Was no bomb. but what police described as bomb-making materials. throughout the ordeal, capitol police used inventive ways to attempt to quell the situation. we tried to negotiate with mr. roseberry. we first started doing that with a whiteboard. just writing messages back and fwo forth. we used a robot to get a telephone down to him but he would not use the telephone. reporter: eventually, five hours after it began, roseberry gave up. he gave up and did did not resist and our folks were able to take him into custody without incident. reporter: his precise motives remain unclear. but based on his social media monologues, politics were a big driver of his angst. his son christopher told cnn that his father took a much greater interest in politics after donald trump was elected. biden s victory made him very upset. since biden got elected, he s just been, like, man, he doesn t like change, i reckon. christopher roseberry said. adding his father told him, quote, i m sticking up for my
Congress, directly across from the u.s. capitol. and claimed to anyone that would listen that his truck had a bomb. hey! call the police and tell them to come out here and clear the capitol. tell em to clear the capitol. he quickly got the attention of capitol police. they began to clear the area. at 9:43, they tweeted this urgent warning. uscp responding to a suspicious vehicle near the library of congress. please, stay away from this area. then, at 9:54, less than an hour after roseberry arrived, they sent this message to staffers on the hill telling them, among other things, if you are in a public space, find a place to hide or seek cover. that began a long and tense standoff between roseberry and police. one that would include an evacuation and lockdown of buildings across a three-block radius as police attempted to wait roseberry out. all right, guys. looks to me like i m getting ready to make a phone call.
Then at 9:54, less than an hour after he arrived, they sent this message to staffers on the hill telling them, among other things, if you are in a public space, find a place to hide or seek cover. that began a long and tense standoff between roseberry and police. one that would include an evacuation and lockdown of buildings across a three-block radius as police attempted to wait roseberry out. all right, guys. looks to me like i m getting ready to make a phone call. reporter: he live streamed his grievances on facebook promising a revolution, calling out president biden. i m just warning you, biden, don t pull the trigger on this truck because i m not responsible for it. reporter: he demanded biden resign and complained about the nation s immigration policy and response in afghanistan. it s my land. it s your land.
Hours after it began, roseberry gave up. he gave up and did not resist and our folks were able to take him into custody without incident. reporter: his precise motives remain unclear but based on his social media monologs, he had a big angst. his son told cnn his father took much more of an interest in politics. man, he doesn t like change, i reckon. his father told him, quote, i m sticking up for my country. we need to get the country back to the way it was. ryan nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so i m wondering what your sense is? obviously they re afraid of what happened on january 6th. he was sort of speaking the language of insurrection and stuff. clearly he was making it all up about the bomb. what s your sense of how that fear impacted the reaction
Happen isn t always in a bulletin, but what they thought was helpful to release to police departments all over the country was put in what i just read. and here is what is reportable, as tom says, we re not sharing this in terms of amplification, we re sharing it in terms of starting to understand what it is that our intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies are worried about. mr. roseberry, the alleged wannabe bomber today addressed president joe biden, made several demands, including wanting american air strikes in afghanistan, and the resignation of biden, saying he would end his standoff if the president left office. frank, this seems to be the kind of individual that homeland security experts are concerned about. indeed. first, let me say kudos to the authorities today for successfully resolving this peacefully in the form of a