What the ProPublica videos establish is that the crowd descended on the Capitol on the northwest side. That's the part of the building closest to where Trump spoke. Alex Jones told people to go to the front, as Trump would be there. That's where the first major breaches occurred.
Watching these videos, it's increasingly hard for me to see how Alex Jones avoids getting arrested by federal law enforcement. That's significant, given that not only was Jones *directing traffic* during the insurrection but claimed on video to be *in touch with the White House*.
In a video, Jones claimed the Secret Service escorted him from the Trump speech so that he could lead the march to the Capitol. We now know that when he got there he told the crowd that Trump was coming, and directed where they should march. Breaches then occurred at those spots.
So it's pretty simple then: if Jones was indeed in touch with the White House about his role in the insurrection, the operation at the Capitol was being directed by an agent of the White House—who was in contact with the White House before illegally breaching the Capitol grounds.
To be clear, I don't believe, and am not suggesting, that at any point Jones had Secret Service protection. That's preposterous. What I think he was claiming—the veracity of which we don't know—is Secret Service agents directed him on how to exit the backstage area of the event.
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