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On the recordJune 13, 2021
We've seen plenty of video of people in the Capitol. And they weren't rioting. They don't -- it doesn't look like an armed insurrection when you have people that breached the Capitol, and I don't condone it, but they're staying within the rope lines in the rotunda. That's not what an armed insurrection would look like.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin
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msnbc.com

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Johnson downplays the severity of the January 6th Capitol breach.

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