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Caroline Edward and Nick Quested swear in to a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack. Photo: Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Two eyewitnesses to the Jan. 6 attack provided detailed testimony about what they saw and experienced during the riot to Thursday's primetime committee hearing.<\/p>\n

Driving the news: <\/strong>"I was slipping in people\u2019s blood," U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, believed to be the first officer injured on Jan. 6,recounted.<\/p>\n

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• "It was carnage. It was chaos. I can\u2019t even describe what I saw."<\/li>\n
• The Jan. 6 committee also played a video that shows Edwards being pushed by rioters to the ground, hitting her head on the Capitol steps where she was knocked unconscious. <\/li>\n
• Edwards suffered a concussion from the attack and experienced fainting spells for months after the insurrection, the New York Times reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  British documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, <\/strong>who was following the Proud Boys right-wing extremist group, also described what he saw on Jan. 6, saying the crowd turned "from protesters, to rioters, to insurrectionists."<\/p>\n

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  • "I was surprised by the size of the group, the anger and the profanity," he testified. <\/li>\n
  • Quested also described being "confused" that "a couple of hundred of Proud Boys were marching toward the Capitol" before Trump\u2019s speech. <\/li>\n
  • "I was confused to an extent why we were walking away from the president's speech because that's what I felt we were there to cover," Quested said.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The big picture: <\/strong>The testimony from two eyewitnesses set the backdrop for the committee's argument that the insurrection "was a result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden," Axios' Alayna Treene reports.<\/p>\n

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    • The Jan. 6 committee chairs, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), tied Trump to the events of that violent day. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack," Cheney said. <\/li>\n
      • "Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup," Thompson said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        What's next: <\/strong>Thursday's primetime, Watergate-style hearing was the first in a series of public hearings that are scheduled for the rest of the month.<\/p>\n

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        • The committee has a subsequent hearing scheduled for June 13 at 10 a.m. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Go deeper… <\/strong>Jan 6 committee airs closed door video of Bill Barr deposition<\/p>\n

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