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We have been told by Capitol police
that the Capitol is in lockdown.
Woman: They broke the glass?
Woman #2: Everybody stay down! Get down!
[ Gunshots ]
Man: Gunshots rang out,
and the the rioters actually start trying
to ram the doors down.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Tapper: We are watching an attempted sedition.
We are watching an attempt
at a bloodless coup in the United States.
[ Screaming ]
Acosta: This is a bonfire of the insanities that we're watching
in the nation's Capitol right now,
and it all flows from Trump.
Haberman: His initial reaction was not horror,
which was almost everybody else's reaction.
His initial reaction was to watch the show."
I heard multiple conversations loudly and publicly.
Find the vice president. Hang the vice president.
[All chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" ]
Tapper: There is a very real possibility that
we will see aggrieved members of his base at the inauguration,
conducting protests.
What we don't know is whether those will turn violent.
Tonight, a first draft of history in the making.
A revealing look inside the Trump insurrection.
Thousands of angry true believers,
triggered by lies and calls to battle...
Woman: This is our Capitol!
...attempt a coup that left five people dead so far.
A mob that came armed
with conspiracy, hate, and weapons,
overwhelming undermanned police
and shocking a nation.
Even though the president and his followers
have long made it clear they would not believe
they were losers in the election.
And now a CNN Special Report.
"The Trump Insurrection: 24 Hours that Shook America."
They say I have the most loyal people.
Did you ever see that?
Where I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue
and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?
It's, like, incredible.
[ All chanting "We Want Trump!" ]
And I'm afraid the election's gonna be rigged.
I have to be honest.
Well, this started back in the 2016 campaign,
when we would be at the rallies,
and he would refer to the press as the disgusting news media,
the dishonest news media, liars, scum, and so on,
and he rolled that into the Oval Office.
Stick with us.
Don't believe the crap you see from these people.
The fake news.
What you're seeing and what you're reading
is not what's happening.
And the coronavirus pandemic,
I think, is a perfect example
of how Trump's corrosive effect on the truth,
on what we consume in the news media,
what that can do to the country.
Looks like in April, in theory,
when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.
Hope that's true
COVID's just a made up government...
[Chuckles] thing, you know?
I've read the facts.
I don't listen to...
the news.
I'm not worried about the pandemic at all.
Voting by mail is wrought with fraud and abuse.
They're gonna try and steal the election. Look at this crowd.
Haberman: He talked about the the lack of security
around mail voting.
It created a real sense of unease for voters
with their own system in the country.
The only way we're gonna lose this election
is if the election is rigged.
Remember that.
It's the only way we're gonna lose this election.
Take a look at the top-line vote.
There has been record turnout throughout the country.
After four long tense days,
CNN projects Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is elected the 46th president
of the United States.
Talking to my sources,
you know, the president understood
in the days after the election that he had lost,
but he was willfully misleading, lying to the American people,
telling them, telling his supporters
that he had, in fact, won the election,
and that it was a rigged election.
Blitzer: No evidence of fraud has emerged.
The election was not rigged.
Haberman: His allies, his supporters,
some formerly within the campaign,
some outside of it,
filed a number of legal challenges
to try to overturn the results.
There have been 60 lawsuits
brought by the president and his allies
to try and challenge the election results
throughout the country,
and in 59 out of 60 of them, they lost.
So, one thing that they started talking about
after the lawsuits started seeing trouble was,
"Can we get pro-Trump electors in various states
and have those certified instead
and sent to the Electoral College.
Those efforts also failed.
Blitzer: On December 19th, President Trump tweeted,
"Peter Navarro releases 36-page report
alleging election fraud more than sufficient
to swing victory to Trump.
A great report by Peter.
Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election.
Big protest in D.C. on January 6th.
Be there, will be wild!"
Kovler: His supporters understood that
as the call to action that they'd been waiting for
since Election Day,
who genuinely believe not only that he'd won the election,
but that he would remain president
by proving through that the election was fixed
or maybe various other ways to stay in power.
Blitzer: Political consultant Arieh Kovler,
who's based in Israel, says he was following
Trump's supporters' message boards.
and tweeted this warning on December 21st.
"On January 6,
armed Trumpist militias
will be rallying in D.C., at Trump's orders.
It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol
after it certifies Joe Biden's win.
I don't think this has sunk in yet."
Kovler: There were groups of people
who were absolutely making plans,
some of them quite detailed.
Things I saw included a map of the district around the Capitol,
including all of the congressional buildings
and how they're connected by the underground tunnels
and a discussion about whether or not,
given how many people that they are,
they could set up a blockade
around the congressional district
to stop congressmen from fleeing.
If average citizens looking at the Internet could see this,
that raises the question,
why didn't law enforcement catch this?
...has taken a momentous...
Blitzer: A number of Republican politicians
spread their own lies and disinformation
to support and abet President Trump's efforts
to overturn the election results
and incite supporters.
The bottom line is, the court is saying,
"We're not gonna touch this.
You have no remedy."
Basically, in effect, the ruling would be
that you got to go to the streets
and be as violent as Antifa and BLM.
We will not go quietly into the night.
We will defend liberty
into the future,
and we are going to win."
It is very clear in looking at the record
that not only President Trump,
but other elected officials, his allies,
were out there trying to whip up anger,
trying to get people to believe
that an election had been stolen.
Cooper: President Trump will be speaking in front
of thousands of supporters who've gathered in Washington
for a so-called march to save America rally,
protesting the legal results of the November election.
Sanchez: Anderson, it is very difficult
to secure a crowd of this size.
It is enormous
and more people are continuing to show,
and they are angry.
There's an animosity in the air in this crowd
Today, is the day
American patriots start taking down names
and kicking ass!
Do you believe -- Do you accept
that Joe Biden won the election?
Both: No.
O'Sullivan: What do you think happened?
Fraud.
All these Trump events I've been going to,
I just hear the same thing over and over again.
Why did you come here?
All this fraud,
and I can see it all over the line -- online.
And it's not made up.
People were amped up. [ Horn blaring ]
They were raring to go.
I was standing on the Mall with them,
and I said, "Here in two weeks time,
Biden's gonna be inaugurated."
They said, "No way.
It's not happening."
Blitzer: As the crowd got amped up
for the president's appearance,
he and his adult children were all backstage,
giddy with excitement.
Ivanka at her focused father's side,
Eric celebrating his birthday.
Man: Happy Birthday, Eric!
And this seemingly lighthearted namesake.
Shout out Mark Meadows, an actual fighter.
[ Laughs ] One of the few.
Turning to anger on stage.
If you're gonna be the zero and not the hero,
we're coming for you,
and we're going to have a good time doing it!
[ Cheers and applause ]
All of us here today do not want to see
our election victory stolen
by emboldened radical left Democrats.
We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.
You don't concede when there's theft involved.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Our country has had enough.
We will not take it anymore,
and that's what this is all about.
You'll never take back our country with weakness.
You have to show strength,
and you have to be strong.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching
over to the Capitol building
to peacefully and patriotically
make your voices heard.
The day started with President Donald Trump,
his lawyer Rudy Giuliani,
his son Donald Trump, Jr.
at a rally, whipping up people into anger,
whipping up people into fear.
If we're wrong,
we will be made fools of.
But if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail.
[ Cheers and applause ]
So...
...let's have trial by combat.
He just said trial by combat
[ Laughs ]
I'm ready.
Campbell: The day ended with this violent mob
attacking the United States capitol.
[ Crowd chanting "USA!" ]
♪♪
Let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Axelrod: He basically had a match and a can of kerosene,
and he lit it.
[ All chanting "Fight for Trump!" ]
And the manifestation of that
were these folks streaming down Pennsylvania Avenue
headed toward the Capitol.
The people that came to this rally were not
the run of the mill Trump supporter.
Yeah!
They were the hardest of the hardcore --
extremely radicalized, extremely angry group of people.
Do you accept that Biden won the election?
Absolutely not.
♪♪
Kovler: So, the gap between that group of people
having a rally and listening to the president speak...
Man: Bring out the traitors!
Kovler: ...and turning into a mob that will march on Congress
is already very small.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
O'Sullivan: We walked from the White House
with the Trump supporters who were marching to the Capitol.
Just as we got
to the west side of the Capitol,
there was a very small line of police
and just sort of one set of barriers.
And all of a sudden,
we heard a bit of commotion.
[Crowd cheering]
And next thing we just saw
these Trump supporters streaming through the barriers
and onto the lawn
of the U.S. Capitol.
And...
I just got the sense that this was about to get out of control.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
What are you doing?
Raju: I was inside the Capitol
as these protesters were gathering,
and we were getting reports
about how much more unrest there was outside.
The extent to which, members of Congress, aides,
people in Capitol Hill could be in danger was certainly --
did not even come close to the radar
of virtually anybody in Congress.
Haberman: Before all the chaos erupted
during the joint session of Congress to certify
the Electoral College vote,
Mike Pence was preparing to preside over the proceedings.
♪♪
Raju: The Republican movement to, essentially, throw out
the electoral votes was essentially all fed
by President Trump's disinformation,
his conspiracies,
frankly, the lies that he told
the American public about the election.
What does it say to the nearly half the country
that believes this election was rigged.
Raju: Despite the objections,
President Trump was not gonna be President Trump anymore
come January 20th.
Blitzer: Mitch McConnell,
despite being a pretty loyal Republican through all of this,
was just saying, "No,
he was not going to have it."
If this election were overturned
by mere allegations from the losing side...
our democracy would enter a death spiral.
♪♪
Haberman: Mike Pence had made clear to President Trump
he was not going to do what President Trump wanted,
which was overturn the results somehow.
The president refused to accept that.
Acosta: It just goes to show you how detached from reality
the president had become.
He thought that his vice president
could march up to Capitol Hill and carry out some kind of coup.
Mike Pence was essentially telling the rest of the world,
"I'm not in on this.
It's over for Donald Trump."
That, of course, set the president off,
sent him into this tirade.
And that is part of the reason
why you saw the president down on the Ellipse,
charging up the crowd.
Trump: We're not gonna let it happen.
Campbell: Although President Trump told
that rally, that crowd,
that he was prepared to join them
in marching to the Capitol,
that never happened.
[ Indistinct shouting ] Man: Fight for Trump!
We have been told by Capitol police
that the Capitol is in lockdown
and that people cannot leave the building.
[ All chanting "Fight for Trump!" ]
Marquardt: When I got to the Capitol,
You will not tell us where to spend our money!
Marquardt: ...you could tell that there were
different factions
and energies within the crowd.
Blitzer: Alexander Marquardt is there
right in the middle of all of this.
Marquardt: There were some people who just wanted
to be there and wave flags.
There were other people, who were much more aggressive,
and those were the people who were really at the front.
♪♪
Reeve: With a mob, like, logic goes out the window.
Mob mentality doesn't even begin to cover
what it feels like.
There's just this energy
and no sense of personal responsibility.
So, you see people who look like your parents,
like a suburban soccer mom,
like, scrambling over a wall.
Man: Start pulling them this way!
Marquardt: The protesters were able to rush through,
rush up the stairs,
rush up into the upper area.
And suddenly, I was looking up,
and they were just everywhere.
They had swarmed the Capitol building.
[ Crowd chanting "USA!" ]
Neumann: I was on the phone with a reporter on a different issue,
and somebody said, like, they breached the perimeter,
and I was like, what?
You know?
How does that even happen?
[ Indistinct shouting ]
I was shocked because the police were overrun
so easily and quickly.
Man: You better run, cops!
Officer: Disperse! [ Indistinct shouting ]
And just the sheer number of people...
Man: Fuck those pigs!
Johnson: ...in this mob of insurrection
was easily able to breach the Capitol.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Marquardt: It was just mayhem.
It was total chaos,
and I kept looking around for law enforcement,
thinking, "How on earth is this possible?"
Campbell: There should have been a larger police presence there.
There should have been more fencing.
There should have been all the things that
law enforcement typically does
whenever you have a large crowd
gathered inside the United States capital.
Blitzer: The now former
United States Capitol Police chief said
the police responded "valiantly."
Get out of here, motherfuckers!
Marquardt: Let's go.
There was a moment that the crowd clocked onto us,
And it became hostile very, very quickly.
Man: Hey, this guy's with the media!
This guy's with the media!
[ All booing ]
Marquardt: Just to watch the crowd turn on us...
[ Crowd chants "CNN sucks!" ]
...was really, really unsettling,
and luckily, we got out of there unscathed.
All of us --
and we're all quite experienced --
were pretty rattled by it.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Marquardt: I've been in a lot of riots and protests,
and this was...
the most hostile crowd
that I think I've ever been in.
♪♪
Campbell: There have been many descriptions
of what took place at the United States Capitol,
some calling it violence,
some calling it lawlessness.
This was terrorism.
The definition of terrorism is
violence in pursuit of a political goal.
The Supreme Court's not helping us.
No one's helping us.
Only us can help us.
Only we can do it.
What we saw take place,
in an unprecedented way,
was domestic terrorism.
What are you gonna do?
Whatever we have to do! What do you think 1776 was?
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Kovler: I never thought that the protests
would actually get through the door,
and it was scary. [ Crowd chanting "USA!" ]
It wasn't clear how it was gonna end.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Campbell: Would the United States Capitol Police
be prepared to hold back an angry crowd
from entering the United States Capitol?
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Of course, we know in hindsight the answer was no.
♪♪
[ Indistinct shouting ] [ Glass shattering ]
♪♪
[ Crowd chanting "USA!" ]
Campbell: Once the crowd makes their way inside,
past law enforcement into the building,
it's total chaos.
What you see is this mob
storming the building...
[ Indistinct shouting ]
...going floor by floor.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
You want a fight, you better believe you got one!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
They encounter law enforcement.
-This is our house! -Let them in!
Man: Let them in!
Campbell: In certain instances, they push forward, pass them.
Some officers step aside and allow them by,
but what you see is just this constant building and building,
more people coming, more people coming...
[ Indistinct shouting ]
♪♪
Man: Let 'em in! Let 'em in! Let 'em in
[ Indistinct shouting ]
[ Shouting continues ]
Raju: So the way they got into the Capitol was,
rioters, looters, and the mob walked up the steps,
the west front steps of the Capitol...
[ Pounding ]
[ Glass shatters ]
...broke the windows
on the first floor of the Senate side...
♪♪
...opened the door,
and floods of these rioters
walked in through the first floor of the Capitol.
Hey, we're home! We're home!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
At that point,
many of them walked towards the Senate side of the Capitol,
and they were immediately confronted
by one police officer.
Back up!
I heard a commotion and some yelling,
and I ran downstairs,
where I encountered this lone police officer
courageously making a stand
against a mob of 20 or so Trump supporters.
You could see him trying to
but ultimately failing to prevent them from moving in.
A shocking moment because at that point,
nobody really knew that there had been an intrusion
into the capitol itself.
Leave now!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
This is my fucking house! It's my country!
USA!
♪♪
Marquardt: It is hard to say
what the police presence is out here.
I cannot see any sort of law enforcement.
I'm just thinking, where's the law enforcement?
Where are the reinforcements for the Capitol Police inside?
Why hasn't MPD, the D.C. police, shown up?
Why hasn't the National Guard shown up?
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Woman: Where are the bastards!
We got tear gas.
The vice president and the United States Senate.
Crow: One thing I did notice was that the security seemed lighter
than it did earlier in the session,
actually last year,
when the BLM protests were going on.
[ Gavel bangs ] Man: The House will be in order.
Blitzer: House members were meeting in a joint session
to consider the electoral votes.
There was about probably about an hour of debate
before we realized that the mob and the riot
was fighting with the police outside
and that they had broken through.
[ Crowd chanting "Stop the Steal!" ]
Tapper: We are watching an attempted sedition.
We are watching an attempt
at a bloodless coup in the United States.
Trump supporters,
stopping the constitutional process,
the counting of electors.
The chamber went into lockdown.
Mike Pence was ushered out
of the Senate chamber where he was presiding.
Most of the Senate was still in the chamber
waiting for their instructions.
Man: Look at this.
These protesters are inside Statuary Hall.
This is a legendary place.
It's hard to believe what we're seeing.
Woman: I've never been in this house.
How about you?
-No. -You [bleep] own it!
Woman #2: That's right. We own it.
We own you!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Campbell: At one point, you have a crowd of rioters
approaching a doorway,
but they're blocked by Capitol Police.
It appears as though the officers
are going to keep them back.
But then inexplicably,
the officers suddenly step aside.
Man: Let's go! Get that shit!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Man: Let's fucking go!
Campbell: The mob begins using objects
to crash through the door.
♪♪
We then see what those officers have done is leave in jeopardy
their colleagues behind the doors,
which were essentially the last line of defense.
They try to grab everything they can --
chairs, desks, furniture
to try to block the way.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Acosta: This is a bonfire of the insanities
that we're watching in the nation's capitol right now,
and it all flows from Trump.
I could not have imagined that in my wildest dreams.
To see Trump supporters
carrying the Confederate flag
through the halls of the US Capitol,
it's traitorous.
Tapper: President Trump could stop this with one tweet,
but instead he's on Twitter,
attacking Vice President Pence
for refusing to go along
with his attempt at a coup.
Bourg: It was just such a constant.
Hundreds of people at the top
of the east front steps of the Capitol,
chanting that for quite some time.
I heard multiple conversations loudly and publicly.
Not anything people were trying to hide,
discussing, what are we gonna do with the vice president?
"We should go in and find the vice president."
You know, "We should hang the vice president."
Axelrod: Donald Trump put a price on the head
of his own vice president.
The message was very clear that somehow Pence could
overturn the results of the election
and hand it to Trump.
They believed it.
Well, we came this far. What do ya say?
Man: Drag 'em out!
Drag 'em out!
Axelrod: And so it's not surprising
that some would go hunting for Pence
when they went over the Capitol
after he announced that he wasn't going to play that role.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Blitzer: The president has broken his silence.
The president tweeting just a few moments ago.
He is not telling these protestors
to leave the Capitol.
Tapper: It's odd that he said stay peaceful,
given the fact that this crowd is not peaceful.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Haberman: There had been efforts imploring him
to send out something to calm down his supporters
over the course of the, at that point, hour and a half
that it had been going on.
What that tweet was
was something that said stay peaceful,
but did not acknowledge that things had
absolutely spiraled out of control
and was not the condemnation that folks were hoping for.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Raju: As these rioters had approached the House floor,
there was a deadly incident
They were warned to step away. Man: He's got a gun!
Blitzer: A warning that this video contains
some disturbing content.
Tapper: A pro-Trump supporter,
later identified as Ashli Babbitt,
tries to make her way through a window.
[ Gunshot ]
Raju: There was a shot.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
That person, immediately after she was shot,
was given medical assistance,
was taken to a nearby hospital, and died.
This was a terrifying
and tragic scene
that was unfolding steps away
from the halls of freedom on Capitol Hill.
I was right there with her.
It was me or her!
And they shot her.
Campbell: CNN spoke to her mother
who said that she was the type of person
who would be willing to die for her beliefs.
Blitzer: Ashli Babbitt's social media feed
was flooded with posts supporting President Trump
and QAnon conspiracy theories.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
One thing is clear -- this was not a protest.
This was not a demonstration.
This was a violent mob,
intent on causing destruction.
This was a violent insurgency.
This was not a protest.
Man: Occupy. Do not destroy.
Blitzer: Ahead,
more violence.
Woman: They broke the glass?
Woman #2: Everybody stay down! Get down!
Lawmakers under siege.
♪♪
Blitzer: Around 3:00 p.m.
on Wednesday afternoon, January 6th...
Woman: Everybody stay down. Get down!
...this shaky video tells the story
of shaken nerves.
Woman #2: Oh, my God. They're gonna fire on them.
The House members who were on the first floor of the House
had been evacuated already.
but there were members
in the upstairs gallery part of the chamber,
and those members were particularly scared
about what would happen.
Crow: I saw the Capitol Police
locking the doors
and starting to stack furniture
and barricade us in the chamber.
And it was at that point that I realized that we were trapped
and that we were gonna try to protect ourselves
within the chamber.
Kuster: We had a shelter in place order.
They told us to use the gas masks
that are under the seats.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Being asked to put on masks.
Checking the door to make sure its locked.
Woman: They broke the glass?
Crow: I heard the sound of breaking glass
and gunshots rang out.
[Gunshot]
And then the rioters actually start
trying to ram the doors down.
[ Ringing ]
Wild: I thought, I really should call the kids,
and I was on with them, telling them what was going on
and that we were waiting to get out,
that I was okay.
At one point my son said, "What do you mean you're okay?
I can hear gunshots."
I was frightened that it would be a mass casualty incident,
that if they had automatic weapons,
they could have killed hundreds of members of congress.
I was preparing myself to make a stand
and potentially have to fight our way out.
My heart was pounding out of my chest.
I was really getting very, very upset.
And at that point,
Jason Crow reached out and took my hand, saying,
"You're going to be okay. Everything's going to be okay."
[ Indistinct shouting ]
He was like the perfect person
to be in the foxhole with.
He's a former Army Ranger.
You want a fight, you better believe you got one!
Blitzer: Outside the House floor, nearby,
lawmakers were hunkered down, hiding.
Within about 10 or 15 minutes the room that I was in,
I started hearing a lot of stomping
and chanting right outside.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
And I realized that they were literally right outside my door.
And so I was really frightened.
I moved a lot of furniture that I was physically able to
and tried to barricade the door.
Blitzer: Across the Capitol,
protestors were entering offices.
People climbing the walls, breaking windows,
breaking into doors,
in the Parliamentarian's office.
Raju: This is a breach of national security
because the Senate Parliamentarian's office
is a critical office.
That is what ensures the Senate can function
where all the papers are kept.
Blitzer: A video posted online
shows rioters looking for the House Speaker.
Nancy Pelosi's office is one of the most
heavily-guarded offices on Capitol Hill.
You cannot just walk into Nancy Pelosi's office,
but that's exactly what some
of these demonstrators did.
There is a photo of one rioter
sitting there with his feet up.
Here you go. Here you go, brother.
The rioters even took away
the name plate that is on top of her suite.
Haberman: Lots of other pictures of these rioters sitting
at desks they should never be sitting at
on the House floor,
on the Senate floor.
This is something that is not done.
You don't walk into the Senate floor,
and that is a place where the senators gather,
where their aides gather.
But these rioters had gone into the Senate chamber
and in a stunning image
was sitting where the presiding officer sits,
where Mike Pence,
as the president of the Senate,
sits while presiding
over the chamber.
Blitzer: While chaos reigned,
authorities made sure those members
in the House gallery got out safely.
Wild: While we were all crouched down
in those final minutes,
Jason Crow told us all to take our pins off
so that when we got out to the hallway,
if there were perpetrators there,
they wouldn't know we were members of Congress.
This identifies me as a member
of the 117th Congress.
Crow: When we went out through that door,
there was a line of SWAT officers
with their guns drawn
that were holding back protesters
They took us to the underground tunnels,
to Longworth,
and then had kind of fortified Longworth with police
and additional security.
The speaker came in at one point
and gave some short remarks
just to reinforce our resolve
and most importantly, make a commitment
that we were going to return that night.
Blitzer: As both House members and Senators stayed
locked down in the Capitol, fearing for their lives
and vowing to return to finish verifying the votes,
the president and his personal lawyer
were trying to stop that from happening.
President Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
both tried reaching out
to newly-elected senator Tommy Tuberville
to try to convince him
to delay the certification in some way.
The was all as this violence was taking place.
The concern was not about whether Tuberville was safe.
In Giuliani's case,
he left a voicemail on the wrong person's phone.
In the president's case,
he called Senator Mike Lee
thinking that he was calling Tommy Tuberville.
[ Crowd cheering ]
Woman: Inside sources tell CNN
that during that deadly insurrection,
the president was "borderline enthusiastic"
about the attempted coup.
His initial reaction was not horror,
which was almost everybody else's reaction.
His initial reaction was to watch the show.
I call on President Trump
to go on national television now
to fulfill his oath
and defend the constitution
and demand an end to this siege!
I know your pain. I know you're hurt.
We had an election that was stolen from us.
But you have to go home now.
We love you.
You're very special.
I know how you feel.
But go home and go home in peace.
When you're telling your violent supporters
that you love them,
what kind of message does that send?
I mean, it sends a message of approval.
We learned later in the afternoon
that the mayor of D.C. had imposed a curfew
starting at 6:00 p.m.
So I thought, "Okay.
At least we know that at 6:00 p.m.,
the cavalry is probably going to show up
and get all these rioters out of here.
And sure enough, as dusk started falling,
we did see a huge number
of Washington, D.C. police show up,
National Guard showed up.
And then we saw, also, a contingent of FBI.
-You were up there? -Yes.
I was, um...
up on the left side at the very top
before they threw out a flash bang
and started spraying tear gas.
Why did you decide to come here today?
Uh, to represent my country.
To fight for what I believe in and what I know to be true.
Which is?
Which is that trump won,
and that there are people in high places
trying to take advantage of everybody in lower places.
Blitzer: Their beliefs,
their uprising,
came with a heavy price.
Campbell: At one point, you see an officer trapped in the door,
as he's penned in, screaming for help.
[ Screams ]
Campbell: That's one of the many officers
that were injured on that day.
We know, of course, another Capitol police officer
would later die from injuries.
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Blitzer: Dozens of officers were injured
in mob violence like this,
sticks and poles,
even American flags raining down on police
who were trying to keep the rioters
from entering the Capitol.
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[ Gavel bangs ]
Pence: The Senate will come to order.
8:00 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday night,
they came in,
and they kicked off a pretty somber moment.
For even in the wake of unprecedented violence
and vandalism at this Capitol...
[ Indistinct shouting ]
...the elected representatives
of the people of the United States
have assembled again
on the very same day
to support and defend
the constitution of the United States.
We will not be kept
out of this chamber
by thugs, mobs,
or threats.
There's no question that when the Congress returned
after this siege
to their vandalized chambers
to finish the work that they started,
there was a different atmosphere.
I have never lived through or even imagined
an experience like the one
we have just witnessed in this Capitol.
Today was heartbreaking.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Axelrod: It was a cold shower for a lot of people,
and it changed the tenor of the debate.
It didn't change everyone's mind.
We do need an investigation
into irregularities, fraud.
We do need a way forward together.
Some politicians decided to back off the objections
in the aftermath of the violence that we saw.
Josh Hawley of Missouri still went forward with his objection.
[ Indistinct shouting ] Man: He's got a gun!
Raju: His critics said he was helping incite the passions
that led to the violence.
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Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit
by objecting to the results of a legitimate democratic election
will forever be seen
as being complicit
in an unprecedented attack against our democracy.
I don't think that the 147
who voted to overturn the results of the election
ever believed that they were gonna be successful.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
of the state of Delaware
has received 306 votes.
Axelrod: They were doing it
to posture for the president,
but, more importantly, for their base.
There is abject fear...
USA!
Axelrod: ...of the Trump base among some Republicans.
We will never give up. We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.
You don't concede when there's theft involved.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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Man: Donald Trump has posted a new video on Twitter.
I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack
on the United States Capitol.
Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
It took a while for the president's advisers
to get him to agree to shoot this video message
A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th.
My focus now turns to ensuring
a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power
Haberman: Among the things that his advisers did
to get him to do that
was Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel,
told the president he had legal exposure,
potential legal exposure anyway,
over what had happened
in terms of him speaking to this rally of people
before they became a mob
and urging them to fight and whipping up the crowd.
Others told him that he faced
mass resignations of his cabinet members.
So he agreed to do this video.
And then, as we have seen over and over with the president,
he regretted it within 16 hours,
12 hours, 14 hours.
He told some aides that he wished he hadn't done it.
Well, I thought the message was
as persuasive and sincere as a hostage tape.
[ All chanting "USA!" ]
Trump: And we fight.
We fight like hell.
And if you don't fight,
you're not gonna have a country anymore."
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Axelrod: This was a manmade disaster.
And while he had a lot of people abetting him in this project,
the man was the president of the United States.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
These people who were at the capitol
were really radicalized by Donald Trump.
The government did this to us!
We were normal, good, law-abiding citizens,
and you guys did this to us.
What's really called for here is,
yes, the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.
If you incite a mob to violence
and they commit violence and people are killed,
you're guilty.
You're guilty of a crime.
Do you think President Trump has blood on his hands?
I think he does.
If the Vice President and cabinet do not act,
the Congress may be prepared
to move forward with impeachment.
With less than two weeks left in this presidency,
how on earth could you invoke the 25th Amendment
and get that done
before the end of this term?
How on earth could you have an impeachment process
that results in a Senate conviction
with less than two weeks to go?
Haberman: The president is not happy
about another impeachment call.
The president didn't like being impeached the first time.
He could be the first president to be impeached twice,
and he is well aware of that.
But he has been more consumed
with the fact that his Twitter feed was taken away.
Acosta: They were worried about plans for a future armed protest
that have already begun proliferating
on and off Twitter,
regarding some sort of planning
for potentially a secondary attack
on the U.S. Capitol on January 17th of this year,
right before the inauguration.
We have a man who has proven
that he's willing to do just about anything.
And if he gets back to that place
where he just wants to burn it all down,
he will look for opportunities
to cause damage to the United States.
Woman: Today, he's announcing
that he will not attend Joe Biden's inauguration,
one of the country's most symbolic acts
for a peaceful transfer of power.
I think it's still unclear what we are going to see
on Inauguration Day.
[ Crowd chanting "Stop the Steal!" ]
So, there is a very real possibility
that we will see aggrieved members of his base
at the inauguration,
conducting protests.
What we don't know is whether those will turn violent.
[ All chanting "Fight for Trump!" ]
O'Sullivan: What did all of this achieve today?
We'll see.
I think the people have spoken. The day isn't over yet,
and the week isn't over yet, the the time isn't over yet.
There's still much more evidence that will come out.
To all of my wonderful supporters,
I know you are disappointed,
but I want you to know
that our incredible journey is only just beginning.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
Axelrod: It was striking how easily
these insurrectionists, these terrorists
were able to penetrate the Capitol.
And you have to ask yourself the question,
"How did that happen?
How could that possibly be?"
And then you contrast it
with what we saw last summer
when there was a Black Lives Matter march
in Washington.
You saw mass arrests as these crowd members
engaged and encountered police officers.
You saw a president using law enforcement
to clear a street
in order to hold a photo op in front of a church.
Compare all of that with what we saw on January 6th
at the United States Capitol.
We didn't see mass arrests after the fact.
What we saw were law enforcement officers opening the door,
letting these criminals leave the building.
Those cops are very cool.
They're like, "Hey, guys. Have a good night."
Some of them. It's just crazy. It's really weird.
You can see that some of them are on our side.
No one can tell me
that if it had been a group
of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday,
they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently
than the mob of thugs
that stormed the Capitol.
♪♪
Axelrod: I sat on the set
on Wednesday night,
and I watched these scenes from our Capitol,
and I cried.
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I love this country.
[ Voice breaking ] I believe -- I believe in this country,
I believe in our democracy
with all its imperfections.
Woman: Everybody stay down! Get down!
What happened
in the United States of America
was devastating,
and I hope
that feeling is pervasive,
and I hope that it causes all of us
to do some thinking
about where we go from here
and how we prevent such a thing
from ever happening again.
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More than 100 arrests have been made
in the days following the domestic terror attack
on the United States Capitol
which resulted in multiple deaths,
including a Capitol Hill police officer
who died from injuries he sustained
fending off the insurrectionists.
The president has been banned permanently
from his preferred mode of communication, Twitter,
which cited the risk of further incitement of violence.
Perhaps the president will find
another way to temper his followers
and prevent any further tragedy
in the days ahead.
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