Another thing I would say, Lester, is,
you know, as we try to figure out...
well, it looks like it looks now like
the Capitol, the police
Let me break away from you a second
because things are happening very
quickly. The government did this to us.
We were normal, good, law-abiding
citizens.
They no longer have been able to keep
them back.
Right here, we're going to walk down to
the Capitol, Down the Mall, President
Trump airing his grievances in front of
his supporters at a rally
nearby. And he was warning vengeance
for Republicans who did not take his
side in objecting to these results.
On Capitol Hill, a joint session of
Congress has broken into House and
Senate chambers as they debate
objections that arose from GOP
lawmakers over the electoral results
from Arizona.
There are some protests happening down
outside the Capitol.
They appear to be Trump supporters who
are frustrated with the outcome and are
trying to breach some of that those
security perimeters around
the Capitol.
USA! USA! S
enate will stand in recess until the
call of the chair. We'll
pause. Protesters are in the building.
We have visual evidence that some
protesters have made it inside the
Capitol building, around the security
and are gathering around the area where
the Senate was in session.
We were just told that
there has been tear gas in the rotunda.
Members of the legislature were
informed that they should don their gas
masks. Gas masks that are under our
seats. Senators have been evacuated.
There are gunshots inside the Capitol.
I think it's the most shocking
failure of security
imaginable to place the Congress of the
United States at physical risk
in an occupied congressional chamber
because they weren't prepared to deal
with it. There is a disturbing image at
this moment of Capitol Hill police
bringing out a victim who is
who is bloodied from the Capitol.
It's heartbreaking day.
And it needs to stop and the president
needs to be the first to help make it
stop.
What the hell was law enforcement on
Capitol Hill thinking by
not having secured the Capitol
today. From the President:
Please support our Capitol Police and
law enforcement.They are truly on the
side of our country, stay peaceful.
First of all, are you and your
colleagues safe right now?
Yeah, everybody's safe.
I don't want to give my location, but
I'll tell you, this is this is
madness. And anybody that
calls themselves a Republican like
myself should be very ashamed right
now. Right over here, you can actually
see right here, this is a caravan of
vehicles from the Metropolitan Police
Department. So this is not Capitol
Police. This is not National Guard.
This is District of Columbia Police.
They came in their riot gear and
entered the Capitol. We have seen
others from the National Guard and
other law enforcement agencies.
And then in just the last few minutes,
we also have seen some snipers.
We are hours into a siege
on the Capitol building of the United
States of America.
And we have not seen the President
of the United States.
Look, I can think of no greater failure
by a commander-in-chief than to
allow this kind of disturbance to
continue and not stop and
stormed the Capitol building.
They stormed the Capitol. They are
marching through now.
An improvised explosive device has been
found at the Capitol.
It did not detonate.
The federal agents have it and it has
not harmed anyone. An explosive device
has been located at the headquarters of
the Republican National Committee.
That explosive device was real,
was detonated by a bomb squad
and harmed no one.
This has really been pouring gasoline on
a fire. And we need to
push back on this, not only on the
rhetoric but also on those extremist
groups that are capitalizing on it.
I call this mob to pull
back and allow the work of democracy to
go forward. 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.
What has happened today is unprecedented
in American history. And when you have
violent mobs storming the floor of the
House of Representatives and the floor
of the United States Senate, and the
president's response is to say that he
loves those people.
It is
absolutely counter to
the Constitution and
counter to the peaceful transition of
power and the values on which this
Republic was built. And this was much
bigger than the individuals Joe Biden
and Donald Trump. It is way bigger than
that. This was about democracy and our
constitution versus anarchy.
We need to stay in session.
We need to fulfill our constitutional
duty and finish this process and
ensure the 306 electoral votes for Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris are certified.
The Capitol building has been cleared.
Now they're working to clear the
Capitol grounds.
Associated Press now reporting and NBC
News reporting that the police have
used tear gas and percussion grenades
to begin clearing protesters from the
U.S. Capitol. But at this time,
something went wrong.
I admit that. If I was up there, I'd
deserve to be fired.
There was a shooting at the Capitol
today and that, in fact, the shooting
victim has died.
I guess you can call it historical.
I would call it disgusting,
unacceptable, inexcusable.
This man, Trump, is simply
unfit to serve as president, to serve
as the commander-in-chief. The account
of Donald Trump will be locked for 12
hours following the removal of the
tweets, the tweets that Twitter deemed
incite violence.
If the tweets are not removed, the
account will remain locked.
The United States Senate will
not be intimidated.
We will not be kept out of this
chamber by thugs,
mobs or threats.
The votes for president of the United
States are as follows.
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.
The votes for vice president of the
United States are as follows.
Kamala D. Harris of the state of
California.