Constitutional order
Requires respecting the limits
Tyrone Power
It would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise disenfranchise American voters and overrule the courts
And Estates
All this extraordinarily
Found
Patience
And I will not pretend such at the boat would be a harmless protest gesture
While relying on others
To do the right side
How about to respect the people decision and defend our system of government
As we know it
Leader
Mr. president
Vice president
As prescribed by the Constitution and the laws of the nation the purpose of this joint session is Fratelli
Appointed on a bipartisan basis by the two houses to read to the car
Congress the results of an election that is already happened
We are here to receive an announcement of a vote that is already been certified by every state in the
Union
And confirmed
By the courts
Many times many times over
We're here to watch the current vice-president open envelopes
And received the news of the verdict
That is already been rendered
It is a solemn
And Augusta Kasian No Doubt
But it is a formality
The Congress does not determine the outcome of Elections the people do
The Congress is not endowed with the power to administer elections
Our states are given that power
By the end of the proceedings today
It will be confirmed once again
Something that is well-known
And well settled
The American people
Elected Joe Biden
And Kamala Harris
To be the next president
And vice president of the United States
And yet a number of our colleagues have organized an effort to undermine in abject
To that free and fair election
They are in the minority
They will lose
They know that
They have no evidence of widespread voter fraud upon which to base their objections
That's because there is none
There is none
Not brought before any of the Courts
Successfully
They know the President Trump and his allies
Have suffered defeat
I defeat in court after court
Across the country
Losing no fewer than 60 to Legal challenges
And I might add many republican-appointed judges some appointed by President Trump rendered those decisions
They know
You all know
At Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Are going to be sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States on
Weary 20th
But they are going to object to the counting of the boat anyway
And in the process
They will embarrass themselves
They will embarrass their party
And worst of all
They will embarrass
Their country
Is Insurrection with fortunately
Discouraged
By the leadership of the majority party
But it was not quilt
It is a very sad comment on our times
That merely accepting the results of an election
It's considered an act of political courage
Saturn more dangerous still is the fact that an element of the Republican Party
Believe their political viability hinges on the endorsement of an attempted coup
That anyone
Much less an elected official
Would be willing to tarnish our democracy
In order to burnish their personal political
Fortune
Over the course of the afternoon
And however far into the evening this band of Republican objectors wants to take us
Senators of Goodwill from both sides of the aisle
What's playing
Why these challenges must be dismissed
The senators from States whose electoral votes are being challenged
Will explain
Have the allegations of fraud are baseless
And a substantial bipartisan majority
Must vote to put down these objections
And defend the sanctity
Ivar elections and indeed
Indeed
Are great and Grand
Democracy
Because that's what we're talkin about
Today
The health of our democracy
His wonderful beautiful Grandma Chrissy
With a peaceful passing of the torch is extolled by schoolchildren the second grade but not by
Buy some here
As we speak
Half of our voters are being conditioned
By the outgoing president
To believe that when his party loses an election
The results might not be legitimate
As we speak
The eyes of the world are on this chamber
Questioning whether America is still
The shining example
I'll democracy The Shining City on the hill
What message we send today
What message will we send today
To our people
To the world that has so looked up to us for centuries
What message will we send to fledgling democracies
Who study our constitution mirror our laws and traditions in the hopes that they too can build our country
Street
Rule by the consent of the governed
What message will we send to those countries
What democratic values Arundel result
And look to us to see if those values
I still
Worth Fighting For
What message
Will be send to every dark corner the world
What human rights are betrayed
Elections are stolen
Human dignity
Denied
What will they show those people
What we show
Those people that there's a better way
To ensure Liberty
An opportunity of humankind
Sadly
Small band of Republican objectors made dark in the view of our democracy
Today
But a larger group
Senators and house members from both sides of the aisle
Can send a message to
The Democracy that democracy beats deep in the hearts of our citizens in our elected representatives
That we are a country of laws and if not men
That our Traditions are not so easily discarded
Even by our president
The taxman
The truth matters
They want democracy allows free speech and free expression
Even if that expression is anti-democratic
There will always always be praise God
A far broader and stronger Coalition ready to push back
And defend everything
We hold dear
We can send that message today
By voting in large and overwhelming numbers to defeat these objections
My colleagues
We've sworn oath
Just three days ago
That we would defend and support the Constitution of the United States
Against all enemies
Foreign
And domestic
That we would bear true faith
An allegiance
To the same
We swore that we took this obligation freely
Without any mental reservation
Or purpose of evasion
And that we could well and Faithfully discharge the duties of the office
We were about to enter
So help us God
Precise words of a toe
Will shortly written after the Civil War
When the idea of true faith and allegiance to this country and its Constitution
Took an enormous meaning
Let those words
Ringing in the ears of every senator
Today
Let us do our duty
It's a sport to support
And defend
The Constitution
Of the United States
So help us God
Majority Leader are you adopted five minutes of the senator from Texas on your cruise
This president
Senator
We gather together
At a moment of great addition
At a moment of great passion
We have seen and no doubt will continue to see
A great deal of moralizing from both sides of the aisle
But I would urge to both sides perhaps
A bit less certitude
And a bit more recognition
That we are gathered at a time when democracy
Is in crisis
Recent polling shows that 39% of Americans
Believe the election that just occurred quote
What's richt
You may not agree with that assessment
But it is nonetheless a reality for nearly half the country
I would know it is not just Republicans who believe that
31% of independents
Agree with that statement
17% of Democrats
Believe the election was ripped
Even if you do not share that conviction
It is the responsibility I believe this office to acknowledge that is a profound threat to this country
Into the legitimacy of any administration's that will come in the future
I want to take a moment to speak to my Democratic colleagues
I understand
Your guy is winning right now
If Democrats vote as a Bloc
Joe Biden will almost certainly be certified as the next president of the United States
I want to speak to the Republicans were considering voting against these objections
I understand your concern but I urge you to pause and think
What does it say to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we both
Not even to consider the claims
Abila gallaty
And fraud in this election
And I believe there's a better way
The leaders just spoke about setting aside the election let me be clear I am not arguing
Resetting a side the result of this election
All of us are faced with two choices both of which are lousy one choices vote against the objection
And tens of millions of Americans will see a vote against the objection as a statement that voter fraud doesn't matter
Matter isn't real and shouldn't be taken seriously
A great many of us don't believe that
On the other hand
Most if not all of us believe we should not set aside the results of election just because our candidate may not approve
Prevail
And so I Endeavor to look for door number three a third option and for that I look to history
To the president of the 1876 election
The hayes-tilden election where this Congress
Appointed electoral Commission
To examine claims of voter fraud five house members five Senators five Supreme Court Justices
Examine the evidence and rendered a judgment
And what I would argue this body is that we do the same
That we appointed electoral commission to conduct
A 10-day emergency audit consider the evidence
And resolve the claims for those on the Democratic I lose says say there is no evidence they've been rejected then you
You should rest in Comfort if that's the case
Electoral commission would reject those claims
But for those who respect the voters simply telling the voters go jump in a lake the fact
But you have deep concerns is of no moment to us
That jeopardizes I believe
The legitimacy
Abyss and subsequent elections
The Constitution gives to Congress the responsibility this day
To count the votes
The framers knew what they were doing when they gave responsibilities to Congress we have a responsibility
And I would urge that we follow the precedent of 1877
The Electoral count explicitly allows objection such as this one for boats that were not regularly
Given
And let me be clear this objection is for the State of Arizona but it is broader than that
It is an objection for all six of the contested States
To have a credible objective impartial body hear the evidence
And make a conclusive determination
That would benefit
Both sides
That wouldn't prove legitimacy of this election and salemme orange my colleagues
All of us take our responsibilities seriously
I would urge my colleagues don't take
Perhaps the easy path
But instead act together us tonish the viewers and act in a bipartisan sense
To say we will have a credible and fair tribunal consider the claims consider the fact consider the
Evidence
And make a conclusive determination whether and to what extent
This election complied with the Constitution
And with federal law
Senator for Minnesota
Mr. president I first would like say appreciate the words of our leader Senator Schumer
As well as Senator McConnell's call for a higher calling
January 6th is not typically a day of historical significance for a country for centuries this
They simply the day that we received each date
Certified Electoral votes
And it has come and Gone without much fanfare in fact this is only the third time in 120 years
The Senate is gathered to debate and objection and is Senator Cruz well knows
Both times he's objections were resoundingly defeated the last time the vote was 74 to 1
Why
Because Senators have long believed that they should not mess around with the will of the people they have under
Stood the words of our great former calling John McCain from the state of Arizona who once said
But nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself
In this case my colleagues are caught
Despite our political differences is to preserve our American democracy
To preserve our Republic because it's someone once said long ago
It's a republic
If you can keep it
No I appreciate all my Democratic and Republican colleagues who have joined our
Ranks of coup fighters who have stood up for our democracy who Stand Tall for our
And who believed in an ideal greater than ourselves larger than our political parties
That idealism Erica
And Senator Cruz he knows of this
On January 20th Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Will be sworn in as president vice president United States he knows that president-elect buying one more boats
Can any president in history and more than 7 million more votes than President Trump
Despite the unfounded conspiracy theory Senator Cruz how he knows that high-ranking
Official in President Trump's own Homeland Security Department have concluded that the 2020 election
Was quote the most secure in American history
And if he wants to improve the number than his own party that he just mention of people believing in our election
Maybe he should start Consulting with them or maybe he should start Consulting with former Attorney General Barr
Who said that he has found no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election
We don't have to go back to 1877 my calling
Senator Cruz knows that 80 judges including conservative judges including judges confirmed
In this chamber nominated by President Trump has thrown out these lawsuit calling them baseless in attic
I quit and contrary both to the play meeting of the constitutional text and Common Sense
And he knows that all 10 living defense secretaries including both of Trump's defense secretary
Donald Rumsfeld William Cohen he knows that all these leaders have come together to say that these scurrilous attack
Axanar democracy must stop and we must allow for a peaceful transition of power
Senator Sinema will fill you in on the specific facts as to why this election was sound and true and
In Arizona
Butter summary
President Trump received 1661686 votes in a state
President-elect Biden 1-1000000 670 2143 vote meaning
Said he won the state by 10457 vote
On November 30th
After Arizona's Republican Governor the Secretary State the attorney general and the conservative chief
Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court certified the results of the election the governor actually
She said we do elections well here in Arizona the system is strong
Each post-election lawsuits brought in Arizona to challenge the results were dismissed by judges nine
Members of the house from Arizona were elected in the same election including four Republicans and call
I did not see Senator Cruz over at their swearing-in in the House of Representative last Sunday ask
Looking for an audit
He did not stop their swearing-in because there was no fraud
And he did not ask for an audit because we had a fair election
I will end with it
My friend Roy blunt my fellow rules committee leader
Many years ago found a statue
A bust of a man at the top of a bookcase he did research he went to the historians and all he
You could find out was that no one knew who this guy was except that he was a cleric
Hence the statue is called the unknown cleric
No at the time our leaders thought this man important now
But they would warrant a statue for him
But today no one knows who he is
Senator wants message to school kids and Senators alike that visit his office when he shows them the statue
What we do here is more important
Then Who We Are
Senators what matters is not our Future's not our own short-term destinies
What matters is democracies destiny
Because I think many of us know that people will not know who we are a hundred years from now or
Years from now
But what they will know is this
They will know what we did today
How we voted today
And that
Is more important than Who We Are
It's a republic
If we can keep it
Thank you mr. president are you before
Charlie later than 5 minutes to the senator from Pennsylvania send it to me
Senator from Pennsylvania
Thank you mr. president and I intend later to address the specifics of Pennsylvania if and when an objection is raised
With regard to Pennsylvania for now
I want to address my remarks to what I think is the fundamental question being posed
By the objectors
And that is does Congress have
The Constitutional Authority
The decide
Which state's electoral college
Boats should be counted
And which should not
Based on how well we think they ran their elections
This is what the objectors are really asking us to do
The federal eyes
Elections
By rejecting Electoral College votes from States whose processes they say they disapprove of
And thereby having Congress
Select the president of the United States
Instead of the American people
Answer Mr President is no there is no such Authority
Under the Constitution
Constitution assigns to the states
The responsibility to conduct of Elections it's clear
Article 2 Section 1
At least courts with responsibility to adjudicate disputes and its signs to Congress
The ministerial function of counting ballots
Except for extreme circumstances such as when a state sends competing slates of electors to Congress
Which brings me to the 1877
President some objectors claim to merely want a commission to conduct an audit and then let States decide whether to
Send different electors
Refers to situations are not at all analogous
In 1877 Congress had before it two slates of electors from several States
Here there are no Trump electors from swing States
There's just fine the electors
Second legislators from the swing States they've already spoken
They made their decision they chosen not to send us alternative
Electric
Third a commission really
Completely impractical and we all know it with 14 days to go
Before I constitutionally-mandated inauguration
I'll look at it this way if the objectors are right and it really is congress's job to the sit in judgment on the worthiness of the state
Electoral processes then what's the criteria
Acceptable election processes what investigations have been conducted of these processes what body has
That certain States processes are unacceptable what opportunities were these states given to challenge the findings
Why are the objectives objecting only to swing states that President Trump lost what about the ones he want
I don't North Carolina what about California they have ballot harvesting Untold
If this is all supposed to be congress's job you think we have answers to these questions
And procedures in place because we would have done this every four years right
But we don't
Cuz it's not our job
Adopt as new president that we sit in Judgment of States processes
Then we're federalizing the election law we would necessarily have to establish the permissible criteria and rules
For the states elections
The ballot harvesting example it's illegal in some states it's encouraged than others
Does it become mandatory or forbidden depending on who's in control of Congress
As the leader point out
You'll be the end of the Electoral College
The Electoral College is the mechanism by which the people select the president
But Congress gets to decide which states get to vote in the Electoral College then clearly
Congress' selecting the president
Not the people
Whichever party controls both houses of Congress would control the presidency the public would never tolerate Congress picking the president said
Abolish the Electoral College as many of our colleagues would like to do
And the end of the Electoral College of course means the nation will be governed by a handful of big blue States and regions
They can drum up very large numbers mr president
Constitution does not assign to Congress
The responsibility to judge the word worthiness
Upstate election
Prophecies nor its adherence to its rules that's the responsibility of the states in the courts
Let me conclude with this
I voted for President Trump
I publicly endorsed President Trump
I campaign for President Trump
I did not want Joe Biden
To win this election
There's something more important to me than having my preferred candidate sworn in as the next president
And that's to have the American people's chosen candidate
Sworn in
As an ex-president
A fundamental defining feature of a Democratic Republic is the right of the people to elect their own leaders
It's now our dude it's our responsibility
To ensure that that right is respected in this election
And preserved for future elections I heard you vote against this objection
Democratic leader
Mister vice president
Senator from the great state of Arizona senator Sinema
Senator from Arizona
Thank you mister president
I rise today to share the facts about Arizona's recent election enter urge my colleagues to stop
Appleway
From divisive political rhetoric
I'm step towards renewing America's faith in our democracy
The 2020 Arizona election was a success
Not for anyone party or individual
What is a demonstration of the will of the voters
A record 80%
Register voters participated
Thanks to local Arizona election officials who ensured our system worked
Analyze propel
Arizona has offered early voting for more than 100 years
An Argo by mail system includes strict safeguards
All ballots include tracking mechanisms
And tamper-resistant envelopes
Election staff are trained to authenticate signatures
Arizona imposes severe criminal punishments
4 ballot tampering
The Arizona elections produced bipartisan results
In which members of both parties One races
And these results have been confirmed by stakeholders across the political Spectrum
The Republican chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors said
No matter how you voted
This election was administered with integrity
Transparency and in accordance with Arizona state laws
The Republican speaker of the Arizona State House rejected calls for the legislature to overturn the
The election saying
As a Conservative Republican
I don't like the results of the presidential election
But I cannot and will not entertain the suggestion that we violate current law to change the outcome
Eight challenges contesting the Arizona election
We're brought to federal and state courts
All 8
We're withdrawn or dismissed
Including a unanimous ruling
Are the Arizona Supreme Court
The Chief Justice wrote
The Challenge Fails to present any evidence of misconduct or illegal votes
Let alone establish any degree of fraud
Or sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results
During a recent Committee hearing I asked a simple question
The former director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security
Did he find any evidence
Disputing Integrity or fairness of Arizona's election
His answer was simple
No
Arizona an AR-15 County's should be congratulated for running a secure election
Perhaps most heartening demonstration of Arizona's election success is Jocelyn from Phoenix
Jocelyn 18 years old and was a first-time voter in 2020
So what's Rachel from Tucson
I'm thousand more arizonans for the first time exercise their constitutional right
Decide their own leaders
Today's challenge to Arizona's election
Feels any factual analysis
More disturbingly
It seeks to Rob Jocelyn and Rachel
And More Than 3 million arizonans
Everfree Fair election
Those of us who were trusted with elected office
Are first and foremost public servants
We serve our constituents
We do not seek to substitute our personal Ambitions for the will of the American people
Our system allows for a continuous contest of ideas
And those voters who support the losing side of a free Fair election have not been disenfranchised
Rather they maintain
Just as important a voice and America's future
And leaders have a duty
To serve all of our constituents
Including those who voted for other candidates
Great leaders in our history
Face the choice of whether to take an action strengthening our democracy
Even if a different action
Would better serve their political ambitions
Many are revered today because they chose our Republic
Over their self-interest
It's putting my personal hero
Senator John McCain
Following his presidential loss Senator McCain said
The American people have spoken
Senator Obama and I have argued our differences and he has prevailed
Whatever our differences
We are fellow Americans
He spoke to the nearly 60 million Americans who voted for him saying
It is natural tonight
To feel some disappointment
But tomorrow
We must move Beyond it
And work together to get our country moving again
Senator McCain was right
Today we have serious significant work to do
Beating this pandemic and Reviving our economy
I urge my colleagues
To follow the example of Senator John McCain and so many others
Reject this meritless Challenge and uphold the will
Of Arizona voters
Thank you
Geordie later
Who's President up to 5 minutes to the senator from Oklahoma senator Lankford
Senator from Oklahoma
Present
America we settle our differences and election
What happens if you don't trust the election count
We are concerned that so many quarts tonight or dismiss cases within hours after they were given thousands of pages of Eva
The reason we have a Congress to settler Nations divisions in the rules of the senate make sure that every opinion
The nation is heard is so issues like this can be addressed
The Constitutional crisis in our country right now is that millions of Americans are being told to sit
Down and shut up
Their opinions matter
During the Electoral Challenge on January 6th 2005
Senator Ted Kennedy stood on this floor and said this
He said I commend the many thousands of citizens in Massachusetts and other states who insisted on trees
Today's electoral vote count in Congress
As a meaningless ritual would be an insult to our democracy
Unless we register our own protest
I can see obviously flawed voting process
That look took place in so many states
We are hopeful he said that this major issue that goes to the heart of our democracy is now firmly implanted
On the agenda for Effective action by Congress
In quotes
I agree
United States Constitution does not allow me
To assign different electors to a state nor should it
United States Constitution does not give the option to the vice president of the United States to just unilaterally decide
Which states are in and out and it should not
Each state decides its electors
Through its people
But small group of senators including myself
Have demanded that we not ignore the questions that millions of people are asking in our nation
So we have proposed a constitutional solution
Pause the count
Get more facts to the states
Before January 20th
We proposed a 15-member commission just like what was done after the failed election of 1876
We're encouraging people to spend 10 days
Going through all the issues so states can have one last opportunity to address any challenges
Then the states as the Constitution directs
Would make the final decision on their electors
I have some colleagues who said that attend a commission is not enough time
So they have counter proposed
Just ignoring the lingering questions
We need to do something
My challenge today
Is not about the good people of Arizona
I will stand in recess until the chair
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Look at the US Capitol again we've definitely seen some disturbances there in the last few minutes but the crowd
Overall has been a lot Allison
I'm going to go talk to some folks and find that out of course we just played what the president said how they were somewhere gas
Just being fired you look over there on the left see the gas in the air we just heard a kind of concussion noise
And then we saw the gas that one little area there it kind of at the top of the steps that's where
A lot of the issues seem to be normally when we hear the sound of something being fired and then we see gas
That seems to be where it's happening earlier in the afternoon crowd that actually overtaken the bleachers that RC
Set up for the inauguration there but police got the crowd to move away from them and something that was mostly non-vinyl we saw last night
But the most part it feels like people went willingly after the police asked them so that is the
Presents words if it's active the card yet I'm going to have to talk to people and find that out Allison
Do you mind if I ask you a question
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Set up under the guise and yellow up on top I'll put on gas mask
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I have not been completely disconnected from this network I've heard there's a story
Killed on the other side of the story I think
Instigator instigator maybe real may not be but until I get more information I can't answer that one
I think my voice is I've done what I came here to do I came
Was it successful
I don't know I hope so I hope all I want is as honest men to be honest with each other
If we can do that as a nation we we we go a long way otherwise we don't go anywhere
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Will be held account
There will be Law and Order in this Behavior will not be tolerated the Metropolitan
Police department has been deployed to assist the United States Capitol Police in a store
Restoring order to the capital and our chief of police will lead the command
To clear the Capitol building and establish a perimeter around the capital I have requested both
The Virginia State Police in the Maryland State Police to deploy officers and they have engaged amidi
Italy to deploy officers to the Metropolitan Police Department
To help regain control of the United States capital I have also invoke several days ago
Standing Mutual Aid agreement with the our surrounding jurisdictions and I want
To thank them for deployment on those jurisdictions include Arlington County Montgomery County
County Prince George's County as well as Baltimore City we want to
Thank them for sending their officers in assisting us with Public Safety in the district
As well as the response to United States Capitol Building additionally I want to acknowledge and thank
New Jersey State Police who will also be assisting the Metropolitan Police
Department also with that I want to turn to Chief Conte for a situational update on Secretary of the army
I will make comments I and we will take brief questions
Thank you mayor good afternoon and thank you Mara Bowser my name is Robert J Conte the Third
I am the chief of police of the Metropolitan Police Department here in Washington DC as you are aware
Demonstrators came to our city this morning to exercise their first amendment rights and was largely concentrated in the
The area of the National Mall
Following the president's remarks a large crowd began to March eastbound on Madison Avenue Northwest and cons
Constitution Avenue Northwest as the demonstrators approached the United States Capitol grounds there was a noticeable change
And their demeanor they breach the fencing along the US Capitol grounds and confronted police line Surrey
Rounding the building MPD was requested by the United States by the United States Capitol Police
Provide assistance with crowd management and due to the violent behaviour towards the police officers there
And they're intent on gaining access to the to the capital A Riot was declared
It was clear that the crowd was intent on causing harm to officers by the point chemical irritants on
Police to force entry into the United States Capitol Building as you all wear
They were able to gain access to the Capitol Building and I can confirm that one civilian was
Reported to have sustained a gunshot wound inside of the capital details of the shooting or not immediate
The available and the situation remains under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department will be taking the lead
When that investigation continues to provide Personnel Resources and assistance on the grounds of the u.s.
Capital and has requested the assistance of law enforcement Partners three previously and placed Mutual Aid
Agreement as you heard from the mayor a 6 p.m. curfew has been put in place tonight and will be in effect
Until 6 a.m. tomorrow January 7th we are advising everyone
Everyone that is not engage in essential activity to get off the streets and adhere to the curfew
If you are found to be in violation of the curfew police will be required to take action
Again I want to reiterate and make it clear please abide by the curfew that the mayor has set in place
People will be subject to arrest lastly
I know that many of you are familiar with the Metropolitan Police Department understand that there is no better agency in the country
Country to handle First Amendment
Events they happened on a regular basis here and I'll City however
Today's events were not representation of peaceful protest today what we with
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We are not the enemy
We're here to make a statement today
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From here we go forward and upward
I don't think that's the one that got shot that's outside show the one that got shot was inside
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What's the news today
I don't know how you doing
You said you breached security test tell me what you did earlier today I was not among the
First people who got into the Capitol Building there was some other people who were there
There's some other people who died near the scaffolding
So we're able to get inside there probably in total there was several hundred maybe up to a thousand
Protesters inside the Capitol Building myself and maybe 15 or 20 others were able to get into the Senate chambers
Where we saw the desk the voter rolls with the yeas and nays
And Mike Pence's Bible and everything basically just we want this
To be a a message to the system that has failed us time and time again and has not
We're not going to leave the city until we have a seat at the table and where
Awaiting President Trump's orders
Yep when we we we spent a few minutes in there and when
Security when police came through and asked us to leave we we do not resist we left peacefully
They were coming through saying you need to leave
I know it's on the protesters outside they were using tear gas rubber bullets and the batons
As far as my involvement totally peaceful
I'm sure you knew that breach the security but you still felt
Just put it in your own words why you did that
Well in terms of legality I think that I think the real crime here is stealing an election that's
Highly illegal and we have massive evidence of that in a number of Swing states which would have
Totally turn the election 100% so I think that we
Exhausted our options here and we we need to at all costs make sure they
That we have election Integrity make sure that President Trump knows that we are here for him we are
Vacuum 100% whatever he decides to do
I will text you later on the FaceTime from ABC7 and if you're willing to share some pictures of when you were in there I'd certainly
Where you from by the way
Thanks a lot for the Smithsonian one that's down
On the left when you go down a ways not directly yet to transfer
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Ashley wait we had a I think it's too late now but wait a ton
How to stuff going on concussion bangs and smoke can you at least keep me up so I can communicate with you with some great stories
Okay a whole ton of stuff just happened
Yeah yeah they did if they're rolling they just got it so
Welder gas is clearing up now there's more right now you or something
All kinds of gas yeah okay
Feisty just stay on that until they're about to come to me
Look at all that
Actually you can hear me look at the shot right now
I got to take it you've at least take it a pic you're going to lose
Is all the smoke if you don't
What Ashley
Actually I would at least take this as a split screen look at this you see all these bags
Ashley will be in a moment yet
It's probably guess I think
Police moving people down the steps there looks like
Actually I can just start talking without you seeing me is that alright
Alright I'm just going to stay on this and I'll start talking when they talk to me okay
Are they going to take a shortly
Do you have a sound bite
From me as well Ashley
You have a sound bite from you as well
Yeah
No it was supposed to be a new one at 5 regardless putting it together no not from the floor
Can you call Riddell real quick if he did it
For me it's related to this but
Okay if Brad doesn't have the shot I would really wrap it and get to me
We had a lot going on
Alright get ready to shown clearing the steps and
A whole lot more of that Allison
I can tell you over but just the last few minutes we've seen a lot of flashes we've heard a lot of bangs and we've seen Allah
A lot of smoke and Rich if you can zoom in you'll see that the police are trying to clear the area of the step
Protesters took over that area much earlier this afternoon and police earlier
Clear the bleachers of protesters up above you see the bleachers at the top of your screen and now they're trying to get protesters off the
Steps here on the West side of the US Capitol and it appears slowly but surely they are being successful at that
And again over just the last few minutes we seem really bright flashes coming from that area they're easier to see
Now that it's getting dark and we've heard those bangs as I mentioned and seen a whole lot of smoke over there as police try to clear
Clear that area I actually just talked with somebody a short time ago who at least claim to me he was one of the folks who got inside the building and
Into the Senate chamber earlier today he did say though that the president's message about asking for
Looks to stop this is having an impact on others I talked to said the cell service is so bad in that area they didn't even know the
The president had said that cuz they weren't getting messages on their cell phone but he said at least among some protesters the man I talked to
You claim to have gotten inside earlier today he said that that message by the present is having an effect in some do agree
Bet for tonight they need to go home but clearly not everyone is going home at the moment and police trying to clear this air
Area that they lost control of much earlier this afternoon on the west side of the capital and its ask for the
The man who got in when I talked to him he said when police confronted him inside after he had gotten in
They didn't draw guns on them they just said hey you guys need to leave and he said at least the group he was with agreed to leave
Right away he wasn't arrested or anything like that and he left the premises but a whole lot going on here in a lot is going on in just the last
A few minutes as police try to regain control of the outside area of the US Capitol here
Allison
I would I would take it
As a split screen or something at times Ashley
I don't I haven't heard anybody else describing what's going on outside US
She said leave the picture up she'll take it
Oh my God
Bad shape
What's happening
They're staying the last shooting in the capital was never like the famous Capital shooting that happened with officers or whatever years
Funny butt shot inside the capitol currently been like 20 some years but
As far as like protesters getting in never I'm sure it's happened in US history but
Not in my lifetime and or over 40
Never even get past
Timothy McVeigh
5 minutes on this camera battery and I got 20 left on the battery that I swapped with
What does that mean
Right now I got 45 minutes to 6
20 on this probably to your head at 6
If everything goes perfectly well
15 minutes to call Kelly
Hey Kelly battery wise were iffy for the 6th at this point can we like power down for like 15-20 on my gosh
20 minutes and it's where is Annalisa cuz I don't to be in the same spot as her
Okay are we still good where we are if you need us to move somewhere
Okay okay when should I be able
Go to go again or be ready to go again 5
Honestly not worth power down for that short of time
Also we could also go to like 5:30 and then power down until a little before 6 that would be an option as well
Okay okay
He may not since 5:30 like 10 12 minutes away it may not be worth doing it now but we can do it between 5:30 and 6
After the 6 we're going to have to start charging some stuff
Something alright alright cool but you got it covered with Annalisa if we had to go
After that right okay
5:30 is it worth powering down for a few minutes after 5:30 power down and don't do it again until the 6th.
I just don't want to lose your Shot Ya
What would stick to lose it for 6 it would stink to lose it for 6 yet
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I don't know but I would keep it take a bull
Like 33 degrees
It was worse than that
Which is a problem
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By the way
Ashley you hear me
Ashley do you hear me
I don't see the smoke
Yes
You hear me yes
Go home
Don't need that when
Constant shivering mode now
At least it's not raining
5:30
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Answer every time I talk to her
Really can't see much anymore
They definitely cleared
Others mostly officers up there now
Quite a bit off the capitol about tonight people to Temple
Lights out
You can go to me Ashley that won't happen to me
For the camera fix
Hopefully real
Which way okay
I don't know what they saw him talking don't even know if they're coming to me
Ashley you can take me
I don't know why they won't
Why they won't talk to me
I know
Pictures of
For you man
I was going to say anything
I just played
Alex
Okay
ICC were moving again
We can't see anything too dark
Okay
I want one of those now
Verify
I'm back I can hear you
Alright
I am back up
Increase volume
Cool
I don't either
We're leaving
I don't know please
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How to spell thorough
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Everyone
No no there's no violence put back yet
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So you can see Alex's shot right
So you can see how much the shot right
Yes I'm ready
I am ready
Okay
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There's nothing behind me
Need to have access
Trump supporters here at the moment
Long line of DC police
Pushed
Quarterback from the capital you can see you can see the western side of the White House as a capital
We have seen the area kids
Washington DC
Home
Gas mask looking at now
Local police departments in Washington DC
As well as their Federal counterparts US Capitol Police up in the capital.
Mobilized by Maribel
Even asking about arrest president
Just going to start arresting people on Skype
But that certainly could happen as the evening wears on and people stay out
Is now in effect
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I don't know if
Expedition
Scott
Search Patricio Alex's. We got the FBI going into the capitol
Heather Patton
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Okay thank you
Alright I'm about to move
FYI they're clearing the ground
Appreciate
Make sure everything is safe and secured
I want to
Okay
Right here right here
Trump supporters of riders has has dramatically decreased
They are being pushed back for Speed
Metropolitan Police Department
I'm away from the western side of the cap
Which is where much of this just why it started this afternoon
Hour or so
Avocado
For somebody that we had not seen earlier today so far away it was mainly limited to a different
Federal law enforcement agencies
Are the remnant Riders
The capital
Volume traitors Requiem sellout
There had a large number of riders have left
Okay cool
Oh okay that's why I
Call Jamie
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Jamie
Where is no
We're like
On the sidewalk
Where we supposed to go in the water
Pandora
Yes
You know we are past the point where the key was gone into a fax and now this is
DC police largely that are moving people back yeah it's been it's been similar
We have seen Indian pass protests here in DC where they'll draw a line dumbass up
And then you'll start hearing a new perimeter life and here we go
That's what's Happening Here is the police are walking people away from the capital
Back from the capital
Pretty commonplace in DC where there's a demonstration
Everyday of the week there's somebody yelling at a building in Washington so this sort of thing is is actually what the
Did you see police know how to do they do it very well and they are they are moving the Trump supporters
Nasty you can see there is still some of the Trump flags and things up ahead here that were we're walking toward
Instead we're being a big Move Along by the DC police National Guard the DC
You are so we are we're right at 1st and Moody person Delaware so right by
West front of the capitol
It's like 3rd and Jefferson
Yes absolutely in a crowd has gotten smaller nor I think that's important to note that DC Nash
National Guard people in military uniforms with shields that are part
Forsman action that's pushing these demonstrators back close
On our way from the capital work we're walking towards the native
Working Museum it has certainly been a remarkable day here you know
It was quite a sight word
Westwards away from the capital towards the Washington Monument the police line
Circling that group of protesters in the reflective gas with their helmets on
Already pushing what is what has been an aggressive
At least for the past hour or so
Back over here on this side of the capitol
Police having to use
Pepper spray tear gas some of those pepper balls that we have seen in in
Project cure in the nation's capital but you are very much
This large crowd
Number of trump supporters being pushed away from the capital
Clear the area to make the Capital Area
After an afternoon of violence we have been using that word over
Silver gangster to watch Americans breaking in two
The Capitol building
Went over to the right on this long the police that we were talking about
Tall plastic clear riot shield
Things can change very quickly when Darkness Falls it is now dark out here
There is no curfew I would imagine that many of these people out here know that there is a curfew and are still real
Resisting going home so this is if you will a more hardcore element that has yet
Magnitude of law enforcement out here
I would imagine that they will be rather effective in getting these Riders
Azaria Ford and pushing them away
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Is everybody
Succumbing to a periodical
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Hello doggy
Is my shot still hot right now
Call Eddie
Keep going
We're having hot is it
What's up
I don't understand your rights
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Doesn't make any sense
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All I said was don't walk around
Mommy
Like that
No it is
I'm not trying to change their mind
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What time is it 6:44
Hey Jamie
Pamer shots melted I can you hear me
Pamer shot father died
Hey can you can you hear me hello
Okay
Awesome one man that's amazing man
One minute
Did you find something to charge my charger isn't out
For God so now I'm just the rest of the night so hopefully you need
For your cell phone
When it's 7 yeah I am honey I'm not going to be on this car.
4 hours yeah that's what's eating up all the battery
Moving again
Where did Alex I hear them
Yeah we should be good till midnight
Regardless you're still leaving like in New York in the air
No but I'm just going to get the hell up and get out of here and just memory behind me now
I got to be a meeting I got to be home by like 3:30 or 9
Theoretically 5 but my life is. There's you know she's at school
I told him if I have to come down
Okay
Monstober body back into whatever
I hope you have a really good and I presented to take care of him
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If they're not around if they're not around I'm definitely with it
Just a lot of picture
You're spreading your message the entire world
What message are you telling you
Where at
I hear their shots not up yet I'm literally
Coronavirus
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Yeah they're still not up though
So that's a good thing
Show me kitchen camera we can move
Okay
Do I need to change IP
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To get a new light
Okay thanks
Yeah yeah
Switch over to your house.
No known for New York yet
Okay thanks
Pepper balls been a much lighter
More violent weather
That is going to happen now with the curfew is fully in effect and enforcement
Clear entire western side of the capitol
Protesters away from the Capitol building that was invaded earlier today era
Dishes with other cameras
New York haven't spoken to me yet they're having some issues
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But if it is why are there three crews in the same spot
No I never had any background but do my taxes all the time
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We're going to move cuz he going
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No it's okay just becoming a handful
They did that with the other protesters in so many they waited too long and then they cornered them
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Expect this to go on till tomorrow
Voice mailbox says busy
I really think it's going to be like a
Scary over until tomorrow
New York
You have 30 people juggling around
Freelancer
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Call Abby Jaime's at the same time
I'm talking to me I'm here
Live It Up
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They went to get here still no words
That's great that you have a impossible
I was working local here for 5 years
My neighborhood
Was like you know everybody used to say please take the camera inside
Opening up your car on your gate everybody
That's great
Theoretically about you don't know traffic is about 25 minute ride.
Arizona border of New York City and Long Island
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Driving
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Computer screen
You never had
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When we were in Pleasant Plaza
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