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July 26, 2022
Washington – A TV  crew from “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff in his Capitol Hill office before Capitol Police arrested them for unlawful entry June 16.
The crew was filming comedy bits in front of other members’ offices including the one for Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert when the police were called.
The Colbert crew that was arrested for unlawful entry inside the Capitol interviewed Adam Schiff right before they got busted.
Plunkett said the film crew left his office and went alone, without an escort, to interview Schiff, of California.Â
In a Tuesday letter to Republican Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Jim Jordan of Ohio, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger broke down the arrests, explaining how an aide from Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., called the police after hearing someone shouting at their office and banging on the door of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Seven of the nine people were associated with Colbert’s show, while others were providing unarmed security. One of those arrested was Robert Smigel, 62, the voice of “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.”
According to the police, the staffers were charged with unlawful entry after being found acting “disruptive, loud” and “theatrical”
Federal prosecutors dropped charges against the nine crew members on Monday, saying they were never asked to leave the building by staffers who invited them, despite being told they needed to have an escort.
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