Chris Cuomo conducted a poignant, heartbreaking interview with 18-year-old Jackson Reffitt, who turned in his own father to law enforcement, after he participated in the Capitol insurrection and threatened his family with “traitors get shot.”
Speaking with the teenager about why he went to the authorities, Cuomo walked though the escalating isolation and ominous warning signs displayed by the father, Guy Reffitt, leading up to his arrest for unlawful entry at the U.S. Capitol.
“I know you love your family. And I know this is hard,” Cuomo said to the teen. “So help people understand why did you feel you had to let authorities know about what was being done to your father and what was happening if his own head?”
“I don’t really know how to explain it,” Reffitt replied. “It was just, it just felt like the right thing regardless of my emotions and how I felt and how much I loved my family and my dad. I was worried. I didn’t think he would actually do anything bad. But him saying anything even remotely threatening to me and my sister and my family and government officials, it was just too much.”