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Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington on January 6, 2021, minutes after a tube bomb was discovered nearby.
A former law enforcement official and a White House official confirmed to CNN that the then vice president-elect was the unidentified "protégé" listed as evicted from the building at approximately 1:14 p.m. ET on January 6, 2021. The evacuation came just seven minutes after Capitol Police began investigating the bomb, according to an internal police schedule obtained by CNN.
News of the evacuation of Kamala Harris was first reported by Politico.
Harris's presence at the DNC was unknown until now.
On Thursday, Harris declined to answer questions about his evacuation when asked by reporters at the White House.
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Speaking Thursday to mark a year since the insurrection, Harris said he had been inside the Capitol that morning for a classified briefing of the Senate Intelligence committee before leaving.
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"That day, she was not only vice president-elect, but also a United States senator. And she was here on Capitol Hill that morning, in a classified hearing with colleagues from the Senate Intelligence committee."
Hours later, the doors of the Capitol were breached, "Harris said.
"I had left. But my thoughts immediately turned not only to my colleagues, but to my staff, who had been forced to seek refuge in our office, turning filing cabinets into barricades."
At the time, the vice president-elect's office declined to comment on Harris's whereabouts, but an aide told CNN he was "safe" as violence raged on Capitol Hill.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) bomb threat was resolved at 4:36 p.m. ET, according to a timeline obtained by CNN.
CNN previously reported that the device and a similar one placed at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee had been tampered with with egg timers and filled with an explosive powder.
The bombs were discovered within minutes of each other around 1 p.m. ET on January 6, 2021, just as a mob of angry supporters of then-President Donald Trump descended on Capitol Hill after a rally near the House. Blanca during which Trump spoke, according to an account the Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police gave lawmakers in January 2021 and an FBI poster seeking information on the suspect.
Kamala Harris returned to the Capitol after 8:00 p.m. ET after the insurrection to join the presidential election certification.
No one was charged with planting the bomb and the FBI continues to search for a suspect it has identified in multiple videos posted in the past year.
The suspect is believed to have planted two tube bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Capitol riots.
Information released in September included a virtual map highlighting the route the suspect traveled while planting the two bombs between 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM on January 5, 2021.
Since then, the FBI has been unsuccessful in identifying the individual, despite the agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offering a $ 100,000 reward.
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Video footage released in September shows the suspect sitting on the bench near the DNC, in the area where the tube bomb was later planted, according to the FBI.
"Reviews of the suspect's behavior in video footage and interviews with residents of the Capitol Hill neighborhood led the FBI to believe that the suspect is not from the area," according to a press release from the FBI Field Office. in Washington.
The images and video above showed a person carrying a backpack and wearing a face mask, a gray hoodie and black and light gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow logo.
CNN's Christina Carrega contributed to this report.
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