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WE BEGIN THIS MORNING WITH
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE NATION'S
THE VOTES FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES ARE HAS FOLLOWS:
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. OF THE STATE
OF DELAWARE HAS RECEIVED 306
VOTES. DONALD J. TRUMP OF THE
STATE OF FLORIDA HAS RECIEVED
232 VOTES.
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AT 3:38 A-M....
FINALLY CERTIFIED THE RESULTS OF
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
THEY WERE READ ALOUD -- AS YOU
JUST HEARD BY VICE PRESIDENT
MIKE PENCE.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS WILL
BE SWORN-IN AS THE NEXT
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PRESIDENT TRUMP RELEASED A
STATEMENT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO
-- SAYING....
"EVEN THOUGH I TOTALLY DISAGREE
WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE
OUT, NEVERTHELESS THERE WILL BE
AN ORDERLY TRANSITION ON JANUARY
20TH.
I HAVE ALWAYS SAID WE WOULD
CONTINUE OUR FIGHT TO ENSURE
THAT ONLY LEGAL VOTES WERE
COUNTED.
THE GREATEST FIRST TERM IN
PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY...
IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING OF OUR
FIGHT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!"
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THE CERTIFICATION VOTE WAS
AFTER A MOB -- INCITED BY
PRESIDENT TRUMP -- STORMED THE
CAPITOL BUILDING YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON.
IT TOOK LAW ENFORCEMENT NEARLY
FOUR HOURS TO CLEAR THE CAPITOL
GROUNDS.
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WHEN THE DUST HAD SETTLED...
FOUR PEOPLE HAD DIED.
ONE WOMAN WAS SHOT INSIDE THE
CAPITOL BUILDING....
AND LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.
THREE OTHERS DIED FROM MEDICAL
EMERGENCIES.
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OUR COVERAGE CONTINUES NOW OF
THE CHAOS AT THE CAPITOL....
AS WE MENTIONED, FOUR PEOPLE
DIED DURING YESTERDAY'S VIOLENT
PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON.
INCLUDING ONE WOMAN WHO WAS
CAPITOL POLICE HAVE YET TO
RELEASE HER NAME...
BUT A SAN DIEGO MAN BELIEVES IT
WAS HIS WIFE WHO WAS KILLED.
35-YEAR-OLD ASHLI BABBITT.
AARON BABBITT SAYS HIS WIFE, A
MILITARY VETERAN, WAS A STRONG
SUPPORTER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP
WHO WENT TO WASHINGTON TO MEET
UP WITH FRIENDS.
AARON SAYS HE WAS WATCHING
COVERAGE OF THE THE CHAOS ON
TV...
[" I sent her a text. Clearly
it's within a half hour of her
dying but I sent her a text
saying hey can I get a status
check and I never heard back
from her "]
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LAWMAKERS ARE VOWING A FULL
INVESTIGATION INTO HOW POLICE
HANDLED THE BREACH.
IN THE MEANTIME, THE FBI IS
ASKING FOR TIPS FROM ANY
EYEWITNESSES TO THE VIOLENCE.
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PREVAILED: AS THE RIOTERS WERE
ARRESTED - AND ESCORTED OUT -
CREWS CLEANED UP BROKEN GLASS -
AND CONGRESS RETURNED TO SESSION
- FOR THE VERY IMPORTANT PROCESS
OF CERTIFYING THE ELECTORAL
VOTES.
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12 NEWS REPORTER KAIT WALSH
OVERNIGHT PROCEEDINGS WENT.
TENSIONS WERE - AS YOU CAN
IMAGINE - STILL HIGH - AS
CONGRESS RETURNED.
THEY WERE UNITED IN THE EFFORT
TO CONTINUE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL
DUTIES OF VALIDATING THE
ELECTION RESULTS - AND
CONDEMNING THOSE WHO TRIED TO
DISRUPT THOSE DUTIES.
["To those who engaged in the
gleeful desecration of this, our
democracy, justice will be
done."]
WHILE THE RESULTS WERE CERTIFIED
EARLY THIS MORNING - IT DIDN'T
COME WITHOUT ARGUMENT.
AS THEY WERE DEBATING
PENNSYLVANIA'S ELECTION RESULTS
- CONGRESSMAN CONOR LAMB LASHED
OUT - BLAMING HIS COLLEAGUES FOR
INSPIRED THE RIOTERS TO ACT.
"We know that that attack today,
nowhere, it was inspired by
lies, the same lies that you're
hearing in this room tonight.
And the members who are
repeating those lies should be
ashamed of themselves."
"Yes maam, the point of order
will be the gentleman said that
there were lies on this floor,
here today, looking over this
direction. I ask that those
words be taken down...
ULTIMATELY - THE TENSIONS
SUBDUED ENOUGH FOR THE
CERTIFICATION PROCESS TO
CONTINUE.
CERTIFIED AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT
- AND HIS INAUGURATION IS
JANUARY 20TH.
LIVE IN THE STUDIO - I'M KAIT
WALSH - 12NEWS.
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BOTH RHODE ISLAND AND
MASSACHUSETTS' CONGRESSIONAL
DELEGATIONS FOUND THEMSELVES IN
THE MIDDLE.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT VIDEO OF THEIR
EVACUATION.
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AS POLICE WORKED TO SECURE THE
OUR LOCAL CONGRESSMEN LIVE VIA
ZOOM WHEN THEY WERE STILL
LOCKED IN THEIR OFFICES.
12 NEWS REPORTER ALEXANDRA
LESLIE JOINS US NOW WITH THEIR
REACTIONS TO THE EVENTS THAT
UNFOLDED.
12 NEWS HAD SPOKEN TO SENATOR
JACK REED JUST MOMENTS BEFORE
THE CAPITOL WENT INTO
LOCKDOWN...
LAWMAKERS WAS PUT INTO JEOPARDY.
"There was a small group, they
began to get larger, but it was
relatively peaceful. At some
point they actually stormed the
Capitol, they breached the
Capitol
nats: "everybody stay down, get
down."
THE U.S. SENATE RECESSED AND
CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS WERE MOVED
TO OTHER UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS.
RHODE ISLAND'S CONGRESSMEN
WATCHED THE CHAOS UNFOLD FROM
THEIR LOCKED OFFICES.
"There's never been anything
like this."
"This is not a peaceful
protest."
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN TOLD 12
NEWS THEY PUT THE BLAME ON THE
PRESIDENT FOR INCITING VIOLENCE.
"He encouraged his supporters to
come to Capitol Hill and do
everything possible to stop it
from happening and that's
SWORN IN JUST DAYS AGO--
CONGRESSMAN JAKE AUCHINCLOSS OF
MASSACHUSETTS' FOURTH DISTRICT
SAID HE AND HIS COLLEAGUES WERE
COMMITTED TO RETURNING TO THE
HOUSE FLOOR
Democracy. But we're not going
to let this mob define who we
are as a country."
RHODE ISLAND'S MOST JUNIOR
MEMBER OF THE STATE'S
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, TEAMED
UP WITH SEVERAL OF HIS
COLLEAGUES ON THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO WRITE A
LETTER TO VICE PRESIDENT MIKE
PENCE, URGING HIM TO INVOKE THE
25TH AMENDMENT.
"This is conduct which is
impeachable and the President of
impeached we should convict him
and preclude him from ever
holding this office again."
IN A TWEET-- CICILLINE SAID IF
REMOVE THE PRESIDENT FROM
OFFICE...
THEN CONGRESS SHOULD IMPEACH THE
PRESIDENT.