From a New York Times. I'm Michael around this today, a mob incited by president trouble. stormed the capital building, disrupt the certification of Joe Biden, victory in the presidential race, my colleagues Nick Sandoz, Jonathan Martin and Emily Cochrane inside the building its January, so I wonder if you tell us how this day started soap. Stay was always going to be a tense day and Washington, because President Trump and his allies had decided that Congress,

is quadrennial meeting to certify the electoral college. Efforts would be a venue for him to me One final stand for baseless and free. We unprecedented campaign to try and overturn the resulted. Action on our part The president had invited encourage menu. supporters to come to Washington. Gathered by the thousands Wednesday morning on the mall Republican Party has the ability right now to save themselves to save and if they turn their backs on, these people need to open their eyes and go home. If I ever wanted, even attempt to get elected again either switch parties where I hope these guys out here, because these people are very angry, they might not look ever varying referred

where it any time and is contrary to we're waiting for your on that were ready, we're tired The only way this doesn't work, it's just a matter of time. It's gonna happen the bank. The more we don't know That's going to start, we don't know where it's going to start and we don't know who's going to start it. But that's next the rebels ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the forty five president of the EU. States of Amerika President Donald J, try, the president gave pretty remarkable.

address. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left Democrats, which is what they're doing had stolen by the fake news media, that's what they ve done and what they are doing, We will never give up. We will never again see that doesn't happen and he worked himself up to basically encourage Thousands of people that were gathered there to head on down to the but aware early in the afternoon, Congress was set to me in this joint session, overseen by vice president. My pants

To formally count and then finalize Joe Biden is victory, is has President Elect of United States. You were going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania, had we're going to the capital and we're going to try and give the Democrats a hopeless. It never voting for anything, not even one vote, but we're going to try and give our republicans the weak ones, because a strong ones don't need any of our home which are going to try and give them the kind of pride and baldness that they need to take back our country. So, let's walk down Pennsylvania, Avenue,

I got a job. And so over at the capitol. How was this certification process supposed to unfold? you that this was gonna, be a long day full of a lot of objections. There were fourteen different senators and dozens and dozens of house Republicans who said they were ready to lodge objections to key swing, states that Joe Biden one fair and Square

We're gonna force, long debates, but the end of the day or maybe early Thursday morning. There is very little doubt that Joe Biden was going to be formally declared, the President Elect by the Congress the United States, whether or not President Trump one of that to happen. So in August at one o clock matters, Baker Vice President and the United States Senate when Vice president, my pants and members of the Senate hurried into the house of Represent, is behind to large mahogany boxes that contain the certificate certifying the votes from all fifty states. Are there any objections to counter the certificate of all of the state of Alabama? There's a couple of states, starting with Alabama hearing, none

Lastly, I voted on the state of Alaska. They come and go and are accepted by the Congress, and then this certificate from Arizona as we expected the state of hers zone, one of a half dozen that President Trump lost that he's contesting. Are there any objections to count the certificate of all of the state of Arizona. The tellers verified appears to be regular, inform and authentic didn't. I pulled Those are from Arizona artist as they a gentleman from Arizona right. I rise of both for myself and sixty my colleagues to object to the accounting of the electoral valid from Arizona and representative Paul ghosts are from that state. Is the objection in writing and signed by a sight of, and TED crews rose together, two of jack? Yes, it is triggered

central to our debate in the house in the Senate that would culminate in an upper down vote on whether or not to throw out aerosols electoral college boats. The Senate will now retired to the chamber. The senators than marched out and went back to their chamber. The house started to debate president trumps ally, laying out their arguments in the Senate, though the shredder mitch- colonel. The majority leader Jordi later is the first to rise and speak we're debating a step that has never been taken in american history. Whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election

Now Mcconnell had tried to head off this effort in the first place, he saw it as a dangerous exercise that would divide, is party and could hurt them thoroughly down the line, but the speech he gave was even more striking, I think, than we expected absurd thirty six years in the Senate. This will boost the most important vote. I've ever cash belgian tromp claims the election was stolen. The assertions range from specific local allegations to constitutional arguments to sweeping conspiracy theory the voters, the courts and the stage of all spoken, and then he doesn't really really hasn't done for four years. Frankly, which is directly rebuke. The president, this alive

were overturned by allegations from the losing side and say that this drive by Donald Trump of the White House. His allies on Capitol Hill overturn the results of the election are democracy would enter Adele Sparrow would send american democracy into endeth spiral. United States Senate has a higher calling than an endless spiral of partisan vengeance. So Mcconnell gives his speech to a rap Senate chamber, but still several of his colleagues promptly get up and start to defy him this president, starting with Senator TED of taxes. We gather together at a moment of great division. Obviously a conservative firebrand who has run for president once people think she wants to run for president again trying to make a name for himself. Your recent pauling

shows that thirty nine percent of Americans believe the election that just occurred quote was rigged and his message for his colleagues is a little bit different than the President's He basically argues that it is not like it or not in or near huge swathes of Americans, including people to vote for Republicans, don't trust the results of this election. You may not agree with that assessment But it is nonetheless a reality for nearly half the country and that's not going away and centres need to confront. It is the responsibility I believe this office to acknowledge. That is a profound threat to this country and to the legitimacy of any

restorations that will come in the future she's followed by another colleague. Eventually James Lange, for a small group of senators, including myself, have demanded that we not ignore the questions that millions of people are asking and our nation, whose backing up senator crews pause the count, get more facts to the states before January the twentieth and then all of a sudden. My challenge today is About the good people of Arizona, things start going very strangely in the chamber, and it was then raised ass until the call of the boss protesters and thank you.

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and all of a sudden cameras are cut off security, Russia's in and pulls vice. as in my pants out of the chair, where he's presiding and pulled him out of the room, the police step forward and announced that there has been a breach of the capital. There's, an emergency and senators are immediately being locked into their chamber. Press is sealed in with them. Every door is closed in this frantic dash with police officers and staff of the capital run around slamming each shot and centres are all all one hundred of them more. Ninety, nine right now since Senate Short a member are in there room together in an incredibly tense moment wondering what is about to happen. Things are

Should we kind of playful Senator Patrick Lady, the longest serving senator who loves you? Take photographs pulled out a digital Cameron's, don't snapping picks until the police told him to cut that out, pretty quickly centre, Amy covert shower quickly else out everyone to quite their voices. That she's heard that there has been a shooting in the capital complex at this really sent chill through chamber. As you can imagine, and within only a few minutes. After that police start pushing all one hundred centres. Our ninety nine that are in the chair, or into the well of the Senate and out through the back door. There's chaos and commotion in the room centres, don't know what's happening and the police then point up at us who were locked into the chamber and oppress gallery over where the vice president have been seated and said, get down to the base.

Follow us, so we scramble centres do down a series of elevators into the subterranean tunnels that connect before capital complex. and all the sudden. I found myself in a kind of fast moving c of the United States Senate Republicans and Democrats. Not certain where we were going, certain where the mom had should the building reached at several points? It had turned out one point: we seem to be redirected based on the fact that space is that were supposed to be secure or not. up ahead of me was senator trucks. Humor is the democratic leader. Earlier in the morning had been declaring himself the majority waiter triumphant. after Democrats had unexpectedly and surprise one. The true Senate run off

the night before I now his security detail was holding the back of his his neck, hustling him You know down this underground tunnel towards a safe space. I also pass by Centre Mitch. Nepal, These are later and now the outgoing majority leader, seventy eight years old, yeah polio when he was, a man and his secured. Detail, have their arms up under his armpits helping usher him as quickly as they could down through this long tunnel towards ultimately as a secure space elsewhere near the capital, where all of us ended up for several hours. Job Martin, what the times we were brought

to what can we say that a secure location become still and location and they about reporter but you're not to reveal where we are. When I got to the room and again keep in mind, people were notably panicked. I have a Mitt, Romney and I'd know Romney for years, and we greatly each other and then had we parted ways. I heard from the Romany Say, Jonathan and I turned around- and I saw him beckoning me over with his hand and with rage Now over his face and fury and his voice, he said to me this is what the president has caused today. This interaction, gonna, be seen him an account for you might, but clearly what he was trying to do

was conveyed world. Did he blamed protein crop production for this sub desecration of him? organ capital and the little one about dope. get down to work.

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I I'm Emily Cochrane I'm currently sheltering in a congressman's office on capital? Hell? We stay a few lawmakers and a few quarters after this actually a mob storm, the capital, The certification of the electoral, right now ruins going through what happened? What we saw I went to her chamber correspond to start there. She's gabbling, the house in this session, to hear the debate over the electoral vote from Arizona, let's listenin, let the record show that there is a gross violation of this guidance from the attendance on the route, so is sitting

right brow around one. Thirty or so you started getting these notices from from sources from AIDS and other parts battle. Capital police are closing my bill hang their glory from door to door telling us to leave The debate was still going in the chamber who sent you were in a bubble, people worth looking at the phones, There wasn't any real indication that anyone other than the reporters in the press gallery were fully aware of the extent of the protests and how things were escalating. I rise to support the objection. Gentlewoman is recognised for five thank you, Madam speaker, and to ease everyone's nerve. I want you to all know that I am not here to challenge anyone to a dual like Alexander, Hamilton or Ehrenberg at around two sector too. I gotta, because I

until we have the wish to link the window. I wanted to see see it for myself engage what the situation was like, but the minute I step outside the gallery with a member of the gallery staff, a police officer came over and said that they were ordering everyone to shelter in place and go back inside We gather today, Madam speaker, to ensure the survival of our grand american experiment the greatest democracy. This work, has ever known, and there are millions of people watching today's proceedings. The eyes of the world are on us now. My colleagues wondering if our constitutional republic We hope you could start to feel this nervous energy as more and more alarming. Curse grew aware, and they began to closures the gallery doors, the chamber doors had always been. but the gallery doors had been opened for the purpose of ventilation and those were shown to be closed.

press calorie staff freely shortly after came and told us, There is a possibility that we would be locked in the chamber to get your charters, get whatever you last night side and and bring it in and be and be ready to spend time in the chamber, Those will be an order that will be in order. ok congressional inertia pretty soon after that was pushed rushed out. He saw he saw staff common escort them now really quickly. The rest of lawmakers in staff were told to stay stay become The house will be an order, also be in order. members will take their seats up in the gallery.

overlooking the floor. We were quietly being told where the exits were. Where do where to look and then a capitol police officer good at the diocese where Speaker Pelosi have been overseeing the proceedings right before that and said that they're going to preach that protesters were done around to be prepared, carpenter or chairs for law makers. To go hide me and without objection to cheer declares the hosts and reassess pursuant to closed I'll be a rule. One class raises sat

at one point: fifteen Philips shouted out. This is because of you has working colleagues then it was a sort of fever remaining and a capital police officer told us that We now have individuals in the rotunda kind and longing hers to take out last month that were stored under the chairs in front of them press. you're in the gallery. Overlooking the whole thing capital police came over and were passing out our own Silver Fox wrapped in allusion. Coming near, I crouched down my chair just trying to rip this open, trying to figure out how to win the package, let alone put the mask on. They told us,

put the mass I'm just yet, but there happened to your doubts in the world and also to be prepared for it these mass. How bravo, that's his flash games all these also, there's these little red lights all over the place and they were theirs, is worrying noise. Has it stops? Sure just surrounded by this ancient murmuring worry because is couple security, one. Over a giant chest pushed up against the chamber. Doors

chamber doors that my pen just walk through imo, chests bowler certifications. That was not barricade. They put this, which has to find the door and they started yelling for us to. Actually just for LISA, orderly things best. You can Clambering over ministers over chairs to trading. the doors, and now banks and people stop him. everyone just dropped his chair. Auditorium tears now really meant Nothing really have high tax sources. Basically, were hoping that this behind this chair, where typically a tool

still sitting watching us. Froze frozen with some some officers pointing Jones? at the door at the barricade where you could seem are going on there with them. I ostensibly in I think he was trying to reason with web site owners have frozen, paralyse justice, worrying of the gas Mass

and then after a few minutes, we start building it. I don't know prompted, but we just started started jumping over these banisters stepping on the cushions stirring. Whenever you projecting endorse fosters possible elms clamouring town, marble staircase, we went down the side exit, so I have no idea I the capitalist going family is watching your colleagues are watching this. Where are you? Are you ok

eventually worrying related to my office building, which is where we are now. The law makers are mostly sequestered in one room and they took some of the press in another room while we're just sort of waiting for now. I am accordingly hungry since waiting for the clear took up. So that's that's worry, there's some top rated the clear on the capital. The couple lawmakers I've spoken to remain adamant that they're gonna see this through that this isn't gonna, stop the process uneven, It's too late. I you going with the beginning the Electoral college,

How did this stand off come to an end so as lawmakers, and vice president pants remain locked down in these secretive locations which were ultimately not breached? Capital police get reinforcing from National Guard the FBI? other law enforcement and they start to slowly basically, hunt on town and remove these individuals that had come into the building and so in the six o clock. Our finally, another alert went out over the kind of emergency system in the capital that had been going off all day to say that. Finally, at that point, law enforcement had successfully taken back the pillow and re established a large perimeter around the capital that held for the rest of the night

while they were inside the United States capital for four hours, that's pretty extraordinary, it is shots, were discharged, one woman ended up in the police. You in DC said: there's, tear gas Deployed in the capital, it's just unthinkable that this will happen, What was the president's saying and doing during this period during these hours. When supporter, we're storming the capital in his name. So at first he said nothing. He was silent, He gave his rally earlier in the day outside the White House. He had gone back inside and had very little to say. Eventually he started, though, as he does too tweet, including sending out a short video of himself filmed outside the White House, and this how to say was just as remarkable ass. The rest of all this,

you- have to go home now we have to have peace you have to have Lord order. We have to respect our great people law and order. We don't want anybody hurt the president did for those two environments to stop. He said it was time to go home, but in the next breath it's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this, where such a thing happened where they could take it, from all of us. He praise them. He said he identified. Essentially, What they were doing so go home. We love you you're, very special. You ve seen what happens you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel uneasy

he's returns of affection, for you know a violent insurrection and that the capital of the country that these sworn an oath to protect and defend, went and during this time next year, reality- and this is a pretty unsettling thing to say. But it's true is that this mob they did something that president, so far had not been able to do through the courts or through the political process at his encouragement at his incitement. They disrupted the certification of Joe binds when they did, they did for several hours on Wednesday. They gave the president vividly what he has wanted, but in the aftermath of it,

What emerge was striking and its own way, particularly in the Senate, where those of us who have been locked down four hours walks under armed guard back into the capital Where Republicans and Democrats when was finally safe for them to come out, came out with arms locked and I got electoral college

you can always withdrew to abolish box, as was the electoral process that they just carried their carrying beside the tracks of the Senate. Subway back to the capital came back to before the Senate, intent on finishing the process that they had started hours before and not leaving until they done the work to make Joe Biden. Officially, the President Elect said it will come to order, and the vice president, as president of the Senate, would like to give a brief statement with the indulgence of senators. Actually vice President Pence asked to speak. First today was a dark day in the history of the United States capital. We condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms to those who wreaked havoc in our capital. Today,

You did not win. Violence, never wins freedom, winds, and this is still the people's House centre. Mcconnell rose right after me said the United States Senate will not they intimidate. We will not be kept out of the chamber by thugs, mobs or threats. We will not bow the lawlessness or intimidation.

We are back at our posts, we will discharge our duty under the constitution and poor notion and we're gonna do it. Can I we're going to finish this here tonight, resource several of the senators not all, but several who had planned to lodge objections. Leaped manages centre from Georgia. Central leveller came to speak quickly on the Senate for to say when I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification. Like twelve votes. However, the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider the might of what had happened. They were dropped them and I cannot now in good conscience, subject to the certification of these electors

President drums critics and even some is most loyal allies from last Wednesday. Ground drop it out. We ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it. Then this way, oh, my god. I hate it from our point of view. Is better Gaza got your breath. Standing up and saying. All I can say is count me out enough is enough. I've tried to be helpful. This is over I've. Seen enough present Trump lost Joe Biden, one Joe by Uncommonly Harris are lawfully elected and will become the president and the vice president.

I say to our January the twentieth and by the time the Senate voted on that first objection to the state of Arizona who, after ten o clock on this vote, the user six, the nasal. Ninety three, the objection is not sustained all, but six senators has. Ninety three Republicans and Democrats voted to uphold present. Likewise,. victory Nick. How do you explain that? Because fidelity to this precedent has been so unwavering, over so many episodes and so many years what changed in those few hours and gives it a question that everybody there was involved in this year day is going to continue to ask themselves for weeks ahead.

on the one hand, Republicans who have sided with the president. You know have always been able to tell themselves there's another exit down the road that, if things get bad enough, they can get off and this was you know basic- would the end of the road for Trump. This was his last option it turned out that he made it is ugly and dangerous and vile as it possibly could have been a knife. So many members of his party just said enough we have gone along with so much we're not going past the end of the road with you we're not gonna crash into whatever that is now. I dont want to overstate. The sis is one fleeting mom. There are still going to be in the inn. Dozens of members of the House of Representatives that vote to toss out legitimate election results, because president from has asked them to. Essentially, there are you now, as this

this vote has demonstrated- probably many more million Americans at home that don't believe this election was legitimately decided that don't view President Elect Biden has a rightful occupant of that office and an though elected officials perhaps made a responsible decision. Today you know, there's gonna be a lot of days after this. The country remains, I think, and is deeply troubling and dangerous place them in a culture that good Create where I was in the middle of today is not something that just going to dissipate Right, our next. Thank you very much repression on a strange day was a strange pusher thanks. I'm glad you're, safe, appreciate them

on Wednesday night after spoke with neck. One hundred and twenty one House Republicans voted to object to Joe Biden. Three in Arizona more than half of the chamber's Republicans, but that was not enough votes to sustain the objection soon after Similar objection to binds win in Pennsylvania also failed, and both the house, an Senate, voted to certify by as President elect I'll be right back

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