Video extracted from security cameras of the Capitol building during last month’s riot was released by lawmakers representing the US House of Representatives at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on February 11.

`Most of the public doesn’t know how close these rioters got to the congressmen. When moving through that hallway, I estimated the distance. They were only 58 steps away from the congressmen,` congressman Eric Swalwell

Extremists broke into the US Capitol building at around 2:12 p.m. on January 6, after smashing a window on the first floor. The Senate issued an evacuation order about a minute later.

Congressional police officer Eugene Goodman ran down the second floor hallway of the Senate chamber, meeting senator Mitt Romney and a staffer leaving.

Released video of protesters ‘hunting down’ US congressmen

Eugene Goodman asked Senator Romney and a staffer to change direction on January 6.

Former Vice President Mike Pence was escorted by secret agents to the stairs in the Senate area after protesters entered the building 14 minutes ago.

Audio and video recordings from the riot show extremists searching for Pence because the former vice president presided over the session certifying Joe Biden’s victory.

At 2:30 p.m., senators and staff were evacuated from the Senate meeting room and to the stairs.

Released video of protesters ‘hunting down’ US congressmen

Former President Pence (white hair) and senators evacuated the meeting room on January 6.

Ashli Babbitt, a female air force veteran who supported Trump, walked around to the area where the Speaker of the House of Representatives’s podium was located at 2:41 p.m.

More than two hours after storming the parliament building, extremists attacked law enforcement officers as they guarded the entrance on the west side of the complex.

Stacey Plaskett, a representative of the US House of Representatives, said radical protesters stormed the US Capitol building with the intention of killing former President Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.