Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday recounted being evacuated from the Senate chamber during the Jan. 6 attack, including a close brush with rioters who he was told made antisemitic remarks about him.

“I was within 30 feet of these nasty, racist, bigoted insurrectionists. Had someone had a gun, had two of them blocked off the door, who knows what would have happened. I was told later that one of them reportedly said, ‘There’s the big Jew. Let’s get him,’ ” Schumer said.

“Bigotry against one is bigotry against all. And I saw something that I had been told later never happened before, the Confederate flag flying in this dear Capitol. That’s just one of many searing, grotesque images of that unimaginable, most un-American day,” Schumer added.

Schumer, like most of the Senate, was on the Senate floor when it was locked down after a pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building. He and other senators were subsequently evacuated from the chamber.

Part of his evacuation was shown during the impeachment trial last year, where Schumer and his security detail were shown being forced to change course in the Capitol complex after nearly coming face-to-face with some of the insurrectionists on Jan. 6.

“A police officer in a big flak jacket and large rifle grabbed me firmly by the collar, like this, I’ll never forget that grip, and said to me, senator, we got to get out of here. You’re in danger. We walked out the Senate chamber door, made a right turn, went through another door,” Schumer said from the Senate floor.