Texas Democrats react to summer of high-profile January 6 hearings

“The members of the VP detail at this time [they] were starting to fear for their own lives,” according to the testimony of one White House security official who remained anonymous.

It was a moment during the latest hearing that stood out for Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas. 

“Just harrowing, the idea that these guys were thinking that they were going to have to probably risk or even lose their lives to get the Vice President out. It’s also a thing, an example of just how dangerous and how close we came to it being an event where we had mass violence,” Allred told Spectrum News. 

He was on the House floor last Jan. 6, and texted his then-pregnant wife “Whatever happens, I love you.”