- Congressman Kinzinger, this is the desk

that you sat behind on January 6th.

Take me back to that day.

- So imagine, you know I had been on the floor

for kinda the start of the proceedings, came back

and decided I'd go back down when I had to speak

or we were voting.

And obviously in that transit back to my office is

when everything kinda started hitting the fan.

And I had predicted this days prior,

so it wasn't a surprise to me.

(crowd chanting)

- [Margaret] You sat here for six hours?

- [Congressman] Yeah.

- [Margaret] With a gun on the desk.

- [Congressman] Mmhmm.

- [Margaret] Why did you bring it that day?

- So, that's an interesting question 'cause I had never...

You know, we're allowed to carry here

except for on the house floor.

And I have my concealed carry for DC,

but I never brought it to work ever

because we have so many police officers and stuff.

But I was getting death threats.

I remember a specific tweet that was just a noose hanging

as a response to one of mine.

People saying, we're gonna come get you.

So I brought it in here not really expecting the Capitol,

I wasn't that clairvoyant to think

they would breech the Capitol.

But I thought for sure there would be massive violence

in the area, and I thought they may target me.

- You felt personally targeted?

- Oh, I was personally targeted.

When I'm one of only a handful of people

that are Republicans, you know, committing the cardinal sin

of congratulating the President Elect and then saying

that the election wasn't stolen, you know all that focus

and anger and hate comes to people like me.

(crowd yelling)

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