I watched the newly-public security camera footage from January 6. I saw things I hadn't seen before — including eerie scenes of lawmakers fleeing for their safety on one of the darkest days in American history.

• House Republicans have begun to make January 6 security camera footage publicly available.
• I signed up for a 3-hour appointment, where I watched the footage in an obscure conference room.
• I watched as lawmakers fled for safety — and banded together — while rioters besieged the Capitol.

More than two-and-a-half years after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, House Republicans have begun to make security camera footage from the days surrounding the riot more widely available.

There's been plenty of controversy — and distortions of the events of that day — in the meantime.