GOP Leader Meets with Ashli Babbitt's Mother Prior to Visiting Jan. 6 Prisoners

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer, one month after McCarthy said he believed the officer "did his job" when he shot her as she jumped through a broken window while members of Congress fled. McCarthy confirmed that Witthoeft had requested the meeting, and they discussed his previous comments about Babbitt's death. Several Republican members of Congress plan to visit the Washington, D.C., jail, where a limited number of people charged with being Capitol rioters who have been deemed dangers to the community or who have refused to obey conditions of release are being held.