Ryan Zink

And I was like, I wouldn't think so.

I was like, you know, there's like proceedings going on inside.

I was like, maybe this is, you know, the area that the protests have the permits for.

So we make our way up.

I'm talking, I'm saying stuff like I'm an American.

I have the First Amendment.

And so I'm saying, you know, like we're storming the Capitol, you know, we're like, you know, they can't stop us.

And when I'm, you know, the DOJ will tell you that I was talking about, you know, Capitol Police, you know, that, oh, these guys can't stop us.

They're trying to say that I like was making that disassociation.

But what I'm talking about is like the protests, like American people finding out the truth, right?

of what was going on.

And to be completely honest, I'm overwhelmed.

I don't really have any idea what's going on inside of the building then.

How much do you actually know until you get to spend an engrossed amount of time, like the last five years that I've spent about what goes on in that building?

And, you know, to be like a very like junior journalist, like the only thing that I've covered at this point is like football games for a Big 12 university.

And, you know, a couple of basketball games here and there, wrote some articles for a magazine, like I'm doing the journalist thing, but I'm not in school anymore.

uh from my injuries and then this is when things get start to get weird okay so um what happens is and i'll i'll brush through this part but this is very critical because actually i did send you the evidence of this stuff last night so

The police stop everybody at the base of the stairs in front of the Columbus doors.

And then they just open it up.

So we're like, you know, a couple hundred people back.