Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy thanks cops for saving her on Jan 6

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Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy revealed on Tuesday how police officers saved her and another member of Congress on the day of the January 6th MAGA riot.

During the first hearing of the House panel investigating the insurrection, Murphy told the officers testifying how they saved her and fellow Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice.

The two women were hiding in a room 40 feet away from the tunnel where DC Metro police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges and other officers pushed rioters back. Fanone and Hodges were two of the officers testifying about their experiences on the day of the riot.

Murphy had the footage played of Hodges being crushed in a door as rioters beat him with his own gas mask. 

'You were our last line of defense,' Murphy, a Florida Democrat, told him. 'I shudder to think what would have happened had you not held that line.'