Linder; When is 1st time you got info that the Cap was being breached?Rhodes: When Whip called me, right about 1:45 and said, "they're storming the Capitol"Rhodes: I said who? Whip says the Trump supportersRhodes said he saw video of a Trump supporter punching a cop…
Rhodes says he told Whip after breach of barricades occurred: "I'm going to head that way to see what's going on so when I get down there, let's link up."
A moment ago, Rhodes says he had difficulty orienting himself in DC on morning of Jan. 6. (Despite all those text exchanges of maps among OKers beforehand)"I knew where Capitol was, but I got disoriented with my cardinal directions, which was north or south," Rhodes claims.
Rhodes: "We did not realize anyone was going inside until later....""I saw people banging on the windows of the upper terrace and I thought, "oh shit people are going to break in..."
Rhodes says there was no communication at all between himself and Meggs on 1/6 during breach.The first time Rhodes said he heard from Meggs was when Meggs walked up to him outside after the breach.
Rhodes: "It was nowhere in our mission scope at all" to stop certification. Linder starts to say, so, the only way the election certification could be interrupted...Rhodes interrupts: "I didn't believe there was any way. "
Rhodes: "Nothing I was wanting him to do with the Insurrection Act was about certificationI wanted him to go in and seize evidence and seize data. That's why its nowhere in my open letters..."
No, never," Rhodes says when Linder asks him if there was ever any plan or intent to stop certification, or even the implication of it"Absolutely not. All of my effort was on what Trump could do. I presumed Congress would go ahead and certify this unconstitutional election …
Rhodes continues, referencing Trump, "but you still need to take your responsibilities to do what you can do even after that happens..."
Rhodes claims from stand that AL OKer Joshua James never told him he went inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 afterward when James met him for dinner. When he learned that OKer Jason Dolan went inside the Capitol, Rhodes said he told Dolan "That was stupid"
Linder asks Rhodes if ever congratulated anyone for going into the CapitolNever, Rhodes says