The phone lines in Nancy Pelosi's office began to ring as crews cleaned the US Capitol.
The rioters were asking if there was a lost phone or purse because they forgot it.
The police took down the information from the callers.
"The officers immediately got on the phone and said to give us your name, address, and social security number, and we'll tie up these loose ends," he said. There were people who felt like they had been summoned to Washington by the president.
The office of Pelosi was overtaken by rioters as her staff hid in a conference room.
The phone calls were self-incriminating and indicative of how central Donald Trump was to the thousands of Americans who came to DC for a protest and ended up storming the Capitol.
The "lost and found" episode demonstrates a challenge facing the House select committee investigating January 6, where Raskin is a Democratic member.
They said the president invited them to be there when they were told they were invading the Capitol. They didn't understand the separation of powers. They thought that they had a right because the number one person in the US government invited them.
It shows the central role that Donald Trump played. It creates a problem for assigning guilt at different levels of conduct.
The framework for understanding the events of that day was outlined in a Q&A with Insider.
Thousands of protesters walked from the Ellipse to the Capitol after Trump's rally. The second ring was made up of militia groups who wanted to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results.
The third ring was constituted by those surrounding Trump who were working to overturn the results of the election.
"I would like people to understand that there were different components to what was happening and that it was not one, indivisible sequence of action," he said.
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