60 minutes rewind
january 6 should have been a day of ceremony when congress met in joint session then opened
and counted electoral votes for president and vice president instead it will be remembered as the day
an angry mob stirred up an aim down pennsylvania avenue by an election-losing president
smashed its way into the capital leaving five dead the building ransacked
an american democracy under siege on friday we joined house speaker nancy pelosi at the capitol
where her influence in the nation's leadership is growing as president trump's power support
and relevance dissipates madam speaker who is running the government of the united states
we have a pandemic we just had this horrendous act of violence up here we had a russian hack
of our institutions is anybody running the executive branch of the government who is
running the executive sadly the person who's running executive branch is a deranged unhinged
dangerous president of the united states and only a number of days until we can be protected
from him but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him
well i gather that the 25th amendment is off the table that isn't nothing is off the table
the mayhem at the capitol started early afternoon on january 6 with the rioters barreling past the
barricades clashing with police and breaking into the capitol as they swarmed through the halls
the speaker was on the house floor during the count of the electoral college vote
so tell us what happened when when the protesters were trying to get in here
you're up there well the when the protesters were making the assault on the capitol
before they even got to these doors the capitol police pulled me from the podium
and i was concerned because i said no i want to be here and they said well no you have to
leave i said no i'm not leaving this no you must leave police guns drawn held the invaders off the
house floor but over in the senate the trump supporters were able to break into the chamber
the scenes were shocking to watch i think there was a universally accepted that what happened
was a terrible terrible violation
of what of the capital of the first branch of government the the legislative branch
by the president of the united states the mob was free to roam the halls one group making it right
up to speaker pelosi's suite of offices this door they broke down as you can see oh my goodness they
broke that down look at that they broke the door they smashed it and went through to another door
behind which pelosi's young staff coward terrorized the staff went under the table
barricaded the door turned out the lights and were silent in the dark under the table onto the
table for two and a half hours wow during which time they listened to the invaders
banging on that door as you can hear on a recording from one of the staffers phones
check this out we are inside hurt nancy pelosi's office across the hall a group
broke into the speaker's private office oh wow oh wow you see what they did to mirror their
the glass was all over the place they took a nice computer and all that stuff but uh
laptop and then the the desk that they actually were at was right there that
they defamed in that way but feet on the desk and all that that man was arrested on friday
and the fbi is investigating whether any of the agitators some seen in ballistic
vests with zip ties intended to kidnap or kill legislators or their staffers they were coming
to find you maybe to hurt you i don't know the evidence is now that that it was a well-planned
organized group with leadership and guidance and direction and the direction was to go get people
they were vocally saying where's the speaker we know she has staff they're here someplace
we're going to find them while all this was going on speaker pelosi and senator schumer
from an undisclosed location called on the president to tell his followers to leave the
capitol it was a landslide election and everyone knows it especially the other side but you have to
go home now we have to have peace president said go home but the election was you know you know
went on with his lies his misrepresentations his delusion that he won a landslide in this election
so finally the protesters were ejected and you came almost right back into session
how did that happen i know from chuck schumer and from mitch mcconnell there was consensus
that we should come there was no there were some suggestions that it may take too long
and we should do it at the undisclosed location but there was general beliefs that it from the
message of strength that we needed to send we had to go back to the capitol as soon as possible the
senate will come to order vice president pence who had been taken to a secure location in the capitol
concurred with the decision to resume the count amid reports that he was livid at the president
let's get back to work work dragged on until almost 4 am i object as republicans challenge
certified election results and they did that after the violence after the violence shame on them and
shame won two-thirds of the republican caucus in the house supporting those so these people are
enablers of the president's behavior i remember when republicans in the senate went to see richard
nixon and said it's over that's what has to happen now one of the reasons she's so eager
to see mr trump's immediate removal from office is her grave concern that in the next 10 days
he might try to do something reckless militarily including ordering the use of nuclear weapons
she told us she sought advice from general mark milley chairman of the joint chiefs
i have sought information from those who are in a position to know that there are protections
against this dangerous president initiating any military hostilities or something worse than
that something else she and senator schumer did was call the vice president to urge him
to initiate the 25th amendment that provides procedures to remove a president from office
we were kept on the line for 20 minutes he was going to be here in a minute a minute minute well
he never did it it kept you on hold for 20 minutes at least of course i was i was at home so i was
running the dishwasher putting my clothes in the laundry we're still waiting for him to return the
call joseph r biden jr of the state of delaware has received 306 votes donald j trump of the state
of florida has received 232 votes after congress confirmed joe biden's victory in the election
president trump read from a teleprompter offering his most conciliatory statement about the election
a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a
smooth orderly and seamless transition of power mr trump has said he will not attend the inauguration
the new president has said he wants to turn over a new page
of bipartisan cooperation in the election in november uh someone said
that the mandate that the democrats won was not about issues because you lost so many seats
that the mandate was for tone and attitude and a strong desire for compromise i do know that it
was a mandate for us to go forward with an agenda for america's working families as well as to do so
in tone we have i always say to our members we have a responsibility find common ground
when we can't we must stand our ground but we have to we have a responsibility to try you
yourself are not known as a person who compromises no i am uncompromised we want to get the job done
i'm i'm mischaracterized by the republicans that way but that's a tactic that they use no no we
want results for the american people what about the covert relief package yeah that was held up
for eight months no but that was their obstruction i understand this oh wait was there obstruction
yours their obstruction no yours too no it wasn't obstruction you held out for eight months
no we held it up because there was no no respect for our heroes our state and local
health care workers police and fire our first responders our sanitation transportation food
workers our teachers our teachers our teachers they would not go down that path there's a member
of your caucus who said specifically that we look like obstructionists and it was a mistake
but i don't remember anybody saying that and they may have and they may have but it isn't it wasn't
a mistake and i would not and nobody expects me to to support something that solidifies injustice in
our country let's talk about the russian hack um there was an invasion a cyber invasion big deal
big deal what should the united states do about that in terms of the hack that the president
would not assert his authority first of all uh he hasn't said anything no he hasn't said anything
except that maybe china did it yeah well the the president again has a 10-year blind spot
and whatever obligation i don't know what the russians have on president trump whether it's
personal whether it's political whether it's financial i don't know what it is
you think they have something on them but there's no other explaining why this
president united states is such a handmaiden of putin the story will continue after this
can we talk about the a word what's that age oh age you're 80. right you're number
two steny hoyer is 81. you're number three jim clyburn is 80. uh why haven't you brought young
people into the leadership because we have you perhaps don't know why does aoc complain that
you have not been grooming younger people for leadership i don't know you'll have to ask her
because we are that was kind of sharp kind of dismissing her i'm not dismissing her
i respect her i think she's very effective as are other or many other members in our caucus
that the press doesn't pay attention to but they are there and they are building support
for what comes next the speaker intends to keep the pressure on president trump
to leave office as soon as possible if he does not resign immediately she has threatened to initiate
impeachment proceedings what if he pardons himself what if he pardons these people who are terrorists
on the capitol or part of he does that he can only pardon himself from federal offenses he cannot
pardon himself from state offenses and that's where he's being investigated in the state of
new york there is a possibility that after all of this there's no punishment no consequence
and he could run again for president and that's one of the motivations that people have for
advocating for impeachment won't that take more than the 10 days i mean does it actually make
sense well i like the 25th amendment because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is
strong support in the congress for impeaching the president a second time
this president is guilty of inciting insurrection insurrection he has to pay a price for that