omicron. it is so true. well, thank you both for being here on this christmas eve, especially, and thank you for all you ve done, both of you for so long fighting this. we appreciate it very much. thank you. well, ahead is former president trump and some members of the gop continue their efforts to whitewash the january 6th attack on the capitol, the department of justice has released a disturbing new three-hour long video of that day. it s not been seen publicly before. the images show the most violent confrontations between rioters and police. we ll talk you through more of it next. that s why, in difficult times, we provided one hundred and fifty million meals to feeding america. and now through the subaru share the love event, we re helping even more. by the end of this year, subaru will have donated
probe. i would expect to see a significant amount of detail from attackers who were part of the assault on capitol speaking about why they did what they did. and the biggest question i think is front of mine for anyone who follows is to what extent did the attackers engaged in that day engage in violence because that s what they thought the president wanted them to do. we know many of them are going to answer that question with a yes. that s a key piece of making sense of the horror of the 6th. another big question we keep asking is today the day eastman s subpoena drops. we learned even more this week about eastman. in an unpublished op ed drafted by a top pence aide who got an email from eastman while he and the vice president were hiding at the capitol. because you and your boss did
not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way, you allowed this to happen. east man sent the email as pence, who had been presiding over the senate was hiding in a secure area. any news when eastman will be subpoenaed by this committee? we expect it could come in a matter of days or weeks. but there is no set time line yet. it is expected sooner than later. you are right. this is another moment this email was set when images of what was happening a the capitol were being broadcast to tvs across the nation and the world. rioters the broken the perimeter of the capitol, they had started overrunning the premises, bashing capitol police officers with american flags, escalating the violence, particular kicking them when they were down, using their own tasers on them.