- [chanting] We want Trump!
We want Trump! We want Trump!
- We're starting to get surrounded.
They're taking the north front scaffolding.
Unless we get more munitions,
we are not going to be able to hold.
A door has been breached
and people are gaining access into the Capitol.
- We have got to finish the proceedings,
or else they're going to have a complete victory.
- [chanting] USA!
USA! USA!
- Senator Schumer's at a secure location
and they're locked down in the Senate.
- There has to be some way we can maintain the sense
that people have that there is some security or some confidence
that government can function
and that you can elect the president of the United States.
Did we go back into session? - We did go back into session,
but now, apparently, everybody on the floor
is putting on tear gas masks to prepare for a breach.
I'm trying to get more information.
- They're putting on their? - Tear gas masks.
- Do you believe this?
Do you believe this?
- I can't.
- We need an area for the House members.
They're all walking over now through the tunnels.
- Bring her out! Bring her out here!
- Hey!
- We're coming in, if you don't bring her out!
- I'm going to call up the effing secretary of DOD.
We have some senators who are still in their hideaways.
They need massive personnel now.
Can you get the Maryland National Guard to come, too?
- I have something to say, Mr Secretary.
I'm going to call the mayor of Washington, DC right now
and see what other outreach she has,
other police departments,
as Steny, Leader Hoyer has mentioned.
- Get him up.
Officer down! Get him up!
- Get him up!
- Hold up! - Get him up!
- Hold up! - Hi, Governor.
This is Nancy.
Governor, I don't know if you have been approached
about the Virginia National Guard.
Mr Hoyer was speaking to Governor Hogan,
but I still think you probably need the okay
of the federal government,
in order to come into another jurisdiction?
Thank you.
Oh, my gosh.
They're just breaking windows.
They're doing all kinds of.
It's really that somebody.
They said somebody was shot.
It's just horrendous.
And all at the instigation of the president
of the United States.
Okay, thank you, Governor.
I appreciate what you're doing and, if you don't mind,
I'd like to stay in touch.
Thank you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
- Virginia Guard has been called in.
- Yeah, I was just talking to Governor Northam.
And what he said is they sent 200 of state police
and a unit of the National Guard.
They're breaking windows and going in, obviously,
ransacking our offices and all the rest of that.
That's nothing.
The concern we have about personal harm.
- Safety.
- Personal safety just transcends everything.
But the fact is, on any given day,
they're breaking the law in many different ways.
And, quite frankly, much of it
at the instigation of the president of the United States.
Now, if he could, at least somebody.
- Yeah, why don't you get the president to tell them
to leave the Capitol, Mr Attorney General,
in your law enforcement responsibility?
A public statement they should all leave.
- [chanting] USA!
USA!
USA! USA!
USA!
- This cannot be just we're waiting for so-and-so.
We need them there now, whoever you got, okay?
- You also have troops. This is Steny Hoyer.
Troops at Fort McNair, Andrews Air Force Base,
other military bases.
We need active duty National Guard.
- How soon in the future
can you have the place evacuate and cleaned out?
- I don't want to speak for the leadership that's going to be,
that's responsible for executing the operation,
so, I'm not going to say that
because they're on the ground and they're the experts.
- Well, just pretend, just pretend, for a moment,
that it were the Pentagon or the White House,
or some other entity that was under siege.
And let me say you can logistically get people
there as you make the plan.
We're trying to figure out how we can get this job done today.
We talked to Mitch about it earlier.
He's not in the room right now, but he was with us earlier
and said, "Yeah, we want to expedite this".
And, hopefully, they could confine it
to just one complaint, Arizona,
and then we could vote and that would be, you know,
then just move forward with the rest of the state.
The overriding wish is to do it at the Capitol.
What we are being told very directly is it's going to
take days for the Capitol to be okay again.
We've gotten a very bad report
about the condition of the House floor,
with defecation and all that kind of thing as well.
I don't think that that's hard to clean up,
but I do think it is more from a security standpoint
of making sure that everybody is out of the building
and how long will that take.
I just got off with the vice president.
- And I got off with the vice president-elect.
So, I'll tell you what she said, yeah.
- Okay, but what we left the conversation with,
because he said he had the impression, from Mitch,
that Mitch wants to get everybody back to do it there.
- Yes. - I said,
"We're getting a counterpoint that it could take time
to clean up the poo-poo that they're making all over,
literally and figuratively, in the Capitol,
and that it may take days to get back.
- I'm at the Capitol building.
I'm literally standing with the chief of police
of the US Capitol Police.
He just informed me what you will hear
through official channels.
Paul Irving, your sergeant at arms,
will inform you that their best information
is that they believe that the House and the Senate
will be able to reconvene in roughly an hour.
- Good news. - Your sergeant at arms
will be in touch about the process
for getting members back into the building.
- Thank you very much, Mr Vice President.
Good news.