Police chief confident Capitol won’t see attack like Jan. 6 again

After Jan. 6, the U.S. Capitol Police chief expressed confidence that his force would be able to prevent any similar attack from happening again.

One year after a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the halls of Congress -- sending lawmakers fleeing and leaving the building ransacked -- the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police expressed confidence in an interview with ABC News that his force would be able to effectively prevent any similar kind of attack on the nation’s legislative branch from happening again.

"I believe we can, and I don't say that as a challenge to anybody, " Chief Tom Manger said in a new interview with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. "But I do believe we can. I mean, one, when you look at what went wrong on [Jan. 6], we didn't have enough people, there were training issues, equipment issues. You know, there were things that we -- that with regard to intelligence that we probably should have addressed, but we didn't."

"Those issues have been addressed," Manger said.

A bipartisan report on the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol released by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in June showed there were widespread security failures on the part of the Capitol Police and law enforcement.