Pence's ex-chief of staff Marc Short says there would have been a 'massacre' at the Capitol on January 6 if the 'mob' had been closer to the vice president

• There would've been a massacre if the rioters had gotten close to the Vice President.

• Short spoke to a federal grand jury about the riot.

• Short was at the Capitol with the VP.

If the rioters had gotten closer to the vice president, there would have been a massacre, according to the ex-chief of staff.

Short testified before a grand jury about the January 6 riot in which rioters broke into the Capitol and disrupted the counting of electoral votes.

He told ABC News that he thought the Capitol was a risk. The Secret Service did a great job.

There would have been a massacre in the Capitol if the mob had gotten closer to the vice president.

In a CNN interview on Monday, Short said that he "complied" with the subpoena from the federal grand jury, but did not elaborate.

He told the host that he couldn't say much more than that.

Short was a witness before the House committee.

At one of the panel's hearings in June, he said that he had told Donald Trump many times that he was not in favor of invalidating the election results.

For weeks before the official Electoral College certification, Trump had been prodding Pence to acquiesce to his demands of stopping Biden from being formally certified as the presidential victor, pointing to debunked allegations of voter fraud.

Trump was frustrated by the fact that Pence wouldn't go along with the plan.

Attorney General Garland told a group of reporters last week that he was committed to keeping the integrity of the investigation going.

We have to make this right. We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election and we have to do it in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.

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