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First time, we see what prosecutors say is a confession by one of the men accused of attacking and tasing d.c. police officer michael fanoen, a symbol of the brutality against law enforcement the day of the insurrection. >> why did you tase him? >> i don't know. i'm a piece of [ bleep ]. i'm sorry. i don't know. he's a human being with children and he's -- he's not a bad guy, he sounds like. he's just doing his job. what do you want me to tell you? that i tased him? yes. >> reporter: the alleged attacker, daniel rodriguez, made clear why he was at the capitol. >> trump called us. trump called ...

The. we have more the video right now, this is danny rodriguez saying that trump called us to d.c.. let's listen to this. >> how do you get to january six? what else happens within that period of time? >> trump called us. trump called us to d.c.. >> tell me about that. how did he let you guys know that he was going to come to d.c.? >> if he is the commander in chief and the leader of our country, then he is calling for help. we thought he was calling for help. i thought i was doing the right thing. i had no plans of what was going to happen. i didn't know what was going to happen.

Little bit. >> yeah, they're very different people once they're in custody. we have more of the video now ready in the control room. this is about danny rodriguez saying that trump called us to d.c. let's listen to this. >> how do you get to january 6? like what else happens in that period of time? >> trump called us. trump called us to d.c. >> tell me about that. how did he let you guys know to come to d.c.? >> if he's the commander in chief and the leader of our country, then he's calling for help. i thought he was calling for help. i thought he was -- i thought i was doing the right thing. ...

>> trump called us. trump called us to d.c. >> tell me about that. how did he let you guys know to come to d.c.? >> if he's the commander in chief and the leader of our country, and he's calling for help -- i thought he was calling for help. >> what were your thoughts at the capitol when you tasered officer fanone or when you went into the capitol building -- >> i thought that we were going to save this -- i thought that we were going to do something. i thought it was not going to happen like that. i thought that trump was going to stay president, and they were going to find all this crooked s...

>> drug problems. >> tell me about that. how -- >> trump called us, trump called us to d.c. >> tell me. how do you me that he called you to d.c. >> if he is the commander in chief and leader of our country and he is calling for help. i thought he was calling for help. i thought he was -- i thought i was doing the right thing. >> we are back with joyce and john heilemann. he was calling for help. i thought we were doing the right thing. let's go with the legal analysis side for a second. is that in your view a representative sort of psychology of an insurrectionist? >> this is one defendant mak...