Video released by the January 6 committee shows Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia leading a tour through the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021.
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- The January 6 committee released footage of GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk leading a tour the day before the attack.
- One person on the tour returned to the Capitol grounds the next day, making threats against several lawmakers.
- “When I get done with you, you’re going to need a shine on top of that bald head,” the man said of Pelosi.
The January 6 committee released video footage on Wednesday showing Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia leading a tour of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, the day before a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters swarmed the building.
One of the individuals on the tour returned the following day, and can be seen in the footage making threats against several Democratic lawmakers including now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
“They got it surrounded. It’s all the way up there on the hill, and it’s all the way around, and they’re coming in, coming in like white on rice for Pelosi, Nadler, even you, AOC,” the man says in the video released by the committee. “We’re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs.”
“When I get done with you, you’re going to need a shine on top of that bald head,” he also says, referring to Pelosi.
The committee’s video also shows a member on the tour group took photos of lawmaker’s headshots and of Nadler’s office.
The release of the footage comes after a day after Republican Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois released a letter from US Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger that said that the police force did not ” consider any of the activities we observed [on the video] as suspicious.”
In a letter sent to Loudermilk on Wednesday, committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi once again asked the Georgia Republican to speak with the committee while referencing the footage.
“Surveillance footage shows a tour of approximately ten individuals led by you to areas in the Rayburn, Longworth, and Cannon House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to tunnels leading to the U.S. Capitol,” he wrote. “The behavior of these individuals during the January 5, 2021 tour raises concerns about their activity and intent while inside the Capitol complex.
“Individuals on the tour photographed and recorded areas of the complex not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, and security checkpoints,” Thompson also noted.
The committee had previously asked the Georgia Republican to speak with the committee about the tour, but had been rebuffed.
Insider has reached out to Rep. Loudermilk’s office for comment.
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