Here's What It Was Like to Be a Marine Turned Journalist Capturing the US Capitol Assault

Jones said that, after he went back to his rental home Wednesday, a friend from Afghanistan reached out for a safety check.

It was a turning of the tables that he didn't find unexpected.

"I really wasn't surprised at all, just incredibly disappointed," Jones said. "The most dangerous thing in American society is American exceptionalism -- the idea that, you know, we are somehow unique or special. We are a country that suffers from all the same issues that plague other countries."