Congressman Jamal Bowman to plead guilty, and conservatives are saying, off with his head. Put up the picture full of mass. He's going to plead guilty according to him, and [00:00:17] this is per NBC News representative Jamal Bowman. Democrat out of New York, indicated he will plead guilty a misdemeanor for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional building on Capitol Hill last month. [00:00:32] We talked about it when it happened. Bowman has agreed to pay the maximum fine of $1,000 for one misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. [00:00:52] He will also provide a formal apology to the Capitol Police. Bowman's office said he made an agreement with the attorney general's office that would lead to the charges being withdrawn in three months on condition that he pay the fine and submit the apology letter. [00:01:09] Quote, I am responsible. Can we just pause on those three words for a moment? A politician saying, I am responsible. [00:01:26] I'm going somewhere with this. So he says, I am responsible for activating the alarm. I will be paying the fine and look forward to the charges being ultimately dropped. It's an agreement. [00:01:42] Bowman said this in a statement on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Washington, DC attorney General's office said in a separate statement that Bowman is pleading guilty. And has agreed to pay the maximum fine. The alarm was set off September 30 in the Canon House office building as Republican [00:01:58] lawmakers sought to kick off a vote on a spending measure to keep the government open. In a statement hours after the incident, bowman said he activated the alarm by mistake after having it come, having come across a door that was typically open for votes but would not open that day. [00:02:17] Quote, I am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused, he said at the time. After the vote, Bowman said he also met with the sergeant at arms and [00:02:34] Capitol Police at their request and explained what happened. I want to be very clear this was not me in any way trying to delay any vote, Bowman said. My hope is that no one will make more of this than it was. [00:02:49] So let me explain what the representative is saying. He could not get out of particular doors that has been somewhat corroborated already. So he decided to go out of a door that really you don't go out of, [00:03:04] and he thought the latch he pulled would open that door, but instead, it set off the entire fire alarm system. Okay, now I read the DC Statute for what he's actually pleading guilty to based on his narrative of events. [00:03:24] In order to be charged criminally, it requires malicious conduct and mans Raya meaning he intentionally wanted to pull it. He knew exactly what he was doing, and it was illegal, and he did it for nefarious purposes. [00:03:39] Naturally, that does not add up to the narrative that he has presented. I actually do believe Mr Bowman. All right, there's more. In a statement Wednesday, the Capitol Police said the investigation was completed, that the probable cause warrant had been submitted to the Washington Attorney General's Office. [00:03:59] Our agents gathered all the evidence, packaged it up, and sent the entire case with charges to prosecutors for their consideration Capitol Police said. [00:04:15] Well, damn, did you do the same thing? I mean, that's quick justice for the people that tried to literally destroy the whole country at the Capitol. I mean, this was a fast investigation here. [00:04:30] There's more. Put it up full mass. So this person, Representative Lisa McClain, Republican out of Michigan, who is the secretary for the House Republican Conference, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. [00:04:48] She planned to introduce a resolution to censor Bowman and remove him from all committee assignments for the rest of the 118th Congress for [00:05:05] activating the alarm system. As far as her resolution for this, it doesn't exist. Need I remind people in DC what really happened, [00:05:23] that they decided to defend the conservatives, defended this madness. Here it is. >> Speaker 2: Returning to my post, I continued to monitor the radio. I could hear Commander Glover leading the defense efforts at the Capitol as the protesters began their transition from peaceful assembly into terrorism. [00:05:41] Around this time, one of the terrorists who had scaled the scaffolding that adorned the Capitol at the time threw something heavy down at me and struck me in the head, disorienting me. I suspect this resulted in the likely concussion I dealt with in the weeks after. I braced myself against the impact of their blows and feared the worst. [00:05:58] One latched onto my face and got his thumb in my right eye, attempting to gouge it out. I cried out in pain and managed to shake him off so he believed ours to be the last line of defense before the terrorists had true access to the building and potentially our elected representatives. [00:06:14] Eventually, it was my turn in the meat grinder that was the front line. On my left was a man with a clear riot shield stolen during the assault. He slammed it against me, and with all the weight of the bodies pushing behind him, trapped me. The mob of terrorists were coordinating their efforts now, shouting, heave. [00:06:29] As they synchronized, pushing their weight forward, crushing me further against the metal doorframe. The man in front of me grabbed my baton that I still held in my hands and in my current state. I was unable to retain my weapon. He bashed me in the head and face with it, rupturing my lip and adding additional injury to my skull. [00:06:46] >> Speaker 1: That's just one. That's just one individual who testified to the facts that are supported by video evidence, pictures, and witnesses. [00:07:01] But conservative members of Congress are creating resolutions against Congressman Jamal Bowman because he pulled a fire alarm that injured nobody, provided no catalyst to destruction of property. [00:07:20] All right, this is the thoughts here. >> Speaker 3: Yeah the thing with this is, fine, he did it. He'll pay the consequences for it. He's doing that, and he's cooperating with the judicial process. And honestly, as you pointed out, that's way more than we ever get from most members of the government. [00:07:37] Instead, they usually fight back against allegations. They gaslight us, telling us that we can't trust the things that we see and the things that we see them do and the things that we hear them say. And we're left waiting for justice, and it just never comes. We're seeing this play out right now in both New York and [00:07:52] Georgia with those Trump trials. They had to offer his entire legal team plea deals before any of them admitted to doing any wrong doing. And we know that despite what some of them have said in their statements, they knew what they were doing while they were doing it. They knew that it was all illegal, and [00:08:08] they knew what the potential consequences of their actions were. And you know what? I don't even want to mention the January 6 insurrection and how vehemently Republican Congresspeople defended the insurrectionists and those behind it. They denied the seriousness of the riot and more, [00:08:24] and they literally tried just last week to install one of the architects of that insurrection as speaker of the House. Jim Jordan was out there with a bullhorn on January 6, but he was still somehow a viable speaker. But then, at the same time, Jamal Bowman now needs to be stripped of all his committee appointments. [00:08:41] It makes no sense. >> Right, and the Republicans, just for the record, they they have voted in as their speaker a guy who was also an architect to protect the President of that time, Trump. [00:08:58] And his rhetoric by way of an amicus brief Congressman Mike Johnson.