Meet The Freshman NY Congressman Who's Very Quickly Become a Leader in Congress

This week on Miranda Warnings, David talks to first-term Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) about what it was like being on the floor of the House of Representatives when insurrectionists sieged the Capitol and what the consequences should be for members of Congress that may have aided them.

Show Notes

On his fourth day in office, Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) was on the floor of the House of Representative with members of the Democratic Party leadership, listening to what had been, until Jan. 6, 2021, a routine part of the peaceful transfer of power between outgoing and incoming administrations. Before long, he and other members of Congress were told that there had been a breach and that insurrectionists were likely headed to the room where they were standing.

“There was no confidence on my part that I would make it out of that room without having to encounter the domestic terrorists who sieged the Capitol,” Jones said on a recent episode of the Miranda Warnings podcast. “I was preparing along with Rep. Collin Allred from Texas, a former NFL player, to do battle in the event they were able to take the chamber.”

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