attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin (left), is overseeing the massive criminal investigation of Wednesday's assault on the U.S.

attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin (left), is overseeing the massive criminal investigation of Wednesday's assault on the U.S.

attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, says "hundreds" of people may ultimately face charges related to the storming of the U.S.

Capitol on Wednesday, which interrupted a session of Congress and left five people dead.

Sherwin says he doesn't want to "Monday morning quarterback" the U.S.

Capitol Police, but the fact that they allowed hundreds of potential suspects to leave the scene has made his job more difficult.

He says there's likely to be a wide array of criminal charges, ranging from destruction of federal property to murder.

At the same time, Sherwin is careful about what to call the violence at the Capitol.

"I don't want this tyranny of labels saying this was sedition, this was a coup," Sherwin says?

There's always outliers, but, yeah, there were warnings that people were going to coalesce and protest, and some individuals said, "Yeah, we're going to take back our house." So, yeah, those warnings were out there.

In any criminal investigation, I don't care if it's a drug trafficking conspiracy case, a human trafficking case or the Capitol — all persons will be looked at, OK?

I don't think there was an overall command and control.

I don't want to Monday-morning-quarterback what the Capitol Police did when people flooded the Capitol and breached it, destroyed material, stole materials and left.

I don't want to sound flippant, but it's really not rocket science.

I don't think we've ever seen a "crime scene" with such a diversity of charges, with such a large group of individuals on such a large grounds, in such egregious conduct.

I don't want this tyranny of labels saying this was sedition, this was a coup.

But what happened was criminal, and I'll leave the labels, whatever it was, in terms of a coup or sedition, to the political scientists that I'm sure are going to look at this for decades