Madam speaker
The vice president and the United States Senate
Elsa house comes to order for this important his star
Leaving
Let us remind that each side House and Senate
Democrats and Republicans
Each have 11 members
Allowed to be present on the floor
Others may be in the gallery
This is at the gardens
I'll just
Officiating attending physician
Andaz sergeants at arm
The gentleman
On the Republican side of the Iowa please observe
The social distancing
And agreeing to what we had 11 numbers on each side
So that we
Responsibilities
This chamber to this responsibility at 2 this
House of Representatives please exit the floor
You can share with your staff if you want to have a few more
But you cannot together
More of the house with that many people in here and I thank the Senate
And a Democrat
Madam speaker members of Congress
Pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of the United States
Senate and House of Representatives are meeting a joint session
Verify the certificates and counts the votes of the electors of the several States
President and Vice President of the United States
After ascertainment has been had that the certificates are authentic
Corrected form
Tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors of the several States
The tellers
On the part of the two houses
Have taken their places at the clerk's desk
Without objection
The tellers will dispense with the reading of the formal portions of the certificates
After ascertaining that the certificates are regular in form and authentic
The tellers will announce the votes
Cast by the electors for each state beginning with Alabama
Which the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote
From that state and proportion to be a return from the state
That is annexed to it a certificate from an authority of that state reporting
2.4 ascertain electors
For what purpose does the gentleman from Virginia Run Elementary mr. vice president
In order to follow with the speaker's instructions that only a limited number of people be on the floor may I ask how one
Would make an objection or make a parliamentary inquiry in the future if you're not on the floor but in the gallery
Under Section 18 of title 3 of the United States code
Debate is not permitted into joint session
Gentlemen's recognize tree
Point of order would be made
In following with the speakers
Requested most of us not be on the floor
How do you make one of those points of order what's going to happen later
Respectfully
The gentlemen's parliamentary inquiry constitutes debate
Which is not permitted in the joint session under Section 18 of title 3
United States code
Table talk
Mr. president order in the chamber
The electoral vote of the state of Alabama seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there
From the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida received nine votes for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana received nine votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Alabama
At the teller has verified appears to be
Regular in form and authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Alaska the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state that
Purports to be a return from the state
And that is annexed to it a certificate from an authority of the state for porting
Kill point in ascertain
Electrics
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Alaska seems to be regular
Inform and authentic and it appears they're from that Donald J Trump at the State of Florida receive
Primo's for president and Michael are Pence the state of Indiana received three votes for
Vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Alaska
The teller has verified
Appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Arizona
The parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate amount that the state for points to be a return for the state
That is an extruded certificate from an authority of that state
Reporting to a point or ascertain Electrics
Mr. president
This certificate of the electoral votes of the State of Arizona seems to be regular
Inform and authentic and it appears there from that Joseph R Biden
Junior of the state of Delaware received 11 votes for president and.
Melody Harris of the state
Of California received 11 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate a vote of the State of Arizona that the teller is verified appears to be regular
I Paul gosar from Arizona a gentleman from Arizona
Myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the Electoral ballot from Arizona
Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator
Yes it is
Interjection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a senator
Complies with the law
Chapter 1 of title 3 of the United States code
The clerk will report the objection
Objection to counting the electoral votes of the State of Arizona
We a member of the House of Representatives
And a United States Senator
Object to the counting of the electoral votes of the State of Arizona
On the ground that they were not under all of the known circumstances
Regularly given
Are there further objections to the certificates from the state
Hub Arizona
The chair hears none
The two houses will withdrawing from joint session
Each house will deliver and separately on the pending objection
And report his decision back
To the Joint session
The Senate will now retire to his chamber
Senators are making their way across the capital into the upper chamber as the joint session
Of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College votes has been
Dissipated
They will now go and debate in their respective Chambers
The objection heard right there to Arizona's Electoral College votes
Katherine Tully McManus is a reporter Congressional reporter for CQ roll call
What just happened
So what happened right there in the joint session is that won the Arizona electoral
Votes were brought
For the joint session to be counted and recognized by Congress
Paul gosar of Arizona Republican along with 60 of his colleagues
In the house
Registered an objection to those electoral votes
And as required
A senator joined in that objection
Which made it valid to be debated in each chamber
What Mike Pence the vice president who's presiding over the session just said is she sent
The house
Remain in the house chamber and sent the Spanish Retreat to their own chamber
And they will now begin debate on this abduction
Of the electoral votes
Cost for Joe Biden
In Arizona
The description was really technical but under all known circumstances the
The votes were not regularly given
The objectors will be elaborating and
Getting more into the details of the issue that Basie and Democrats who are in
Port of
Recognizing these boats
Will be defending their position. Joe Biden's electoral votes are rightfully his
How quickly do suspect the house will gavel into its session to debate
This objection
It could be relatively quickly I think that
We will see each chamber will have to go through some the basic
Procedural rigmarole to
The debate started
But they know that they're this is the first of what could be up to 6
Objections which each have this long debate time with will be extended
There needs to be a bow at the end of these debates
Which are extended durakovic restrictions in each camper
They know there's a very long day and night ahead of them
My guess is that efficiency would be a priority for the leadership
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi she
Remains in the chair
In the chamber
What would she be doing today
She has said that she will be in the chair
During these abductions during debate
Questioning the validity of
President-elect Joe Biden's electoral votes
Of course
She rarely presides over the chamber when she leaves that is usually not only
Very big moment we saw it during the end of impeachment we see it during the start of a new Congress
And other key details
But
This shows how important this defense is for Democrats against
These allegations of malfeasance in New Hampshire
All right now you decide debate is 2 hours will they take the full 2 hours
That
We will see
Republicans certainly
Along west of things that they would like to get through an airing of grievances but it's important to note
Simple leader that Republicans are split civil leadership
In both the House and Senate
All Republicans are not necessarily on
Fully onboard with these challenges
So they can use procedural tools and even
They run the debate so they can even have members who are not fully on board with these challenges
Their speakers
Which
Will not help the cause of the challenges and could speed things along if they do things like return their tie
Okay so Katherine Kelly McManus will come back to you the houses Gabaldon
In the speakers announce policies of January 4th 2021
Accordance with the guidance and advice of the attending physician
Numbers advised to remain in the chamber only if they are participating in debate
And must wear a mask at all times even when under recognition for debate
Members must also practice
Proper social distancing when present in the chamber
Let the record show
I'll get there was a gross violation
All this guidance from the attendance on the Republican side of the aisle
Please in the interest of your own health
And as an example to the American people
Abide by the numbers
Now up to 25 on each side of the aisle to participate and
This stage of the development pursuant to Senate concurrent resolution 1
For someone to send it to cart resolution one and section 17 of title 3
Aldi West United States code
When the two houses withdraw from The Joint session
To count the electoral vote
Four separate consideration of an objection
A representative may speak to the objection
For five minutes and not more than once
Debate shall not exceed 2 hours
After which the share will put in the question
Shell the objection V agree to
The clerk will report the objection made in the joint session
Objection to counting the electoral votes of the State of Arizona we a member of
The House of Representatives and a United States Senator objected the counting of the electoral votes of the state of Aries
Arizona on the ground that they were that they were not
Under all of the known circumstances regularly given
Signed Paul gosar representative State of Arizona
Ted Cruz Senator state of Texas
Thank you
The charitable Endeavor to alternate recognition between members seeking support of the objection and Men
Ever seeking opposition to the objection the chair represents recognizes the gentleman from Lucia
Nana misses kaliste for 5 minutes
Thank you madam speaker I rise today to object
To a number of states
That did not follow the Constitutional requirement for selecting
Electors
Madam speaker this is something that is clear that our founding fathers
Debated
About as a fundamental
Decision of how we choose our president
There was a lot of back-and-forth if anyone reads
The founding documents of our country
About
The different versions they went through to ultimately come up with a process
Where each state has elections
Each state has a process for selecting their electors and sending them to Washington
And Madam speaker in a number of those states that constitutional process was not followed
And that's why we're here to abject
If you look
At what the requirements says
Nowhere
In Article 2 Section 1 does it give the Secretary of State
Of a state that ability nowhere doesn't give the governor that ability nowhere does it give
A quart
That ability it exclusively gives that ability to the legislators and in fact in Most states that's
The process that was followed
But for those States
That this wasn't followed
Unfortunately this is not
New
We seen
Over and over again
More states where the Democrat Party has going in and selectively going around this process
That has to end Madam speaker we have to follow the Constitutional process
No there might be reasons
Why some people don't like the process laid out by legislative body
Madam speaker I served on one of those legislative bodies when I was in the state legislature for 12 years
I served on the house and governmental Affairs committee where we wrote the laws
For our states elections
And I could tell you when we had to make changes
Those were extensively negotiated
We would have people on both sides come Republicans and Democrats Madam speaker
Would get together to work through those changes any my new change
How appreciate would function
2 how what change would be made in the time of an election signature requirements all the many things
That involved a clerk carrying out the duties
In each Parish in our case
You would see people come and give testimony
Madam speaker both sides could come Clerks of Court where they're in the hearing room it was an open process by the
The way
Met behind closed doors in a smoke-filled room
Where somebody might want to bully a secretary of state to get a different version that might benefit them
Are there party or their talents that's not what our founding fathers said is the process
Maybe it's how some people wanted to carry it out
But they laid out that process
And so when we would have to make those changes they were in public view they were heavily debated
And then ultimately those laws were changed in advance of the election so everybody
Knew what the rules were
People on both sides
Know how to play the rules before the game started not getting somewhere in the process and saying well you don't
I think it's going to benefit you so you try to go around the Constitution that's not how our system works
It's gotten out of hand
It's a President Trump has called this out
If President Trump is stood up to it so many of us
Has stood up to it and it's fact
Over a hundred of my colleagues Madam speaker asked the Supreme Court to address this problem
Just a few weeks ago
And unfortunately
The court chose to punt
They didn't answer one way or the other they didn't want to get in the middle of this discussion
We don't have that luxury today
We have to discuss this we have to fix this
Effect on our first full day of this Congress
Many of us brought legislation
On to the house floor to start fixing the problems with our elections to restore integrity
To the election process which has been lost by so many millions of Americans and we vote
Every single Republican voted to reform the process every single Democrat voted against it
They don't want to fix this problem
What the Constitution
Is our God
And it's time we start following the Constitution it's time we get back
To what our founding fathers said is the process
For selecting electors that's the legislators
In public View
Not behind closed doors not smoke-filled rooms
Not bullying somebody that might give you a better ruling let's get back to rule of law and follow the concert
Tution Madam speaker and I yield back the balance of my phone
For what purpose does the gentlewoman
What purpose does the gentlewoman from California seek recognition strike
Protections gentleman is recognized for my speakers speaker this day marks the crossroads
For American democracy
Those who objected the counting of the Electoral College votes which reflect the votes of the American people
What's the set what to substitute their preferences for the voters choice
That's not what our constitution requires and it's at odds with American Democratic Republic
Congress selects the next president instead of American voters
Will have no need for an electoral college in fact we have no need for presidential elections at all
We be moving from a government elected by the people
Two governments elected by those already governing
That's not America
In the United States we abide by the choices of the people not an elite few
The framers of our Constitution considered whether to have Congress elect the president and specifically rejected it
Instead they would Article 2 and the 12th Amendment
Article 2 creates the Electoral College
For each state appoints electors
Laws of all 50 states and DC require electors to vote for the winner of the state's popular election
Each state provides for the orderly conduct of Elections including waffle challenges recounts and the like
The 12th Amendment is what brings us to today it says the electors meet in their states that happened December 14th
The amendment says the electoral cast their votes sign and certify them
Transmit them to a seal that's been done
The sealed envelopes containing the sign certified ballast from each State's electors reflecting the boats of
The people wearing those mahogany boxes
The 12th Amendment directs the president and the vice president is President of Senate to do only this
Open the sealed envelope and then the vote shall be counted simple
It doesn't say counted in a manner that some members of Congress that the vice president might prefer no
The boats are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states
During reconstruction after the Civil War more than one slate of electors were appointed by States
Dueling list for Santa and protracted process these were undertaken in presidential elections
And as a result
To make an orderly process
Congress enacted the Electoral count Act of 1887 this law governs our proceedings today
The active Ides
Dispute
Resolution mechanism under the ECA if a governor certifies a slate of electors and there are no competing
Flights from that state
The governor certified slate must be counted
Today every single slave electors won by Joe Biden or one by Donald Trump
Got their Governors certification not a single state submitted a competing slay there's no dispute resolved
The 2020 election was the most secure election conducted in modern history
Challenge were resolved by lawful recounts and audits the result Vice President Biden won
In the 2020 election
More than 60 lawsuits were filed
I'm contesting elements of the election process
None of these lawsuits prevailed why
As even President Trump's own judicial appointees ruled there was no evidence of any wrongdoing
That would change the outcome
The people spoke it was not a close election
The margin of victory for Biden in 2020
Was larger than Trump's margin in 2016
In fact the Biden Victory is one of the most decisive in modern times
Exceeding the margins enjoyed by Reagan when he defeated Carter in 1980
Congress is gathered and Joint session dekat electoral votes
Every four years since 1789
I understand the disappointment people feel when their candidate for president loses
I felt the same several times in my voting life
When that happens it's not an invitation to upend the Constitution
And the laws of the United States
It's an invitation to work with the new president for the good of the country
And the wait for the next election in 4 years if you are dissatisfied
In that spirit I heard my colleagues to a pole the American democracy
And reject the objection
And I yield back the balance of my time
What purpose does the gentleman from Ohio seek recognition
Without objection to gentleman is recognized for five minutes there was something
Wrong with this election
During the campaign Vice President Biden would doing it didn't get 50 people at the event President Trump
At just one rally gets 50000 people
President Trump increases but with African-Americans increases but with Hispanic Americans 1-19-20 Bellwether County one Ohio
Dial by 8
Iowa by 8 in Florida by 3 got 11 million more votes any didn't 2016 and House Republicans 127
227 toss-up races but somehow
The guy who never left his house
When's the election
80 million Americans 80 million of our fellow citizens Republicans and Democrats have doubts about this election
It's 60 million people
60 million Americans think it was stolen
But Democrats say no problem
No worries
Everything's fine
We asked for an investigation
We ask German Adler chairwoman Maloney
For the desiccation they said no
When one investigate something that half the electorate has doubts about
It's just the presidency of the United States
Why
Why not one single investigation why not even one single hearing over the last nine weeks in the United States House of
Representatives why
Because all the Democrats care about is making sure President Trump isn't President
For 4 and 1/2 years that's all they cared about
July 31st 2016 before he was elected the first time
Jim comey's FBI takes out the insurance policy
Open investigation on the president
Based on nothing
May 17th 2017 Bob morning special counsel
2 years to investigate the Russia hoax
19 lawyers
40 agents
+ 40 million dollars of taxpayer money for nothing
December 18th
2019
Democratic house members
Vote to impeach
President-trump
Based on an anonymous whistleblower with no first-hand knowledge who was bias against the president and who worked
Poor Joe Biden
But now that works
It's hard as they try none of that worked they threw everything they had at him
So what they do next
They change the rules
They changed the election law
And they did it an unconstitutional fashion
And that's what we're going to Shell over the next several hours of debate
The Constitution is clearest
As a whip scalise just said
State legislatures and only state legislature set election law
In Arizona
The law says voter registration ends on October 5th
Democrat said we don't care what the law says
They went to a court got an Obama appointed judge
2 extended 18 days
No debate has Steve talked about
No debate no discussion you just did it
Pennsylvania same thing
Pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots have to be in by 8 p.m. election day
Democrat Supreme Court said nope
We're going to extend it
Lexington doesn't on Tuesday now
They took it to Friday extended the election 3 days not the legislature
Partisan Supreme Court
Pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots require signature verification
Democrat Secretary of State said
Nope
I'm going to decide by myself that it doesn't
42.6 million ballots
Pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots
Can't be processed until election day
Some County said no
And you can imagine Which counties they were
Democrat-run County said no one allowed ballots
To be cured and fixed
Before election day
They did an end run around
The Constitution
In every state
That Republicans will eject you today
Every single one
It was a pattern it was there template
They did it in Arizona they did it in Georgia they did it in Michigan they didn't Pennsylvania they didn't have added they didn't risk
And yet some of our members
Some members say don't worry about it
We shouldn't do anything
Just let it go
It was just extinct
To violate the constitution
What if it's 10 states next time
What if it's 15
What happened 20 24 2028 it's 26 days what if it's half the states
Do an end-run about the Constitution clearly spelled out
We
We are the final check and balance
The Authority rest with us
The United States Congress the body closest to the American people right where the founders wanted it
We should do our duty
We should object to nnnn both for this objection to the Arizona
Electors
Madam Sara you'll back
Thank you
Purpose does the gentleman from California seek recognition
Unspeakable Rising opposition to the objection
The gentleman is recognized without objection for 5 minutes
Madam speaker a little more than two months ago America performed an extraordinary feat
Under some of the most trying circumstances in our history our fellow citizens conducted
A free and fair election
Vindicating our Founders belief once again that we were capable of self-government
And a peaceful transition of power
On November 3rd the American people chose Joe Biden to be there next president by an enormous margin
The successful conduct of that election among the most secured American history
Was not an accident
It was the result of the dedicated work of thousands of volunteers canvassers poll workers
Electors and state and local election officials
When the conduct of any state election was challenged
The courts through judges appointed by democrats and those appointed by Republicans
Heard unsubstantiated claims of fraud
Found it had no merit
And said so
But most important the American people persevered
In the midst of the worst pandemic in a century
America had one of the most impressive elections in a century with historic voter turnout
Our fellow citizens did their civic duty
The question we face today
Is will we do ours
That we are here
With a substantial number of our members seeking to overturn an election is remarkable
Tragic
And all too predictable
What is the natural result of a locomotive set in motion months ago with a myth
For weeks and weeks before during and after our election a dangerous falsehood was propagated
That election would be marred by Massive fraud
Nevermind it was the same election
Which brought the very men and women to this chamber who would challenge its results
What value has consistency when measured against ambition
A former senator from Georgia
Remarking on a contested election over a century ago
Said that
Able man learned men distinguished man great men in the eyes of the nation
Seemed intent only on accomplishing a party Triumph
Without regard to the consequences to the country
That is human nature
That is he said
Unfortunately party nature
Was he right
We stand in a house
Which was once the place of giants
Have we become so small
Does our oath to uphold the Constitution
Taken just days ago
Mean so very little
I think not
I believe to quote our dear departed friend Elijah Cummings that we are better than that
I think Elijah would be proud that the debate here today is not between Democrats and Republicans
And that some Republicans
Including the Republican leader of the Senate
Remain devoted to the principle that we are a nation of laws
Not individuals
Let alone a single individual
It may seem unfair to the new members who have only just taken the oath for the first time
That they should be so soon tested
Was one of the most consequential votes
They make a snowman or how long they serve but it is so
And none of us can shrink from that responsibility
Nor can we control ourselves with the intoxicating fiction
That we can break that oath without consequence
Because doing so will not succeed in overturning the election
An oath
Is no less broken
When the breaking fails to achieve its end
We must be mindful
That any who seek to overturn it election will do injury to our constitution whatever the result
For just as the propagation of that dangerous myth about this election made this moment inevitable our actions today
Will put another train in motion
This election will not be overturned
But what about the next
Or the one after that
What shall we say
When are democratic Legacy is no more substantial than the air
Except that we brought trouble to our own house
And inherited the wind
This isn't the first time
We've had a contentious election and it won't be the last
In 1800 John Adams lost a closely contested election to Thomas Jefferson
In the first peaceful transition of power
From one party to another in our history
Adams was hardly pleased with the results using to skip the inaugural activities
But he did with leaders are required to do in a democratic government when they lose
He went
Home
He went
Home
Jefferson
How's my timer
Would later referred to his victory as the Revolution of 1800 but marveled at the revolution had occurred by the rational and pee
Peaceful instruments of Reform the suffrage of the people
It is never been our place to overturn election
And if we hope to remain a democracy and never will be
Does the gentleman from Arizona to recognition
Projection the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Of electors from my home state of Arizona as well as Georgia Pennsylvania Wisconsin
Michigan and Nevada because election Integrity is the heart of our American constitutional republic
In a representative form of government we must be able to trust that our elections accurately represent
The will of the American voter
This is the appropriate form anticipated and provided for by our Founders to debate whether this election complied
With the Constitution that we've all sworn to protect
Every particular of the Constitution is to be protected including Article 2
Section 1
The debate as to the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election
Has been suppressed by the left
And it's propagandist in the media
Until today
State legislatures are required to determine the manner in which electors are chosen
Arizona names of selectors on the general election ballot and identifies what candidate those electors are required to vote
What for should that candidate obtained the majority of votes in the general election
It's part of the manor for determining electors
Arizona also establishes deadlines for voter registration
The deadline has been in place for 30 years
This year
The voter registration deadline was October 5th
Early voting commenced two days later
5 days before the deadline
A group
Filed a lawsuit demanding that are Arizona election officials not enforce the deadline
The federal district court decided that since other states have a deadline later than Arizona's
And some even allowed for registration on voting that Arizona's new deadline would be a time
He chose
Not the legislators timeline
The Appellate Court effectively overturned a lower-court ruling and noted that the Arizona deadline established by the state legislature
Was sound
Inappropriate and complied with the Constitution
But the Appellate Court
Merely shortened
Extension the bypassing of the deadline
210 days
The Appellate Court without legal justification also decided that everyone who registered after the legal deadline
But before the deadline created by judicial Fiat
Could still vote
Note that the Arizona legislature was no longer control of determining the matter of appointing presidential like stores
Because the court had said a new deadline
Even though the Appellate Court found the legislature's deadline was constitutionally sound
During that window
More than 32000 voters registered in Maricopa County alone
Here are copies of those voter registration records
It going around the deadline set by the legislature
The court ignored the Arizona legislature legislators obligation and right
Direct manner for choosing presidential electors
As set forth in Article 2 Section 1
As a consequence
Of that judicial usurpation
More than 32000 people were allowed to unlawfully cast ballots
In Arizona's presidential election in 2020
Arizona legislature seeks an independent audit of the election
The governor refuses now to call them into special session
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has refused to comply with legislative subpoenas
In Arizona the people who control the evidence related to the election have done everything possible
To prevent an independent audit directed by the legislature
Arizona's have used the limited amount of Records available to investigated investigate the 2020 presidential election
A limited sample of 1000 addresses of Voters
They found 539 voters
Did not live at the dresses on the voter rolls
Here is a stack
I'm a thousand Declaration of affidavit supporting that
I objected to continue counting the votes of Arizona lectures because the federal courts
Went around the legislatively constructed mechanism for choosing Arizona's presidential electors
11 tens of thousands of Voters to unlock Lake houseboats
The coach port usurped a key component of the Arizona legislators Manor
Selecting presidential electors
Does violating Article 2 Section 1
Which place is being obstructed in its efforts
And
What little evidence we have
A little information we have is produce this kind of an Evidence which indicates a significant problem with the Integrity of the
The presidential election
Madam speaker I asked my comments
My written comments together with the voter registration records that reflect a 32000 registrations
Permitted to in contravention of state law
Letters and resolution from Arizona legislators pertaining to the County votes from electors
Along with approximately 1000 affidavits and declarations
Pertaining to potential voter fraud in Arizona the 2020 presidential election
And the statement of Congressman Randy Weber Texas be made a part of the record
Academic for what purpose does the gentleman from Maryland seek recognition
Addition to the objection
The gentleman is recognized without objection for 5 minutes first and
And all my dear beloved colleagues for your love and tenderness which my family and I
Will never forgotten
Thank you again
Abraham Lincoln
Whose name is a comfort
To us all
Said we've got the best government
The world ever knew
It's best because the first three words of the Constitution
Tawas
Who governs here
We the People
Watch this proceeding today
And tell the world with pride as Lincoln did
About the brilliant meaning
And promise of our country
Our government belongs to the people
As President Ford said here the people rule
Today we are in the people's house to complete the people's process
For choosing the people's president
We assemble and Joint session for a solemn purpose
That we've all sworn a sacred oath
To Faithfully discharge
The 12th Amendment obligates each and everyone of us
2 count
The electoral votes
To recognize the will of the people in the 2020
Presidential election we are not here
Madam speaker
To vote for the candidate we want
We are here to recognize the candidate
The people actually voted for
In the states
Madam speaker
The 20
20
Election is over
And the people have spoken
Joe Biden receive
More than 80 million votes 7 million more than President Trump a number larger than any other president has received
15 US history
The sweeping popular Victory translated
Into an electoral college victory
Of 306 to 232
The margin with President Trump pronounce the landslide
When he won those by those exact same numbers
In 2016
So now we count the electoral votes that were just delivered to us
In the beautiful mahogany cases brought by those hard-working Senate pages
These
Mahogany cases contain only the 538 electoral votes that were sent in by the states
Not the 159 million ballots that were cast by our constituents
2 months ago
By hundreds of thousands of election officials in pool workers
Across America who risk their health and even their lives in the time of covid
To deliver what our Department of Homeland Security called the most secure election in American his
History
Many of these officials have enjoyed threats of Retribution
Violence and even death
Just for doing their job
This is the popular vote was for Biden so was the electoral vote on December 15th Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Recognized it
The electoral college has spoken
Senator McConnell said from the senate floor today I want to congratulate
President-elect Joe Biden yet we have seen an escalating attacks on our election
With unfounded claims of Fraud and Corruption more than 60 lawsuits have been brought today
Seeking to overturn the results they have failed repeatedly and they have failed spectacularly every objection we here
Here today maligning are States
And their officials both Republican and Democrat
Has been litigated
Adjudicated in obliterated in both federal and state courts
The president has not just had his day in court my friend he has had more than two months in court
Looking for a judge to embrace these arguments in more than 50 cases Madam speaker at least 288
Different judges including many
Appointed by the president himself
Have meticulously rejected
The president's claims of Fraud and Corruption
Take Georgia US District Judge Steven grimberg
Named to the bench by President Trump this year
He last year he rejected Trump's prayer
The block certification of Biden's victory in Georgia
Saying it has
No basis in fact
Or law
Take us District Judge Brett Ludwig
Another Trump nominee who took the bench in September
He dismissed the lawsuit seeking to overturn the results in Wisconsin call it an extraordinary
A sitting president who did not Prevail in his bid for re-election his ask for federal court help and setting aside
The popular vote
Please phone issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred
He wrote
This court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case
And he has lost
On the merits
Trump is ask for the rule of law to be followed George Ludwig observed and he said definitively it has been
5-minute concerts in law professor for 30 years
If I were to test my students on these decisions it would be the easiest test in the world because the plaintiff's have lost Nero
Nearly every case and every issue in the most sweeping terms that's all they would have to remember there is
There's no basis in fact or law to justify the unprecedented relief
This being requested of nullifying these elections we are here to count the votes let us do our job
Camelcamelcamel
Thank you
For what purpose does the gentlewoman from Colorado seek recognition
I Rise to support the objection
All of the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes thank you madam speaker and to ease everyone's nerve I want you
You to all know that I'm not here to challenge anyone to a duel like Alexander Hamilton or Aaron for
Madam speaker my primary objection to the counting of the electoral votes
How did State of Arizona is based on the Constitution and the direction of State legislatures
Through state law as spelled out in the following two Clauses Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2
Payson Park and I quote each state shall appoint in such manner as a legislator there
Made direct a number of electors
And
The election Clause of the Constitution provides state legislators with explicit authority to prescribe and I quote
The times places and manners of holding elections in quote
For more than three decades Arizona law set by the state legislature has required
The voter registration in no later than 29 days before an election this is clear it is
Unless amended by the state
Legislature this is the way it needs to be carried out
In Arizona the deadline for voter registration for the 2020 presidential election was October 5 2020
Using covid
As a reasoning Democrats build a mothballed a lawsuit to extend this deadline by 18 days
An injunction was made by the Obama appointed judge preventing the Arizona secretary of state from enforcing
The Constitutional deadline
Set by the state legislature results
August frivolous
Partisan lawsuit
10 extra days
We're added via judicial Fiat
To allow voter registration these ten days were added after voting had already begun this is completely
Defensible you cannot change the rules of an election while it is underway
And expect
The American people to trust it
No
Independent.
At least
30000
Arizona
All the boats are unconstitutional it does not matter if they voted for President Trump or they voted for Vice
For the election
The law states October 5th either we have laws or we do not
If we lost eight election laws at 4:30 state legislature to be ignored and manipulated on the web
Partisan lawsuit unelected bureaucrat
Order order
The house will be in order
If we allowed state election laws at set forth by state legislators to be ignored and manipulated on the whims of partisan lawsuit
Unelected bureaucrats
Unlawful procedures and arbitrary rules and our constitutional republic
Exist
That I took discount Sunday to defend and support
The Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty
Otherwise the laws passed by the Legislative Branch nearly become its suggestions to be accepted reject
Or manipulated by those who did not pass them Madam speaker I have constituents outside this building right now I pray
It's my motor to be their voice
In this branch of government in which I now serve
It is my separate-but-equal obligation to weigh in on this election and abject
Are we not a government by and for the people
I know this is to let you know I am sent here to represent them I will not
Allow the people ignored
Madam speaker is my duty under the US Constitution to him Jets
Electoral votes in the states
Arizona today and accept
The results of this concentrated coordinated partisan efforts by democrats
Where every fudge-like vote
Cancels out the boat
North America had sided with the extremist less the United States Congress needs to make an informed decision and that
Ejection I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Florida mr. Brian Matt
Turn speaker arises well to support the objection and I Rise with a simple question
Can the chair honestly tell Americans that would pending Supreme Court legislation or September
Supreme Court case over legal Observers
Not being allowed to observe and inspect signatures
That the laws and Constitution
Of that state for not violated to change voting outcomes Madam speaker I will wait for a response
Woman has 25 seconds remaining question can you honestly tell Americans
That would pending Supreme Court case
Over legal observers not being able to observe and inspect signatures
That the laws and Constitution of Arizona
Did not be violated to change voting outcomes and I will wait for a response
Germantown fire what purpose does the gentleman from Colorado seek recognition
Madam speaker I rise in opposition to the objection
Rejection to gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker today is
An important day
It 1862
During the depths of the Civil War President Lincoln
Submitted his annual message
The Congress
The Best Buy
And it he wrote the phone
Fellow citizens we cannot Escape
History
We of this Congress
And this Administration
Will be remembered In Spite of Ourselves
The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor
Or dishonor
To the latest generation we shall nobly save
Or meanly lose
The last best
Hope of Earth
We Gather today Madam speaker to ensure the survival of our grand American experiment
The greatest democracy
This world has ever known and there are millions
Are people watching today's proceedings the eyes of the world
Honest now my colleagues wondering
If we will keep the faith
Wondering
If our constitutional
Republic
Will Holt
Will we adhere
Our constitution that's all them
Visionary document that has guided us
So well for so long and enabled the peaceful transfer of power
The last 230 years
Will we continue to be a country
Premise
On the consent of the governed
A Congress that respects the will of the people in a republic that will endure those are
The questions
Before us today
Madam speaker
With respect to my new colleague from Colorado the question is not
What are Joe Biden
Was elected the 46th president of the United States
He clearly
Was
The people of Arizona
Like so much of the country spoke clearly
And resultantly
They voted in record numbers
And over 81 million Americans selected
Joe Biden
As the next
President now
Today we hear from some
In the stable not all
But some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle
Vague claims are fraud
No substance
No evidence
No facts
No explanation for why / 88
Judges across this land have rejected the very same claims
Madam speaker the bottom line is this
As my colleague representative Raskin so eloquently put it the people
I've spoken
And that is why on December 14th
The Electoral College meant to certify the election of a duly elected president just
Is they've done for centuries
Current terrible world wars
Recessions depressions
Plagues and pandemics
Lima
They met their Duty
And they once again Rose to the occasion and certified the election in the question now
Is will we do ours now
I know there are many
Textualist
Among Us
Many of my colleagues who would understand that the constitution
Must guide our work today and the Constitution is crystal clear
Our duty today is in Maryland
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 3 reads the president of the Senate shell in the present
Of the Senate and the house
Open all the certificates and the votes to be counted
The person having the greatest number of votes
Shelby
The president
That's it
.
Our job is not to replace the judgement made by the American people with our own
And yet that is precisely what so many of my house and Senate Republican colleagues
Ask this body to do
To substitute
Their judgment
For the expressed will of the American people
In America we don't do that
Give me United States we accept the results
Free and fair elections
We don't ignore the will of the voters Madam speaker
And attempt to install a preferred candidate into our power into power that doesn't happen here
Enclose
With this our Duty or task
Is a very simple one
Honor the voice of the people
To honor our constitution
2 count
Votes
Certify
This election
And begin to heal
This great country of ours
A tray
Each of us may find the courage
To do so
Without you'll bet
My pajamas
What purpose does the gentleman from Louisiana seek recognition
The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker we have a solemn responsibility today
We must vote to sustain objections to states of electors
Submitted by states that we genuinely believe
Clearly violated the Constitution and the presidential election of 2020
This is the threshold legal question before us
And it's an issue before us for the State of Arizona
We got to repeat this for emphasis because a lot of people seem to be confused
Because judges
And not the state legislature changed the rules of the election Arizona clearly violated the plane
Language of Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution
In its selection of presidential electors
The framers of our constitution recognize that elections were susceptible to corruption we all know that
So how did they fix it
How do they provide for that
They created the Electoral College as a safeguard
And expressly empowered state legislators to ensure the Integrity of our unique election system
Only two state legislators because there are full body of Representatives and not Rogue officials
We're given the authority to direct a matter of appointing presidential electors because it was so important
The Supreme Court has acknowledged its over and over
They previously Affirmed
In Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2 quote the appointment of these electors is this place absolutely in holy
With the legislature's of the several states that Authority can never be taken away or advocated
The Arizona legislature didn't act detailed rules and procedures
But that steak was determined and are supposed to follow to choose its electors but in the months preceding the 2020
As we've heard it by the way a thousand pages of evidence
I just been submitted
On the facts on this
Those well-established rules and procedures were deliberately changed they weren't Changed by the legislature friends
They were changed by judges
And those actions taken by the Judiciary we're not limited to beer interpretations of existing ball nobody they were substantiv
Wholesale changes to those statutes
That's a usurpation of the authority
That the legislature had that usurpation was repeated across the country this year
It get it some it's the primary reason it's one of the reasons why the election of 2020 became riddled with an unprecedented number
Serious allegations of Fraud and irregularities all over the country
National polls has been said
Indicate that a huge percentage of Americans now have serious doubts about not just the outcome of this presidential contest but
Also the future reliability of our election system itself
Since we're convinced
Since we are convinced
But the election laws in Arizona and some other key states were changed in this unconstitutional manner
We have responsibilities today the slates of electors produced under those modified laws
Are that's unconstitutional
They are not regularly given or lawfully certified as required by the federal the Electoral count Act
And turns out on their face that's just
You have to reach
Given these inescapable facts we believe we have no choice today but the vote to sustain objections to those slates of electors
Mr. Raskin another sadaiv side of the 12th Amendment
They cite Article 2 Section 1 Clause 3 remember that cost 3 and they was certain that Congress has only one there
Today
We're just supposed to count the electoral votes that have been submitted
But those Advocates have overlooked a critical first principle that their assertion is is only true
So long as Congress first
Is convinced
The electoral votes that are produced by a process
That violates the Constitution is there like we got to get through Clause 2
Of Article 2 Section 1 before we get too close 3 is the point
Look at our unique system congress's position is the last bulwark in it
In a presidential election to ensure the Constitution has been followed indeed it just two decades
Just two decades ago
The Springport spoke to this they plainly acknowledge this important deliberative role of Congress
You're the famous Bush before court litigation that everybody remembers from 2000
Interpur curiam opinion meaning all nine justices it was unanimous
They noted strict adherence to the provisions of the Electoral count
Make
Quote create a safe harbor for estate
Insofar as Congressional consideration of its electoral votes is concerned
However they said
Unanimously the court said
Just title365 contains a principle of federal law that would assure finality of the state's attorney Nation if they
Followed all the prescriptions there
If a legislature
The legislature is tried to use his attempted we change by State Court
That is a problem that they said
Congress might deem to be a change in the law that's precisely why we're here right now go read Bush V Gore
You'll see this
Chief justice William rehnquist in
Scalia and Thomas join dinner in a concurring opinion eight days later and they reiterated this point
A significant departure for the legislature scheme for appointing presidential electors
Present a federal question
It's a big problem for us and it's when we cannot get around that's why we're here
I heard my colleagues today to look at the facts
The fall the law and follow our Congressional oath
We're supposed to support and defend the Constitution that's what we do here today
Urge everyone to do the right thing and are y'all back
Dermatologist are for what purpose does it
Diamond from Arizona the dean of the Arizona
Delegation seek recognition
Thank you madam speaker I rise in opposition to the objection
Gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Thank you madam speaker
This exercise in futility that Congress is undertaking is that the BS
Republican members of Congress
The effort to overturn the presidential election
And Grant Donald Trump four more years is
It's is the motivation behind it
And to continue a baseless
Conspiracy fueled
Threat to our democracy
Makes no sense
Because there is no viable constitutional
Or legal path
To overturn
The election
That would make
Vice President Biden considered her hair is president vice president of the United States after January 20th
One certain outcome of this whole process
Is the weakening of our democracy
And the threatening of our democracy
Beginning with Arizona
Congress is being asked just chased down a rabbit hole
Baseless
Discredited and judicially discarded
Prince conspiracy theories
But for the record let's talk a little bit about Arizona
Arizona
And state and local officials
Did an unbelievable job
To ensure that the 220 elections ran smoothly
Mr. Hickman
The Republican chairman of the Maricopa
Up
County party the largest county in the state of Arizona said
No matter how you voted this election was administered with integrity
Transparency
And in accordance with state laws
Arizona showed up to the polls in the record number
More than 3.4 million people voted
Increases in every County and a 65% of all eligible voters in Arizona voted in
The 2020 election
Arizona's Caster balance up and down
For republicans and Democrats
N11 electoral votes
We're gratitude Joe Biden
The kabala Harris based on their victory in Arizona
That's the story
Motor
Arizona voted in hundreds of races this year
And in addition to the presidency these races include nine members of the states
Congressional Delegation that are with you
Four of them my Republican colleagues
These members have already been seated in the hundred 17th Congress
They do not question the accuracy of Arizona's 220 elections
To selected Congressional Delegation
Yet
Mike for Republican colleagues
Question the presidential election
Our colleagues may say they are only questions are only asking questions and seeking to reach
Reassure voters
But let us be clear these questions have been answered by the voters
And by the courts
Rather than accepting the answers and the results of the election they're Fanning the flames and unfounded suspicions
And once again creating
Cut threat a very real and dangerous threat to our democracy
Again our friends do not question the outcomes of their own elections that is because they have no reason to
Just as they have no legitimate reason the questions the results of the presidential election
In Arizona
I asked my colleagues to reject the subjection
To respect the will of the voters in the state of Arizona throughout this country
And to fundamentally
Add
Some preservation to our democracy
From any future damage that this
Shepherds that we are undertaking in this house today
And in the Senate today
Does not further damage our democracy now you'll back
What purpose does the gentleman from Arizona seek recognition
The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker
I filed my petition challenge
Obviously of that electors from the state of Arizona
There was actually put forward by Governor Ducey of Arizona
My ask to you the speaker to the vice president is simple
Do not count these electors until and unless
The secretary of state allows a forensic audit
How the election request she is denied repeatedly
We have been told over and over that even though this was public Republican election
Using public money on public machines utilizing public employees
The public today has no ability to Simply double-check the veracity of these results
The presidential election was a football game we would get a slow-motion review from multiple angles
And the correction of a controversial decision
But not so we are told by our Secretary of State for the presidential election
No root no review for you
No access to the Dominion voting machines with a documented history of enabling fraud through its now-discredited a Jew
Education system
Assistant that literally allows one person to change tens of thousands of boats
In the mirror
Minutes
And you only audit done in Arizona
A court found
3% error rate against President Trump
Vice President Biden's margin of error was 1/10 of that at .03%
By the way
A 3% error rate at minimum is $90.000
After finding the 3% error rate
The courts drop you off and refuse to go further
In Arizona as my attachments makes clear
Mail-in ballots were altered on the first day of counting as shown in data grassweave provide
As concluded by data analyst
Over 400.000 mail-in ballots were altered switch from President Trump to Vice President Biden
Or completely erased from President Trump's totals
The proof is in the Counting Crows The Cure's that cannot occur except with also rare and unlikely
That winning the Mega Millions lottery is more probable
Maps
Mr. speaker can I have order in the chamber
The house will be in order
Those will be in order okay
The hustle
In order to be in order
Marysville take their seats the house will be in order
Okay
We can resume
Without objection to cheer declares the house in recess pursuant to Clause 12v of rule one
The house is gone into recess we are learning on Capitol Hill from following Congressional reports up there
From the reporter Center
In the chamber in both the house and the Senate
Menagerie of CNN is reporting that the capitals now on lockdown amid a tense situation with Demeter
Traders outside the building according to Capitol cops
One of their producers Ted Barrett
Tried to leave the building couldn't because cops at the building is on lockdown people are being
Order to stay inside their offices now the house
Has gone into recess the Senate
Has also gone into recess subject to call of the chair
We are onto an Twitter
Molly Hooper who covers Capitol Hill saying that protesters are in the building that was overheard
Caught off mic while Senator Lankford in the Senate
Was speaking
Shortly after then Chuck Grassley gavel to send it out subject to call of
The chair
So do you have a couple blocks down with lawmakers inside
As the Trump supporters
Outside
Have reach the capitol steps according to CNN
And we've all heard also saw reports that reporters were told
But if
They enter
If these protesters enter the Capitol building
But the price would be ushered into their respective Chambers the house and the senate in the doors
Would be locked
Obviously
A lot unknown right now and watching this says it all
Unfolds
Earlier episode of Haley Stevens
From Michigan
Send a tweet saying I'm Sheltering in place in my office
The building next door has been evacuated I can't believe I have to write this now that was when Cannon was evacuated
Just for some sort of threat
By the Capitol Police
I saw media reports that that there has been an all-clear in that let's just watch
The Senate chamber floor right now
Alright so you just saw the Slate go up in the Senate
As they are in recess subject call to the chair also reporting that
Vice president Mike Pence he was presiding over the debate
In the Senate
He was then left the chamber
Press Keller doors were locked at that point and then put in
To lockdown other media reports that the vice-president has left
And so while we are waiting to learn
More about what is happening up on Capitol Hill
+ 4
The debates in the house and the Senate to resume
Let's show you what Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had to say
As that chamber began their debate over the first objection to the electoral college and that was over
The state
Of Arizona
We're debating a step
But it never been taken
In American history
Whether Congress should overrule the voters
And overturn
A presidential
Election
After 36 years in the Senate
This will be
The most important vote
I've ever cash
President Trump claims
The election was stolen
The insertions range from specific
Local allegations
The Constitutional arguments
The sweeping
Conspiracy theories
How supported the president's right
To use the legal system
Lawsuits
Pursued hearings and Court rooms all across our country
But I'll warn over
The court rejected these claims
Including All Star judges
And the president himself has dominated
Every election
We know feature some illegality
An irregularity and of course
That's unacceptable
I support strong State lead voting reforms
Last year's Bazaar
Pandemic procedures
Must not become
The new Norm
But my colleagues nothing before us proves
Illegality
Anywhere near
The massive scale
That would have tipped
Pintar
Norton
Public doubt alone
Justify a radical break
When the doubt itself
Was incited without any evidence
The Constitution
Because Oscar and Congress a limited role
We cannot simply declare ourselves and National
Board of Elections on steroids
The voters
Chords
And the stage
Hello spoke
The ball spoken
If we overrule them
It would damage our Republic
Forever
This election actually was not unusually close
Justin recent history 1976
Mm
And 2004r all closer
The Electoral College margin
Is almost identical
The what it was
And 2016
This election were overturned
By mere allegations from the losing side
Our democracy would ever a death spiral
Would never see the whole nation except
Election again
Every four years will be a Scramble for power
At any call
Electoral college
Most of us on this side of been defending for years
Would cease to exist
Leaving
Many of our state's
With no real say it all in choosing a president
The effects
Would go even beyond the elections themselves
Self-government my colleagues requires
A shared commitment
To the truth
Happy ronsisvalle will take you back live today Houston
Then you do having statistical issues here
Over 30000 illegal aliens vote in Arizona using the federal ballot
Yet our secretary of state refused the public access to review the balance
Over a thousand a thousand residents has Revisited for proof of residency and address
456 failed that test they were vacant Lots even the Recorder's Office
Uses addresses
What are they hiding
Did the process was fair after these were being probable
These will be once-in-a-lifetime type applications
The signatures and adjudicated records
Until this is done Mr Speaker
We should not count this late
You have a letter from the Arizona legislators stating its intent to review the issue on January 11th
Our governor has refused to allow the state to properly convened to do is proper oversight
Better speaker speaker I ask you one question today
Are you a ceremonial figurehead in your current role
Or did the drafters of the 12th Amendment and Congress in the Electoral County active 1887
Envision a role where you've made discretionary decisions about ballot fraud and fair elections
If you remember these ceremonial then let's be done with this let's eat our tea and crumpets and witness our national decline
But if you're not merely a ceremonial but vested with discernment rationality and legal Authority
Do not just count from 1 to 270
Then do not accept Arizona's electors as certified
Remand asleep back to the Secretary of State
Back to the governor with the following instructions
Until a full complete Electro forensic audit is allowed by the Secretary of State
The electrics currently certified will not be counted
It will do then fall on the State of Arizona decide electors
Are they in the game or not
Anything less is an education of our constitutional republic
Doritos
One-man-one-vote
We ask why
What is there to hide
Simple waffle Victor of election be proud open transparent about an election audit I would
Instead were met with denials cover-ups and contemptuous of penis
But you must have it into fraud
Demonstrate by statistical anomalies
But experts have determined cannot happen the absence of fraud
To accept such a slate
I'm not asking these electors never be counted it just that they need to be certified the proper way
Our beloved Constitution is but a mere piece of paper
If we do not follow the law
Upholding the law
But now at last we find ourselves Wallace destroying the very thread that binds us together
But we need to get back to the rule of law
That is what has been violated truly
By the actions any states that the
Without objection the house is going to go back into recess
All right we have learned now
Now that the as you can see the protesters have a Brita Capital they're inside their crossing over
Statuary Hall which is separates the chamber that separates the house in the Senate as you can see they've they've
Made their way over into the house side some of them on the house side someone the Senate side right up
These Chambers up Niels lesniewski who has covered Capitol Hill for many years is joining us on the phone
Do we know how it is that they were able to get inside the capitol
Smoke from my vantage point away from the hill I don't know exactly
Which door or doors they were able to breach but there were clearly
Protesters in violent protesters who
Appear to him breached at least one of the doorways if not multiple of the capital bill
Self
Until there has been
I do work efforts at locking down the building but
But quite frankly
It appears that the sheer number of protesters
Just overwhelmed whatever capacity that the the Capitol Police had a ticket people
Away and they did not manage to get the doors secured
Exterior doors secured quickly enough
It looks like based on the fact that we're seeing people go through statuary Paul
Did it was doors on the Senate wing of the Capitol that may have been breached first but again
You know there are people apparently coming from all sorts of different direction there have been there are lockdown
Throughout the capitol complex
And certainly one of the things that
They have to be paying attention to if you were to sergeants-at-arms in the Capitol Police
Is a breach that could come from vantage point where you wouldn't normally
Expected to
There are so many entrances to the Capitol
Many of which are not normally open to the public but in theory if you have a large soda
Mob for lack of a better term there are lots of places from which the Capitol building can be accessed
Underground and it's surface-level and the mayor of DC Muriel Bowser has just tweeted out today
I am ordering a Citywide curfew for the District of Columbia from 6 p.m. today
Until 6 a.m.
Thursday
CNN in Politico is reporting that the Capitol Hill Police have asked for more law enforcement
What have you learned about what the Capitol Police are trying to do right now
Well we are learning in this is a developing situation but
We have been
Curing from my colleagues in the Capitol complex
Very familiar to you
Your viewers Captain Kelly McManus who I know has been on with you throughout the day
I am Lindsay McPherson who covers house leadership for a
Apples in the building and in one of the immediate priorities appeared to be
The senior leaders of Congress
The people in the presidential line of succession both
Vice president Mike Pence and the Senate President pro-tempore chuck grassley will go
Hustled away
From the Senate chamber and similar
Situations rushing out of the chamber include on the house side including steny Hoyer
Majority leader
A majority with unceasing minority whip Steve scalise
So they are
Trying to secure everyone
I either inside the chamber or in some other locations
I to the extent possible but but it is no exaggeration to say that the Capitol building
At this hour is under cheese and that is not something that I or any
Anyone else says
Spell likely
Understanding some of what
Maybe going on otherwise that for
Very obvious reasons I am not going to say right now in terms of which The Cure
Protocols are being put into place but
I can tell you that the Capitol Police are doing everything that they possibly can to secure
Both lawmakers and staffers
And
As well as you know we are in the middle of this electoral college
Account which is in recess in both Chambers at the moment
And I can tell you that
That certainly will eventually have to get done but in exactly what format or method
Remains to be seen
So where are senators and house lawmakers right now
They are in
Motion through the building as I understand
We do not know exactly where everyone is going we know that they are trying to
To get them to secure
Locations of within the complex
And I don't know that it would be
Appropriate for me to detail how much of it I know beyond that in part because I have
You know we have colleagues in this developing situation who are actually with lawmakers at the moment
And quite frankly
Until they get to a secure location it may be best not for
Me or frankly anyone else
Did you give too many details as to their precise whereabouts
How are members of the media Congressional media
Being a
How are they receiving this communication from Capitol Police or from the gallery
We're we're hearing things in a few different ways we have we have people who are hearing directly from capital
Police
For being with senior lawmakers my colleague Catherine
Is in fact with some Senators this afternoon
And we're hearing it some directly out of sort of the mouths of
Lawmakers
And Capitol Police
They've also been sending alerts both through email
From the Capitol Police and using
What is a somewhat
Always alarming even in normal circumstances when it comes on there is an overhead sort of cager system
Within the capital complex
It makes announcements when there are lockdowns or when
I do maybe some sort of
Amor
14 security challenges like a backpack that was left behind by Taurus
Until those sorts of things have all been deployed as well and put some of it is just hearing
From
The
Various announcement forms that dinner normally there in from time to time
But this is the first time in a while
I would I would say the viewers
This is the first time in a long time I've heard this many of them obviously this is not
A situation like
Anything I've
Experienced previously
The only thing that I can remember where we had a significant lockdown like this previously was several years ago
There was eight
Who drove a car from the White House complex
Down across town
To the capital and there were concerns that she was going to attempt to Ram the vehicle
Stye into the capital until we've been through
That sort of thing before but nothing on the scale
In my memory and I've been
A covering Congress as you probably know since about 2007
Nothing on this scale at all since then
And we're learning from Apple reports on the hill that lawmakers have are are being evacuated
I just want to show a tweet from a reporter on Capitol Hill
This moment from earlier
You can see through the doors the protesters about to break into
The capital
Neil's Neil's Wisniewski do we know
What kind of security precautions were put into place before today and
If Capitol Police
We're anticipating something like this did they have
Extra resources on hand
Well they certainly would have extra resources on hand in some of the
AR
Some of the barricades are in fact
Put up because the inauguration is coming so
So there was already sort of in available enhanced
Security perimeter
Because of the preparations that were underway for the events on January 20th
The capsule was already short of it a heightened state of security
And the other thing which which store has been going on for months now obviously
Is covid
We had a situation where the building has largely been closed
To the general public except for people who have meetings with senators or staff
So things have not been open generally like they normally would be to the General Public
Really since early in the pandemic so that is
Part of Alta which would sort of going on here I am certain that there was an extra security prison
But today but it clearly clearly was not
Sufficient and once we know
But I will say everything I will say is that once we have better guidance on where the
Members of Congress and in the Senate
Are able
To assemble
What
We actually have ability in Congress has the ability to actually convene and Alternate logo
Locations
And not even all in the Capitol building
And so
You know if we see the house or Senate
Reconvene
It is entirely possible that could happen at least
In in in terms of
Officially being able to Gamble out or something like that
Could happen
In an alternate location email remembering and viewers may remember
Is that actually did happen when earthquake
Came through the national capital region a number of years ago and the sound actually convened
I briefly it was only a pro forma session there was no business
But this Senate has impact
Been able to convene off-site
In the not-too-distant
An unrelenting from CNN
That the vice-president has been evacuated from the capitol grounds
Matt Fuller
Who's gay who you know for who reports with Huffington Post
He just sent this out at 2:43 guns drawn
In the chamber
John bresnahan who reports for Punchbowl news now
He penetrate about 2 minutes ago crowd now trying to break down doors into
The house chamber
Obviously we don't
We can't see what's going on inside these Chambers as both
The house and the Senate
Are in recess Matt Fuller now saying they're shooting into
The chamber
Yes that is I was I was just as you were saying that I was just seeing
Those same reports from
House for post
I worked at roll call with me number of years ago
I am in so what happened in this case was there were a lot of people who are actually evacuated
Into the chambers
And so now we are
At the point where we have to talk about you know
The shooting of Capitol police officers several years ago
And that is another saying now that we have
Apparently live-fire
This this situation has gotten
I even more complicated and
I do think that
You know will continue to update as we hear from what is happening
Yeah now being evacuated out of the house chamber
Show
Video of tear gas in the capital this is outside the house chamber
And there were Congressional media reports Niels lesniewski
Of masks being distributed among the staff in the Press up there because of the tear gas
Neil sounds like there's been
Reinforcements called
To the Capitol
What do you know about your colleagues there
And what they are inside the building have yet to have
Have they
Sad what they plan to do or what can they do
Right now that the immediate concern appears to be
Armed standoff
At the house
Front
That is according to one of one of the the members of our
Pool
Reporters were operating out the capital Eric Watson from Bloomberg
Huey just sent a note through that there's an armed standoff
At the house
Front
And there are guns drawn with someone attempting to reach
And Alastair are so this is
Continued to be a
Developing situation and at this point I think that the immediate the immediate concern is with the
Use of weapons in insertive
This being Beyond
A peaceful protest we left at Point a long time ago until we're just continuing to see
Are these reports coming in as we are speaking
Obviously
We're asking you to to give us Insight on the Fly here as we watched the scene on
Fold
Do you know
What sort of authority Capital police have if I'm getting emergency alert
From the the
District of Columbia government
On my phone as we talk but do you know
What sort of authority
What sort of authority these Capital police officers have if
These people were to get close
To those in power
Last meals will try to get him back but that's the question I posed to him
The house in the Senate
Have recess
The
They are subject called the chair
They've stopped their proceedings of
Tallying the votes
Of the Electoral College or hearing the objection
Over the Arizona
Electoral college
What you're seeing right now
Is video of the crowd crossing the street outside of
Where we are at I believe is that right
Okay so this these are the crowds you know they
The crowds have been on Capitol Hill starting from very early this morning as well as close to the White House where the president
Address them earlier today
It seems that a lot of those people then made their way up to
The capital
And now we're in a situation
Where protesters have
Rita capital
Guns have been drawn
Gas fire in the chamber
Lawmakers being
Evacuated
As we sit here and wait for
News of what's going to happen next
The DC mayor's call for curfew starting at 6 p.m. eastern time
We've learned that law enforcement up in Capitol hills called for reinforcements
Politico reported that the federal the National Guard has been called
To Capitol Hill
Stop long is joining us to Congressional reporter Scott Wong what do you know
Credit is his meals Wisniewski back with you again I think if this is the one by one
So we're both here
Okay well both of you hang on the line Scott Wong let me go to you where are you first of all
I am in the
US Capitol
Couple floors down from the house floor on the house side
It is
Very chaotic right now
There's a lot of fear among
Allsides police officers
Reporter staff internally lawmakers
What I've seen so far is that some US Capitol police officers
I've been attacked
Stop by the protesters with tear gas
We assisted some Capitol police officers helping them wash their eyes out
And they have advised us for the moment 2
Shelter in place
So that's what we're doing I know some of my colleagues
Through text message into Twitter or still
Call on lockdown inside the house chamber
It's my understanding
That the lawmakers have been escorted
Out of the chamber already I'm not sure where they were told
Or where they were taken to but there are still a number of people including reporters still inside the chamber
Some of the protesters are trying to breach that chamber
So right now it's your understanding that they have they have not made it inside the house chamber or they have
Because I'm two floors down
All I can all I can tell you is what I've seen on Twitter and in from some of my colleagues
It just looks like chaos there's definitely
Venture gas deployed outside just outside the house chamber doors
It appeared that there was some
Tear gas
Inside the chamber itself
However I can't confirm that
From my vantage point which is about a couple floors down from the house chamber itself
All I know is there is a heavy police presence but also
A lot of pandemonium given that the number of police officers have been injured
In this melee and so it's it's not very organized at the moment and it's it's very true
Scott woot
Obviously hoping you and everyone up there
Stay safe during this
Are you have you been told what happens
Next or what the Capitol Police is doing right now to get the situation under control
Not on any official level just in very basic
Quick conversations I had with the officers who we were assisting
Some
They advised
Either that we shelter in place
Or that we try to move toward some of the House Office Buildings but again
Because there's not a whole lot of information
We are we are unclear about where exactly we should go there also about 45 minutes
Citgo was
An announcement that came over the be loudspeakers in the capital
Saw that talked about the external security threat
Says you know already but the entire Capitol complex is on lockdown
Some people cannot
Come and go freely
If if you are somebody who works in the capital so there's also
The challenge of trying to figure out how to get out of here
You know whether on by foot or by car if
If the capital itself is on lockdown
Stop talk about the
V
Protestors even getting
On to the Capitol steps
Of the US Capitol
Whereas you know if you're up there
You're not in the lawmakers are the only ones allowed on those steps
It it really is one of the most secure
Buildings
In the country there are people guarding the building at all times
2 mi from from how I'm looking at this
It seems that the Capitol Police chose not to engage
Improbably chose not to
Inflame the situation
There wasn't much resistance from the capitol police officers
2.
Hundreds or thousands of protesters that are
Here on the ground
They did earlier in the day try to keep
Those protesters at a distance
With some external fencing around the perimeter but clearly those parameters were breached
As we saw from some of the pictures
Some of the walls were scaled I did see
Kalbi
On one of the sides of the capitol
There was broken glass by protesters were trying to break the glass through
And it's unclear to me
From where I am how exactly they got in or where
Exactly they got him but it appeared to me that there was not
State Capitol Police which is usually very
Strict about
Access to the Capitol but they did not choose to resist the protest
And perhaps not to inflame the situation
Jennifer bendery who reports for The Huffington Post sent out a tweet 2 minutes ago Nancy Pelosi is safe this week
Speaker of the house I can confirm with no other details as what
She writes
Scott Wong can you speak a little bit too
The
The Capitol Police would do have done
To get
The speaker of the house and other High
Top officials
Out of this situation and get them
Add to an area where they are protected
I have no personal knowledge about where they would have taken the Speaker of the House
Clearly she has in the line of
Succession
After the president I'm sorry after the Vice President Mike Pence
Sashia second in line to the presidency
Hazard as is the Senate pro-temp in the Senate and so
There would be a desire to get her in a very safe place
I believe there are
Secure rooms in the capital so I can't speak to them
I believe there are heavily fortified and secure rooms in the capital
Saw in and I would assume that they would have even they would have taken the speaker and other
Turkey
Members of leadership
Cheeto secure rooms
Or
If they could they would take them off site to another secure location
Here's a picture of one of the protesters in
The Senate chamber sitting in the chair of the presiding officer
Is taken from moments ago
On Capitol Hill
Hillcrest New Zealand let me go to you what have you learned
Credits the
Latest I think the photo that you just probably put on the air from inside the Senate chamber
Is perhaps the most jarring image we have seen yet
It is
In fact that the presiding officers
Cher has been occupied a quite literally
The other thing is that I can now tell you that
Two of my colleagues and you may see this on Twitter as well two of my colleagues Catherine telling
McManus
In Christianity who have both been on Capitol Hill
Are now
And this is the state of where we are
They are now in what I have to describe to you as an undisclosed location
And so we are in the situation now
Where there are areas in the Capitol complex
Places where people have been
Taken
Did because of the ongoing security situation in in basically the building being overwhelmed
Did we were trying to basically keep people in Secure areas away from
What you're actually seeing on third of these pool cameras
I am in elsewhere
And it would it it's just an absolutely unbelievable
Situation but if I can just take just a second to check the various
Messages here
There are members
As of the last couple of minutes
Saying what I heard from colleagues suggest in the last couple of minutes there had still been members at least some in the house
Chamber
And so they're trying to
Figure out how to get everyone
To where they need to go
Mmm-hmm basically
I thinks it's the way I'm reading what I'm hearing is that at this point in time to pry or
Pretty is ensuring that all of the people are saved
And
Frankly the building
May not be
The best place for people to be
And so I think that there's going to be an effort
To get them to secure locations but but the amount of damage frankly
Did we may be seeing
Is
Unbelievable I am just getting a little bit more information
I'm there is
A possibility that Senator is going to be going back into session in an alternate location shortly
If that does happen
I don't think that they'll probably be able to get the television cameras
In place in time
But frankly I will do the best that I can
To relay the proceedings of the Senate
Buy phone on chain
If we can and if we can get an audio
Anyone who is in that room can get all day or anything out I'm sure they will attempt to do so if they end up competing
In an alternate location your learning this that there's a possibility that the Senate can convene
In another location
Yes Auntie Betty's if there is there it appears they are pool reporters
Win the Senate
I am so it's the Senate
Does go into session in its
Alternate location
Certainly we will do the best that we all can to get that information out to the public
In2
The C-SPAN audience in particular probably as is quickly as we can I don't know exactly who
I is in that that Presa Rae
It would be with the Senate yet but my understanding is that there is a press pool
It would be with the Senate if it were to go back into session at an alternate site
Okay
Niels lesniewski hang on the line Ted Cruz who
Objected to the Arizona Electoral College votes that's what
Dissolve The Joint session and the House and Senate went into their respective changers
Chambers he tweeted out
Violence is always unacceptable even when passions Run High
Anyone engaged in violence especially against law enforcement should be fully prosecuted
God bless the Capitol Police in The Honorable men and women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping us
All
Safe
That has
Tweet from Santa Cruz Scott Wong also with us
Scott one what have you learned
Not not that much credit to be honest we are still sheltering in place in
The capital I don't want to say where exactly but
It is still
Touch and Go
My colleague
Alex Bolton is outside the capital
Says there are still hundreds hundreds of people protesters you probably have a better Vantage Point than I do
Who are Milling about outside the capital obviously the capital building itself has already
Been breached
As you mentioned the Senate chamber has been breached it's possible the house chamber has been breached and sell
You know it is it is just unbelievable when I when I started today this morning
Informed
Family members that everything would be fine and in that
Does the Capitol building itself was probably the most secure place in America and that there was no need
4
Concern despite the thousands of protesters outside that we were expecting
I never could have imagined that that it would come sit where we would see
The capital
Building in the Capitol complex
Breached and disrupted like this and can have our Democratic process
Under attack
I'm such a dramatic fashion it is until
In shock about that we are where we are just you do from a couple hours ago
Here's a reporter for the Washington Post Aaron Davis saying
Breaking news a source tells him
The defense department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US
Capital
Associate
If
If other people confirm this but that from Aaron Davis who writes for the Washington Post
Just got one where you
Or any reporters up there
Given any idea or
Communication
That
That this was a scenario that
The Capitol Police and others
We're preparing for today
As we were discussing earlier Greta there were a number of
Insecurities
Measures put into place around the capitol there was an external
Sense that was put up around the capital to push
Potential protesters
Back away from the building clearly in Washington DC in downtown itself
The shopkeepers and businesses and restaurants boarded up their windows in anticipation of possible
Violence
The mayor of DC Muriel Bowser issued a statement the other day saying
Urging
DC residents in any
Counter-protesters to
Stay out of the downtown region and not to engage with the pro Trump protester
For fear of violence
Similar to what we've seen
I'm sorry
Shirley
Around the time of the election last fall
And so they work
Definitely it was definitely in
The back of people's minds
And that measures were put in place but
Clearly
You know whatever some areas were dreamed up
This is this is has got to be
Sorry
Yahweh my book the worst case scenario where you have
Celebrations of the United States Capitol interrupting
Start counting and certification
All the Electoral College votes violence in the building and lawmakers and other staff
Saw fleeing for their safety
Jacob Goldstein who reports for NPR has this tweet he's quoting here
Senator Mitt Romney this is what you've gotten guys
This is what the senator said Republican of Utah yelled
As the Mayhem unfolded in the Senate chamber apparently
Addressing his colleagues who were leading the charge to press mr. constables claims
Of a stolen stolen election
Scott Wong
What's your reaction to hearing that
Well it was interesting that you mention Mitt Romney because there was video this week
Senator Romney making his way from Utah
Through that Utah airport out to DC44 this process
And he was heckled by Pro Trump supporters
At the airport he was Pro Trump
Supporters were chanting traitor
To Mitt Romney as during during his flight to Washington
He brushed it off and said he's used to it after being in the spotlight for so many years
But you know clearly clearly we reached a level of
Discourse that has been you know so
Egregious that that it has descended into violence on this particular day
And so you know I've been trying to actually reach a lot of lawmakers myself
Who are normally very responsive
And have been
Unsuccessful so far I just got a text message from
From the speaker's office from
From the speaker's top spokesman Drew Hamel who confirms other reporting
Set the speaker is in a safe location
And unharmed
Kevin McCarthy who is the minority leader
And for the Republicans in the house he just sent out
A tweet saying thank you to Capitol Police for protecting the people's house protesters have a constant have a constitutionally for
Protect the right to be heard
But I urge them to remain
Peaceful
Saint Greta and Greta it's my understanding that
From tweet something my colleagues back
Kevin McCarthy has just called in to Fox News as well
Saint has said that
Cousin has called the violence and in the breach of the capitol
So on American any purging
Anyone involved in this
If they can hear him loud and clear that this is not the American way
That this is not protected
This type of violence is not protected by the First Amendment and he says
This must stop now now there are a lot of Republicans I think
In Washington and impress around the country
Want the president to serve call off these protesters
You know of course the president early today was was whipping up a lot of his supporters in skin
Into a frenzy
And an urgent March down to the Capitol
He I don't believe he himself
Advocated for
Violence but clearly the insinuation was bear that they had to stop
Leo
Certification
Of the Electoral College in favor of Joe Biden and and that is exactly what has
Taking place so far the certification of the election of Joe Biden
Which is which is which happens
Under federal law
Every four years has been
Completely
Stop to a halt
You know coursing
Lawmakers from both Chambers to
Basically
Be escorted or or Fleet
Tutu safety and again I can't emphasize
Enough we've never seen this
At least in my lifetime and in many generation
You come to mine you know when when the British attacked the US Capitol and set fire
To the Capitol there still reminders of
So that attack in the building there have been
Your husband violence
Among lawmakers in the past your lawmakers have been
Have been have suffered enormous injury in impasse
But in terms of modern history we have not seen something like this
In a very long time
So I thought of Scott Wong talking right now and Catherine Tully McManus 4cq
Is joining us now from an undisclosed location and will keep it that way
Just tell is Katherine Kelly McManus
Where you were when the capitol was breached
And and what you saw
I was hello I was in the Senate chamber watching the
Proceedings and that is also
It is very highly secured and so when the top lunch walk down that is
Where we headed
The doors were barricaded Etc it became clear at one point that the lawmakers who
We're seated in the chamber itself
Not no longer conducting business business ended when the lockdown again
They were
Told to evacuate the chamber which was
Thought to be the safest place for them to be on that with a crush towards the doors as everyone tried to get out
Reporters along with Sanders and solve Stuff Etc we're done bold
Too I'm not going to share my location for security reasons
Some of where we now are
Was the most dramatic
Thing I've ever seen the capital been around for about 8 years but
Be alongside members of United States Senate as we are here
Police radios about bear Kissing Bridge
Potentially shots being fired I'm aware that
The chamber itself in the Senate has certainly been breached there is either smoke or gas
Of some sort over on the house side Eminem from the house
Chamber
It's not like anything I've ever seen I would say the Capitol building itself is completely
Not secure right now
Captain Tyler McManus what were those
Senators saying as you were being rushed out of the chamber
They were grateful for the direction and guidance of where to be headed
People do during a time of Crisis there was
Nervous
Laughter and joking around definitely not making light of the larger situation
But
Other
You know a kind word to reporters
Cool looking stuff along with them
So you were escorted out by the Capitol Police you're in a location
That we will not disclose
What have you heard about
How long you'll stay where you're at and if they're there are reports of a pause
The Senate convening somewhere else
What do you know about that
I don't feel comfortable sharing a timeline for how long would it be in here one because I don't know and also
Honestly not to keep anything from you I'm here
And I don't want to alert anyone who may want to farm
Senators or the Presto a timeline of movement
The Senate has
Procedures in place and the house for how to meet somewhere else there are contingent
There are backup location
In place that has happened before during the anthrax
Attacks of Doc in the early 2000
They gobbled in over at the post office building which has a space but the Senate can convene
There are backup places I
Heathen
With a lot of Capitol Hill and even Capitol Police
Specific reporting I am not aware of all of the potential location
I do believe that that would require picture Transportation right to get
These Senators out of this building
Safely and I think that right now
Seems like a big challenge given the status
Even inside the Capitol building itself and the chaos that is also help me Outdoors
President Trump has tweeted at 3:13 p.m. I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful
No violence remember we are the party of Law & Order respect the law and our great men and women
In blue he said
The Capitol Police I think it's important to know is
Hazard police force that is similar to the size of that
City of Atlanta or other large metropolitan areas just for the capitol campus
Some of the surrounding area massive massive undertaking a couple police force they haven't in Norma
But has only been increased over and over and over of the over the last decade but I can confidently say in the last
8 years this is certainly the biggest challenge on the biggest fault that the Capitol Police have Bass
Both size and scale course I do not know any private threats to lawmakers or Seibert
But in terms of being stormed at the Capitol
The Capitol Police in some cases were overtaken
What is the mood
Like where you're at and and with
Are you
I don't want to ask too many specifics
And certainly you don't tell us anything that you don't want to
To say publicly right now
But what what is the mood like where you are
Anteaters
Nervousness and concern
When we were still in the chamber even just locked down in that space But Thunder do obviously feel really
Comfortable in the chamber doors were locked for All in the Family
I don't know but they were
Beastly relaying
That for the moment they were safe and
Maybe
That is a more common occurrence for sunders than I fully understand but I have never had to
Sephora text or call my parents to tell them that I'm faithful at work very often
Not never before but it is a very
Tents and people really concerned about
Their own personal safety and the security and safety of the
The Congressional body any idea that the capital is being burned
Nothing right now
Just letting you know Kelly McManus it on the phone with us at undisclosed location she was moved
Without of
The capital along with other
Members of the media
The Senate chamber with lawmakers
Chisme
I want to show you this is one of our
Camera tax outside of the capital
And as you can see
This is the Senate side
Of the Capitol grounds
Here's some of the
Protesters you can see them
Walking away
I toured the port of walking away from the capitol at this
Appoint
Obviously there are many more still on the capitol grounds
And the situation unclear
Security question remains
Would you know from the speaker's office
According to Scott Wong's reporting that the speaker has been
Evacuated she safe
She's unharmed
In the line of succession
She falls after the Vice President
Lawmakers as well have been removed
From the chamber at least in the Senate we know that
And
The Capitol Police have asked for
Law enforcement
Help
On on Capitol Hill I want to show you this image
Post on Facebook
The house chamber I believe
Where guns were drawn as many reporters noted
Before
This was in the
House chamber earlier
Today
3:20 p.m. here on the east coast in the
House and Senate were in the process of debating the first objection
To the Arizona
Electoral College votes
When the protesters
Who
Came to Washington in support of the president
Storms the capital and in breach the Capital Security
Got into
The capital itself into the hallways
Into the Senate chamber we seen from images as well into
House chamber
As well at least outside of the house chamber
At this point
Lawmakers are being told to shelter-in-place the DC mayor
Has called for a 6 p.m. East Coast
Curfew
And
The scene is unfolding
On Capitol Hill
We're waiting to
Find out more information obviously from Capitol Police as to what happens next
Niels lesniewski with us
Meals are you still with us
Okay
Kevin McCarthy the leader for the Republicans
Sent this out thank you to Capitol Police for protecting the people's house
Protesters have a constitutionally protected right to be heard but I urge them
At to remain
Peaceful
Just point out that President Trump did speak
To supporters earlier today
And he did
Say this to
Those that have gathered
We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women
And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness you have to show string
And you have to be strong we have to come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated
Waffle House later he said
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over the Capitol Building to peacefully
And patriotically make your voices heard
Today we will see where the Republican stance wrong for integrity of our elections but whether or not they stand strong
Far country
That is what the president told his supporters earlier
Stacey Plaskett who represents the US Virgin Islands a Democrat
Delegate Plaskett
I know you don't want tells where you are how are you at this moment
Well I'm really grateful to you all for keeping everyone informed myself and the
Cute staffers that were here are are are well at this point
What were you told and how were you told about the breach
As everyone else was
Screams turn to C-SPAN and another one turned to a live news was watching the
Speeches by members during the debate and then
So what was the course going to happen prior to that I've been actually watching and
And listening to the president's give his speech in hit at the rally and was very concerned about
Some of the language and the things that he was stating to those who were
At that rally in that protest and I believe that that had a lot to do with the level of violence that were
Seeing right now I think that you know the Tweet by Kevin McCarthy is soda
Disingenuous at this point
To say that people have a right to be heard people have a right to be heard protest but they do not have a right to break the law
And what they are doing is Way Beyond their concert
Specially protected right to be heard they are in fact engaging and domestic Terror
Terrorism and have in
Preached so many laws at this point and I believe that that should be taken into account it is
So hurtful to watch these individuals desecrating desecrating
The word I would use the u.s. capitals at which was built by African-Americans that was fought over by some
How many Americans in the Civil War towards Beyond in our servicemen and women who are continued
The fight for democracy and those elected officials that are here to do the right thing
To represent the people of this country this is just absolute chaos
What have you been told about
What you should do right now or what comes next
At this point we are keeping all keeping safe and I think the safety of the members
Of the Capitol police officers and even of those who were here to protest peacefully I'm sure
True there were some who are here to protest who did not want to be engaged in the violence and that they are
Kept safe and I would assume that at this point after that we would begin to clear
The chamber want to remind everyone that Mario on the mayor Bowser Mario Bowser as opposed to 6 p.m.
Curfew I'm hopeful that order will be restored
And at some point we will continue to do the Constitutional Duty the house and the Senate
Will continue to convey convene and a certified this election that is not
Going to be stopped
Psy
Those who hate our democracy and hate the Constitution and Order
What have you been told about how the Capitol Police are trying to get the situation under control
I don't want to give any information about what
You know security we have been told I think that that should be kept in a quiet at this
Understood
Tell us what you can we obviously understand the security implications of this
I'm just grateful to hear from the Nancy Pelosi from our speakers
Spokesperson that she is safe praying to the safety of vice-president Pence as well as the members that were
We're in the chamber and those members that are here on the Capitol Hill and their staffs so many people
Doing the work of people's work here in Washington and hoping that they remain safe
Attend program is tweeting out from a colleague he says Fox News has learned that shooting victim was transported from the US
Capital of 30 minutes ago
At no other details yet your reaction
You know this is just a travesty what has happened and I am confident
Not only will the police but others continue to watch and to investigate this
Those who incited this riot
Those who are engaged in domestic terrorism which this action is and that even be
Why we cannot be charged as president
Stop the president is held accountable for his words which encourage this
Activity by individuals as well as those members I know that my colleague
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Has requested resolution regarding members who may have been
Stacey Plaskett Democrat represents the Virgin Islands right there
Obviously our conversation cut off
She is safe She nor Stafford safe she said
As we continue to watch the scene unfold on Capitol Hill
The protesters are outside of the capital there on the capitol steps
Which normally
Are secured
I only lawmakers allowed on those steps
There is security everywhere in Capitol Hill
CNN is reporting that the protesters are in the Rotunda of the capitol
That there has been
Guns drawn
As you've seen the images
Tear gas
Deployed
Up on Capitol Hill
And a shooting victim according to Chad program tweeting out that Fox News Ed
The shooting victim was taken from the capitol grounds and there's this image
Tweeted out of
Protesters breaking windows
On the US Capitol
But using what looks like a police Shield
To break through the windows on the in the US Capitol
So we are
Waiting
And learning as all of you are to see what happens next year
You just heard Stacy Pockets say that she
Expects that they would continue on
Once the situation is under control with the Electoral College vote process when that happen
Unclear
And how that happens also unclear All Those Questions remain
As we watch
Congressman Henry Cuellar Democrat of Texas congressman
Are you okay
I'm in my office
Looking out the window and seeing the sum of the protest and the Capitol Police are going to receive
I will seem that some of the protesters are starting to walk away
On the capital they seem to be dispersing as we're
Seen right now
And again you know we have a job to do and that is
We are going to continue with a certification
Do we have a constitutional duty to do that
Unfortunately this has brought A disruption in my opinion
Purpose
But it's going to be a delay but we are going to continue
And do our jobs
Jonathan Martin reports Fournier times as saying that the Virginia National Guard and 200 state troopers are being
Sent to DC
Whisper a top Virginia official
Congressman reaction to that
Are Capitol Police have done a wonderful wonderful job and I support him and I
What they're doing
But I think construction senses like this when you have
Thousands of people
I think it's it's The Prudent thing to do
Is to make sure that
We have all the necessary support so yes Capitol Police
132 make that decision
They need that supports and definitely yes
I'm looking out the window and seeing them I saw him whenever moving toward the capitol grounds
Now I'm feeling that some of them are walking away from the capitol grounds
There's still hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people out there
But I'm seeing movement away from the capital so
Hopefully they're starting to disperse
At this moment
We have a one of our cameratechs out and I think we're looking at the East front of the Kappa
Is that right
That is correct
At the part where the presidential inauguration for
Looking at sad
I'm in my office at the Rayburn room
Simon. Rayburn office stuff for my office
Looking out toward the Capitol and toward the capitol grounds
It looking at the at the folks that I
Do seats emblem walking away. All of them but I see movement away so maybe
Some of them came to do what they need to do and they are
Calling it Quits
Congressman
Where where were you where were you when
Vic the capitol grounds were breached
That was my office that you know because of social distancing they only had the members of
Congress
That worm
Doing that debate
So they only had those members there and then they were going to call us
So we've been here
At the Capitol
Chapter office
Waiting to be called so we can go do the vote
Once a debate that is finished but as you know the debate.
Interrupted and we are going to continue this folks are not going to stop us
I'm doing our job and we are going to do it
I'm both you and delegates Plaskett have said this is this something that you're hearing from leadership
This is so we were told that we would have continued of course
We have to they go to access the
The security of
About Staffing members
How to do I worked but I'm sure once a
Feel that it's good to get back we will continue
I don't know exactly when they going to tell us to do that
But we are going to continue this
Disruption
It's not going to stop at from doing our jobs
What do you know about preparations by the Capitol Police
Before
All of this happened
What were you told about housing
What would security be like today
Well I mean I get to go some instructions I'll leave it like that that gave it some instructions about
Today
And so they gave us instructions
To be careful as we walked in and all that
But but again
What the police did to to insurance and I'm
Now looking out and now I'm seeing a lot more police
Coming up
More police coming up
So they're getting more people
To join
The folks that need to finish
Start job protecting that the capitol grounds
Washington Post Dan lamothe is reporting that the entire DC National Guard will be Act
Debated today putting about 1100 Guardsman on duty tonight
Discordian
2 defense
Officials is comes after the breach on the capital by
The protesters today
Coming from Claire
What is going through your head if you're watching this all happen
To the US capital to
The house
Chamber to the lawmakers like yourself
Come here
NN work every week
And
Have to go through security measures everyday
To get into the US Capitol
Ordinary Day
The last time I saw something like this was 10 years ago with the Tea Party
Radicals are we have
But they were a little different they did not try to breach
The way we seen this year they did not get on the
Try to get on the hospital and the senate floor
This book seems to be a little bit more aggressive
Say what we saw 10 years ago
But look you do we come up here to do our jobs our staff
A lot of their young people
That's
Still coming to do their job
Up here and for them to be put through this
Because of the people outside that I'm looking at the outside the window
It's not right
And the police
That I've been put through this because of this
Folks and some of them have been
Motivated by the rally that
President Trump join this morning
It's not right
You know we'd work come up here and the staff come up here
To do their jobs
Rjabs say have
A job to do
And you're seeing
This people
So that's are not respecting
The police
Instructions
And I find it very ironic that probably some of this
Complain about the left
Doing something
And now they're doing
Stepmother sayings
That they're doing
Associated Press is reporting the Homeland Security
Is sending additional federal agents to the US capital to help quell the violence
Congressman of Utah
Learned anything else while we've been what we've been talkin any sort of communication
Weather
Email or phone calls or overhead on the loudspeaker to those of you who have remained
On Capitol Hill
Busy doing so many things right now.
I have to keep up with my emails I haven't done that but
They told us to just make sure we stayed in our office and stay safe
Till they take they put everything under control
And it's time
You and I have been talking for the last few minutes
I'm looking out the window and I'm seeing in the morning I would see people going
What the capital
Now I'm seeing movement of people
Walking away from the capital
So they seem to be dispersing
At this moment
Is there Southern
Help that will be coming to the
Captain police attorney will be welcome
To our men and women that say they know that protects out
Capitol grounds in members and staff
What do you think
President should say or do right now
I don't think he should have joined that rally today when he said we would never
Conceit we will never accept
The election results that's not a very strong message
212 lot of the folks here
I don't know who the president
You know he was
Very quick
To call the National Guard
And Homeland
And other folks up
Another places when
The lesson was
Protesting
But I don't think he's moved as fast
On this people that he supports
Like he's done at other times
Sarah cook for CBS is saying that GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told
Norah O'Donnell of CBS
But he spoke to the president and told them to speak to the nation and tell them to stop
Quote I know he put a tweet out there I told him he had to speak to the nation
Congressman
I agree with that Kevin McCarthy
You know he has access to the president like some of us don't
And what he needs to do
Is doing
Exactly
That I think the president needs to speak to the nation and tell people to become
Until this folks
To get away from the capital
And let us continue
I work
So I truly want to thank to Kevin McCarthy for
At least doing that sweater with the president
And I certainly would join him to ask the president about to talk to the people cuz I did put a tweet
But he needs to do more than a tweet
He needs to tell the folks
202
The capital respected Capitol police respect the law of the authority
Let us continue our constitutional job and that is
Doing the certification of the Electoral College
State-by-state weed
Stop
On Arizona and we did two states where the third state
So we got to finish the third state and move on to
The other 47 States
Dan Merica CNN is saying that a woman is in critical condition
After being shot in the chest on the capitol grounds according to two sources familiar with the matter
CNN Elissa slotkin
Watkins
It is telling ABC that she is confirmation the National Guard is being activated the only places eventually go
Close is the clearing of the building in the easier that goes less bloodshed
Will have
Congressman erection
Yes I I do understand that one of the
Protesters was injured I don't know
The situation thinking the lady
Don't know what her situation right now but she must have done something
For the police to take Stern action
We
Journey ask people to step away from the capital
And and make sure that
We allow we're allowed to do our jobs that where
Sent to uniform all 50 states to do our jobs
And I keep saying
As you and I keep talking
I keep seeing more of those folks dispersing
From the capital so this morning I received people outside from the office building I'm here at the Rayburn on the
Florida capital
I'll be at the Rayburn building
And I'm seeing people
Walk away now
From the Capstone so they're slowly
Dispersing
ThunderCats
Okay
Congressman Cuellar we we really appreciate you spending some time with us during this
As this
Scene unfolds and and
Appreciate you
Sharing your thoughts with us and
Hope you all everyone up there
I stay safe
Thank you so much thank you so much and will see you soon
Bill Scanlon c-tran's Bill Scanlon with us Bill what have you learned
Grenadine you don't worry we're now at about quarter of 4 eastern time the joint session coming in at 1
Clock Eastern today
And as you have mentioned it lasted only 15 or 20 minutes before the first objection to the Electoral
Account was made
On the electoral vote in Arizona the president of the Senate vice president Pence gavel the joints
Session out at that point in each of the chambers
I'm split for their respective debates their debates on the Arizona electoral votes
What's the house and gone through a number of new members speaking in favor and against the US Senate as well
They heard from the majority leader who actually called on members to reject these objections
To the electoral votes in in pretty much of
Four or five states
And it should be around 2 Eastern or so the protesters Gathering outside the US Capitol breached
The US Capitol in various places still to be determined how many are in there currently and how that have
Happened but
Being a capital is under lockdown at this hour and members are as you've heard from
Henry Cuellar and other Sheltering in place the leadership of the capitol
I taken to safe locations particularly in the presidential line of succession
NVM
The the fate of the Electoral count unknown although we heard from Neal's was nuski you did a while
Logo that perhaps the Senate will meet
In a separate location we do not have an update yet as to win either the house
Or the Senate will gavel in keep in mind they have to finish the debate and vote on this first
How about we expect will be four or five objections to States
The Electoral College electoral votes so that has that has yet to be announced as
Police on Capitol Hill the Capitol Police deal with the protesters and the mob violence up there
And have called in reportedly called in the National Guard to assist
On social media couple of observations this first one from Charlie Savage
Of the New York Times who says this Trump told his supporters on the mall that Republicans have been too nice like a boss
Boxer with his hands tied behind his back and now needed to quote fight much harder against bad people
He told them
To walk to the capital B
Brad parscale who ran the presidents
Campaign almost up to the election says this this is not mug we are not auntie
FIFA on the left
We should do that at the end the correct way to leave the capital and stop this is Brad parscale
The world is laughing at us he says live to fight in elections in the future save this country by growing our base
And winning elections
And this from Senator Marco Rubio on Florida who tweets this mr. president
Donald Trump the men and women of law enforcement
Are under assault it is crucial that you help restore order by sending resources to set help
To assist the police
And ask those doing this
To stand down some video here from a number of sources this is from
Washingtonian Magazine some of the video of protest
Earlier this afternoon not that long ago as protesters Gathering up here in this case on the west from
Front of the US Capitol that's from Washington Ian we show you the video here that we shot by
Steve Nelson who reports for cleated by Steve Nelson the reports on the capital for the New York Post
Some of the
What looks to be teargas although there were reports that fire extinguishers were
Were set off in the US Capitol will try to keep you updated particularly on potential times of return for
For the House and Senate and the joint session vice president sent out a tweet at 3
835 the violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol must stop and it must stop now anyone involved
Must respect law enforcement
Indeed Italy leave the building
Congressman Raskin is joining us now
Congressman Raskin
How are you doing where were you
When the capitol was breached
Well at the cheap but they're still being careful about what we say but I am the state's location
Sauce still on the hill
Saint John
So
Sorry I thinks it's called numbers are safe right now as far as I know
Where were you when they breached
The the capital and got inside these protesters
I do know there were repeated efforts
To Barrel into the capital chamber
Psalms and the word
Colchester store trying to Ram up against the doors
They seem to be Roman 4 for a while
Were you
Were you in the chamber when this happened
Yes
What was going through your mind
Well
He died what we experienced Turbo
Family tragedy
In the last week and so I had to
One of my daughters with me and I had a son-in-law with me
Because we wanted to be together honey
But I could show them the peaceful transfer of power in United States of America
My mind was there safety because they were not with me chamber and I just wanted make sure that we could
Get back together and we're all back together and we are safe now
We have comes when we are sorry for your loss
The tragedy that you experienced this week and now
Here we are
With the capital being breached
What were you told about security
Heading into today
I'm not the best person to ask that just because I was so distracted with
Terrible family misfortune
And we were certainly told to take care of that
The Cowboys in the right-wing was being encouraged to come to Washington
My truck in the trunk when you touch it
Side chick
Take care take precautions and chips
Stay inside the building as much as possible
What have you learned about I'm obviously you can't share everything with us but what have you learned about
What comes next
I don't I don't know but I'll tell you this that every single member that I
Spokane Chili's absolutely determined to have us complete
The counting the Electoral College votes as is
Demanded of us by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution and
Saw everyone is absolutely determined that we will continue with the norm
Proceedings of the US Congress
Send that any violent Insurrection against the government of the United States will be put down
Sam and John American constitutional democracy will prevail
No choice
Sandusky
Everybody here is absolutely resolved
Sauce make that happen so we will complete the counting
Of the electors if there are any further objections
It will be heard
Surly but I am confident that we have his shoes bipartisan majority that wants to ratify
Results of the election as embodied in the module College count
The American people have spoken the election is over
Sanjeev we should not be countenancing or indulging
Thought any of these jobs
Terrible fantasies of some kind of the Vineland public
Insurrection
What do you think should happen to these protesters
I think they should be dealt with fairly
Under the rule of law that this is an attack on the government of the United States
It did not even happen during the Civil War
I think you have to go back to the War of 1812
To find this kind of attack on
Federal buildings in the work of government
Show
You know I am not aware of any Confederate attack on
The Congress of the United States and Interruption of the proceedings
Congress but we are going to go forward if we got to stay here all night we're going to go forward if I got to stay there all day
Gamarra
And the next day we are going to complete
The counting of Electoral College votes we are going to swear again
The new president of the United States
President-elect Joe Biden
On January 20th and has called for by the Constitution
The United States and I hope today
Every political leader in the land
Send executive branch in the legislative branch in the Supreme Court
Everyone in the military
Will quickly stand up and say this is intolerable and
Flawless
Send unacceptable
And we need to continue to working
The first great modern democratic government
Did ever existed looking to get through this everybody
Congressman McCarthy according to news reports told the president that he should address the name
Do you think you should do that
Oh yeah I don't I don't know the details of what's going on outside
The room where we are shopping right now so I don't know what's going on we need to secure
Psalms
The government and our constitutional prophecies we are going to complete
The counting of the Electoral College votes
United States of America and I hope that everyone out there will be
Jason using social media
To express regardless of what political party or with or your political views that violent attacks on
Integrity of US Government are absolutely unacceptable and people should be dealt with with the
The full force of the law
They are engaged in such conduct
Carson are you are you hearing from any leadership
Ask who S2
What you should do or what happens next
I can't comment on any of that so we can meet.
They are working very hard to keep everyone safe
Carson Jamie Raskin again apologies and and and
So sorry for your loss
And
Thank you for
For taking some of your time today
I appreciate it thank you very much
You're seeing the scene outside of the US Capitol the protesters
Outside of the building they are inside as well according to
Media reports
An alert was just sent out that there is more law-enforcement on the way to Capitol Hill
Pill to get the situation under control and you've heard from
Raskin Congressman Cuellar
And they delegate
Stacey Plaskett that they all intend to move forward
With
Vitaly
Of the Electoral College
After this
Waiting on Capitol Hill is it secured
Bill Scanlon
Could a couple of remarks here this one from Jeff Bennett of NBC reporting on the
We heard about the person being shot earlier Jeff never put into one person's is in critical condition after being shot at the US
Just capital
Please five people been transported to the hospital / dcems and by the way video early
I showed several of those were police officers of those transported
Was a law enforcement officer and several officers have been treated for pepper
Osprey exposure
James Pendle writes for the Boston Globe saying about the process here today genuine question
Give me the deadline is Cruz excetera Senator Cruz
Still signing on to objections
In Pennsylvania and in Georgia and keep in mind they not finished Arizona yet
Kelly O'Donnell of nbcnews she tweets this law enforcement sources tell me the u.s. Secret Service
And National Guard will assist the US Capitol Police
At their request
Also from
Maggie Haberman the New York Times on this
New explosive an explosive device was found at the IRA the RNC
And detonated today
Also inspect and find this from
All the Democratic
Caucus chair
Hakeem Jeffries sign this Hakeem Jeffries Matt Fuller of The Huffington Post
Between that Hakeem Jeffries
Plans for says members plan to return and certify the Electoral College members from both parties
Applaud this Anna no hear from read Wilson from the hill a tweet saying that I'm seeing mounting protests
At state capitals across the country to Kansas appears to be the only other one besides you know DC
Where the mom has broken in but I hasten to add
Yet
Be seen on Capitol Hill still unfolding police
Requesting Capitol Police requesting as bill was saying
More backup
And and we understand more is on the way to clear the protesters
From inside the Capitol and the capitol grounds
So that the House and Senate can resume
The counting of the Electoral College votes and Bill said earlier there about 15 minutes in when the first of
Injection took place 2
The State of Arizona and they're 11 Electoral College votes
The objection was heard there were as a House member and a senate member who
Was
Who who made the objection and then they adjourned
To their respective Chambers where debate
Began
And that is when
The protesters arrived
From
The other independent Vania two more of them to a Capitol Hill
And the breach then happened on Capitol grounds
You seen the photos of
Teargas guns drawn Windhurst and there's a woman in critical condition
From a gunshot wound
Who
Has been
I brought to a hospital
Here's a picture I believe
This a picture of the Senate Chamber from before with a protester
In the chair
Of the presiding officer
And then there's the image of the guns drawn out in the house chamber near the house chamber what we understand
And so we will bring you more as we continue here to cover
The breach of security on at the US Capitol
Adriano espaillat Democrat New York Congressman joins us represents the 13th District
A congressman
How are you doing right now
Where were you when this breach happened
With the congressman
Congressman are you with us
I will try to get him on the phone
In the meantime
As we said
Waiting for the security of the Capitol grounds to be secure
The congressman that we've talked to said that they want to continue going forward today
It is almost 4 p.m. here on the East Coast the mayor of DC has
Put a curfew for 6 p.m. eastern time that's in 2 hours
Unclear what
The curfew requires
Straight talk to be cleared
People have to be at home
There's more law-enforcement on the way their Capital so we'll see how
The grounds are disbursed on Capitol Hill
You can see it let's just take a look at some of the images
These are the folks that are there right now
On Capitol Hill
We understand that the vice president is you saw he was presiding over the Senate
He was evacuated
Up from the capital
Right as the security breach happened
The lawmakers
I work in the Senate chamber in the house chamber
We understand from press reports the media was then brought into those chambers of the doors were locked but then lawn Force
Capitol Police got them out of those chambers
I was seeing that many lawmakers are marking themselves safe
On social media today
And as we showed you before
Mike Pence tweeting out the violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol must stop and it must stop now anyone
Involve too much respect law enforcement officers
And immediately
Leave the building
Or just have her to cover Capitol Hill since tweet outs and police are now banging on doors in the Senate this was at 3:40
4
A seemingly trying to make sure no one is in the building
That shouldn't be
Dominican Republican of Nebraska joins us
Congressman your thoughts
No problem congressman
Your thoughts
What is happening on the cap at the Capitol
Disgraceful
Republicans
I seen was an artist those who broke into buildings
Who injured are law enforcement
Vandalizing the capital do we live in the oldest and the greatest
Democracy the oldest greatest Republican
In the world in these folks embarrassed our country today
Thought you were doing the violets and who broken but about the peaceful protesters have that right
It's disgraceful what their actions in
It appears that our country
Where were you when you learned of the breach of security
I went back to my office
And
The Cannon Building
Have a bounce right next door so Turing all-day chaos
Stuck in a lot of sirens and then we had
The mayor said she's going to put a
Curfew at Washington
I was watching C-SPAN
The folks running out of the chamber
And also if we knew that we had a problem and it's
Disgraceful
But what happened but
Hallway
MyTeam
Start our staff
Situation
How are they feeling about
The situation
Well I think dirty Poise that we have a good team but
For angry
Or angry that this can happen
And I'm angry that
President should have given her much more
Cleartone
Leaders
Carlos and direction
They don't
Inspire people
How to get angry and do the things that we're doing I feel like
He needs to stand up and be a better leader on this
He has not been in my view
If it's to make it clear as a country
That is a president
I need to respect a peaceful transition of power
We've had
Louise our court system
To get to the
And he's not succeeded there we have a certified votes in the states
The president needs to respect a peaceful transition of power
And he needs to make that clear
To the American people
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and house Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying we caught
What we are calling on President Trump to demand
That all protesters leave the US Capitol and Capitol grounds immediately should he address the nation
He said he should and he has to some degree I thought tweet
How do you put out a sandwich we're peaceful we don't
We're not the party that
Cilex law & Order on paraphrasing
Needs to be more
And he needs to
I'll be a leader was with the folks who obviously you're protesting on his behalf
They feel they are
Standing against clear
Directions
I need to be leader this is what leaders are supposed to do I'm a 30-year Air Force guy
Retired General
Commanded five times leader stand up in a steak crate calm
Search Direction
And any don't exacerbate the situation and it's time for him to step up
What were you told about
A security today and do you think that the Capitol Police did enough to prepare for this type of scenario
If I really don't know offhand I talked to the police last night and this morning so I think them everyday
That's what it could be
I could be potential problems today but I didn't know you let's be candid I think most
Different
Gatherings and I've never seen Violet so I just figured it would be a peaceful protest
I sure they probably did too
Do an after-action review
And see you baby what they could have done better I don't know what that would be I don't want to
Speculate on what state does ice ankle
I do know some police were injured today
And they were sore I saw him being punched
And that's wrong
And I think
Soaps that are part of this that brookens building should feel
Very Shane but they're beating up policeman
What do you think should happen to them
I'll let you go to jail that should be charged
Colossally actors
Does physical violence against a policeman or anybody
Any vandalism what's wrong
Stand-in people should pay for time I do believe in Law & Order I believe in holding people accountable violate the law
How do I take a moment to fly May
I want to thank the vice president today
He
Set up to the president
He did the right thing
If all presidents he followed the Constitution
And I just
What publicly say thank-you vice president Pence
In what way what did he do
Specifically
Well if the president wanted him on his own
To disqualify States electors
There's a Siri out there that they can be done it's never been done
I think it's unconstitutional I don't think the founders
Ever
What happened
Joseph Siri out there you could do it in the president
Was articulating the device present could just AutoZone
Disqualify States Electric say like Arizona or Georgia to Pennsylvania
And vice president today made very clearly
Do you disagree that you would not do that
And then deposit sunscreen tweeted
Criticizing pencils decision but I think vice-versa pencils absolutely right
Carson we're learning from Governor Larry Hogan from the Virginia governor
The DC federal law enforcement
Racine
Correction reports of Homeland Security and possibly FBI
Coming to Capital
Who We Are
What we're saying
Are small number of extremist
Dedicated so lawlessness
This is not the sin
It's the shorter
It's chaos
Borders on sedition
And it must end
Now
I call in this mob
The pullback and allow the work of democracy to go forward
Heard me say before in different contexts
The words of a president matter
No matter how good or bad
At their best
The words of a president can inspire
After worst
It can incite
Therefore
I call on President Trump
Go on national television now
To fulfill his oath
Defend the Constitution
And demand an end to this Siege
Storm the capitol
The smash windows
Occupy offices
This floor of the United States Senate rummaging through desk
The capital of the House of Representatives
Threatening the safety of duly elected officials it's not protest
It's insurrection
The world's watching
Like so many other America
I'm genuinely shocked and saddened of our nation
So long Beacon of light hope
Is come to such a dark moment
True Warren strife
America's indoor March
And we will endure here and we will prevail again and will prevail now
The work of the moment
And the work of the next four years must be the restoration
Democracy decency honor
Respect
The rule of law
Just plain simple decency
The renewal of a politics
It's about solving problems looking out for one another not stoking the flames
Hate and chaos
I said America's about honor
Decency respect
Tolerance
That's who we are
Actually I've always been
The certification electrical it the Electoral College vote
Supposed to be a sacred ritual
Swift firm
Purposes girlfriend the Majesty
American democracy
Today's reminder
Payne Ford
Democracy is fragile
Preserve it
Requires people of Goodwill
Leaders
The courage to stand up
For devoted not to the pursuit of power
For the personal interest Pursuits of their own selfish interests
Is any cost
What are the common good
People are children watching television or sink
Secret the rest of the world is looking
Fornelli two-and-a-half centuries
We the People
In search of a
More perfect union
Ever kept our eyes on that common good
Merrick is so much better today
Watching the season the capital
As reminders as I prepared other speeches in the past of asthma
Words of Abraham Lincoln
This annual message to Congress
Whose work
Has today been interrupted by chaos
Lincoln said
He said we shall nobly save
Or merely lose
The last
Best
Hope on Earth
Went on to say
The way is playing
Peaceful
Generous
Just
Away
Which is followed
The world will forever apply
God must forever bless
The way is playing here too
Actually are
Is the word democracy
Respect
Decency
Commitment
Patriots to this nation
Notwithstanding what I saw today we're seeing today
I remain optimistic about the incredible opportunities
There's never been anything we can't do
When we do it together
In this god-awful display today
Bring it home to every Republican
Democrat independent nation
We must step
This is the United
States of America
There's never ever ever ever ever been a thing we tried to do
And we've done it together
Not being able to do it
So President Trump
Step Up
The God Bless America
May God protect our troops
And all those folks with capital
We're trying to preserve order
Thank you and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
Are you concerned about your inauguration
I am not concerned
Safety
Surety of the inauguration
American people in a stand-up
Stand up now
Enough is enough
The president-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington Delaware live coverage of his brief remarks on the violence
That have marred the joint session to count the electoral votes on Capitol Hill
We are live here on C-Span awaiting word on when the House and Senate will resume their sessions just a reminder
Of the timetable
The US House came in at 1 use came in at noon and joined in the Senate and a joint session
At 1 p.m. Eastern
The president has spoken to the rally at the the ellipse
At about 11 about 11 or so and spoke to Al just shortly after noon at which point that
Rowley broke up in many of those protesters
Made their way down Pennsylvania Avenue
Down Constitution
Tour the US Capitol
Some of those protesters broke into the US Capitol and violence ensued between the protesters
Between Capitol Police and others
The capitals on lockdown the session The Joint session was ended before the violence began
Both the House and Senate had begun the deliberations on the objections to the Electoral College count
In Arizona keep in mind this is the first of what we expect will be three or four objections
Do electoral votes
Going on today and into tonight so
We have not that we have not seen all of the objections yet and certainly more heavily as of this hour do not know when the house
Towson set it
Will gavel back in there has been damaged
And destruction up on Capitol Hill including in the speaker's Chambers and will show you that in the moment just to look
Inside the US House chamber of photo here
From Andrew harnik of the Associated Press
Members of Congress shelter-in-place shelter in the house Gallery as protesters tried to break into the house
Chamber at the US Capitol
Today also a photo of photo hear from
Matt Fuller of Huffington Post tweets that says damn that's a photo
And headline marauding protesters
Vandalize speaker Pelosi's office
And just a comment here from Olivia nuzzi who is a reporter for
New York Magazine she relays the statement of a Capitol Hill aide a house aide
On what happened on the house floor
Crusades as I got on the house floor later they only let me in because people invaded But once I got on the floor I stood
By the door and heard a capitol police officer asked how many guns were in the room then they told us to get behind the chairs
As we may have to drop to the floor and they are bulletproof
Then they told us to get gas masks out from beneath the chairs and put them on before we could get them on and out of a pack
Package more people got through because
They had us to evacuate evacuate us through the tunnel
One police officer Garden Madison and I and helped us to get to an elevator and out of the capital Richard's Hudson and Ted
Bud came with us to Rayburn both of those
Our Congressman will keep you posted on any news on when the House and Senate return credit back to you
We are waiting obviously to get more reports from Capitol Police from
Capitol leadership as to what happens next bill adjust
Talking about their plans to move forward they still have
Presumably more objections to go if they continue
With the state of Georgia
With the state of
Arizona Georgia
Excuse me I'm just blinking on the
Pennsylvania of course 20 electoral votes there so
We will see what happens next year we're going to
Get your thoughts on the scene up on Capitol Hill
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Jim Acosta who covers the white house for sale in n
Sent out this tweet that is Source close to the White House who is in touch with some of the rioters at the Capitol
But it's the goal of those involved to stay inside the capitol
Through
The night
President Trump addressed
His supporters earlier today
This is what he had to say
And I hope Mike is going to do the right thing I hope so I hope so because if Mike Pence does
The right thing
We win the election
All he has to do all the dishes
This is from the number one or certainly one of the top
Constitutional lawyers in our country
He has the absolute right to do it
We're supposed to protect our country
Support our country support our Constitution and protect our constitution
States
Want to revoke
The state's got defrauded
They were given false information
They voted on it now they want to recertify they wanted back
All vice president Pence has to do
Is send it back to the States
To recertify
And we become president and you are the happiest people
And I actually I just spoke to Mike ice
Doesn't take courage
What takes courage is to do nothing
That takes courage and then we're stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot
And we have to live with that
The four more years we just not going to let that happen many of you have traveled from all the cross
Sedation to be here and I want to thank you for the
Extraordinary love that's what it is business ever been a movement like this ever ever for the
Extraordinary love for this amazing country
This amazing movement thank you
President Trump from earlier today around 11 a.m. eastern time when he addressed the supporters that came here to Washington
At a rally
And protest the Electoral College vote that was supposed to be taking place
Up on Capitol Hill
The protesters then came to the Capitol
Reach the Capital Security entered
The house of Senate chambers way understand are still in the capital
Law enforcement from surrounding states virginia-maryland on their way to the Capitol
We understand from lawmakers that we talked to the intention is to keep going
When the capital is cleared
With the counting of the Electoral College
The president has taped a message from the White House
We understand we will show that to you
Shortly
In the meantime John in Clifton Park
New York
John your thoughts
I am
Stunned
I never thought that I could
See this kind of
Thing happen
Ever
In this country
I don't hold a lot of Hope for whatever
Statements be taped by
Because
I truly believe that
What he wants to do and what he wanted to do when he sent
When he
Quote suggested
That people
Take walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and break into the capitol
Is
He wants to watch the rice that the reichstag burn down
If Winnie the vice president
Has to be the one to say people need to leave
It only do it by Twitter
The presidential Citizen watch television
The level of disgust
Did I feel
Is that is usually pretty high for this Administration but we've
To pass that today
It is
Beyond Compare
I'm I'm praying that there are no fatalities
I know this is one person who's been shot
It is a serious condition hopefully that's the last person that's going to be hurt
It looks like these protesters are going to nothing up there not protesters their there they're terrorists
I truly believe that they're going to stay in the capital as long as I can and they're going
And they should be dealt with
As
Hard as the justice system can handle it
And
I hope this is
An indication to a lot of people that
Democracy is a great thing if you can keep it
And we're right on the precipice of losing it
If we don't stop this and we don't
Stop
The kind of
Rhetoric and the kind of
Craziness that has enveloped this country in the last four years thanks very much and thanks for C-SPAN
John in Clifton Park
New York
Kathleen Tucson Arizona
Yes hello
Sayaka with John's dad just absolutely in shock
I so appreciate president-elect Biden's words enough is enough is enough
This country is about something greater than our individual for about the common good
It is really time and it says I agree without the precipice of
Serge Ibaka see being tested
So I think the founding fathers were putting the three branches of government place
We have the structures that we need I believe that
Treason charges need to be brought against his president in the way that he has taken this country
Tree and incited this kind of violence
2 meme
Facts about mobile
So I do want to thank all of you that have reported on this I want to thank all the Capitol Police that are there
Trying to defend our democracy
And I the six-year-old. and I'm ready to go if
I need to show up in DC to protect our democracy for future Generations
This is important and not critical
And I am just
Edwards
To know that our president has incited this kind of
Violence today so again thank you all for reporting thank you for covering
And dumb Bible I will move on
Thank you
Alright Kathleen and Johnson Tootsie with ABC news says that Kevin McCarthy the Republican
Leader in the house told ABC
Quotes I called the president and explain to him what is going on I begged him to go to the nation
Says he said that
The president was recording
A video message
He the present has tweeted out that message and again we'll get that ready for you here
Momentarily you heard from the president-elect
Joe Biden going before the cameras to say that the capitals Under Siege
Calling on the president to give
A national address and saying that the democracy
Is under an unprecedented
Assault
Martha and Kissimmee Florida Martha
What does legacy
As you watch this what are you thinking
This is nothing more than a symptom of what has been going on for years or decades
Fear that you can't do nothing without a good school
Good job
Factories and other jobs lockdown taken to other countries
Big corporations still getting these
Tax break
Those who are educated
How many people are in different
Kuelap
When others talk to them about voting
Voting needs to be made into a law where we have to do it as
An obligation
Like they do in Australia
We pay taxes no argument we have to go to jury duty
No arguments
We have to vote we have to register and vote in every election no arguments
This is nothing more than a result
This place is between
Elite
And privilege government and the people who have been cheated
More than 40 years
The poor getting poorer the Richer getting richer
Who is going to step up we need to step up
And boats
Dog catching the president
Okay Martha
Spell Scanlon what have you learned
Credit the president is just
Tweeted out a recording video on the mob violence and destruction at the US Capitol today
Here's what he had to say
We had an election
That was stolen from us
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
We have to have Law & Order we have to respect to our great
People in Law and Order
We don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough period of time
There's never been a time like this where
Such a thing happened with a could take it away from all of us from me from you from our country
This was a fraudulent election
But we can't play into the hands of these people
We have to have peace
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
But go home and go home and peace
I know your pain
President Trump at a tweet just came out shortly ago that President telling his supporters to go home and
And all of them will have to go home there is a 6 p.m. curfew in effect
In the nation's capital
You have to have
Tweeting out at about 4:24 this afternoon on the East Coast my prayers are with the officers that are
Protecting and defending and who have gone down
Mr. president tell your supporters to stop the violence stop the assault
Now
Lisa murkowski Republican
Of Alaska
Carmen in Bellevue Washington Carmen
Hi I'm so grateful for
Letting me
Tell you what I've been experiencing overnight there what were anarchists tweets I kept going into
CDs
Their deeds accounts that would be talking about the end
Linwood who's associated with
Trump
Should
10th is in fact a traitor
I have the evidence and I've interviewed The Whistleblower I am sending tents to World of the block
He will never be released he will spend eternity there
Okay then
He retweeted
A little bit
Later
5:30 a.m. Pacific time I'm sorry I'm shaking because I saw this happening and I didn't know who
Go to tell
Foot
Ron Watkins who's the administrator for to andon
He tweeted out
3 of 3 and on the very bottom luckily
I don't I don't think at this time
It's it's appropriate to
On National Television repeat
The incitement of violence Lori and Silver Spring in Independence Lori
Thank you for taking my call
I'm just disgusted to watch this and it's it's hard to believe that our country has come to this
And not only should we be counting holding President Trump
Accountable bit all the Republican true today are finally speaking out and saying
How absurd assistant how dangerous to Sis
They should have been speaking out all along and I hope that the Constitutional lawyers in attorney-general's and
Whoever else has a standing and power to hold these people accountable
I hope they do that because they are putting our country
At risk and if we
We claim to be the beacon of light of democracy for the world end
Today
We have lost
Stuck brake to hold that position we will I Believe come around and survived
This is a disgrace for a country it is a national shame
Thank you
Katie in Russellville Kentucky
Katie as we watch these protesters on Capitol Hill they remain there
At this hour
What are you thinking
Well I'm hoping the protesters are safe
I wonder how many antifa have infiltrated that might be causing some violence
It's not like Trump supporters to be violent at all
However
I am so closed
To say people that can get there
The protest
The rigged election
Communism in this country
Unfortunately it's now here
And we have to stand up
I don't believe in violence respect the police
And I suspected the Trump supporters have I suspect antifa he's gotten in there
In
Trumpcare
KD do you do you do you think that it was
Or or should that security on Capitol grounds
Have been breached they have tried to enter the capital
Yes communism Must Be Stopped if they have to take them by the ear and throw them all down the steps
In Copper re-elections across-the-board we have allowed our institutions to be overrun
The Communists of the last 60 years they are now here
It's either stand up and attend now
Lucia country forever Max in Boston
Max go ahead
Hi thank you so much for giving a platform for all of us who want to share what you're thinking
Not right now for taking my call
Something else
Wanted to get out there and something else on the mind if somebody on people in this country
Is how the reaction from law enforcement of this riot
Differs from the reaction that was present several months ago during the black lives matter protest
In reaction to George Floyd
At the time
Several months ago
And were met with
You show forcing the National Guard tear gas rubber bullets
And what we're seeing today is it is nothing in comparison to that
Today is a full-blown riot
Order some cool I just think that
It's a horrifying to see the double standard in this country
Protesting
The subjugation of people of color
That's all I wanted to know
Sarah Patrick Leahy Democrat of Vermont says that he's safe
With other senators
He says we are eager to get back on senate floor when safe and resume the certification of the election iPlug present
Biden's remarks
A few moments ago
I was you know if you were watching our coverage here today they proceedings of
The certification of the election that's counting of the Electoral College votes the final step
In campaign 2020 was
Interrupted when it was subjected
When when a Senator Senator Ted Cruz
I am Paul gosar of Arizona objected to
The Electoral College votes from Arizona
Anyone into their separate Chambers
The debate
That is what they do under these proceedings
That debate was to take place for two hours and then they're going to vote on that objection
And as you all know once the security of the capital was breached
Those proceedings
We're putting two recess in both chamber
Lawmakers were evacuated
And we're hearing from Senators like Patrick Leahy and others are there in social media or other places
But they are safe
The protesters are still on the grounds of the Capitol there's law enforcement coming in from
The surrounding area
The mayor of the DC mayor has put in a 6 p.m. curfew
To clear the area
And lawmakers are saying that they will continue on
With the counting of the Electoral College
In the meantime gym in North Richland Hills Texas
Jim
You're next
So yes ma'am I just
Thank you for giving people The Voice
Because we don't have much choice
In this country anymore the little people
And you know we've been watching for the last 4 years
A man that was elected president
And we saw that
Hillary Clinton
Never served one day in jail
Then we saw STI people lying on on stand
And we've lost credibility in our FBI and our justice department
If I called up the FDI and ask him what that who's your boss
And I couldn't tell me who's our big boss was
I called the justice department I have stem
Who's the FBI's Big Boss
Can I see why we can't we don't know
Come to find out to my research
The justice department
Is over all these federal agencies
They control them so when the
FBI won't release paperwork
It won't release documents
It's because the justice department
Is dragging their feet
So what I'm trying to say is
Weight loss
In our representative
And we know that the Dominion system
What's twitching boats
And it was hooked
Online
And we know that it went to Frankfurt Germany
What happened in what evidence
Is there a.
Well you can't get evidence
If you can't get it to the court system
And the court system has been blocked by the justice department
Okay Michael in New York
Hello Tammy
We can
Call
Sociable I love President Trump
I love me more after today
And what exactly do you think is going to happen with a fraudulent election do you think people are just going to get
Walked all over for the rest of their lives
Honestly
Ruc
Are you Michael rui
Cuz that's what's happening
So when I see what happens today I'm not surprised I'm not saying I condone it
What are you surprised
You're not Michael
You're not it sounds like
No I'm not surprised at all are you
Go to Andrew
In New Mexico Andrew
Andrew New Mexico
Alright let me go to Parker who's in California Parker
As you've watched the breach of the US Capitol
Today
Would have been going through your mind
Yes I have it I mean I started watching this morning watching Republicans try and have Jacks to free and fair
Election results
Which is a direct precursor and what we saw as the story of the capital is a direct consequence of God
So I want all the viewers at home to pay attention to the double standard
Retreated this summer
Profusely assembly
White domestic terrorists
I like to essentially walk into our nation's capital take pictures with police
Duly elected officials
Freely roaming the chambers of Congress
I knew young person I have never seen this
In my lifetime
I am shocked I am disgusted but
Sowing Discord in our nation's elections in the Integrity of our democracy Ted Cruz
Paga start Jim Jordan everyone this morning
This is what he's going through people's minds today who are taking those words
White supremacy this damn chifa
This is communism know these people have Trump lied this is white supremacy this is militant white right
Violence and anyone else you trying to spend this in another way of living in an alternate reality without
The courts have upheld this election
Congress to do the same Congress that allow Joe Biden to become the president elect
The people at the Capitol right now need to leave and they need to be charged I also believe any
Official who has supported Trump in his efforts to overturn the selection
Should be expelled from Congress
Thank you
The new senator from Montana John Hickenlooper of Colorado excuse me
The former Governor sent out this tweet my staff and I are safe and secure lockdown grateful to Capitol Police for their work.
Protest protect us
The sad day for country
Democracy stronger than the dangerous attack on the capital
Today
Present like Joe Biden address the country earlier
Here's a portion of that
At this hour
Our democracy is under unprecedented assault
Unlike anything we've seen in modern times
Assault
The Citadel of Liberty
The capital
Itself
Assault on the people's Representatives
The Capitol Hill Police
Sworn to protect them
The public servants
For work
At the heart of our Republic
An assault on the rule of law
Like
Few times we've ever seen it
Assault
Almost sacred
American undertakings
The doing of the people's business
Let me be very clear
The scenes of chaos at the Capitol
Do not reflect the true America
Do not represent Who We Are
What we're saying
Are small number of extremist
Dedicated the lawlessness
This is not the scent
It's the shorter
It's chaos
Borders on sedition
And it must end
Now
I call in this mob
The pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward
You heard me say before in different contexts
The words of a president matter
Good or bad
At their best
The words of a president can inspire
At their worst
It can incite
Therefore
I call on President Trump
Go on national television now
Defend the Constitution
And demand an end to this Siege
Frozen Electro buy them from earlier calling on the president to address the nation and tell the protesters that you see on your screen right there
Are that are still on the capitol grounds
To go home
Law enforcement on their way the 6 p.m. curfew here in DC that will be in place in
A little over an hour
And we are getting your thoughts today as the scene unfolds on Capitol Hill it was supposed
Tubi
The final step of campaign 2020 proceedings
The happen every 4-years where Congress plays its rule
In tallying the Electoral College votes and certifying
The election
Lindsey Graham after the senator from South Carolina after the security
Breach occurred tweeting out moments ago
I cannot agree more with present like Biden statement to the nation
Time to retake the capital and the violence and stop the madness
It's time move forward and govern our nation our differences are real but the love of our nation overwhelmed
Our differences
Bill Scanlon
Only after Joe Biden the president-elect's live statement from Wilmington
President Trump released a recorded tweet just wanted to point this out because shortly after that tweet was released
It was locked down by Twitter and this is a screenshot of that from the recount again at
Admonishing the fact that there are
Issues that they had the Twitter had with things for the president said in his tweet the president's first
First former and first a chief of staff reince priebus with this tweet this afternoon
Many of these folks are nothing but domestic terrorists and many are criminals
And troublemakers all acting in a manner opposite of patriotism these violent people have no respect for
Democracy pure insanity
And disgusting from
Senator Joe manchin sahil Kapur in DC with this Joe manchin saying we are okay and ready to get back to the Senate
Chamber to finish our work
These thugs cannot and will not run us off
We will continue to govern for 2 weeks from Inauguration Day
And David Mark the
Washington examiner with this tweet victories of Georgia Democrat Democratic senators elect
Raphael Warnock and John also could we conceivably certified by inauguration day for president-elect
Joe Biden on on January 20th
One more thing here to from Josh Campbell National Security reporter with CNN FBI agents have been deployed adieu
US Capitol complex in Washington or look at the video of that from NBC's Leanne
Caldwell
Let's take a look
Tell you that
Greta we will keep you posted on any updates obviously on social media and any updates when we seen there in terms
To the house instead of returning to their separate Chambers for further deliberation
You are getting
Our viewers American thoughts on this on this day on Capitol Hill January 6th
2020
With the protesters sieging the kasigi taking Siege of the capital
A word that the president-elect Joe Biden used
Senator Tim Kaine Democrat Virginia has tweeted out that he and his staff are safe
Right now
Following the instructions of Capitol Police and praying for the safety of capital workers
Members of the press and all here in Washington today this violence
Must end now
Donna and Anderson South Carolina what do you think
What I think is what gets me is
How come the president-elect Joe Biden didn't say
Anything get up and saying things when all the Democrats were going out there and Destroyer
And I do everything and burning everything down nobody even said anything about that
Shader terrastone TV or nothing like that
And that's what gets me is when the Republicans does something like that
Republicans are Christian people and they're not violent now yes there was somebody on here that was very stupid and dead
That was wrong with them do that because violence violence
I'm a Christian
And I love this country but I love God more in this world is going to end
I mean it's going to get worse than what it is now
Alright Donna Diana
And carrot Kerrville Texas
Can you hear me we can Diana have you been watching this all day
I guess I have ma'ams I have a couple of thoughts about this so first of all I appreciate the coverage that you've provided today
But y'all aren't the only game in town so what you are putting out there such
The people that put that put forth the violence or that you're supporting that there Trump supporters
It was antifa
Videos out there that showed that they broke windows in
I bet they're the ones that breached the capital that they're the ones that actually created the violin
Some of them were wearing Trump gear but this was not Trump supporters that did that
Trump supporters or before peaceful it was actually antifa
And yesterday The Innkeeper was actually postion but the police escort approved by DC
Bowser
Videos about if you truly want the truth there is videos and there's alternate media that I
Please provide the truth and Diana are you are you not you're not condoning this violence
Whoever's doing it
Of course I don't condone the violence but you're blaming the wrong people you're blaming Trump supporters this was
The antifa the video is that of antifa you can look at the antifa videos
He said that's doing this and some of them were wearing Trump gear and so you're blaming Trump
And in your narrative is deplane Trump is this that is not trust this was antifa that did that at the end of the day
This election we're trying to legitimize an illegitimate president-elect
By you didn't win this is a aqua color red Revolution
You think Faust media and ordered it to drive the narrative Diana there in Texas
If you can see on Capitol Hill
More more police have arrived on the site
On the
Governors of Virginia and Maryland all
Ascending more resources more law enforcement resources to the capital
The entire National Guard of Washington DC has been called
I saw
Images of. Earlier
Will go to Lisa in Roseville Michigan
Hello
Lisa
You're on the early so
Hi
I'm a trump supporter
And it is it's true I agree with the last two collars that just called you and you everybody seems to right away
Explain Trump for everything and now you got him now think about this there's many many many groups not just a
Antifa not just
The Trump supporters there could be the Boogaloo boys out there that could be black lives matter out there there could be
Antifa out there
Since a lot of different groups there's Michigan militia here where I'm at
So it's like
You cannot
Specifically say oh that was a trump supporter and you got to remember we watch TV
For the last 4 years
We've seen impeach and Peach and Peach
Everything that comes ever did and he's had an impeccable record before that covid virus
Just came out
It is disgusting and now we got to deal with socialism now okay Lisa if if
If
Charges are brought against
People who
Brooks into the capital
And they are
Supporters of President Trump what should happen
I think they should go to jail
Or show you the moment on the house floor
Right before they went to recess as protesters
Reach the chamber
The house will be in order
Those will be in order okay
The house will be in order
Also be in order
Marysville take their seats
The house will be in order
Okay
We can resume
Without objection to cheer declares the house and recess pursuant to Clause 12v of rule one
That was when the house recessed when the protesters broke into the capitol earlier today the sea
Being outside of the capital right now on your screen
These are more police have been called
To the area
We can see on CNN that they are around the capitol grounds
It appears they are in some sort of holding pattern I'm not obviously don't know what's going to happen next
Here on the capitol the mayor has called for 6 p.m. curfew
And senators and house members
I've been told to shelter-in-place
They've been evacuated
From at least the US Capitol
They aren't undisclosed locations
Along with members of the press who were brought
Out of there by the Capitol Police
You've been watching this all
Unfold today
When the House and Senate was supposed to be counting the votes from the 2020 presidential campaign
We're getting your thoughts on all of this today as well
Bill Scanlon
What have you found
Well yes you put it out of that video additional police resources arriving those officers npdc they're Jack
Metropolitan DC police department keep in mind the Capitol Hill Complex in
Surrounding area patrolled the jurisdiction of the Capitol Police and has been for quite some time
Time here in Washington DC but additional police resources Metropolitan the FBI the National Guard
And they're there because as you pointed out the the curfew getting underway Scott Wong who has been helpful to us today
In figuring all this out senior Congressional correspondent for the hill tweeting now the DC officials say there's a curfew in effect
From 6 p.m. tonight
Until 6 a.m. tomorrow
This is from San minutes to cover Transportation issues for Politico
He writes he repeats a statement from the national manufacturers Association
The National Association of Manufacturers just asked Mike Pence to quote seriously considering consider invoking
Xxv
Amendment that's the amendment calls for the removal of the president if he is incapacitated
This is from my Chad pergram Fox into it's a democratic
Minnesota representative ilhan Omar preparing articles of impeachment for Trump
And then Lisa murkowski senator from Alaska with this tweet saying that the dangerous destructive
At the Capitol is
Continuing to unfold I along with other members of the Senate are secure but the situation is clearly
Not safe
It is truly mob rule
At the moment and from overseas
The tshock of Ireland Michael Martin's the first reaction we seen from foreign governments he says this
In a tweet the Irish people have a deep connection with United States of America
Built up over many generations I know that many like me will be watching the scene unfolding
In Washington DC with great concern
Andis Mack
And I'll just add to that bill Center ramp all tweeting out it is one thing to be angry it is another to fill
Focus on one's anger in a constructive way that hasn't happened today so to say the least
We simply to say the least we simply cannot destroy the Constitution are laws and the Electoral College
In the process
Because I'm say hope is the nation's anger cools we can channel that energy into essential electoral reforms
In every state
Addy America's admired around the world for free elections we must we must absolutely must fix this message was to
Your confidence and integrity
Into our elections
And Center Maggie Hassan writing this instructional not tutor Congress from certifying the election art democracy
Depends on it
Cuz I was reading those you were watching
At law enforcement head into
The capital
KD in Greensburg Pennsylvania
Katie go ahead
Thank you so much for taking my call I just wanted to say it like his browley today
It wasn't for anything else than I think to generate fear
And fears his biggest strength
Like until it's anger of rebellion and violence
And the people in that crowd knew
Set the cows going on
Of course emotions are going to run high and you took advantage of that
It's so sad to see that this guy is getting more power
Or a following by taking away from the American people
The people that he was sworn to protect
I think
Not him
Stickman little eclipse
Quit violence on Peaceful protesters
Bible study Opportunity by the church
Nothing he does makes sense at all and it has video response right after the violence
Right at the beginning
Election
Unrecorded
Yeah I know you guys are fighting the good fight
He was that recorded asking for votes
I'm just like
Disturbed I hope everyone is stays on the side
I just hope everyone stay safe
I just hope it's awful awful display
Patriotism
I hope this is a catalyst
People just feel like really try to get some real change cuz
It's heartbreaking
Not with the tablets
It's just like
Early twenties
Knowing that this is kind of like what I had to deal with her that's my life much
Really like
Remember what things are like better in the good old days like
Really really really
I can't believe it's going to this point of violence
City in Pennsylvania
Senator Jeff Merkley tweets out Electoral College ballots were rescued from the senate floor
If are capable floor staff hadn't grabbed them they would have been burned by the mob
The Electoral College votes brought in in those mahogany boxes
From the states and you saw the proceedings at the beginning
Of the joint session in the house chamber with the vice president Mike Pence present presiding over
The electoral college books taken out of that box
Those boxes
Read given to the vice president and then him passing along to the tellers house for
Republican and house Democratic one with the Senate Republican and Senate Democrats reading out loud
Those boats
What happened next or very early on in the process wasn't objection
Two Arizona's 11 Electoral College votes
They gobble down that joint session the Senate went back to their chamber
NAB intubate
And then that is when the protesters
Went to Capitol Hill
Reach the security there
Went past the Capitol Police
And into the actual building
Itself
Pete and Tarpon Springs Florida
What do you make of all this
Thanks for having me on
Riverwatch C-SPAN live
But I do watch it pretty often
It is our National Treasure
But
Puno
I ask you question
Have you
Can you imagine
Where are the Capitol Police
Poor people understand that I understand I understand that senators were
Second Thursday directed The Electoral ballot winner
Deserved
Am I watching an hour's worth
Vandals
Walk around inside of our nation's capital
On the senate floor on the house floor
Sitting in the speaker's chair banging the gavel
Caring podiums around
Rummaging through Sanders papers on their desk
Where are the Capitol Police
I'm going to be nice about it
I'm not saying I would have billy clubs
And zip ties
Where are the butt
What is a butt kicking
It should be going on when this could happen anywhere
Nation's capital
You can do this at a football game you can do this after
At a concert you couldn't do this at
You can do this anywhere
Much less is it capitol building
I mean what are you thinking
I'm watching 45 minutes where are the police when you people rummaging around on the floor of the Senate
There's a lot of questions
Right now as we wait for
More news
After Action Report
How this all transpired
There's the picture
Of the Senate chamber one of the protesters sitting in the chair
Of the presiding officer
Lake george in Alabama
How you doing
I wants to say that this ridiculous
We've been here all I
Getting stuff done in a peaceful peaceful way and now you got a bunch of thugs go up there right eye care
Station turbinates quarterback at the building
There should have been locked up this is ridiculous they make us seem like we are third world country
This is United States that everything in the world look up to
And we look like garbage
Garbage
Apologize I thought you were finished
Tyler in Sacramento
Thank you so much for taking my call providing today to give me the opportunity to voice my opinion
Self independent in California which is a pretty rare thing I think at least
Libertarian and
Just a few points to make
I personally don't think it's any real surprise what's happening today I mean having watched a lot of the earrings
Constantly hear this
On what evidence
Attention to the hearings are going on in Washington Michigan Pennsylvania Arizona and Georgia
And we saw these people that had submitted affidavits was
Supported election
Shady things going on and I think that those are the questions that people really want answer
I want to take Cruz's speech this morning
It kind of brought to light I think what should have happened
And yeah he said if a member of Congress vote against injection
A lot of Voters are going to cure
That is that you don't think
That's a big deal
Election integrity
During the constant chicken little syndrome beyond the sky is falling
Falling for the last 4 years
Polaris
I'm very much he'll always feeling disenfranchised and from my feet so
And you know they were the 25th
Encouraging
It's my mind but that would be the quickest way to a Civil War which I really don't want to be happening
Enter into this country
Oftentimes people
People if you don't if you don't agree with them they shut off completely
And it's one of the most frustrating things
Okay
What were saying on the screen
Pretty CNN riot police are moving into place
To move the protesters
Away from the building off of
The capitol grounds so that I believe cording to CNN is what's happening right now moving
Those police officers moving into place
As we it's 5:05 p.m. here on the East Coast
We're approaching
6 p.m.
Curfew put in place by the DC mayor
Bill Scanlon
I'm sorry about that great I was loading up some some tweeting and response let me guess first show you because I'm not sure if
This is from
From DC police were from Capitol Police a statement here Zeke Miller of the associate
Depress reporting this statement the DC police chief says protesters deployed
Chemical irritants on police to gain access to the US capital Lisa Benetton who is a video reporter
With the Daily Caller
If you listen
You'll hear a pop of a flash grenade go off there this is video shot earlier this afternoon before the breach
And before the assault here on what appears to be the West front of the US
Capital couple other comments your this is from
From Chad program who covers Congress longtime correspondent for Fox News couple things about the process
Yes I had he says
It's unclear if they when the House and Senate return to session
Capital defile worries about members of the mob haven't been able to sleep they have been able to find potential
Actually still roaming the capital the smell of tear gas
In the building members and staff still Sheltering in place and that
Winchester short while ago he also says to note this note that the House and Senate don't have to meet here in the cab
Capital unclear today's mob incursion he calls it
I will force the gop's intent
On contesting the Electoral College
Also from
Representative kinzinger from Illinois Republican Illinois saying this we live in the greatest country on Earth and
Today millions of Americans will exercise their right to vote in a free and fair election
This is special edition reminder that our greatness stems from our freedoms may God Bless the USA that's his
Tweet back on Election Day on November 3rd I want to show you some video here from
Mike Gallagher Wisconsin
I'm a read that here's what he had to say about today we have protesters
Who has stormed
The capital
Flashing
With
Capital
Police forcing their way into Statuary Hall
The vice president United States was just rushed
Off the floor of the House by secret service
This is Banana Republic crap
That were watching happen
Right now
Andy objectors
Over the last two days have told me
There is no problem
Which is having a debate we know we're not going to succeed
So we're just going to jacked
We're going to have a debate will voice people's concerns and then
We won't actually overturn our entire system of representative government so nothing
Bad will happen they'll be no cost of this effort
This is the cost
Of this effort this is the cost
Accountant dancing
An effort by Congress
To overturn the election and telling thousands of people
That there was a legitimate shot
Of overturning the election
Today
Even though you know that is not true
We have got to stop this
Mr. president
You have got to stop
You are the only person
Who can call
This
Off
Pull it off
The election is over
Whole
Off
This is bigger than you it's bigger than any member of Congress
Isabelle
United States of America
Which is more important
Did any politician
Call it off
It's over
Right now
Gallagher congressman from Wisconsin who represents the 8th District Green Bay and a tweet.
Looks like from inside his office
At the US Capitol
And David know who reports for daily cost send out the street that at least six house Democrats already
Call for Trump's impeachment for inciting today's violent coup attempt
You can see the names there please let me know if you see
Others
Back to Capitol Hill or cameras are outside of the two Chambers
Dear I please have been put into place to move them away from the capital
Not clear what is happening inside that building at this moment
Senators and house lawmakers many of them staying on Twitter
And to us
This afternoon
They would like to continue forward
With the counting of the Electoral College
It's unclear though if that can happen
Island in Ohio
Allen
Yes you
Darned
No actually I'm proud of what's happened
These people are standing up for what we believe in
This is Claire Allen clear are you endorsing the violence
I don't see anybody wants
Didn't see that
I see we the people standing up for what we believe in
And this has been
About to come there multiple reports of police being hurt
Punched
Guns were drawn
I don't know
I mean there's bound to be things like that happens if the confrontations person-to-person
What is going to happen
Okay Aaron in Provo Utah
Scion
I'm going to try to be calm and non-partisan in my comments
This is one of the scariest things I
Southern seasons
Why
Capitalizing my life
Send
What weather today at the comments by duly elected official
And whatever
State
Wendy's if you seen them beads
Take a chance to eat for this
Boats and
So you can probably devote to
Change it because it will
Planet now what we can't
Going to be bystanders
Homework system
I don't condone any violence that has happened
And I to take this to the path that could have been avoided
Had other actions been taken by the people in charge
What other actions are
If you
Call Saul
Austin mg Triumph say what
If you started
So you said the allegations of problems no evidence of Fraud and then you been paying over August
That is not a self-sustaining argument that is not
Ballads
Logically to do
50 Cent's my garbage statement you think we've all switches things that doesn't mean that you're correct or that it's right
It just means you can do that but that doesn't help people at the beach
Because it makes people feel like they're being suppressed
Robert in Milwaukee
I am a political scientist and a historian and
Play many of the people especially the guy before last that on you're completely delusional delusional and inundated
Political propaganda
The people that are saying that the Democrats that some sort of communist conspiracy that are trying to like take
Democrats are the capitalist imperialist ruling parties of this country
It couldn't be farther from the Republicans
* 2
Ruling party in this country's the Democrats and Republicans that have been trying to
Increase the contradiction
Between them in order.
He'll pop up the legitimacy of this obviously failing
Late-stage capitalism
Like
Bring wrapping up these these contradictions between them and this is how come
Wind wind the legitimacy of the entire party
Other Republicans hangs on Trump's this is what's going to happen
Situation
And they created that's because they don't have anywhere else to other legitimacy
Tens of millions of people are out of work millions of people are hungry
Here in this country right before I the spelling and we're stealing
Robert thier in Milwaukee
Let me show you from earlier today when the Senate
Went into recess because of the protesters
Getting close to possibly at that time entering
The chamber want to show you that moment a note for you
Bet
There is no audio after about
A little bit of time
So we'll show you the entire
Moment when it happened but you will not be hearing audio for some of it
I will stand in recess until the call of the chair
Thank you
That was a moment
From this afternoon a little after 2 p.m. eastern time when the Senate adjourned they are still
Or I should say in recess not adjourn there still in recess as is the house
What's the security was breached on Capitol Hill in the protesters entered into the building
The lawmakers were
First locked inside the chamber and then evacuated from those chambers we're getting
Tweets from many lawmakers saying they are safe
They're waiting for the Capitol Police and police from Virginia and Maryland law with other
Law enforcement backing them up today
This evening
To clear these protesters out of the capital
In from the capitol grounds media reporters are saying
There are many lawmakers who are still committed to moving forward with the tally
Of the Electoral College
Votes we will see if that happens we're getting your thoughts
On this day
As protesters
As President Joe Biden said he described it
As Siege
On the nation's capital
And democracy under unprecedented assault those were her words
Do you agree or disagree
Will get your thoughts on that
Bill Scanlon
Qatar are u.s. capital is nearly 220 years old it has seen a lot of contentious debate
But very rarely has it seen violence some historical perspective here from Daniela Diaz of CNN
With this queen she says this is the first time the US capital has been breached
Since the British attacked and burned the building in August of 1814 during the War of 1812 according to Samuel
Holiday the director of scholarship
And operations
With the US Capitol Historical Society a photo hear from Jordan Fisher inside the capitol he's a local
TV reporter
Here in Washington during the four years of the Civil War the Confederates never got closer to Washington
Then Fort Stevens until today when Insurrection supporter supporters of Donald Trump
Paraded through the US Capitol building
Carrying the Confederate Battle Flag
This is from Gabriel Elizondo who says that the Trump supporters are at tacking media sites
South side of the US Capitol that photo that video beforehand
Was from one of the sites out there from the local US attorney this is from Matthew Schneider
The violent protesters at the US Capitol right now or committing crimes
And they must stop immediately our constitution protects peaceful protest
But not this
Just as the violence in our cities this summer was prosecuted the this while and should be treated the same under law
Law and also a tweet from Victor and the
From here from Boris Johnson would rather the president the tshock of of Ireland the prime minister of the
UK Boris Johnson disgraceful scenes in the US Congress United States stands for democracy
See around the war
And it is now bitel there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power
I don't want to show you some video two of the the sea inside the US Capitol Igor babak
Huffington Post with this let's take a look
What are you go
There You Go the video shot earlier as mentioned Igor Bobbitt tweeted that out from Huffington Post
We will keep you posted
And we'll get two more calls here in a minute as you can see looks like
Some of the protesters have been moved away from
The capitol grounds is one flag
Remains there
Continue to watch the scene here on Capitol Hill
As the House and Senate lawmakers wait to
Reconvene their respective Chambers and continue on
With this last step of the presidential campaign
What are some other images and Thoughts with you Haley
Britzky who was a political reporter
Send out this image and she says this photo breaks my heart representative Jason Crow Democratic Colorado comforts
Representative Susan wild a Democrat Pennsylvania while taking cover
As protesters disrupt The Joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College
This is actually cheering
The house debate
Over the first objection
And then there's this reminder Rogers saying lawmakers are committed to finishing tonight
Senator Joe manchin leaving a secure location with other Senators told us there's a belief
They will finish the Electoral College certification tonight
Quote these dogs aren't running us off
John and Plainview Texas
We can
Yes
For the younger audience out there you know stay calm be fine everything will be alright
This is something that happens almost every election time
Email senators and
Congressman they all decide you know who's going to vote equally thinking about food in a reject to it again
Reject
It's just a part of the process what we need to look at
What we need to try to do going forward is
How can we restore
To the American people
The way we can
The elections
More safe
Feel better because of what Trump has done
Has put it into
People's minds
That
We
Do not have a proper election system
There's something wrong with the system
It needs to be looked at and it needs to be fixed and many people apparently from what you can see by a Capitol Hill
Feel that same way
Now should everyone who is
Inside Capitol Hill be arrested
Change and the charge the full extent of the law
But at the same time there are people there who are simply trying to tell test
Only protest and show the fact
We do not agree with us we do not want this to be happening
We want to somehow fix this
Ultimately no matter which way it goes obviously president-elect Joe Biden has won
OK Google
Okay finish up regardless of that fact
Okay let me go to Caroline in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania Caroline
Yes thank you for taking my call
Just on the note of the previous
Calling from Texas
He's absolutely right with the Constitution we do know
That as a people we can gather in a peaceful protest it's happened in the summer it started peaceful
But then became violent with looting and fires and taking over Ackley stations in downtown
All of that needs to be prosecuted the people who
Ran into the Capitol building today and they need to be prosecuted that is so true
That is just the beginning of our problems than Haitian
The further we divide
Democrat and Republican
The further chance we have of collapsing because there is no chance
Stan
When the columns are separated so far
We have to come together our constitution was based on morality and Taylor t respect
Truth honesty
And when those factors are lost and left
And left behind are countries going to collapse
From within
It's it won't even need to be attacked it's going to be
It's going to collapse from inside because
We are becoming so divided
And until we come together and listen to each other and respect each other
Whether you have a difference of opinion or not
We have to come together
2
To come to Solutions
Cuz it's not going to help
Sorry we don't park no matter who is fighting
The evil and who is talking bad and who is propagandhi
It doesn't matter if we all come together
As a unity and in the country
Respecting each other's differences it will collapse from inside it's a it's a fact that the truth
And it will clock for next week unless we join
And be able to embrace
Each other and the differences it has to happen
Okay Carol's after 9/11 we saw it after the attack
The gunshots against the Republicans when they were playing softball
After calamity
And if we don't start doing that we're going to have a nation that's going to collapse and that's what we're going to leave for our
Grandchildren
Collapse Nation
Okay
Carolyn in Pennsylvania
Here's the president earlier addressing
The protesters
I know your pain
I know you're hurt
We had an election
That was stolen from us 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
We have to have Law & Order we have to respect our grade
People in Law and Order
We don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough. Of time
There's never been a time like this where
Such a thing happened with a could take it away from all of us from me from you from our country
This was a fraudulent election
But we can't
Play into the hands of these people
We have to have peace
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
But go home and go home and peace
President Trump making those remarks in a video message and then later tweeting them out from the White House
And he was asked to do that by Abc's reporting
They say that it was the minority leader Kevin McCarthy and others we presume who pleaded with him
To talk to the protesters
Kim in Martinsville Indiana
Is good at getting any man
Thank you very much for letting me be on your
Good thing here
I know that
Donald Trump was a gift present for us that like said it's will get a move on we can't keep on behind
Cuz it just generation would just got keep on going forward not
Stackers to what's happening now
And likes it is we all have to
We're just going to have to deal with what we have to face
By being our President United States of America
We just need someone that's going to be
Control the Dark Country Inn
Do the right thing
Not to sign gossips things that people say mon here
I mean world United States
And
Max it is
The presence of president if I'm trying to say men
I like Ronald Reagan a good president
Whenever being in this kind of situation we're seeing now in the future man
Relax it is just my opinion is
We all need to be like it
Adults not children
Ancon Stone their ignorance on the TV
And Indigenous thank you though
Can the Republican Democrats and altogether man
We all need to make peace
And let it go in
Fighting
People just don't get killed or police officers trying to protect us
And now these protections are going around and trying to break into the the building and
Self
Cuz we're United States of America
And that's what we are supposed to be we're not supposed to be enemies
Supposed to be poured the the ones just trying to do the right thing
And like I said
I don't know by very well I mean rocket bombers to get
Presnet Deluxe it is we got to go on generation we don't just stay and
Keep on the same thing that we're doing now
If Donald Trump is time for him to go
And not
Let this
Keep going on and I think
Vice president Pence and the great job for us
Kings Island forecast Indianapolis Indiana he was our governor
And I think he did right thing for what his opinion was
Vice president
Has Donald Trump just going to have to quit acting like a child and be a man
And I'm just a sitting and it's gone
And and shake his hand by can and not be stubborn
And
And do like what you're supposed to do when you are not going to be elected as a president
Let the other person know that
Thank him for
Going against each other but none of this
Ignorance meme
While these kids are seeing this on TV and
And it's not it's not right because I said is were supposed to be all United States citizens
And America God made us a country here
To not the eagle
Be good to each other
That's my opinion number start ticket for time
God bless you all and I hope you all have a good piece
New Year and thank you very much for letting me be on your show
Bill Scanlon
The reminder or not
Timeline Greta is the night falls in Washington were 25 minutes away or so from the beginning of the curfew
As issued by the mayor of Washington Muriel Bowser set to begin at 6 p.m. Eastern and
Run all the way through 6 a.m.
Tomorrow morning still uncertain as to when the House and Senate will
Deliberate in their separate Chambers both work
Are considering the objections to the count in Arizona the Electoral
The electoral votes in in Arizona that was the first of all we expect will be three or four votes
Objections that will be weird raised to electoral votes but as we mentioned the
The House and Senate still in recess because of the lockdown on Capitol Hill and what we assume are still protesters
Within the building on the timeline we're uncertain as to when they will come back but under the timeline today this is
A tweet from Mom
From sure Frankel from the
New York time she says the storming of the Capitol Hill was organized on social media time to stop acting like things
Set online don't don't translate into world into real action
And Kim's at Lourdes tweets this at 2:24 p.m. after mr. Trump tweeted the mr. Pence quote didn't
Have the courage to do what he should have done dozens of messages on gab called for those inside the cow
Capitol Building to hunt down the Vice President in videos protesters can be heard chanting where is pain
Tents later in the afternoon
Katie metier tweets this she said just witnessed a
An alarming scene
Outside the US Capitol on group of TV reporters were swamped
And chased away from their cameras which of President Trump's supporters
I trash and Greta you showed this
Quit earlier in the number people retweeting Jeff Merkley shot
To remind us of what this day is all about the Electoral College count the Electoral College ballots rescued
From the senate floor if our capable staff hadn't grabbed them they would have been burned by the mob and I wanted to
Show you to a video
And this is from a person named Joshua Partlow me play the video of earlier this afternoon
There we go
And that tweeters
Contention that the police let those protesters through the gates in that video we saw
On those Electoral College votes in the mahogany boxes that you showed our viewers Jeff Bennett
If Embassy says that according to Brian Williams senator Tammy Duckworth says a sharp-eyed senate aide
On the way out of the chamber thought to reach back and grab the Electoral College certificates to safeguard them
From the Trump
Supporting rioters
President elect Joe Biden
Address the country on what is happening here on Capitol Hill earlier today
Here's what he had to say
I'm sorry
Noxious inconvenience
But I'm sorry for the reason
We've delayed I've delayed coming out
Pikachu
Initially was going to talk about economy
All of you
All of you been watching
What I've been watching
At this hour
Our democracy is under unprecedented assault
Unlike anything we've seen in modern times
Assault
The Citadel of Liberty
The capital
Itself
Assault on the people's Representatives
The Capitol Hill Police
Sworn to protect them
The public servants
For work
At the heart of our Republic
An assault on the rule of law
Like
Few times we've ever seen it
Assault
Almost sacred American undertakings
The doing of the people's business
Let me be very clear
The scenes of chaos at the Capitol
Do not reflect the true America
Do not represent Who We Are
What we're saying
Are small number of extremists
Dedicated the lawlessness
This is not the center
It's disorder
It's chaos
Borders on sedition
Must end
Now
I call in this mob
The pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward
Heard me say before in different contexts
The words of a president matter
No matter how good or bad
At their best
The words of a president can inspire
At their worst
It can incite
Therefore
I call on President Trump
Go on national television now
To fulfill his oath
And defend the Constitution
And demand an end to this Siege
Storm the capitol
The smash windows
Occupy offices
This floor of the United States Senate
Rummaging through desk
The capital of the House of Representatives
Threatening the safety of duly elected officials it's not protest
It's insurrection
World's Wachee
Like so many other Americans
I'm genuinely shocked and saddened of our nation
So long Beacon of light
Hope Mikaelson
Has come to such a dark moment
To war and strife
America's indoor March
And we will endure here and we will prevail again and will prevail now
The work of the moment
And the work of the next four years must be the restoration
Democracy of decency
Honor
Respect
The rule of law
Just playing
Simple
Decency
The renewal of a politics
It's about solving problems looking out for one another
Not stoking the Flames of hate and chaos
I said America's about honor
Decency respect
Tolerance
That's who we are
Actually I've always been
The certification electrical it the Electoral College vote
Supposed to be a sacred ritual
Swift firm
Purposes for from the Majesty
American democracy
Today's reminder
Payne Ford
Democracy is fragile
Preserve it
Requires people to Goodwill
Leaders
The courage to stand up
For devoted not to the pursuit of power
For the personal interest Pursuits of their own selfish interests
Is any cost
What are the common good
People are children watching television
Speak with the rest of the world
Fornelli two-and-a-half centuries
We the People
In search of a more perfect union
Ever kept our eyes on that common good
America's so much better
Watching the season the capital
As reminders as I prepared other speeches in the past of asthma
Words of Abraham Lincoln
This annual message to Congress
Whose work
Has today been interrupted by chaos
Lincoln said
He said we shall nobly save
Or merely lose
The last
Best
Hope on Earth
Went on to say
The way is playing
Peaceful
Generous
Just
Away
Which is followed
The world will forever apply
God must forever bless
The way is playing here too
Actually are
History of democracy
Respect
Decency
Commitment is Patriots to this nation
Notwithstanding what I saw today we're seeing today
I remain optimistic about the incredible opportunities
There's never been anything we can't do
When we do it together
In this god-awful display today
Bring it home to every Republican and Democrat independent nation
We must Step Up
This is the United
States of America
There's never ever ever ever ever been a thing we tried to do
Done it together not been able to do it
No President Trump
Step Up
The God Bless America
May God protect our troops
And all those folks with capital
We're trying to preserve what
Thank you and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
Are you concerned about your inauguration are you I am not concerned
About my safety security of the inauguration
American people in a stand-up
Stand up now
Enough
Present elect Joe Biden from earlier today calling in the presidency says two step
Up
Outside of the Capitol Police have
Put up more fencing
Around the capitol grounds they pushed the protesters back
More police were brought in from Virginia and Maryland to do this unclear what is happening inside
The actual Capital however Matt Fuller
The Capitol Hill reporter
Who was in the building when the breach happened
Tweets out at 5:34 that the sergeant-at-arms says the Capitol building is secure
The room breaks out into Applause not clear where he is where he was brought to
Out with other reporters and lawmakers
We'll go to your calls Warren in Washington
Or what have you been thinking as he watch this unfold today
Warne there in Washington State
Thank you for asking me that question
Let me ask you what do you think the most embarrassing thing is about all this
Why do you ask that
I think the most embarrassing thing is the media
Attending today that you'll get the protests and violence
That's exactly what you been encouraging everyday for a year
It's pathetic
Enough is enough
Is enough
Okay Josh and Englewood Colorado Josh
Hi how are you feeling
What are your thoughts
Deca near me
Okay so
I think what we seen today
Is a roll result of division in this country and I don't think that the division in this country
Has been created by a president I think the division in this country has been created by the media
And the failure to report on both sides you got half of the country that believes one thing
And then the other half of the country along with the media trying to convince that other half that what they're doing singing
Insane or believing is wrong
And so now we have a president
Everybody looks up to that is
Epitome of those beliefs that there's been something wrong in this country for a very long time
It's standing up for those beliefs and
And that's what
That's what the results of today is all about I mean
You see anger and frustration and hurting people then and
Throughout the coronavirus in
Throughout
Dakota has been throughout the four years of attacks
On Donald Trump that the media is
Has been pushing into the minds of every citizen
And people just had enough
I don't think that majority of those protesters
Wanted to storm the Capitol Building I don't think violence was wanted by a majority of those protesters I believe me
Jordy those protesters
Believe in peaceful protest and they just want their voices to be heard
But
With so many feelings happening when you get a million people in one city something is bound to happen I think we
We all expected something major to happen
And
Again I just want to thank you for giving the platform for everybody to be able to express their opinions on this
And I don't encourage the violence and I can't wait for
Congress to resume
So that those Representatives
Still want to backup the other half of the country that's been suppressed so much can go in there and fight for all of us
Josh is referring to the objections
That some Republican and house members say they will make
To the counting of the Electoral College vote to started with Arizona
And earlier today
It look like they would if the proceedings continue
Would object to Georgia and Pennsylvania as well those were the confirm states there were some House Republicans
That wanted to objective needed they needed a senator to do so long with them
To a total of Six States now
Sung-min Kim who reports for the Washington Post says that there's news from her colleagues
There's an effort underway to persuade Senator Ted Cruz who objected to Arizona
They're Josh Hawley who said he would have ejected Pennsylvania and the objectors to stand down from their objections
After the pro-trump mob reach the capitol today
Bill Scanlon
Grettir some sad news to report if it is true this is Scott McFarland I can't bring it up on the screen for you I'm just seeing is Tweety's
Investigative reporter with nbcnews he says alert the person shot at the US Capitol today has died perk
Law-enforcement sources
Song when Kim as you mentioned from The Washington Post also tweets this about a possible timetable
McConnell was telling members they should go back into the chamber tonight to protect project string
After today's catastrophe according to senior Republican sources familiar with this message and he's just been so
This morning
Has Kansas senator
This is Rodger Marshall who says this he tweets this we need to get back to the chamber and finish our work tonight
Senator Elizabeth Warren says we cannot allow the actions of domestic terrorists
To undermine the peaceful transition of power in our country Americans pick the new presidential new president
Who wants to save lives
Save our economy and save our democracy
Their certification of this election must resume immediately
From yummy yummy shell Cinder from the PBS NewsHour the Attorney General
A b c
Says on the NewsHour tonight what you had today was an attempted coup d'etat that is seemingly still in process
It's time for Donald Trump and his supporters to leave DC
Peacefully also from Karen bass a couple of
Photos of the congresswoman from
Los Angeles and was considered a vice-presidential candidate she tweeted a series of photos of peace
People in the House and Senate chamber with the caption arrest this man and here are those photos a man
Dangling there from what appears to be the
Visitors section of the US Senate
Also this one and this one on all of them she said arrest this man
We are few minutes away from a 6 p.m. curfew here in the nation's capital putting place
By the DC mayor
As you can see
Law enforcement has pushed the protesters back from the building
They've put up more fencing around the complex
And we've learned from reports
That
The complex is
Clear
Now whether or not
The Senate and the house reconvene to continue on
With the electoral college process is still uncertain
Or wait and see if that happens and will continue here
With your thoughts about what is happening
In Washington DC Danny
In Ohio go ahead
Has been building for 4 years with fake and Peach man and
Russia collusion and and
Things done about it
Where's the Dork Durham report should be out before the election
Lenny.
All the news media's
Fake news you got Google you got Facebook all suppressing
Malaysian so no one in the country could actually hear the truth only half people hear it
And now
One of the thing I got to say is the fella that was sitting at Nancy Pelosi's death with his feet up
When he gets arrested
I hope Kamala Harris. Up and take her funds for
Gonadal
Bailing out all the Hooters and Arsenal's all summer long so they could go back and loot
She steps up and bail that guy out of jail
Melissa Kingman
Arizona
Alyssa have you been watching today
I have yes
And what have you been thinking
Super like to take the opportunity thank you
Soal try out 2020
We saw over and over again 1% taking extreme precautions and making Masa recipe
Now we're watching armed domestic terrorist
Former capital threatening the safety and
Threatening the safety of our democracy and the wives of Capitol Hill stop in our elected leaders
It's very disappointing to watch white privilege
Give it to these people yet again most most of America
Already knows that face
See that they will be dispersed and most of them will not help accountable for their actions
So I agree with many
Americans are calling our government officials
Perform the mass arrests
An extreme precautions on this group of people throwing a fit
That were used against protesters of fighting for human life
Being taken from Black Americans without justification we should not be relying on our current president to take
Real action
Against these terrorists who praised his every word
He and his family can't even call her followers off
Without freezing their actions
Alyssa and leave it there Bill scanning what do you have
As you've been showing with the video we've been seeing the presence of law enforcement strengthen on Capitol Hill over the past
Hour and a half or so including that video that log video just there with the
Police on buses arriving at the US Capitol here just a few minutes before 6 p.m. Eastern
And the start of the capital curfew that's been imposed by
The mayor of Washington Muriel Bowser and this is set to be enforced shortly
And it's being written reiterated here in a tweet from Chad program a Fox News and announcement just went out
At the Capitol on loudspeakers that everyone must leave the capital
Or be subject to arrest
I wanted to show you to the the visual representation of that listen to this from Scott Wong
That tweet Greta from Scott Wong senior Congressional correspondent from the hill with that curfew getting underway momentarily
Subject to arrest you heard it there bats in in Seattle
Good evening to you
What have you been thinking today
Actually don't like the stock market
I'd like to find out that there was an attempt
Today
And then the stock market went up
So I didn't miss a field disconnect between
What's happening country about happening in this department
Justin in Southaven Mississippi and what about you Justin
Thank you for taking my call I just have
My question that seems to be a way to find the middle ground because it seems like
Most of the people that are calling are very biased towards one of the other political party
But the facts are that almost half of voting age Americans feel like
This election has not been Fair
Send the way that we can
Hopefully find a way to bridge this Gap in a lot of the college's spoken about what's in the country
What do you need to find a way to restore their face in the election electoral process in the election
And even said in his statement that
So the worst thing under attack right now is the American Republic the American sovereignty
But we need to do is probably what was suggested by Ted Cruz love them or hate them
And in
Give the audit to the people that want the audit
For the people that
That chill like this election was fair
It shouldn't
Causing a rift
Give him a little bit of time let them do this audit that they are asking for
And give them the Peace of Mind
And when they have this all that these people have another piece of mind then we go okay
This was done by
Descendants this was done by the house representatives and it was done by the Supreme Court
They took time they looked into it
They get the research that they deem necessary it delays at 10 days and on January 20th
Miracle and it happens to be Trump
Their duly elected it is 6 p.m.
Here on the east coast in the DC curfew is
Put in place effective now
You saw these
The buses pull up onto the capitol grounds and it look like
National Guard officials
That we're getting on and off of them
We'll see what happens next
Congressional reporters are saying that they've been told the complex is clear
But that with this curfew in place
If you are if you don't have an ID
To be up there
Whether you're an ass lawmaker or member of the press or a congressional staffer
You need to leave
And that curfew was put in place and you heard on that Scott Wong
A tweet there
That you were subject to arrest if you are not
Leaving
This area
Kalita in Texas
Hi there thanks for taking my call
I haven't heard anybody else Express literally all afternoon
Watch it from President Trump speaking and saying never going to want
March
Over
To the Capitol
Area and
If there were as many people as I sat there had to be hundreds of thousands
If there were that amount of people fit could have easily
That is crushed anybody in their way that's not what they wanted
Country did what
Inner quotes
President-elect Biden says
It's not ceremonial what was happening
Okay it's a process
So misinformed or whatever but this is a process and we need to let it play out
Nobody on Trump side that hasn't any brain
Would have done that because they know this is part of the process that was probably
Agent provocateurs that were slipped in and then
Some people that were Miss guyardo
This is what we're doing okay what's follow him
And went in
Breach
Whatever they did that was the case why did the president say
To those
People that they need to be peaceful and that they need to go home you'll be crucified whatever he does
Secret spot in Media
That's why because y'all are biased and it's obvious
I can watch a speech two seconds later turn on the TV and hear something that did not happen
When I watch it
I'm not stupid
Uneducated person I was in military
101st airborne
You can't tell me what I'm watching is not what I see it's called there
Look at that look at the video right now are there people there burning things
But complex has been cleared now
And if you're watching
Speeches remarks
On C-Span you'll see them in their entirety
Without interruption and without
Analysis
Mike memoli political reporter tweets out a statement by a quote from a statement
From President George W bush
This is how election results are disputed in a Banana Republic not our
Democratic Republic I'm appalled by The Reckless Behavior of some political leaders
Since the election
Nick in Boise Idaho
Can hear me
Mechanic
Okay great
Thank you for covering today
I just
I turned in because I wanted to see
The objection to the
Electoral votes I believe this is there are State the question that violate the constitution
Go to 61
I surprised you happy today I believe this has been
This has been coming since
2009 when
The Obama and the clintons regime
Identity politics so I could see
Where did the coming
Decide you have
People like me who are independent you have former Democrat
Former Democrats and you have Republicans of all ethnicities
On that on the Magus side
And I just believe that
This is the culmination of four years
A person who is who is elected who made promises
And he delivered on those promises he's been crucified by the media crucified by the
Democrat Party sign there's been collusion between the media and the Democrat Party on whatever the
It says and whatever
His followers and situations
Say and do
No I'm not I'm not doing the initial
See John
But these
The Democrats and the tweets come out and stuff
And even even George W bush
Sandwich I bought before I go to for Gore
And I think the main thing is people are
I'm disgusted with the
The royalty of politics
And I think today you sausage on the capitol the people
House
Where people are just tired of
Parasitic politician 2
Who make all these promises
And they never keep them in and they finally got a president who did
And this is just a combination of the
Identity politics and as you can see
It wasn't the occupied
The capital
It's not burning there's peace
And it's it's not Suggs like
Like all these
Parasitical politicians are Stadium
I'll leave it there Nick Tom bossert
Who was an advisor to President Trump Homeland Security advisor tweets out
This is beyond wrong
And illegal it's on American the present undermined American democracy baselessly for months as result is
Culpable for this Siege
An utter disgrace to spite of him
Not because of him
Police will regain control and prosecute those involved
And other color was talkin
You saw the the look like National Guard in riot gear
Lining up outside of the capital
You can see them there let's watch
Law enforcement circling around to the other side of the capital just now you see they're wearing
Riot gear
They've been called to Capitol Hill the entire National Guard of DC as well as law enforcement
From Virginia and Maryland to help the Capitol Police
Casey Richardson Texas case even watching today
Thank you for taking my call
I think the
Brought by Trump
Or or brought in the last year
Mation
I think we're in an era of politics called post
True politics or post reality politics where appeal to emotion and
Largely disconnected from details of policy
Prevail
And we have social media and we have
News media
Making the gas cap ideological.
Much much bigger in America
I think some of the things we need to take care of our
Misinformation by the internet
Taken care of
And we need to kind of bridge besides ideological Gap
One other issue when it's correct here is is the growing class-divided
We have people that have been working in stable factory jobs have been shipped out to other countries that have now lost their job
Lost their main source of income
When Trump came along he said I hear you I hear these people
I hear your problem
An end he was elected but
The problem is not Trump.
Symptom is Trump
Okay Casey
So they're in in Texas more recalls coming up
Meals with nuski is joining us meals what have you learned about
What is to happen next we understand the complex is clear
That's right
We understand that we have had the complex being cleared in
And recently reporters who are in the Capitol complex were in the Hart building her
Heard from
Senator Joe manchin in one of the hallways
I bet they are looking to proceed this evening rep Jim Clyburn the
Majority whip in the house has also said they intend to proceed this Eve
Evening
So it sounds like they're just trying to get
Enough order restored
I am to be able to get things set back up to maybe even resume the Electoral College vote Counting
Within the Senate and House
Chambers themselves
Rather than using some sort of
Alternate location or anything that could be more complicated in that
Regard
Would they resume where they left off
Yeah I I believe that because they both recessed subject to the call of the chair when when
Sandoval the chaos broke out around 2:30 this afternoon
Did they should still be in the middle of the debate on what to do with the electors from
Arizona
Now
Certainly one thing
We know which
Never really thought was
Something that would need to be considered
But
When the 1969 Electoral College challenge happen
Are there was a ruling on the floor of the Senate
In response to a question from Ted Kennedy
It's not allowed to
Able
The the objection of estate so they either have to run out whatever is remaining on the
A clock of the the debate I'm sure the folks in your control room will know better than I do how much time is
Is left in that first two-hour block
Or they would need unanimous consent to be able to
Dispense with the situation
So
Again I think that where we are
Is that they're going to go back and try and figure out probably whether or not they actually have to run
Through the entire two hours of debate
We probably need to figure out whether or not they are going to have to
I hear any more challenges
But would certainly you know
In a normal year and we've been saying this for a while but in a normal year this whole process takes
25 30 35 minutes
So the question is really going to be for senators like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley
And their supporters of these objections whether or not now that we are
You know in the dinner hour
Whether or not they really want to
Watch any more objections or whether a they think their point has been heard or B
It's not going to be possible to hear their point-to-point time because Greta frankly the
The issue is
That
You know I mean what are the headlines in the newspapers going to be tomorrow it's going to be
Mob overtakes Capital it's not going to be about whether or not people were defending
Sing out what side of a particular States Electoral College votes
Are there efforts
Buy those Republicans in leadership who were opposed to objecting
To convince the objectors
To not go forward
Yeah that's what we're hearing has been going on in the the Capitol in the
Which people have
Access
Two lawmakers at this point
There certainly is our discussions underway about what to do and possibly speeding this
This process long at this point I think I think there's a general sense
Even perhaps among people who support the challenges
Democracy itself is now you know the fundamental problem here so if
If in fact
Challenges go forward it also wouldn't surprise me even if they do go forward if the tone of the
Is a little bit different than then what we saw earlier this afternoon
What do we know about the roles people were playing before the vice president was presiding
Speaker of the house was next to him
Will they continue
Speaker most likely will continue I have not heard yet regarding way
Where exactly the vice president of the United States
Is
Answer some of the question of whether it is it is Vice President Pence
Or whether it is a Chuck Grassley the Senate President Pro Temp
What is presiding over this
When they reconvene and it would juncture
Is probably going to be dependent on with the security assessment is around 10
Because
Certainly there were people in this
Group of protesters that overtook the capital earlier today
Cool
Suffice to say or not happy with with vice president Pence fulfilling his constitutional Duty
Judy and so there may have to be a discussion and I'm sure
That there is a discussion going on about where it is best
For Eevee
The president of the Senate
Mike Pence be
I spending his evening this evening and
It is remarkable that we are having that conversation but but that is where we are and end
A preserving
I am protecting the vice president may take precedence over
What we've all been saying is a largely ceremonial role
But certainly at it may depend on just how sick sir
The capital is
Supposed to be I'm looking at the clock and realizing we're about a quarter past 6 in the evening
There is a curfew in effect here in DC now and so
In theory the crowd should be leaving
But
There is always the possibility that
Those orders will not be adhered to
What do we know about
What
Security did
In that moment when the chamber was breached
And the vice-president second line to the presidency and the
And then over on the house side you had the Speaker of the House
Next in line after him
What do we know about how quickly
The Capitol Police moved to protect them
Well that that movement took place very quickly and if I can just take just a sec
Pull up
And I'll tell you exactly what I'm
Looking at
Here
BV
Reality was that in both cases things moved very very quickly
Among the
Reporters
In the Senate chamber was Paul Cain from The Washington Post
I and one of my colleagues noted that
Pence Ranch
Pain ran out of the Senate chamber and shouted penston just left and left the chamber
Which was a sign that there was some kind of
Imminent
Threat and
When people were able to see when reporters were able to see what was going on
I it was also clear that Grassley was not in the Senate chamber
And so similar things were happening on the house side
The continuity of government
Which was one of the the preeminent concerns
The other thing I would tell you it was was remarkable to see and we've now seen a Senators including
Jeff Merkley and Tammy Duckworth both
Make reference to this
Be a floor staff
Had to
Quickly think to make sure to remove
Do wooden boxes that hold the actual electoral college
Documents that the paperwork from the various States
They had to make sure to take that win them to the undisclosed
Halloween security area where everyone sort of
I went to after the
Chamber was cleared
Because the other
Like it was amazing that people thought of it in real time
Was what would have happened if
Somehow these literal wooden boxes that contained the paperwork
Headband
Still sitting in the the chamber the Senate chamber in particular when the
The violent protesters were able to get into the chamber
It's not something we even really want to contemplate exactly what they may have done
But it's certainly not outside the realm of speculation to think that they could have either taken
Or destroyed in some way the actual certificates from the states which would have made this entire
Your evening
Way more complicated
And as we wait to see if the house and the Senate can reconvene
And continue on with electoral college process
The Washington Post
Tweaked-out House Majority Whip confirmed
Top Congressional leaders are hoping to come back tonight and finished
Potential obstacles
Can the building be secured
Can members safe
SafeLink the capital is a crime scene
A woman was fatally shot steps
From the house floor
Nails
That that's those are all the the exact
Questions any other thing is whether or not
Some of this may hinge on whether or not their objections fake
Frankly
Because
If there are no further objections
If this is able to all be
Order processed in an orderly manner
Quite frankly you don't need a whole lot of house members or Senators to be in the chamber as long as no one
Actually asks if there's a quorum or not
As we
We know that the corn called sort of go away
I in a hurry when they
Can go away and so I think that the question one of the things that is probably being worked out
Is whether or not
A handful of lawmakers
Probably a Roy blunt and Amy Klobuchar the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee
Their counterparts in the house on the house administration committee
I ended few lawmakers can actually just get through this processing themselves
And whether or not you need
To have
Some contingent closer to 435 house members
I am in the house chamber and closer to 100 senators in the Senate
I don't know that we know that quite yet
The other thing of course which I
Hesitate to even bring up
But is
It became clear that because there was this urgent security situation everyone kind of had to
Set aside because protocols
For a while this afternoon
There is still a pandemic
While lawmakers have word we received at least the first dose of the vaccine II
Dose of the vaccine isn't widely out yet
Immunity is clearly not there yet because at least two
A Texas Republican house members Kay Granger
And
Kevin Brady both have tested positive this week
I am so there was this whole other Factor
I'm not so sure how much you want people to be in close proximity and close Court
Hooters
I any longer than they already have had you today because of the
The security breach and in in frankly
Shots fired and someone being killed off the house floor today
Yeah I didn't and Neil Diamond you were and I were talking earlier about
When the breach happened
In the Senate chamber outside of the house chamber
Describe what happened
For anyone who was in the chamber including the journalist
The remarkable thing was so people generally when there are
Security threat I don't think this is ever really been that secretive but now it's obviously public knowledge
It's because of what had to happen today
The first move in the Capitol building is usually into the chamber if you are impressed
Simile of the house or senate floor
And there's some sort of lockdown situation
The initial Instinct of Capitol Police in the sergeant-at-arms in and various other personnel
Is to actually go into the chamber because those rooms are considered some of the most secure spaces
In the entire building
In support of what was
Chaotic today and you probably seen people with gas masks and photos
I am videos of that my colleague Tom Williams
One of our photographers was actually in the house chamber
And have some
Amazing photos of people trying to put on these
Single-use
Gas masks and protective equipment
There are
The reality is that snoring lie the way you go is in
And so when the chamber's had to be evacuated because there was no way of parently for the Capitol Police
Ways to secure the rooms
That was the part
When the real I think
Panic set in because then we were in the
Then we were beyond the realm of what are normal security procedures even would be
Mitt Romney the senator of Utah has tweeted out about 6
15 what happened at the US Capitol today was an insurrection
Excited by the president of the United States
Because I want to say
We must not be intimidated
Or prevented from fulfilling our constitutional Duty as my colleagues to move forward with completing the Electoral count
To refrain
From further objections and tnm sleeve firm Villages me
Legitimacy
Of the presidential election
Your reaction to
Republican Utah senator
Mitt Romney
Well
Senator Romney
Is probably
Certainly not going to be alone among his his Republican colleagues he had always been one of the
Publican senators
Who said that Joe Biden won the election in will become president on January 20th
Yes he will
But
I think what we have to watch out for is what do the people who were the Arden
Backers of President Trump
Say you know I would say that the other thing
Is on the other side of the pendulum we have people who are calling for
Using the 25th Amendment procedure where an impeachment proceeding or something
To get
Current President Trump
Sideline for the remainder of the
The 14 days or so that are left in his term and
You know
I don't think anything is out of the realm of possibility after what we saw today
But
But that certainly is going to be those sort of wide expanse of where we are we may have people who still want to be Channel
Changing Electoral College votes
Wellington the night and overnight tonight
And on the other hand we have people who would like
Two Boots the president out of the current president out of office
Before
The sun rises tomorrow frankly
Niels lesniewski fisicaro call thank you for your time
Will continue with your phone call Tara's we wait to see what happens on Capitol Hill
After the protesters
Breach the security entered into the chambers lawmakers evacuated
Until a little bit will get your phone calls and just a minute but Bill's cannot have an update for us
Let's catch up with her with some members are saying at our own Capitol Hill producer Craig Kaplan who's been on Capitol Hill throughout the
Today house armed services committee chair
Hear Adam Smith saying President Trump and his enabler is are directly responsible for the Despicable Acts
Our nation's capital
That we have all witnessed today the president and excited and encouraged this riot
Yeah you mentioned Mitt Romney crank Kaplan also
On that with the further addition We Gather today due to a nation a a selfish man
Injured pride and that's part of the statement that you would read earlier from Mitt Romney this is from President Trump
Over the last 15-20 minutes or so he says that
There are things and events that happened when a sacred Landslide election
Is so unceremoniously and viciously Stripped Away from great Patriots who have been badly and unfair
Fairly treated for so long go home with love
And in peace remember this day forever
The president releasing a video earlier today both on Twitter
And on the Facebook
This is the tweet from Gyros and who is the vice-president of integrity
Add Facebook he says this this is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate measures in
Including removing President Trump's video we removed it because unbalanced we believe it can
Contributes rather than diminishes
The risk of ongoing violence I would say however you can find that
In our video library at C-SPAN
. org
Free in Old Town Florida we go to Unix Jeffrey
As you've been watching and listening today
What I've been going through your mind
I have
Anybody that read the article about in that book he outright
He lies all the time he never apologizes about anything he's ever said
Strong no matter what it is he will not admit it's wrong
Over again and he won't do it for months
On end
Because I'm more of he thinks that you repeat the Rye
People people start to bleed
Jeffrey socks are in Florida will go to Brooksville Florida Dorothy
What have you been thinking
Thank you for taking my call First
I wonder what the people from other countries do your facial.
What does countries come to be
Closely Kaze
Electoral votes
The president in
The people
Seems like it doesn't count
What we do
Because of electoral votes made it said and done that albinism president
And then Trump wants to step in saying it was not
Done right
And I feel like you know he needs to
Wake up and smell the coffee and realize it
Albinism president
Barbara in Wendover Utah Barbara
Thank you for taking my call
Should all say a silent prayer for the lady that was shot
Barbara I apologize I hope you can call
Call back
But you were breaking up it's a really difficult to hear you will go to Steve in Scranton Pennsylvania Steve
Thanks for having me on
I do find the Democratic party is pretty hypocritical
When it comes to
The Constitution
The Constitution they pick and choose what they like and then the rest of the just kind of fella
Disregard in Polish
And it's why this country is now in the state that it's in you know what I mean
Both parties
Share some blame the Republicans
I need to find a Dandy when the Constitution has two Democrats
Agenda like with the electoral college but not too long ago there was talk about it
Jenny and Wichita Kansas
You know it's a very
It's a very sad day for a country
And a
I think a lot of people are to blame I think not all the blame should be on President Trump
I think the media has a lot to do with it
But you know there's one person right now that can do a lot to bring everyone together and he's preaching Unity
Right now and that is
The apparent president-elect
Finicky
Let everyone know that he wanted to do a full audit
All of the states on every level every election because if it happened in those states that are in question
It could have happened in any state
So he needs to do that
And that would really
Bring us all together
Because if he's confident in his way
And if there wasn't any fraud
Then I should be no issue
And so really the ball is in his court
Bring peace to the station and he's really dropping the ball
And that's that
Okay dairyside a far country occasion Ynez
We're listening to to Jenny
Showing you the US capital offenses have gone up
Security
Strengthened
And a lot more law enforcement
On Capitol Hill
Nearly
4 hours probably past 4 hours now
Since the chaos began up there
Brenda
In Kentucky
Yes thank you for taking my call
Okay
Giant calling because I am very upset with this whole situation going on I'm tired of
Being blamed for everything
When fake news is involved with death
Facebook is involved with all this
Nothing but lie to the American people
Election
Country Springs the
Attorney general the
The former Homeland Security adviser the present is saying
What happened up there
It's Criminal
Do you think that they people who
Reach security
And broke into the capitals should be prosecuted
Do you really think they care about the American people
Okay Brenda and Kentucky Walter in Addison Illinois
I just want to say thank you for taking my call I mean first we just have to face the facts are Trump has not been
In a normal candidate since you started in 2016
You know for making fun of a disabled reporter to
Insulting women's and
I think that that is just really snowball until now I mean
Look at where we are a few years ago we might have laughed at that store so I thought this was like you know some
I mean this is serious they went into that capital A with the intent to harm whoever they could
I just think that trumps message today was very inappropriate he took no accountability for that and he could chew
Can you to do what he has shown he does during his presidency and that is start a fire and walk away
If the roles were reversed I mean could you imagine if I hadn't had sat on the state of the foot of the capitalist
Charge like you know
We need to fight for a free and fair election we need to charge the capital we need to storm it now like
People would be losing your mind
Walter do you do you think that
If they can
Make the area secure tonight on Capitol Hill that they should continue
With the
Counting of Electoral College votes
I apologize for cutting you off but I mean we need some real leadership I don't know. Only think that we need technipaq tonight and finish this but
Donald Trump needs to either resign or be impeached he cannot remain at office for the next two weeks
Loretta in Red Oak Texas Loretta
Yes I thank you for taking my call I have just a couple of things first of all I want
Thank
Mike Pence for doing the right thing and not bowing down
To the pressure that was going to be or was put on him by Donald Trump
Second of all in my mind I know the reason that Trump is told
Angry about losing this election is because
He can't
Seeing the fact that Obama a black president served two terms
I heard Mitch McConnell a did a little in a little cut from something he was saying and he said when Obama came into our
Office that we will do everything we can to make this President a one-term president
So now that Trump
Is the one-term president then he is not it is just burning him up because
Done anything presidential. Actually in 4 years
But he certainly hasn't done anything presidential
Election he has head a way wherever he has been his only we got
People dying and the lady previously saying that losing their home people losing their
Then make my president where are you when it comes to this pandemic all you want to do and he has a
Want to be president
It's a chairlift about being president
He does not want the fact that Obama serve two terms and he is only going to serve
That's the only thing that's bothering nephew ever in your life
A president try to hold on to the presidency like this
Who actually was presidential
This man doesn't have a presidential bone in his body because there is an update from this
Speaker of the House
Manu Raju tweets out
A quote from her
Say we have decided we should proceed tonight at the capital once it is cleared for use
Your hair will be sending out more guidance
Later today
Ryan in Broomfield Colorado
So I think we're taking my calls
Main reason for going end was as a journalism major to the callers who are claiming antitha were responsible because
They were wearing black of the protesters who were in The the capitol
Business Insider on the 3rd of January
Clean roasted
Cowboys would be attending in Incognito and wearing all black to blend in and be inconspicuous
It's a sad State of Affairs when people who claim
Other people need to do their own research just parrot what they've read online without actually
Doing the research and sales or even caring what the facts are
Ultimately it's a sad day for America
Currently experiencing a stupid coup and no matter how stupid it still festering wound its
Disregard for those in power with our subservient to those with power
How did you learn about the breach of security were you watching when it happened
I believe I saw
Yes it was a headline or a news update from
Silas YouTube on ABC News that I was watching and then it turn to C-SPAN
Capital T thank you
Okay Ryan there in Colorado Loretta Portland Maine
Hello Hi how are you today I'm okay Loretta so what have you been thinking as you've been watching this
Can't
I can't wrap my head around this
The lady that was shot earlier has passed away
So shall we say a prayer
But what I want to know is where was the Capitol Police
It is incredible every time when you guys show the capital it is full of
Please
Today there was no police
I don't understand that
What we witnessed today was a republican coup
From the top down
It started with Trump
Infected descendants
Went on to the house
And then it radicalized the people
Those followers
And they rip
Steps to Capitol
And I heard that lady calling and talking about people who lost their businesses that's what insurance
Cases for
So people have insurance they've been paid already
But for those
Followers of
12
2
The face
Our capital
Every last one of them should be prosecuted and they should go to jail
Thank you Greta DJ
Bill Scanlon
Credit couple of you would mention the money Rogers Queen we are getting an idea of scheduling perhaps this
Is a tweet saying that the Senator Chuck Schumer when asked about the proceedings
Says 8 is 2 when they will begin on the speaker Jeff selling Eve CNN
Speaker says the house will proceed tonight to count the Electoral College vote she has a prayer of Catholic optimism quote
Today
January 6th the Feast of the Epiphany let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide provide an epiphany
For a country to heal
This is from quote from Mo Brook Mo Brooks was the first member of the US House to say he would contest
The electoral votes he says that the violence at the US Capitol today
Is Despicable on American prosecute these thugs
From Jim Clyburn the Republic the Democratic whip the majority whip in the US House I have faced violent
Hatred before
I was not the turn theater then
And I will not be deterred now tonight Congress will continue the business of certifying the Electoral College vote
Jim langevin former
A police officer from Rhode Island injured in the line of duty power lies in the line of duty as a no
Officer says this disgraceful attack on the capital will not deter has Congress should fulfill its constitutional.
Duty and count the Electoral College votes tonight we will honor the choice of the people
Joe Biden will be our president
From Senator Rick Scott Republican of Florida the thugs
Who stormed the capitol today and incited violence should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Every single one of them thank you to the Capitol Police for your bravery today I believe Congress and return tonight
And finish our work
And from Georgia Greg Bluestein who has been reporting on the
Do your races in the recount the presidential recount their with the photo from a news conference today with Governor bra
Brian Kemp
Governor Kemp on the Insurrection in Washington quote
It's a disgrace and quite honestly on American for those of you that have been calling for a special session
You can now see what that looks like
And this from
NBC social media reporter Ben Collins
Hozier from Instagram a like from Eric thweatt one of the president's son
And then Colin says despite what Eric Trump may think
This is a trump supporter he's been profiled over and over again he goes to Trump
Crowley's constantly he's known as the qanon
Shaman
And that's the latest we were still waiting word on when the House and Senate will return to
2 second
And the
The Joint session office irezumi what they haven't finished work on the 1st
Electoral College Challenge on Arizona Arizona that's first
And then they would Rican reconvene as a joint session
We're going to show you now from earlier today this is been taken down now like Twitter and Facebook the comments
How President Trump
I know your pain
I know you're hurt
We had an election
That was stolen from us
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
We have to have Law & Order we have to respect our grape
People in Law and Order
We don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough period of time
There's never been a time like this where
Such a thing happened with a could take it away from all of us from me from you from our country
This was a fraudulent election
But we can't play into the hands of these people
We have to have peace
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
But go home and go home and peace
President Trump's video message from the White House and its Bill said it's been taken down by Facebook several of his tweet
Have been blocked as well
Will continue here on C-Span
Coverage of
The
Breach of security on Capitol Hill
And potentially the resumption of the reconvening
Of the house here on C-Span
Undescended over on C-Span 2
As they vow lawmakers about to come back together
And continue with
Counting of electoral college
Boats
Want to show you the entire remarks made by President elect Joe Biden
Earlier today
Sorry
Noxious inconvenience
But I'm sorry for the reason
Lethal Aid
I've delayed coming out
Speak to you
Initially was going to talk about
Economy
All of you
All of you been watching
What I've been watching
At this hour
Our democracy is under unprecedented assault
Unlike anything we've seen in modern times
Assault
The Citadel of Liberty
The capital
Itself
Assault on the people's Representatives
The Capitol Hill Police
Sworn to protect them
The public servants
For work
At the heart of our Republic
An assault on the rule of law
Like few times we've ever seen it
Assault
Almost sacred American undertakings
The doing of the people's business
Let me be very clear
The scenes of chaos at the Capitol
Do not reflect the true America
Do not represent Who We Are
What we're saying
Are small number of extremist
Dedicated the lawlessness
This is not the sin
It's disorder
It's chaos
Borders on sedition
Must attend
Now
I call in this mob
The pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward
You heard me say before in different contexts
The words
Of a president matter
Good or bad
At their best
The words of a president can inspire
At their worst
The Canon site
Therefore
I call on President Trump
Go on national television now
To fulfill his oath
Defend the Constitution
And demand an end to this Siege
Storm the capitol
The smash windows
Occupy offices
This floor of the United States Senate rummaging through desk
On the capital on the House of Representatives
Threatening the safety of duly elected officials it's not protest
It's insurrection
The world's watching
Like so many other America
I'm genuinely shocked and saddened that our nation
So long Beacon of light and hope for democracy
Has come to such a dark moment
True war and strife
America's indoor
And we will endure here and we will prevail again and will prevail now
The work of the moment
In the work of the next four years must be the restoration
Democracy decency honor
Respect
The rule of law
Just plain simple decency
The renewal of a politics
It's about solving problems looking out for one another
Not stoking the flames
Hate and chaos
I said America's about honor
Decency respect
Tolerance
That's who we are
Actually I've always been
The certification electrical it the Electoral College vote
Supposed to be a sacred ritual
Swift firm
Purpose is to affirm the Majesty
American democracy
Today's reminder
Painful one
Democracy is fragile
Deserve it
Requires people to Goodwill
Leaders
The courage to stand up
For devoted not to the pursuit of power
But this was a personal interest Pursuits of their own selfish interests
Is any cost
What are the common good
People are children watching television or sinking
Decode the rest of the world is looking
Fornelli two-and-a-half centuries
We the People
In search of a
More perfect union
Ever kept our eyes on that common good
Merrick is so much better
Watching the season the capital
As reminders as I prepared other speeches in the past of asthma
Words of Abraham Lincoln
This annual message to Congress
Whose work
Has today been interrupted by chaos
Lincoln said
He said we shall nobly save
Or merely lose
The last
Best
Hope on Earth
Went on to say
The way is playing
Peaceful
Generous
Just
Which is followed
The world will forever apply
God must forever bless
Waze playing here too
Actually are
History of democracy
Respect
Decency
Commitment
Patriots to this nation
Notwithstanding what I saw today we're seeing today
I remain optimistic about the incredible opportunities
There's never been anything we can't do
When we do it together
In this god-awful display today
Bring it home to every Republican Democrat independent in the nation
We must Step Up
This is the United States of America
There's never ever ever ever ever been a thing we tried to do
We've done it together not been able to do it
So President Trump
Step Up
Play God Bless America
May God protect our troops
And all those Folks at the Capitol
We're trying to preserve order
Thank you and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
Inauguration today
Are you concerned about your inauguration. I am not concerned
About my safety security or the inauguration I am not concerned
American people in a stand-up
Stand up now
Enough is enough
That was the president-elect obiden talkin earlier to the cameras to the public about what
Frontier on Capitol Hill
Today or after little after 2 p.m. eastern Time is about 15 minutes into
The first objection over the Electoral College votes the
Two Chambers the two lawmakers have gone back to their respective Chambers and they had began the bad bad begun debate
On that objection
The scene here on Capitol Hill right now as you can see is a beefed-up security
The law enforcement was called in from Virginia and Maryland the national guard for the DC
See in for other areas
Brought to the Capitol
If pushed
The protesters back off of the Capitol grounds
Speaker of the house is saying that they will reconvene tonight to continue with
The counting of the votes
And they will do so in the Senate as well
A minority leader telling reporters in the Senate Chuck Schumer that
The plan is for 8 p.m. eastern time we are approaching
7 p.m. here
On the East Coast
I want to share this tweet from Daily Caller
They sent out a quote from Liz Cheney who was on Fox News
Republican Wyoming and part of the House of Republican leadership quote
We just had a violent mob salty was Capital no question the present form the mob the president incited the
Mob the president address the mob
He lit the flame
Brad in Ogden
Utah
Go to you
Hey brother thank you for having me that you didn't imagine that the burden of today's heinous
Fall on you to fill the time until we figure this stuff out but thanks for having me
So just a couple of thoughts
If I if I were Burger King for example
And I hated Kentucky Fried Chicken and my goal is to make it seem like today was horrendous events was caused by
Bye
Kentucky Fried Chicken
I'd round up some of the guys and say let's all wear Colonel Sanders outfits and go just
Dave has no person should and it'll all get pinned on them
Dennis I've been following all the craziness of today
There are some pictures of some of the people who have
Joined in the today's crazy Acts
That have been seen both said prior and Tifa demonstrations and at the horrible events
Today
Like with matching tattoos and stuff and so I agree with Joe Biden sentiments
Where where where are you finding that information
On Twitter
Any of the stuff that hasn't been blocked
I just yes and you trust it
I mean their pictures then also it says there's one man in particular
How do you know they're verified though
Well if you look at the tattoos on the man's arm in addition to the outfit that he's wearing his identical tattoo
Tattoos
And identical outfit
And I mean it's from two different demonstration so I could I can look at it myself and see the
That's the same person and that's that's one person was that's so that's one person there
There are other pictures floating out there
That's our claims to be matches just like what I described
Some guy with the beard and hair like to me it doesn't look similar but
Okay I'll go on to Ryan who's in Covington
Kentucky
Brian have you been watching all day
CSA have thank you for having me
Start off by saying
You know what what's address yes would have started be in this in
An example of that would be the person who you know was just on
I've seen these pictures that he's talking about it's not the same person people look alike
In all this is all that we've been hearing all day long from
Substantial amount of the calls that you take coming in is people attacking the media
It's just an immediate you know there's this video of people out they're destroying media equipment
Really surprised by this Trump has been stoking the flames
Hatred in pure
Insanity
What 5 years now
Today has been so rattling
To the psyche of any
Well-adjusted human being
And I cannot believe
What we witnessed today
What made it worse was hearing the nonsense
The people have been spouting when they call in
Trying to say that
It was antifa today wasn't
You know these people these are probably the same people.
Spell conspiracy theories about false Flags this year.
You know they want to say that
Call durstin you no proof of
There's an older 60 lawsuits overseen by the Department of Justice by built bar
None of this makes any sense
What happened today
What happens
When
Nonsense
And
Absolute
Absurdity and Insanity are allowed to run free
Do as they wish
There's a difference between freedom of speech
And doing the right thing
I'm going to I'm going to jump in at that point because
Just want to share some lawmakers thoughts Jackie speier
A Democrat of California
Congresswoman who's been up on Capitol Hill for many years tweeting out
Trump has given us no choice
25th amendment must be invoked now
We need to immediately wrest control of the country from him
Is not the commander of chief of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the trunk mob and proud boys
At VP Pence must Step Up
And defend our democracy
Gary and Central Point
Oregon
Are you doing this evening
Scary of even watching and what if you thought as you
Good points and bad points to everybody who is spoken
Ultimately I believe
You know they should read
Reading go back in
And finish the Electoral College
I think the bullying is far as
Trying to
Hold back any further objections goes against the Constitution
I think it's pretty clear in black-and-white the concerts
Constitution has been violated
In Arizona
Because that was the only state
That
That made it that far
Doesn't release the voting
Even after court-ordered
What is she got to hide
You know I think that plays a lot into this is the fact that there's this
Hidden game
You know it falls into swing states that are all ran by democrats that
Scott Democrat
Backdoor
Applied devoting that didn't follow the Constitution
I think
Siri what are the states that the
Was going to be objected to and we'll see if
Happens
And it's it's one of the next States
If they reconvene here it's Georgia
Which is run by a republican governor
Then that was one of the states that the
They didn't go through
Like Arizona for instance they change the voting policies
After voting in already started
Georgia was a separate topic altogether
And I'm interested to see what they say
I mean I'm willing to listen to both sides
And here and make the judge myself
But
You know
Follow the Constitution follow the letter of the Constitution all the Democrats on the other side
They're saying the same thing most of the
Even down to
Biden
Stepped up and said follow the Constitution
Carrie Eric Watson is reporting he's a capitol reporter that
Republican senator
Here's a quote the president Bears responsibility for today's events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have
Have led to this point
Is past time to accept the will of American voters until our nation
To move forward
River in Frenchtown New Jersey
River you're on the air
Thank you and I want to thank you for your position in neutrality being professional
Doing the best you can to convey that I know other news stations
You can clearly hear a political slant to it so thank you
I are you able to hear me
Okay thank you
Steve watch what happened in. I believe in protest I believe in our right as Americans to protest I protest
Capital many years ago and I respect this protester said
Set do that however when we stopped the political process and breach those buildings we
I need that's where the Thin Blue Line Stands between chaos
And the continuation of our the actions of our government so
When I saw one video where
The policeman was backing up the stairs back and they continued it. he did not stand his ground which is what he needed
To do to stop them as soon as he picked up a baton based off
And he should have drawn his weapon and stop them and that's what needed to happen as hard as that is
To see its reality
Anthony Sessa tea
Of what needs to happen in order for us to continue our Democratic process
So and I will just say that our President Trump's maniacal eagle
Ego
Just stopped him
From accepting the fact that he lost the election that's a fact
And that's just the way that is thank you vote in the last election
I voted
Not
What I would have preferred that I had to vote
For biting this is two party system is one of our difficulties b246
Gets you a limited choice there's no balance its
One Direction or the other we need a balance even a third party that would be able to
We could vote for
That would enhance
Political
Physicians from both sides there's goodness in the Republican and the Democratic parties and
We need
To have a third party option
So that we can boat
Ford that option
Okay
River
Reporters are saying that Twitter has removed three of the president's tweets including the last two tweets one of which
Contained his video in the other blamed of the Insurrection on what he falsely claimed was fraudulent
Election
Jenny in Tampa Florida had any
How are you
Jenny would have you been
Thinking
Well I think Bella people of America need to remember the Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge allegiance to the United States of America
One nation under God indivisible
Liberty and justice for all
We don't have to follow a man
We need to keep our minds thinking of the poor the best of this country
Undies that I've seen on TV today
He's not America
This is not the best of America
America is better than this
I'm Trump did not come on on TV until he was
Uso
Think about this
America is better than this
Okay Jenny I'm going to read this from Twitter
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violence situation Washington DC
We require the removal of three of the president's tweets that were posted earlier today
For repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy
And they go on to say this means that the account of President Donald Trump will be locked
For 12 hours following the removal of these tweets
It's a twister not remove the account
Will remain locked
Landing in Blue Springs Missouri you are next
Landon in Blue Springs Missouri
Okay let me move yes we can
So how you how you doing
Has has
When you when did you first start watching this and
And what was your immediate reaction
What was your immediate reaction
I was super I was super surprised to be honest
And what do you think
About it
I think it's super unjustified
Like saying I'm a monkey
And your banana
Amazon to Patty Valley Springs
California Patty I don't condone what happened today but I didn't condone black lives matter
Is all the riots and everything either
I think we need to have voter ID for the whole United States
I think that the media needs to quit doing analysis and give fair and impartial
Reporting
With no agenda
I think that we need definitely need term limits for congress both the Senate
And the house
There's too many career politicians that have been in there forever and ever and they do not listen to them
American people
Bipartisanship needs to come back
The American people are tired of all the bickering and if we can't get our
Quote leaders who are not actually our leaders we are their leaders
If we can't get them to compromise and do contentious
Cindy need to be voted out
And I'm just so sick and tired of
Both sides arguing and
Not compromising reports
From the White House for Bloomberg
Tweeting out that fresh off of having Trump tweets deleted the White House is called a travel photo lid it
Means that the president won't make any public appearances or speak to the Press tonight other than Maybe
More tweets and tweeted videos however you just read
From Twitter that they blocked his account
Dan in Largo Florida Dan
Good evening once again thank you for everything you're doing for America
I just want to say I believe we need to impeach Trump right now before he does any more
Armchair country
He's guilty
Of the cabbage salad
Catastrophic failure
2 is out of office
And only four and the only friend we have in America is Donald Trump
There's no fraud in the election and everything but he continues to
Macy's false unsubstantiated no comments
And continues to pillage our Gummer at the FBI CIA and many other positions
Elias intentionally hurt America
A needs to be stopped
I thank you for this opportunity to speak you have a great night
Thank you for this program you're doing a really good job
My fault
Right from the beginning was
Fat
Law enforcement has deployed to protect
A business
A police station whatever
Bob
Certain equipment and procedures which apologize people
They have pictures they have children
Evolution
I don't hear anybody asking about that
Enforcement was not doing what they wanted to do some my fault right away
Okay
The order is coming from cuz I'm to stand down
When you see it on the inside as a previous column action
50 officer just backing up up the stairs
Barbecue not deposit
Kaiser
Obviously under orders not to
Because in the end of circumstances
Unfortunately do that
Again I saw that
Florida National Guard
So I need to know where the orders coming from to prevent okay
About what happened
Today that
I will be unpacked
And likely addressed
By this hundred and 17th Congress
Let's hurry the moment in the house when they were debating the objection to the Arizona Electoral College votes
When the
Capital was breached
And they went into recess
The house will be in order
Those will be in order okay
The house will be in order
Also be in order
Marysville take their safe the house will be in order
Okay
We can resume
Without objection to cheer declares the house in recess pursuant to Clause 12v of rule one
And without the house went into recess over
Almost 5 hours ago
And this deep
Capital as a Capitol Police tried to get control
Of the Capitol building and the protestors that have broke inside at broke broken and gotten inside
And made their way throughout the capital you seen the pictures
Into the speaker's office
Into the chambers
Right now the complex has been cleared
And lawmakers are hoping
But they can reconvene
In the house and the senate in their respective change of Chambers and continue on with
Tonight now according to
Congressional report on Capitol Hill
There are still lawmakers who are Sheltering in place in an undisclosed location
And
One lawmaker says lot of soul-searching and bipartisan talks
Happening
He said members in both parties are quote hell-bent
I'm returning to
The count
Fox News is reporting that GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul says quote I don't think there's
Going to be another objection
I think
It's over
Let's go to Eric in Seattle Washington
Thank you so much for
Shedding light on the issues that face our country today
Six at the country of
328 million people have a right to
Other elected officials represent them
Properly
And I personally have written my congressional representatives and senators of my state
To initiate article 25 or impeachment
Or otherwise sanction those involved with watering down the Capitol Police
To force the spectacle that we seen today
And I implore everyone who's listening to
Write to the representatives and have them represent them in a way that tastes like to be represented
I'm embarrassed
For our country I'm embarrassed that
The Legacy that my family has
Interested in this country since the 70s
Has been solid
Tottus
Presidency and its Representatives
And
I'm sad to be honest and I've been listening to your coverage all day today
And
I haven't seen anything like this in my lifetime and I'm
In my mid-fifties
So
That's my points in New Jersey
Hi Susie I'm sorry I'm so so sorry about this demonstration it really breaks my
IHeart
That just happened
But I do and can only say that I hope the members that are
Objecting to the
Protests continued that they don't
Chill
That because
So many people were
Arrogant
Interrupted them and that they are no longer interested in the testing
To the presidential fraud
Because I do believe there was fraud and I do believe it was
Not a good
Election and I just hope that
It doesn't discourage the ones who are
Ascending
The president
To stop doing so because of a few people who was stupid
And should never have gone
It's a limited they went to poke protesting outside is one thing but
Going inside is absurd and ridiculous and I am so ashamed of these people
You might be interested in
The Kansas City
Star editorial board
Kansas City
No Josh Hawley who said he was going to have Jake here from Missouri said he was going to eject
To the Electoral College votes in Pennsylvania
Their headline their editorial board assault on Democracy Center just Holly has blood in his hands and Capitol
Coup attempt
And they say no one other than President Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday's coup attempt at the US Capitol
Then one Joshua David Hawley the 41 year old Junior senator from Missouri who put out a fundraising appeal while the
Besiege was underway
This Center Holly is what law-breaking and destruction looks like this is what mobs do this is not a protest but a
Riot
One woman was shot
And has died
The Washington Post reported while lawmakers were Sheltering in place
No longer can it be asked as George Will did recently have Holly has there ever been such a high ratio of ambush
Fishing to accomplishment
Holly's actions in the last week had such an impact that he deserves an impressive share of the blame
For the blood that's been shed
They going to say Holly was first to say that he would oppose a certification of Joe Biden Electoral College win that action
Motivated by ambition set-off much that followed
The rush of his fellow presidential aspirants Texas Senator Ted Cruz and other members of the
Sedation caucus to put a show of loyalty to the president Above All Else
After Mayhem broke out Holly put out this uncharacteristically brief statement
Thank you to the brave law enforcement officials who have put their lives on the line the violence must end
Those who attacked police and broke the law and must be prosecuted in Congress
Must get back to work and finish its job
So modest Senator failing to note your key role in inspiring one of the most heartbreaking days in modern America
American history
We lost something Precious on Wednesday
As condolence notes for democracy from our friends
Around the world
Recognize
Nick in Richmond Virginia
You are next
Yes are you
Nick
When you were watching this what was your immediate thought
Forget to put it into a little bit of us
Sutter perspective I was a
Devoted.
Democrat until Obama took office and then I flipped
Quickly
I come from
AA Market statistics
Perspective but I'm also a photographer said something about the photograph
A little bit earlier and then I think you're responsible
Photos of the anthem
Protesters that actually storm the Capitol building one of them was from Philadelphia the other one
19 from Portland
Protesters approach C Capitol building
Thanks so pretty you read that Nick
That's been all over the place it's been on a couple of I have a couple of friends in law enforcement
They have said that
Photograph
Breakdown a photograph whether it's on Photoshop or a couple the other program
You can you can correlate the color the directions to angle and everything else and that's how you can really easily
Julie identify Virginia
Majority Leader steny Hoyer has put out a floor update let's read it members are advised that as soon as the house so
Sergeant-at-arms confirms
That the Capitol building is safe and secure the house is expected to reconvene
And resume debate on the objection to the state of Arizona's electoral votes
After debate the house is expected to vote by groups
Following the vote the house will reconvene for the joint session of Congress to continue to count electoral ballot
For the President and Vice President
Of the United States
Members and staff should remain on the capitol complex until they are notified
By the United States
Capitol Police
Up on Capitol Hill law enforcement has been brought in the barriers have been erected around the capitol
And the protestors pushed back off of
The complex
You will be able to watch the
House proceedings right here on C-Span
And the Senate debate over that Arizona objection over on C-Span 2
When
The house reconvenes
The Joint session
For continuation of counting of electoral votes
The Senators
We'll do it they did earlier today
They will gather and they will go into the house chamber We believe We don't know
How this world
Play out that's what they did before but obviously they're secure security concerns
Tell we will wait and see
To see what happens but the minority leader Chuck Schumer has said
8 p.m.
And we are
Adolescent 40 minutes away
From 8 p.m. eastern Time is when the Senate would
Reconvene
Jackie in St Louis Missouri
Jackson David evening
Can you please
We can hear you
Hi Greta
So
I want to say
First of all I'm as a petition here in St Louis it was a little bit disheartening
To see all of those people
Out there without mask
Exposing themselves and others
I'm in Grandview only other point that I wanted to make was it was also heartbreaking
On our democracy
But also to see the way the Capitol Police were responding they looked a lot gentler
And the response that we've seen all year against black lives matter protesters
You know there was other following you guys today you were mentioning the fact that they were using pepper spray
And not tear gas and not some of the other ways that
Again other other people have been responded to
I'm pausing credibly heartbreaking
As a black person in last and very thankful to the Senators that they're continuing to
Cannot allow our democracy to become undersea so I want to thank you and members all members of
Both Democratic and Republican
Huntington violin
Thank you so much better
Okay
He's not part of Congress I just want to
Make that clear we're not part of the government
We are
Funded by
Your dollars for however you receive
Tables I just want to make sure that's clear and
Most days we don't have our own cameras in the house in the Senate chamber wee-wee
The video from the house
And the Senate they control the cameras
I'm in there kaitlan Collins kaitlan Collins who reports for CNN
From the White House
Tweets out the hearing that despite today's events President Trump doesn't want his Republican allies to drop their efforts to
Jack Devine's win
There's been some discussion among GOP Senators about abandoning it
But the president wants them to keep fighting it
To be determined what they'll do
Dick Miller
Of the Associated Press tweeting out
For the first time Twitter has locked President Trump's account demand to remove tweets excusing
Violence and threatened
Permanent suspension
For the president
Dave and Chandler Arizona Dave
Halifax taking my call
And thank you for saying that they locked
That Twitter locked President Trump's account
Because today
We saw a 911 done by
Americans not by antifa
Not by communist
Not even by Al-Qaeda
By our own
Right-wing Nazis
In this country
David when did you begin watching
What did you think I started watching I started watching about
About 12:45 mountain time my time
And I was just I was just appalled
Animals the same and but I said myself
This is Donald
Adolf Hitler Trump
Doing what Adolf Hitler does or Adolf Hitler did
You know he'll have congressman
Senators come out saying that
The election was a fraud trying to do everything and anything to keep himself out of prison
He belongs up in dannemora in Clinton County at the New York State
Occupying lucky Luciano's cell for the rest of his life
Okay stay there
In Arizona
Rebecca buck
Send this out on Fox News Kevin McCarthy appears to suggest House GOP should follow
Mcmorris-rodgers Cathy mcmorris-rodgers lead and abandoned objections to the Electoral College vote McCarthy
What has transpired today May hopefully bring people together to finish
Certifying
Linda and Ravenna Ohio Linda
Yes yes yes yes finally and good evening
I'm watching this all day but where did this all begin
The November elections at least
Part of this with a falsifications of voting and I work the polls for
30 years
And there needs to be state
Regulation there is no reason
The next the next election in 4 years
If they're campy photo ID
And proof of residency
For every single voter
Because that is where a lot of Trumps
Accusation has been with a mail-in ballots not the absentee that pallets
And I know with that little signature looks nothing like a person signature
And we have all this time
Prior to the next election
To work on that same lot of like Arizona and I can see why that should be minutes Julie gone over
With the state changing the laws prior to the election and giving two extra days
Same as Pennsylvania about
All of the Court challenges and 60 judges
Dismissing the cases
Either because the parties didn't have standing where there was no evidence
A fraud or irregularities presented
In these cases
I don't know what to say about that but there is a man and you know and I know
And today was upsetting but not to the p
Peaceful protesters I'm a little tired of hearing them say they were all rioters
Maybe 1%
No cocaine
The rest were peaceful
There is a way to
Get into the elections and have them validated people
Even citizens hold it
Okay so when do you want to see these objections continue on Capitol Hill
Well I think the two yes I think it's necessary and it it shouldn't be but I think
Alright stick Sherman
Who reports for Punchbowl news
Formerly Politico tweets out we are back
In the United States
Capital
7:30 p.m. here
On the East Coast we are expecting Lisa sent it to reconvene at 8 p.m. eastern time
Not sure when the house would come back in but there are plans
To do so
They will as the majority leader said continue with the objection to the Arizona Electoral College votes
And then after that debate ends
They would have a vote on that objection
And then presumably
Convene reconvene The Joint session
That takes place in the house chamber with the Senators making their way across
The capital
Through the Statuary Hall and into the house chamber
Exactly where you saw the protesters today now
Capitol Police with the help of other law enforcement have cleared the complex
Until we do expect the proceedings to get back underway Scott Wong
It's beating out the first lady's chief of staff
And former White House Press Secretary resigns
Over violence
Protest
Let's go to Simona
In Bolton California Simona
High in the morning and think
Find the Native American woman who
Kitchen
I don't agree with how Trump
And organization
Biden has been forcing us inside going against the Constitution
Jumping difficult to hear you
A Devin O'Malley who is the spokesperson for the vice president's office says that he has returned to the Senate
He never left the capital
The VP was in regular contact with House and Senate leadership Capitol Police the justice department the defense to
Department to facilitate efforts to secure the capital
And reconvene Congress
And now we will finish
The people's business
Tony in St Cloud Florida hi Tony
Yes
I've been watching today's proceeding since they first began
The first
Thing I want to mention is
I don't know how to discuss today's events
With my children
Grandchildren
And my teenager great-grandchildren
I have no words
Should be described
What occurred
The second thing is
I
I'm not I don't believe that there
Has been any malfeasance or fraud in
The elections that occurred
Or the states would not have a certified the election the third thing
I want to mention is
I
Time
Someone initiate
Whatever the process is to activate the 25th Amendment
To remove
President-trump
From
Having any presidential powers for the next two weeks
Because in my opinion he has clearly gone over the edge of the cliff
And I'm concerned what you might do next
That could really
Be detrimental
To our country
I don't understand why your work barriers out
In front of the Capitol today
And I don't understand
Why they weren't allowed to have more
Police
President
Nor were they allowed
2
Be at least as active in forceful as they were
With the black lives matter Crowd by the way I'm
78 years old and the voices the lily
And they admit the crowd today was treated
Clearly a lot different
And it just didn't it didn't seem real to me
I thought I didn't know what I was watching and thank you for taking my call
I appreciate the hard work you do at C-SPAN and I'll be here watching until you go off
LaPierre tonight thank you Grandpa we're going to stay with it Tony
As long as they are commuting on Capitol Hill
I am continuing on with this
So we will continue here on C-Span and C-SPAN to Paul Cain who were reports for the Washington Post
So the Electoral College certificates
Ratifying Biden's when are being marched back into the Senate
Chamber
Jamie lovegrove political reporter says a message from Mitt Romney to objectors including for South
Carolina GOP members
This is the message those who chose to continue to support his dangerous Gambit by objecting to the results of illegitimate
Democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit complicit
Unprecedented attack against
Our democracy
And then Mom and Rodger was CNN
On Twitter many GOP senators are clearly angry at Trump for today's events Roy blunt asked what he wants to hear from Trump
I don't want to hear anything
ISpy Jason Donner Fox News if Trump Bears responsibility blood says I think it was a tragic day
And he was part of it
Chris in Kissimmee Florida
Chris
Yes good evening thanks for taking my call appreciate it
I don't even know where I want to talk first of all I don't condone what happened today in DC
I think it just attracts
Sunday issue
I do believe that was some irregularities during the election
A my main thing is if all if it wasn't then why why are there not audits conducted
I mean there's a lot of nations in the world that don't allow mail-in voting they Banning what do they know
That we don't know
Brazil does not allow it Japan does not allow it
And when the Democrats are pushing for this when they covid hits
I would suspect we'll be inspected billing Boney for a long time we have absentee ballot
50 regulated
Dollars for my mom
She bolted I drop the ballot off in the in the Dropbox we didn't mail it in
But you know what dude with dungeons
What strikes me
It's hypocritical like they did me much evidence to run with this Russia
Collusion thing for years
And you know they ran with it with very little evidence to the investigation
Okay Chris I'm just going to jump in because the mayor of DC Muriel Bowser is issued a Statewide
Curfew for DC is he will know it started at 6 p.m. here on the East Coast
It was supposed to go to hotel tomorrow morning at
6 a.m.
Is it extended that
Starting at 6 p.m. until Thursday at 6 a.m.
I actually essential workers including Healthcare personnel and media are exempt
So that
Curfew Cy curfew
I just being sent out an emergency alert to DC residents
Clinics in Portland Oregon
Hello
How are you what have you been thinking today
Well I'm I'm in very much two places
I was born and raised in DC
DC is my hometown
And it it hurts me to see
My friends and my family
Any danger because of the silent mob
It has been Unleashed on my hometown
I'm also astonished at the difference
Increased response
To today's Riders
Reaching united six hospitals
And the BLM protesters
All Summer Long Improvement
At signs.
If there is such a difference
Not particularly surprised
I
I'm horrified by what is happening and I'm horrified that so many people
Don't seem to understand this
The severity in the seriousness of what we're dealing with
Okay glennis
Mark barabak political reporter to tell police through their guns lawmakers fled tear gas War
Wafted through the capitals hallways
I made statues dedicated to the men and women who helped Bill what Americans fancy is the greatest democracy the world has ever seen
For those watching its fragility
Never seemed more
Apparent
Attic Sherman of Punchbowl
News says Metropolitan Police
DC police department is now also protecting the hallways at the Capitol
Never seen that before
Lisa and Alabama will go to you next
Thank you Greta
Several comments but I'm going to run through them as quick as I can
There was a lady that talked earlier about
Obama being a two-term president and
Trump's upset cause he lost only of his one term well okay what was
Obama's Legacy
He had none and
He was there for two years
Let's move on to what happened today where was the sergeant of arms what was he doing
Does he not have some responsibility in this
And also
Yes
This was stolen from the American people
Where are all these people being bussed in from by who
We know that it's bye-bye this team
Has tried for 4 years and done a great job
And people should have been behind him because he was president
But not even body
Stood behind the president then
Do you think the American people want to stand behind Biden
When
The man needs to be replaced.
Okay Lisa
The Prime Minister of Australia at weeding out very distressing scene at the US Congress
We condemn these acts of violence and look forward to a peaceful transfer of government to the newly-elected ministration in the Great
American democratic
Tradition
Justin Trudeau the leader of Canada
Canadians are deeply Disturbed and saddened by the attack on Democracy the United States our closest Ally neighbor violence when
Never succeed in overruling
The will of the people democracy in the United States must be upheld
And it will be
Let's go to Sean in California Sean
Hey Greta I just wanted to say thank you you're doing an amazing job letting both sides
Express their views and and I think both extremes
The colors of been pretty ridiculous but but that's the only reason I'm calling I really appreciate this
Platform that that you've made available to everybody to let everybody be heard regardless of their views or thank you very much
You're doing.
Wonderful job and I really appreciate it
Thanks John
Go to Amanda in San Diego Amanda
Linda
Even if Linda
Okay you're in San Diego
Okay it's your turn
Itsyourturn
Okay thank you thank you for taking my call
Okay
Just being biased against Trump
You know like maybe not punch because I see you start taking both sides
So nothing he says he's good
Direction I don't know
So they keep the bcp
Who hates Trump
And then also
Let me get gift and Daddy's no fraud
Lee Smith application
Tablet
You know something is going on
Amanda
Leave it there Wanda in Arlington Texas
Hello
Election
The judges did not act because they were afraid for various reasons
And it would not truly here
The elements of the massive
Blue Frog
Irregularities that happened in the 2020 election
Wanda 60 different judges
We're afraid
Different they're all afraid
Good night job
Wong the Democratic pressure
Healthy creamy that there was no evidence when there is plenty of evidence
Okay when the Kyle Phoenix Arizona
Hi how are you doing this evening
Cowboys even thinking as he watched
The scene unfold today
I was thinking of one is mainstream media came
Really quick to say that the Capitol Police failed
And what I wanted to say was at the Capitol Police did not fail
They're use-of-force model
They have they go out to to work everyday
Date
You know taking into consideration
The scrutiny under police force right now
The Congress
And members in the Senate
Weigh in on what levels of force that they can use
We're more than likely culpable and telling those police officers
To stand down or use less
Force
So that there wouldn't be any political Fallout for them
5.1
Point two is
For the last four years we've seen black lives matter and antifa have pretty much free rein
Across the United States
These individuals are all by it that they didn't go about it and necessarily the correct way
We saw BLM and antifa do a lot worse
Beast on a lot less
State based on criminals Jake Jacob Lake Inn George Floyd
They brought down cities
And
Got far more political change then we'll probably ever see from these individuals today so
Just to reiterate
I think
Black lives matter Nancy far far worse than
Collectively then what happened today
And I think the Kylie but you're not condoning the violence up there
Rru
To clarify you're not condoning the violence that happened up there
No I'm not condoning any sort of violence
What is that saying is this
A great many of your callers have been saying comparing this to be a lymphocyte and auntie
Understood your point
The former President Bill Clinton tweeting out
The match was lit
By Donald Trump
And his most Ardent enablers including many in Congress to overturn the result of an election he lost the
Action was free the count was fair the result is final
We must complete the peaceful transfer of power our constitution
Mandates
Jonathan Martin of
The New York Times tweeting out
That
There is some reports that those who were going to third as walking back to the capital he says so
Some optimism
Among Republican Senators that Holly and Company will drop their objections tonight and quote stopping in
Foraging stop the encouraging of the president
As one said
Charles in Washington North Carolina Charles
Good evening
Basically this is all about the Constitution and in
The cost of the state constitution in the States was clearly broken
Around Republican
Legislators and
That broke their own state
Okay then the Supreme Court ignored
Or basically voted for the four when they were one person short
But you just ignored the thing and them
They clearly broke Article 2 of our constitution
The problem is
You can't excuse it
About it
And when you
Use the constitution in your favor only when it suits your purpose
Ignore it
We have truly lost the country and that's why the people were there and I did not see
A big ride of these people they were peaceful
Blend in
Charles
And Washington DC let's go back to the moment
When security was broken and the protesters entered
The Capitol building this is what happened on the house floor
The house will be in order
Those will be in order okay
The house will be in order
Husselbee in order
Marysville take their safe
The house will be in order
Okay
We can resume
Without objection to cheer declares the house and recess pursuant to Clause 12v of rule one
That was from the house floor earlier today they gaveled into a recess it's subject to call of the chair
And that is where things stand right now you're looking at
Alive shut of the capitol
Security has been beefed up
They're more police officers including DC police National Guard
Law enforcement from Virginia and Maryland all on the scene
At the Capitol complex
Has been cleared
And the leadership in both the house and the Senate say that they intend to reconvene
Today's proceedings of counting the Electoral College votes
Stephen Garvey who writes for the dispatch tweets out the two GOP Senate sources tell me Josh
Holly has not
Yet agreed to drop his objection to the Pennsylvania vote
Despite significant lobbying from other members
Of the conference
Now they had a
Republican senator Ted Cruz from Texas long with Paul gosar of Arizona
A dejected to Arizona's Electoral College votes about 15 minutes
Into
Today's joint session
That required them
The house lawmakers in the Senate lawmakers to retreat to their respective Chambers and debate that objection
So when they come back in
We believe that is where they will pick up
In other two Chambers
There is also earlier today reports that
Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler who's serving out
The term of retiring former Senator Johnny isakson
Georgia she just lost that
Special re-election race last night but she still senator
That she would have ejected George's
Electoral College votes and then Josh Hawley of Missouri
I had planned to object
To Pennsylvania
Electoral college
Boats
Obviously they're going in alphabetical order
In Georgia would be
Very
Next after about seven states
And will be the state of Georgia so we will be able to watch and see what happens
As negotiations it sounds like continue on Capitol Hill
By some Republicans
To get these other Republicans to
Not go forward with their objections
While we wait for the house in the Senate to reconvene
Your thoughts
On this day Josh in Kenner Louisiana Josh
Yes I would just like to say I mean if you looked at this march today
There were
No burning of police cars buildings small businesses
I don't promote what happened but obviously antifa terrorists are not going to show up in Trump shirts with
Trump hats in Trump flag
You know it and not show
Towel there representing they went in there with a plan of very precise plan
And they accomplished what they wanted and I
Of that little come out
It'll come out it just means since it's being it's only a couple hours it will be it will be clearly coming out
Okay Washington State
Yes good evening good evening
Turn of events in the country
However
These events in my opinion
Are not surprising if we understand the real conditions we live under
At this stage in capitalism
You have
What you had today was was
A middle-class
Middle-class attempted adventurism
These aren't working class people
These people are not working
They coming here
Nnn engage in this type of adventurism and we see the same from the ultra-left
And
These type of actions are not surprising and Mabel probably continue because
Capitalism Willy Wonder
Precipitate this kind of alienation in political violence
Because we have so much alienation in the country
Beef have outbreaks rrr
More likely to occur
No it doesn't shed light on the hypocrisy of
Of the state Doling out justice as we see
Basically a group of right-wing
A couple minutes away here from
Ascended reconvening
Ali Zafar last laugh who reports Racine and sends out this video
Heavy law enforcement detail escorting Senators to the Capitol The Joint session
Is expected to resume
At 8 p.m. eastern time you can see it in there the minority leader Chuck Schumer along with other senators
Being escorted into the
Send it
It's unclear though if they according to the majority leader in the house steny Hoyer they're not going to go into a joint sesh
Right away
They will resume their debate
Over
The Arizona objection
The objection to the Arizona Electoral College votes
We will see what happens again here on C-Span is where you can watch
House floor proceedings
Andover on C-Span 2
I even watch the Senate
Daniel I'm going to try to get you in Conyers Georgia Daniels
Daniel
Good evening I am from Georgia and I just wanted to bring the light
That there are a lot of people who aren't holding their losses
Responsible
Perpetuating this whole entire
Certified steam in one person I want to call out
Specifically is the queen of qanon
The 14th congressional district freshman
Marjorie Taylor Greene who refused to wear a mask
Boss is being sworn in
And then call Nancy Pelosi's House of hypocrite
Hypocritical
I've even spoke
With her staff and her own office today trying to get her to
Stop
With her Twitter
A child today in this morning where she was in Fighting fight for Trump
Digital Collection Steel
She herself was promoting the fight. All morning long
So you know nobody's bringing up the GOP Senators who were
Bringing up all this stuff
And nobody is speaking out against her and I want to be the first person in Georgia to say that we need to do so
Something recalls
Because they perpetuate the violence that happened on the capitol today and one thing it aggravates me about some of these callers
Is it they're not taken
Responsibility
For there
Crazy nudnik
Believe that is a stolen election
Okay Daniel Zod who writes for the Washington Post
Sent this out the Washington Post editorial board
Has called for the presidents
Removal
Charles Fallbrook
California Charles
And what have you been thinking Charles is even watching today
Observing of things you do
C-SPAN the owner of the films that were taken in Statuary Hall
Say it again
C-SPAN the owner of today's films taken in Statuary Hall
I'm not sure what's your point
Okay I need them I'll tell you what I thought
And I'm observing as an expert
Party leading into Statuary Hall in the crowd followed gently
Was wearing a certain kind of shirt and he was alive
Police escort
That police escort was a capitol policeman
That policeman let him up three flights of stairs
2D visitors gallery
That film
And it was contrived and I believe I seen that man
I'm going to leave it there a lot of speculation and Terrence
Columbus Ohio
I believe it's Karen in Columbus Ohio
Go ahead
That's the first time I've ever actually seen House Club 1201 called
Which is an imminent threat to the house
Imminent threat to security the house I'm going to say something here
The building
And they shouldn't go home to the authorities and be prosecuted
I feel bad for them because they're probably victims in this group they've been this way just like all the other people who
Store following the guy who just
Use this position of power to
2G nothing but insight
Fear and violence and hatred
And now his Direction
Okay
Another report from a Capitol Hill reporter
Set a reminder Braunfels objected to Arizona's electoral votes earlier in the day
On whether he will object again quote
I think today change things drastically whatever point you made before that should suffice
Says we should get this ugly day
Behind us
We are waiting for the Senate to reconvene their standing in recess subject to the call
Let me know any moment I could gamble back in
They're session where they left off was debate over
The Arizona Electoral College votes
We'll wait and see if they continue with that
If they do
The debate will go on for potentially another
Hour and a half hour and 45 minutes
And then a vote will take place both in the house and the Senate and then they would continue on with a joint session
Of
Sing Out Loud the tally
Of each State's Electoral College votes
With the vice president
Presiding in the speaker of the house next to him on the dice
In the house chamber that is how it's supposed to work we're all waiting to see
If that is how it'll happen
Tonight
Let's go to Lisa
In Kentucky
Lisa
Hi
Hello thank you I was just trying to say that I believe that the 25th Amendment needs to invoke
Immediately we just have to harken back to win President Trump on the 2016 campaign Trail so that he could actually stand in the
5th Avenue and shoot someone and never lose a vote and at the time I thought it was you know that's
But as the cult of trumpism has progressed into what
Call me later today we can see more and more how this attitude towards trumpism instead of a Republican or a
Democratic democracy
And it is like
Anything's he says the people are more than willing to buy one
Can't lie today and it just dangerous dangerous precedent and I began watching the feeds last night on Twitter
What was happening on the ground and DC and I'll continue to watching it today and just others better shock and how
Anyone that is American and a patriot and a love of this country can stand by and allow this to happen
I just pray for all this and I pray that everybody does the right thing when they Glee convene moments
Aaron scharff a political reporter tweeting out that the Senate is back in the capital
Now with armed Federal guards
Jonathan Swan who reports for axios tweeting out
Striking part of a statement from Senator Tom Cotton who has been one of president's most
Loyal allies on the hill quote
It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election
Quick misleading the American people
And repudiate mob violence
Michael and Littletown Littleton Colorado Michael
Michael
I just wanted to say that in my observation and I highly doubt that all of the
These people that are out there doing these atrocities
I highly doubt they'd be doing this at some pain been out there repeating these debunks lies
Peaceful transfer of power
And however is a result of the power Trump has over his admirers
We're now seeing these treasonous actions of people that are easily manipulated so
We need to move forward quickly with the removal of the current president and hold all this
Kathy Plainville Kansas Kathy
Go ahead
Can you hear me we can
Yes I just want to say that I think people better wake up
You know you think you're strong and you're surprised you need to talk to people from Venezuela
The exact same thing happen
The same thing happened in Venezuela and it's happening here
When the Communist takeover you will be shocked and surprised people need to wake up
Okay Kathy
Sahil Kapur of NBC tweeting out a statement by former President Barack Obama
History will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol is sighted
By sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election
As a moment of great dishonor and shame
For our nation
Noah Berman reporting that Kamala Harris is now arriving at the Capitol and heading for
The floor purse
Staff
Again we're waiting for the Senate to reconvene
We were told it would happen at 8 p.m. eastern time it's 6 minutes
Past the hour
Here on the East Coast
The house is also expected
To reconvene tonight
You can watch it right here on C-Span
And it's the debate in the Senate over on C-Span 2
When they go into a joint session which we expecting
Do
You can watch that right here
On C-Span
Byron
In Minnesota
Go ahead
I wasn't you so much for
Jumpin Jumpin
If you're watching C-SPAN to you can watch it right here
Vice president presiding over the Senate
Today Was A Dark Day in the history of the United States capitol
But thanks to the Swift efforts
The US Capitol Police
Federal state and local law enforcement
The violence was quelled
The capital is secured
In the people's work
Continuous
We condemn the violence that took place here
In the strongest possible terms
We grieve the loss of life
In these hallowed Halls
As well as the injuries suffered by those
Who defended our Capitol today
And we will always be grateful
The men and women who stayed at their posts
To defend this is stork place
To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today
You did not win
Violence never wins
Freedom wins
And this is still the people's house
Naz we reconvene in this chamber
The world will again Witness
The resilience and strength of our democracy
For even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism
At this Kappa
The elected representatives
Of the people of the United States
Have assembled again
On the very same day
To support
And defend the Constitution of the United States
So may God bless the Lost
The injured
And the heroes forged on this day
May God bless all
Who serve here
And those who protect this place
And may God bless the United States of America
Let's get back to work
It's Friday
The majority leader
Ashwin anema Spence ounce of majority leader in the Democratic leader be allowed to speak
And at the time not count against two hours of debate in relation
To the objection raised
On the side
Arizona
Is there objection
Without objection so order
Out of sight of the American people
United States Senate
Will not
The Intimidator
We will not
Bcap
Out of this chamber
About Thug
Mobs
Or threats
We will not bail
The lawlessness
Or intimidation
We are back at our post
We will discharged our duty under the Constitution
And for our nation
And we're going to do it
Tonight
This afternoon Congress began the process of honoring the will of the American people
I'm counting the Electoral College votes
We fulfilled Asylum Judy
Every four years
For more than two centuries
Weather Nations been at War
Oar peace
Under all manner of threats
Even during an ongoing
Ongoing armed rebellion and the Civil War
The Clockwork
Of our democracy
Has carried on
United States
And United States Congress at face-down much greater threats
Then the unhinged crowd
We saw today
We've never been to church before
And will be not deterred today
They tried to
Disrupt our democracy
They fail
PayPal
They failed to attempt to obstruct the Congress
This failed Insurrection only underscores how crucial
The task before us is
For our Republic
Our nation was founded precisely
Show that the free choice
Of the American people
Just what shapes
Are self-government
Undetermined
The destiny
Abomination
Not fair
Not force
But the peaceful expression
Other popular will
Now we assemble this afternoon to count our citizens votes and to formalize their choice
Of the next president
Now we're going to finish exactly what we started
Will complete the process
The right way
By the book
We'll follow our presidents our laws
Had our constitution
To the letter
And we will
Certify
The winner
Of the 20
20 presidential
Electric
Criminal Behavior
Will never
Dominate the United States Congress
This institution is resilient
Are Democratic Republicans strong
American people
Deserve
Nothing left
Democratic leader
Mr. president
Is very very difficult
Put into words what has transpired today
I have never lived through or even imagine
Experience like the one
We have just witnessed
In this capital
President Franklin Roosevelt set aside December 7th 1941
As a day that will live in infamy
Unfortunately
We can now add January 6th
2021
To that very short list of dates in American history
That will live
Forever in infamy
This Temple to democracy was desecrated
Its Windows smashed our offices vandalized
The world saw Americans elected officials hurriedly ushered out
Because they were In Harm's Way
The House and Senate floors were places of shelter until the evacuation is was ordered
Leaving Riders
To stalk these hallowed Halls
Lawmakers in are stabs
Average citizens who love their country serve it everyday
Feared for their lives
I understand that one woman was shot and tragically lost her life
We mourn her
And feel for her friends and family
These images
We're projected to the world
Foreign embassies cables Home their Capital their home capitals to report
The harrowing scenes at the very heart
Of our democracy
This will be a stain on our country
Not so easily washed away
The final
Terrible
India
Indelible Legacy
Of the 45th president
The United States
Undoubtedly
Or worst
I want to be very clear
Those who perform these reprehensible acts cannot be called protesters
No
These were riders in insurrectionists
Goons and thugs
Domestic
Terrorist
They do not represent America
They were few thousand violent extremist to try to take over the Capitol building and attack our democracy
They must and should
Be prosecuted to the full extent of the law
Hopefully by this Administration
If not
Certainly by the next
They should be they should be provided
No
Leniency
I want to thank the many of the Capitol Hill Police and Secret Service and local police who kept us safe today
And work to clear the capital
And returned it to its rightful owners and its rightful purpose
I want to thank the leaders
Democrat and Republican
House and Senate
It was speaker Pelosi leader McConnell
Leader McCarthy in myself
Who came together and decided that these thugs would not succeed
That we would finish the work of our Constitution that our constitution requires us to complete
In the very legislative chambers of the House and Senate
That would desecrating
But we know always
Belong to the people
And do again
Tonight
But make no mistake
Make no mistake my friends
Today's events did not happen spontaneously
The presidential promoted conspiracy theories that motivated these thugs
The presidential exhorted them to come to our nation's capital
Egg them on
He hardly ever discourages violence
And more often encourages it
This president
There's a great deal
Of the blame
This mop
Was in good part
President Trump's doing
Incited by his words
His lies
This violence in good part
His responsibility
His Everlasting shame
Today's events
Certainly
Would not have happened
Without him
Now January 6th will go down
As one of the darkest days in recent American history
A final warning
Coordination
About the consequences of a demagogic president
The people who enabled him
The captive media that parrots is lies
And the people
Follow him
As he attempts to push America
To the brink
A Bruin
As we reconvene tonight
Let us remember
In the end
All this mom has really accomplished is to delay our work by a few hours
We will resume our responsibilities now and we will finish our task tonight
The House and Senate chambers will be restored good as new
And ready for legislating
In short order
The counting of the electoral votes is our sacred Duty
Democracies roots in this nation are deep
They're strong
And they will not be undone
Ever
By a group of thugs
Democracy will Triumph
As it has for centuries
So to my fellow Americans
I was shocked and appalled by the images on their televisions today
And who are worried about the future of this country
Let me speak to you directly
The divisions in our country clearly Run Deep
But we are resilient
Forward-looking and optimistic people
And we will begin the hard work
I'm preparing this nation tonight
Because here in America
We do hard things
In America
We always
Overcomer
Are challenges
Gilbert law
Majority leader
Are you able to manage to the center of Oklahoma senator Lankford
Senator from Oklahoma
The vice president
You said things more eloquently than how we stayed in Oklahoma
Oklahoma weed say something like why in God's name
Would someone think attacking law enforcement occupying United States capitol
Is the best way to show that you're right
Why would you do that
Writers and thugs don't run the capital where the United States of America
We disagree on a lot of things and we have a lot of Spirited debate in this room
But we talked it out and we honor each other
Even in our disagreement
That person that person that person is not my enemy that's my fellow American
Why we disagree on things and disagree strongly at times
We do not encourage
What happened today
Ever
I want to join my
Fellow senators and saying thank you to the Capitol Hill Police a law enforcement National Guard the Secret Service
Who stood In Harm's Way while we were here debating
They were pushing back
And I was literally interrupted mid-sentence speaking here
Because we're all in aware of what was happening right outside this room
Because of their faithfulness
And because what they have done
And I want to thank you then
Thank them
Ronald Reagan once said
Peace is not the absence of conflict
It is the ability to handle conflict
By peaceful means
The peaceful people in my state in Oklahoma want their questions answered
But they don't want this what happened today
I want to do the right thing
And I also want to do it the right way
They want OnStar the Constitutional process but they also won't have debate about election security because they want to make sure it's right
Which is why it's an important issue that still needs to be resolved
Transparency in government just doesn't seem like a bad idea
Obviously the commission
There we have asked for is not going to happen at this point
And understand that
And we're headed towards tonight
What's desertification
Joe Biden be the president of the United States
We will work together
In this body
To be able to stay peaceful example
The days ahead
Are you the floor
Democratic leader
Senator from Nevada senator Cortez masto
Senator from Nevada
Mister vice president
And the Senate has resumed its debate on the Arizona electoral vote certification
You can watch all that live on C-Span to we're waiting for the house to come back into session
They too at 2:15 this afternoon
We're debating the certification for Arizona's electoral votes
As soon as the house comes back into session we will go live there as well at some point the Senate will reach
Return to the house chamber
We'll watch that then that will be the joint session and they'll get back to going through the roster of states
Following the debate on Arizona Arkansas in California are the next two states that are up
We will watch all of that live
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Go ahead and what are you have you been watching all day today Cynthia
Yes I have good afternoon just for taking my call
I think that
Violence is not the answer to express her opinion
Also people need to be heard
United States used to be a source of great pride because the people
Voted for the people there now
But now it seems that we the people are never hurt anymore
You know we have all the financial issues
Everything that's going on maybe
Do they think that maybe they should start listening to the people a little bit more
Because
We are the ones to vote for them
That Cynthia in Frankfort Kentucky in this is Omar
In North Olmsted Ohio Omar good evening
Hi good evening thank you for having me
I was actually watching does joint session live and I was very surprised about what happened
I think at this point we all know that the next president is going to take Joe Biden
And President Trump should just concede the election
To calm everybody down at this point
Omar who did you vote for
I voted for Joe Biden why
It was my first time voting
I took my time to research the candidates I watched all the details
Just like Joe Biden is more mature than Tom service a first-time voter
And you said you were surprised at today's events
Yeah that's true
And did you spend the afternoon watching
I watched for a couple of hours but I had other stuff to do for school
Adenitis
Open the news about 2 hours ago to continue watching what happened
Well thanks for joining us it again the Senate has returned to session
Live they are debating the Arizona electoral votes
That is live on C-Span to the house is due to come in
Shortly
To begin their debater to continue their debate on Arizona
And we will bring that to you as soon as they come back
Al's + 6
Sicklerville New Jersey police go ahead Alan share your thoughts
On today
I have two comments
After the Congress
Certifies the Electoral College vote count
I think immediately
As the one person that straddles both the legislative branch
An executive branch
Vice president
Pence as the president of the Senate
And his vice president
Should immediately
Begin to invoke the 25th Amendment
Because it is clear that
President Trump is incompetent
Excited
And attack
An unsuccessful attack
Any other branch of government
Secondly
I think that
All the added expense that has been incurred
By this interaction
Should be deducted from the 200
That President Trump has raised
To perpetrate this
List
Fart
That the election was not fair and free it certainly was very pretty and it certainly was
Show all his objections to all the court processes
Has been shown to be fairing Fray
The president put out a tweet video earlier
Telling everybody
It didn't get on calling out the election but also telling everybody to go home
And that we need to be peaceful
Twitter pulled that down do you think that was the right move
No I don't agree with Twitter as a corporate policy
To moderate free speech in the United States at there going to be a platform for speech they should they should be free
And allow any wacky person including the president of the United States
To say whatever they want is up to each individual American
To be able to decipher
Fact from fantasy and unfortunately
We see that
Half the country
Let's get a little bit less than half the country
Add that voted in the 2020 election is unable to see
Fact from fiction and actually supported
A huckster a man
Who has never
Earning money himself
Through the grace of his father's inherited money and threw evading taxes
Cuz
Perpetrated this mess that he's a successful businessman Sicklerville New Jersey
This tweet by Daniela Diaz
The same house chamber doors where the armed standoff took place hours ago is being clean for members
To return for the joint session which will be live on C-Span
As soon as it begins Tammy's in Boise Idaho
Hi Tammy
What are your thoughts about today
I just have one question
I want to know
It's my president lied to me today
And if he didn't want me to tell me
I want him to tell the family of the woman that
Shot and killed today
I voted for him
Unloaded
I'm sorry
It's Tammy and Boise Dallas
His calling in
From Columbus Georgia go ahead Dallas
Dallas you with us
Yeah I'm here
I was watching all day today
And
I was really shocked
When all of this happened I would have
Never imagined
Any of this happen
All I could think of
When I saw it was this is the beginning of a civil war
And
I think that we all need to
Start putting politics aside and stop
With Republicans and Democrats
And we need to realize that we're all Americans
Because I like the lady just said right before
A woman lost her life
And this is this is unnecessary it does not have to go on
We all need to find a way to move past this
That's Dallas in Georgia and Belford
Is in Pinellas Park Florida please go ahead Belford
Yes. thank you for taking my call
I just want to say that today we definitely saw
Democracy league today what took place
It's it's very heart-wrenching it's it's
It's sad that should have never happened and the blame
Completely falls on the president
The 25th amendment should be invoked
The President should be removed
Until the next menstruation comes in
It definitely is a sad day
I hope that woman's family. Regardless of who she before I send in my prayers for family
This should have never happened
And the president as leader has failed the American people for the year
Democrat
Or what have you
Koto pittsfield
America
And it has shown today
Thank you
Cindy Joshua Tree California good evening
Hi hello I personally like to say thank you so much for taking my call
And second of all I would just like to say
Basically to everybody else in my age group and younger I'm 26
Independent I'm a veteran
And I would like to say that what the events that happened today
Obviously I wholeheartedly condone them
But this is an example of why it is so important for people our age younger whoever
He's able to follow whoever is able to go in
Be an activist it's so important that we do that
Because
If we don't
Things like what happened today
It's only going to get worse
And what do you think about what happened today you
You said you condemn the events that happened today but
If you're going to be an activist what kind of an activist when you going to be
You need to start at obviously the lowest level in your local community do what you can do
To make sure that people are registered of Soul make sure they're informed so they can be informed voters
At your local level at your state level and then of course at
You know that's big country like
Level
We are waiting for the house to come back into session the Senate is already return the session they are live and you can watch it on C
C-SPAN 2
When they came in at about 8:15 this evening
Vice president Pence who is the president of the Senate
Made an opening state
Centerville come to order
The vice president is President of the Senate would like to give a brief statement with the Indulgence of the Senators
Today Was A Dark Day in the history of the United States capitol
But thanks to the Swift efforts
Of US Capitol Police
Federal state and local law enforcement
The violence was quelled
The capital is secured
In the people's work
Continuous
We condemn the violence that took place here
In the strongest possible terms
We grieve the loss of life
In these hallowed Halls
As well as the injuries suffered by those
Who defended our Capitol today
And we will always be grateful
The men and women who stayed at their posts
To defend this is stork place
To those who wreak havoc in our Capitol today
You did not win
Violence never wins
Freedom wins
And this is still the people's house
That's we reconvene in this chamber
The world will again Witness
The resilience and strength of our democracy
For even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism
At this capital
The elected representatives
Of the people of the United States
Have assembled again
On the very same day
To support and defend the Constitution of the United States
So may God bless the Lost
The injured
And the heroes forged on this day
May God bless all
Who serve here
And those who protect this place
And may God bless the United States of America
Let's get back to work
And that was a vice
Vice president about 20 minutes ago in the Senate came back in session according to the vice presidents
Press secretary Devin O'Malley
Vice president Mike Pence has returned to the Senate he never left the capitol
The vice-president was in regular contact with House and Senate leadership Capitol Police the Department of Justice
And the Department of Defense to facilitate efforts to secure the capital
And reconvene Congress
And now we will finish the people's business that's a live shot of the capital you can see the barriers
Usually there are people walking back and forth there this is the East front of the Capitol the Senate is on your far right the house
Chamber is down on the far left
And we're waiting for the house to come back into session the Senate though you can watch live on
On C-Span 2
Lauren and
Grapeland Texas police go ahead and make your comment about the
Events of today
Hello
I just spent all of people are wanting to lay blame on President Trump and you know wherever but to me
Hey I think all of this could have been totally avoided several weeks ago at the Republicans
And the Democrats
Listen to the people and said you know what folks aren't confident we need to
Take a real close look at this and
And see if
There was any problem with the selection if they would have done that the people would have been
Satisfied maybe not everybody
But I know that myself
I would have been satisfied if they could have
At least listen to the people and
Looked into
The irregularities of this election
Thank you Lord hey Lauren I didn't start a news report that there was some
Activity or some protested in Austin at the state capitol do you know anything about that
Nowhere near where I live Texas is at the place
Patricia in Dundee Oregon please go ahead and make your comments Patricia
I'm having h-drive remember a time
When people could
Sibilate
Discuss
Politics MP3
Status 1987
Prior to 1987 I should say
The FCC Federal Communication Commission paddling
That any time a political
Position was stated
On any kind of media turn off
The volume of your TV
And go ahead and finish your point
Okay sorry
Anytime somebody made a political statement in in public
List papers
Television radio
That was good or bad
Why do you think that was good or bad
Because
I know in my own family when I go to visit
People have won if they get up in the morning they turn on Fox News
And they listen to it all day long
I believe a lot of people in America today are indoctrinated
And they cancer in Oregon and this is Harold in Kenai
Alaska
Harold good evening to you
Good evening thanks for taking my call I just have a couple of comments there
Sudden watching this series
For the past four years I guess maybe longer
I'm not liking what I see
I just think I could speak for
Everybody here in Alaska
You know all them Democrats would had to do was be honest
About the election
That's Harold in Alaska
Been tweeted out by Jake Sherman of Politico that the house is coming back at 9
P.m. this evening that's in about 20 minutes
Susan Waynesville South north
Pardon me let me try that again Susan
In Waynesville North Carolina Susan please go ahead and make your comment
Yes I watched it all day I was already watching
CIA hearing yours it was going on
And I watched everything that happened yesterday and I don't believe in any way shape or form that Trump was to
Tried to incite anything he wasn't trying to call on the people to breach the Capitol building
He was calling for support of the American people
But I figure we should all
Go ahead and recount everyday
Because it was not fair if there's any idea that there's any kind of corruption that went on
It's just
Then we need to we need to look at the evidence they said earlier I just was happening the representative
Arizona State
That there was a thousand pages that he brought with him of evidence
Why can't they look at the evidence
Why does everybody keep turning it down including the Supreme Court
Including at the state level
Why does everybody keep turning the evidence down and knock
Not looking at it let us American people see it let us let us decide some of the
President's fellow Republicans in the Senate and the house
Have all said
The president needs to be quiet
He's he's he's fomenting
This violence do you disagree with that
Yeah just agree with it I mean I think that
I think they need to take his Twitter account away because I don't think that that our president needs to be on Twitter and stuff
Giving out different information at different times I don't agree with everything that President Trump has done
And everything but I also don't think that he was calling for the American people you know that are the ones that were up there protests
Or As Trump supporters
But I am a trump supporter
I don't believe he was calling on us
To incite something bad that happened he was calling on us to stand behind you and say look look
Look at this habitat
And I want to know as a voter I want to know
Because it's weird if he's telling us wrong it's all these other people that are supporting him or telling you
What's wrong
All of us American people need to know
Susan did you consider coming up this week to Washington
As a President Trump supporter
No only because I've had the virus I've been sick
But otherwise I did consider it
Atsushi
Susan and Waynesville North Carolina well when the Senate returned
At 8:15 this evening the majority leader Mitch McConnell
Made an opening statement before they return to the Electoral
College
Certification
That's right
The majority leader
Astronaut Hermiston sounds of majority leader in the Democratic leader be allowed to speak
And at the time not count against two hours of debate in relation
To the objection raised
On the State of Arizona
Is there objection
Without objection so order
Underside of the American people
United States Senate will not
The Intimidator
We will not
Be kept
Out of this chamber
About Thug
Mobs
Or threats
We will not bail
The lawlessness
Or intimidation
We are back at our post
We were discharged our duty under the Constitution
And for our nation
And we're going to do it
Tonight
This afternoon Congress began the process of honoring the will of the American people
I'm counting the Electoral College votes
We fulfilled a solemn Duty
Every four years
For more than two centuries
Weather Nations been at War
Oar peace
Under all manner of threats
Even during an ongoing ongoing armed rebellion and the Civil War
The Clockwork
Of our democracy
Has carried on
United States
And United States Congress at face-down much greater threads
Dundee unhinged crowd
We saw today
We've never been to church before
And will be not deterred today
They tried to
Disrupt our democracy
They fail
They failed to attempt to obstruct the Congress
This failed Insurrection only underscores how crucial
The task before us is
For our Republic
Our nation was founded precisely
Show that the free choice
Of the American people
Is what shapes are self-government
Undetermined
The destiny
Abomination
Not fair
Not force
But the peaceful expression
Other popular will
Now we assemble this afternoon to count our citizens votes and to formalize
Their choice
Of the next president
Now we're going to finish exactly what we started
Will complete the process the right way
By the book
We'll follow our presidents our laws
Had our constitution
To the letter
And we will
Certify
The winner
Of the 2020 presidential
Electric
Criminal Behavior
Will never
Dominate the United States Congress
This institution is resilient
Are Democratic Republicans strong
The American people
Deserve
Nothing less
That was Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about a half hour ago in the Senate reconvene they are live on C-Span
Cantu
Ed O'Keefe from CBS reports
That this is quote this is not news we deliver lightly Margaret Brennan says she reports
Trump cabinet secretaries are discussing invoking the 25th Amendment
To remove President Trump nothing formal yet presented
The vice president Pence
Darnell's in Laveen Arizona
Darnell what do you think about today
Well I got to say
Today is just
The
It's very sad day for our country
You know I feel I'm a veteran
Iraq
Afghanistan
I got to tell you
In my opinion I believe that they are laughing at us
I believe that we have become a joke
And this is what happened
When you elect
Reality
TV star
He's an Entertainer
You don't care about the drama
About a woman losing her life
And for what
What about that
That 17 year old boy
Kenosha Wisconsin
He was doing the right thing the troll in the streets and protecting businesses he killed 3 people
He's going to pay for his crimes
Drink the Kool-Aid
This is like
I mean to meet President Trump has been
I don't even like calling them President Trump but unfortunately you still president of the United States
It's like
Is the Reverend Reverend before I was born Jim Jones
We got all those people drink the Kool-Aid commit suicide
I mean this is poisonous this is a cancer
And I've listened to some of the people
That you have had
On the program
For me
So brainwashed they don't understand
So transparent and all the stuff
I don't know what it takes
For it to be more transparent than what it is
Okay
You hesitate I listened to that tape President Trump called Georgia
Georgia governor and Secretary of State of Georgia
I want you to find me boats and they said mr. president
We need evidence
President-trump
Refused to give any evidence
Darnell we're going to that's we're going to leave it there we got your point
Let's hear from Ed in Myrtle Beach South Carolina Ed
What's your reaction to the events of today
Well if it's bad and woman lost her life however
This country needs to find out about lawsuits and about to justice system in the legal system
When it comes to civil suits
Most civil suits are 325 years
People are put under oats and and testimony is given
Curious where you going with this
Well I'm just trying to say that Trump had two months
So when they say there's no evidence
A question of evidence
The system didn't work the system doesn't work for 2 months it takes
And we had to call her we had to call her earlier who said
She just wish that
Some of the voting
Potential voting irregularities
Had been explored and she would have been satisfied do you agree with that
Yes yes I think this is what I think I think if Trump are going to court
And lost
Nobody would have said a word
It is he little lost is here and and and he's a lost his lawsuit and testimony was gay
And the Court ruled against them
Nothing would have been said everything would have everybody would have
Runaway
That was Ed Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Chad pergram a fox is reporting that the 15-minute bills in the House of Representatives have gone off in
In the capital
House back in at 9 p.m. straight up pieces
Jacoby Tucson
Hi
Thank you for having me
I don't find it shocking as someone who studies Civil Rights movements and Revolutions in history
I think
This is just something unfortunately that was bound to happen and I think it's happening because the American people
At least Trump supporters are now realizing what
You know their BLM brothers and sisters have been experiencing for decades and centuries now
Not being listened to and they don't like it
And I think I need to take a long hard and look at what they believe
And realize that they have brothers and sisters who are in the same position
But finding a not just against this whole election system
But against the systems of Injustice
Congress and Congressional leadership
Needs tune up
See this under the rug and take a hard look at why Americans have done this and we need to challenge ourselves
To look at history and realize
What lessons we can learn from our civil rights leaders in the past and see
What the people actually want
And that is a correction to the system
And I just hope that all these Trump supporters calling in
Can listen to themselves and see you the same thing that civil rights leaders have been saying for years
Don't have to have happened to Kobe is it fair to say that you're comparing
Some of the antifa and BLM riots or protest this
Year
With what happened today at the Capitol
I definitely think I definitely think so there is definitely strong parallels there and I think
Like I said if people would
Correlate what's going on and get the message they might
Peacefully be able to
You know talk about these things we don't need a storm the Capitol building
Martin Luther King jr. And they didn't break another capital
I think people just need to come together and if they want chains like these calls keep saying these Trump supporter to come out here and keep saying
Then they need to reach across the aisle and looks of their BLM brothers and sisters
And say hey look we're on the same side
You know that's how we do it the Democratic way not through violence not through aggression not to name-calling
But we listen to each other
I think that's what we saw here the cap ability today is a failure to listen to one another
And get the messages that people have been saying calling in from Tucson are you studying at the University of Arizona
Yes I am
And what is your major
Ethics and civil rights
I just
Finish electric horse with the great Noam Chomsky
And I from 1
I'm not a liberal I'm I'm an independent so I don't want people think that I'm just some
Liberal
Alright thanks for calling in and sharing your your thoughts
Ken is in Port Clinton Ohio please go ahead Ken what's your reaction
To the events of today
For taking my call sir
I'm a veteran and
Commentary the actions of today
Is appalling
Never never in my life
Ever witness anything like this I feel bad for that lady's family and all the people involved
But this just didn't come from the election or today this is been going on for the last four years when
You know you look across the aisle the Democrats can't work well with the Republicans
And nobody in that
Puno
In this Administration wanted to work with President Trump and help him
Skittles
Do what you need to do
This started four years ago
When I started going after President Trump and then
Just increasingly got worse over
The time
Do you see Fault With the President's reactions
Yeah he needs to stay off of Twitter and Inno and be more diplomatic and you know accepting
Thank you
You do
Change himself
But like I said just sit and sort from today or from the election this is been going on for the last 4 years
Port Clinton Ohio he mentioned the president's Twitter account
Which has been locked supposedly for the next twelve hours or so
Because of some of the tweets that he sent out earlier
This is from Sarah Matthews who's the deputy press secretary at the White House I was honored to serve in the
The Trump Administration and proud of the policies we enacted
As someone who worked in the halls of Congress I was deeply disturbed by what I saw today
I'll be stepping down from my role effective immediately
Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power
Ronald in Highland Ranch Colorado
Please go ahead with your thoughts
Ronald can you hear me or listening please go ahead
I want to make a suggestion to help get our country back together
There are not divided
Congress is elected for the people
Sides of people
And I noticed that the Republican sit on one side of the aisle the Democrats on the
The others
I would make a suggestion
That
They have to set together
Bi-State
So if you have a Republican
And a Democrat
They have to sit together
Weiser state
Not by their party
That way they can discuss
What the people in their state watch
Not what the party wants
That's Ronald in Highland Ranch Colorado hosea's calling in
From Texas New Braunfels Texas
Hi Jose good evening
You know I just wanted to talk about tonight's events and
As a father of two and one of them being a three-year-old
Watching the news together just really broke my heart today cuz
The future of our our country lies them children like mine
I'm inside when
We can't come together
As a nation and honor
What has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years which is
The institution of OT
There is such a things of words matter and M I feel like the president
Stem cells for the last 4 years and then
Insinuating that violence
There's there's a thing called presidential decorum
And unfortunately that's president locks at Quito
It's a sad day in our history whether you're Republican or Democrat
It is a sad day just because we're not able to honor that
Really
That the people who suffer in this is the future like my children and so it's a sad day and I just hope that everybody can
It's going to be a dark day in our history and I hope that
We can move forward from that Jose a couple collars ago Ron from Ohio
Blamed it
On the other
Side of issues did the Democrats and
Etc saying that they were inciting the president
It sucks right it is tough to two to think about
What the President of Chile in this country has had a long history of
Whether you're a Democrat you have a certain type of belief in your Republican you have a certain type of belief
What matters is
Is the institution.
Amen. To respect each other's those into respect each other's
Right
Entel
Yeah the president has
Some
More responsibility here
I understand that he probably hasn't gotten a fair shot the last 4 years
But you also have to look at what's happened to our country
You know when we're still in the grips of a middle of a pandemic
Probably on the verge of a of a
Disaster when it comes to our economy
I unfortunately have been a victim of that myself with losing my job because of covid
It's so yeah there's a lot of going on in our country in the last thing that we need right now
Is for this tablet
Thank you Jose and Texas for calling in and sharing some thoughts with us
Facebook joins Twitter in blocking Trump from posting following the storming of the US Capitol
By his supporters this is by Zeke
Miller
The Senate has returned they have been in session for about 45 minutes on certification
Of the Electoral College they're debating Arizona
You can see Senator Dick Durbin there is speaking that's life all on C-Span 2
Now the house is coming back into session at 2:15 this afternoon
Is when everything
Broke loose the house went into recess the Senate went to recess
All the members
Aladdin and were taken to safety
And
6 hours later the Senate came back into session and now the house is about to come back into session
They were in the middle of debating the challenge to the Arizona
Electoral votes when all of this happened so that's where they'll pick up my gases
They'll probably make some opening statements
And then they'll go back to that debate at some point the Senate will walk back from its chamber when
When it finishes
Debating the Arizona challenge
They will walk back
To the house chamber and then they will move on from there and go through the
The states in alphabetical order
Certifying the Electoral College vote
So whether or not there any more challenges there than talk about challenges in Georgia
And in Pennsylvania as well
Whether or not those happen
Is not known at this point after the events of today
So but C-SPAN will be live with the house on C-Span and the Senate on C-Span 2
Until this is all complete
John in
East Hampton Connecticut we might have to cut you off the police go ahead
And make a quick comment
My father is rolling in his grave but what happened today
Delete to invasions
He was in Normandy
He was in Korea
It's just a shame
What this country's turned into
Chatham
Portland Oregon a city that has
Had some
Some issues with a protest this summer
Adam
What's your comment
We have
You know I just wanted to comment elbow Today Was A Dark Day and disturbing and
Many levels
I want to say that the majority of people as far as I can tell
Are pretty moderate in their thinking and it's not so much a blue red left right
84 Pirkle
And I think that this moment
Really affects those people the most and people are depressed by it
And I think going forward that
I hope this is a
Pivot Point
Where optimism
System of checks and balances and realizing that this isn't a conservative
Liberal or democratic
Or republican issue necessarily it really hinges
On one man's ego
And that ego has really
Drawing a line in the sand that says
Deeply affected
In a negative way this country
And it's not representative of us
It's Not Who We Are
And we're better than this
We should love thy neighbor as thyself Adam what was the effect of this Summer's protests in Portland
The effect was
Something that you didn't strike me as too unusual because as you know Portland Portland
Very passionate
About what they believe in although I I think the compare and to constantly compare blm2
What we saw today
It's a little different I think the the blacklivesmatter apologize for going to have to interrupt your right there the houses
Back life
Made on our democracy
It cannot however
Datura
For my responsibility
To validate the election of Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
For that reason Congress has returned to the capital
We always knew that this responsibility
But take us into the night
Ingles take as long as it takes
Our purpose will be accomplished
We must and we will
Show to the country
Energy to the world
That we will not be diverted from our duty
That we were special responsibility to the Constitution
And to the American people
One Sunday was great my great honor
Be sworn in as speaker to preside
Over sacred ritual of renewal
As we gathered under the stone
Temple of democracy
To open the 117th Congress
I said that was as we were sworn in
Then
We accept the responsibility as daunting and
Demanding as any previous
Generation of leadership
Has ever faced
We know that we're in difficult times
But little
Could we have imagined
The assault
That was made on our democracy
Today
To those who struggle
For my responsibility
You have failed
To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this our Temple of democracy
American democracy
Justice will be done
Today
January 6th
Is the Feast of the Epiphany
On this day of Revelation
Let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide an epiphany
For a country to heal
In that Spirit of healing I vote the song of Saint Francis I usually do Saint Francis is the patron saint
And if my city of San Francisco and she is
Song of st. Francis is our anthem
Lord Make Me a Channel of thy peace
Weather is Darkness may I bring light
Weathers
Hatred that is spring
Love
Where there is despair
Let us bring hope
You know that we would be part of history in a positive way today
Every four years
When we
Demonstrate again the peaceful transfer of power
Someone president to the next
And despite the shameful actions of today
We still will do so
We will be part
Of a history that shows the world
What America is made of
That these
This is salt
Is just that
I chose
The weakness
Of those who had to show through violence
What their message was
My colleagues it's time to move on I wear this pain quite frequently
Actually I gave it to her
Beloved John Lewis just the weekend before he
Weekender so before he left us
And it's a flag of a country
The flag of the United States of America
I want on it it says
One country
One destiny
One country
One destiny
Sitting on the flag
That was also what was embroidered
And Abraham Lincoln's
Coat
That he had on
That fateful night
Lincoln's party
Lincoln's message
One country one destiny
Someone this holiday of epiphany
Let us pray
I'm a big believer in prayer
Let us pray that they will be peace on Earth
And that it will begin with us
Let us pray
That God will continue to bless America
Without let us proceed
I was at responsibilities
To the Constitution
To which we have just within 72 hours taken the oath to uphold
But what purpose does the gentleman
From Maryland Seacrest recognition speaker I rise in opposition to the objection
Gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Bottom speaker it is a sad day in America
It is a wrenching
Stay in America
It a day it is today and which are words
Interactions
And that consequences
Of a very very negative nature
We are watch our words
And think
What it may mean
Twosome
My remarks
We're written
Before
The tragic
Dangerous
An unacceptable actions
Unacceptable such a
Team word
My remark started with Madam speaker
The American people today are witnessing one of the greatest challenges to our democracy
And it's 2244 year history
Little did I know
That this capital
Would be attacked
By the Enemy Within
I was here on 9/11
When were young we were attacked
By the enemy without
We need to all work together
To tame
And reduce the anger
And yes I hate
Let some stoke
What's some not all Madam speaker but some
In this house and in the Senate are doing today will not change
The outcome of the election
Which is the clear and insurmountable victory of President like Biden and vice president like Tyrus
Instead
All they will accomplish is to further
The dangerous
Divisions
This was written before this Capital was assaulted
Before this democracy
Was put aside
But thousands
Encouraged
By the commander-in-chief
Said all they will accomplish is to further the dangerous divisions as I said among our people and energize
Chrissy theories
Stoked by Foreign adversaries which seek to a road America's confidence in our democracy and our system of
Free and fair elections
I was here
Mm
I was strongly in favor of Al Gore
For president
Am I candidate got more votes
Then the other candidate
His name was George Bush of course
I'm one of the saddest days was
January 20th of 2001 when
The our candidates who won the election in my view
Was not elected
But it was also one of the proudest moments of my career
Because the greatest power on Earth past
Peacefully
From Bill Clinton
The George W bush
Not a shot was fired
Nobody assaulted this caucus
Or this Congress
Or this chamber
Because we were not disappointed no
Because we were not angry no
Because
We believe in democracy
We believe in We the People
And the way
The people one of the speakers I think it was the senator from Texas Express we're here for the people
If those were the people
We are in a lot of trouble
Our electoral system or democratic system
Power but did not break
Under the strain
Of the misinformation
The claims of fraud
Which court after court after court have dismissed
Out of the end
Not because there was a little Evans because there was
No
Evidence
That's why were the longest lasting constitutional democracy in the world
I hope all of us in this body are proud of that
And understand why that's the case
Because
Azteca part sit on this floor many years ago
Democracy
Is a substitute
For war to resolve
Differences
It proved once more than ever beating strong heart that gives life
To our Republic and our freedoms
That strength Madam speaker is derived in part from our Institution
And our laws
But most importantly it is powered by citizens and leaders commitment
To our constitution
Not just us we swear an oath
But it's all of America
Barack Obama spoke from that chamber and he said
I'm going to be
Take another title next year
Citizen
He was proud to take that
And every citizen needs to protect preserve and uplift our democracy
Some today did not do that
Many
Today
68 years ago in Springfield Illinois governor
Adlai Stevenson
Gracefully conceded his loss to General Dwight Eisenhower
He said this in traditionally
It is traditionally American
He told his deeply disappointed supporters to fight hard before an election
But then he added it is equally
Traditional
To close ranks as soon as the people
Have spoken. The Congress
Lectors
People
Bespoken
That what unites us as American citizens is far greater than that which divides us
If political parties
It was another man from Springfield
Four score and eight years earlier
Who won re-election to the presidency and the national crisis that tested our country and its Democratic institutions
Who pleaded even in his hour of victory
For The Same Spirit of reconciliation
That was the party of Lincoln
That hasn't happened
To this hour
Lincoln said now that the election is over
He asked may not all
Having a common interest
Reunite in a common effort
To save our common country
Such as the duty of American who stands for elections
Or participate in our politics to be there humble
In Triumph or gracious in defeat
I've lost them elections
Not too many
1 bottleneck
And I hope that I've been gracious in defeat
And humble in Victory
I hope that I put my state and my country first
I myself
It is cleared all that the outgoing president is not followed the path that Stevenson
And Lincoln
Urged
So we the funk people
Each one of us represents about 750 to 800 thousand people some a few less
The people
And I've spoken
In the way that our constitution
Set for them to be heard
By us and by the country
Devoted
And they voted pretty decisively
We the people together must turn away from division and its dangers
The senior member of our
Body
Don Young from Alaska
Spoke the other day
When we were sworn in and said
Ladies and gentlemen of this house we are so divisive
That it's going to destroy our country we need to reach out and hold one another's hands
We all have a tail that we honor more than any other
Transparent Labs husband but
We are all Americans
Not Americans are not Americans d
We are America
Let's hope today that
Tonight
So we act like
American
Not as Dee's and ours but as Americans
Justice algor Just as
Hillary Clinton
Justice Adlai Stevenson Justice Abraham Lincoln who had won that election of course
But are you defeated people you said
That's not the issue the issue is to reunite
We the People
Must again be the strong heart of American democracy we the people on this day and Congress must be agents of
Unity and constructive actions to face the grave threats that can front us and tell those who would have solved our capital
That is not the American way
And we the members of Congress
Who sworn
Before God
To preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States and our democracy
Must do so now I don't usually read Senator McConnell speeches
But I'm not speaking as a Democrat nor was he speaking as a Republican
Just a few hours ago
We're debating a step that has never been taken
In American history
Whether Congress should overrule the voters
And overturn a presidential election
He went on to say
That he supports a strong state-led voting reform
The Constitutional said gives us here in Congress
A limited role
We cannot simply declare ourselves a national Board of Elections on steroids
The voters
The courts
And the states
The voters
The courts
And the states
Have all spoken
5 people
Said the election
Up 2000 was over
We didn't agree with them
But Al Gore said
We are a nation of laws
5 people
Yes they were members of the Supreme Court
But they were five people said the election is over
And I sat on that Podium and saw that power transfer to George W bush
McConnell went on to say
If we over real then overrule them
It would damage
Our Republic
Forever
He said that McConnell the Republican leader of the Senate
About 2 hours ago
3 hours ago now for hours
He went on to say if this election were overturned by a mere allegations
From the losing side
Our democracy
Would enter
A death
Spiral
He can put it it would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise American voters and over will the courts and States on this extreme
Ordinarily thin bases
And I will not
Pretend such a boat
Would be a harmless protest gesture
How
Presciently spoke
People who think they say lesson has been stolen
There's some frog why did he think it was the commander and chief said so
And they respect him and they follow him
And words matter
Essien did I will not pretend such a vote would be harmless protester while relying on others to do the
The right thing
I will vote to respect the people's decision
And defend our system of government
As we know it
I urge my colleagues
Debono
Under subjection
Has McConnell said
A danger to our democracy
And I yield back the balance of my time
Republican beliefs
For what purpose does the gentleman from California seek recognition
Address of house in 5 minutes
Play objects in the gentleness recognize her 5 minutes
Becky Menefee
Arised address
What happened in this chamber today
Where do we go from here
The violence
Destruction
The cast we saw earlier was unacceptable
Undemocratic
Another America
It was the saddest day
I've ever had is serving as a member of this institution
The capital was in chaos
Police officers were attacked
Guns were drawn on this very floor
A woman tragically lost her life
No one wins when this building and what it stands for destroyed
America in this institution
Is better than this
We saw the worst of America this afternoon
Yet in the midst
Violence and fear
We also saw the best
Of America
It starts with our law enforcement
The Capitol Police
The National Guard
The FBI the Secret Service who faced the most difficult challenges
But did their Duty with confidence and strength
Many of them are injured right now
And it also extends to this chamber
We're both Democrats and Republicans
Showed courage
Calm
Resolve
I'd like to recognize the members now who helped Hold the Line
Markwayne Mullin
Tony Gonzalez
Jason Crow
Pat Fallon
Controller nails
Working with the Capitol Police the insured the floor this chamber
Was never breached
These are the heroes Among Us
Thank you for the
Looking back on the past few hours
It is clear
This Congress will not be the same
After today
And I hope
It will be the better
I hope not just this institution but I hope every America
Pauses for that moment
And thanks among themselves
The we can disagree with one another
But not dislike each other
We can respect the voices of others
There's many times we debate on this body and we should
There's many times we can get heated
I still consider
Steny Hoyer a very good friend
There's times I get upset
I'll call him at home
To express
But things I may not see Fair
Or just
But that's the way we should handle things
The majority leader is right we are all Americans first
What should we also think for a moment
What do we put on social media
What are we convey to one another
Just because you have a personal opinion different than mine
You have a right to say it
But nobody has a right to become a mop
And we all should Stand United
Condemning the mob together
We solve problems before a nation not to destruction
But through debate
That is the heart of this democracy
I know what we debate today is tough
What is just
It's right
This isn't the first side of the aisle
It's ever debated this issue
I thought would Madam speaker said back in 2005
This is democracy
At its best
When they talked about a presidential election
In Ohio
These are the moments
Do we should raise the issue about integrity and accountability and accuracy in our elections
But you know what we should do the next difference
Not just raised the issue
Would work together to solve the problem
Now is the moment
Now is the moment to show America
We can work best together
I will tell you
The size of the majority is Slim
So gives us the opportunity
To make that happen
The only thing that can hold us back
Is the we love one another to do it
The side of the aisle always believes
The working with anybody who wants to move it forward
That does not mean that we're going to agree a hundred percent of the time that does not mean or voice cannot be heard
That does not mean we cannot be treated fairly we should be
That may mean on the size of committees that means our ability to offer an amendment
It means when our ability to have our voice
But the end of the day it helps us come to a better conclusion
Returning
Security complete the work
We are sent to do we are proving that our democracy cannot be destructed
But criminal Behavior
We will not falter
We will not Bend and we will not shrink from our duty
Let me be very clear
Mobs don't rule America laws rule America
It was true when RC
Cities were burning the summer and it's true now
OneAmerica
Romaric has go to bed tonight their lasting memory should not be a congress overrun by rioters
It must be a Resolute Congress conducting healthy debate
We may not disagree on a lot in America but tonight we must show the world
That we will respectfully but thoroughly carry out the most basic duties
A democracy
We will continue with the task that we have been sent here to do
We will follow the Constitution and the law on the process for hearing valid concerns about election integrity
We'll do it with respect
We will respect your opinion
Who respect what you say
And we're willing to listen to it
I think the nation will be better for it
On both sides of the aisle
Let's show the country
The mob did not win
We have a job to do it
Let's do it with pride
Must be better
When the Sun rises tomorrow
Without a yo back Madam speaker
What purpose does the gentleman from Arizona seek recognition
Opposition to the objection
Over the last two hours
We have seen the consequences of dangerous on American rhetoric
An armed insurrection
Against the seat of government of the most powerful country on Earth
A breach of this Capitol building
To attack Congress
Something that is not taken place
Since the British occupied this building
During the War of 1812
Attempted coup
Spurred by rhetoric coming from those who are looking out for themselves
Not country
It is stunning Madam speaker
But there are some in this house with voice support for what happened
It was not a protest
It was treason
It was sedition
SUV prosecuted as such
Tottus roof at its root is a disease as an
Stuck in our politics
One that will make some political leaders do anything
Including lie and incite violence to hold onto power
That's what we're seeing before our very eyes
In contesting the outcome of this election
My Republican colleagues make
Contradictory argument that puts party
Empower before country
The argue the election results were valid
What is show they won their races
But the same ballot we're somehow fraudulent
When It produced a result
President-trump
Did not like
Keep the results we like they demand
Cancel the 1
We don't
That's not how democracy works
And neither is armed insurrection
Here's the truth
Arizona
Has a long bipartisan record
Of conducting safe
Secure
And fair elections
And I say that as someone
Whose party has more often than not
Been on the losing end of those elections
This last election
Was once again safe and secure
And I commend our state and County election officials
Public servants on both sides of the aisle
For making Arizona proud
Once again
We are here
Because the case that Republicans have brought before us
Has failed in court
Over
And over
And over again
My colleagues say let's go back to the state
Let them decide
My friends
Arizona has spoken they have sent
The correct
Electors
Arizona's Republican Attorney General
One of the most partisan in the country
Said quote
There is no evidence there are no facts
That would lead anyone to believe
The election results will change
Unquote
The Republican speaker of our state house
Has told us
He doesn't like the results of the election but they are the right result
Joe Biden has won Arizona
The state supreme court
Made up entirely of justices appointed by Republican governors
They have spoken to
The court said the President's challenge quote
Fails to present any evidence of misconduct
Illegal votes for that the Bible lectures did not in fact receive the highest numbers of vote
For office
Ankle
Look to the words of one of President the president's own campaign chairs in my state
Our governor
Doug Ducey
Our governor
He loves the president
He's been so loyal he made sure the president could hold large rallies in our state
In the middle of a pandemic
The governor personally attended them
Facebook so often that the governor gave the president a special
Hail to the Chief ringtone
On his phone
After election day
Has the legal challenge is played out the governor kept quiet but when the truth became clear
Even he acknowledged quote
Joe Biden did win
Arizona unquote
And I'm grateful that
In this instance the governor put law not partisan politics first
Andirons my colleagues in the house
To follow his lead
Each and everyone of us in this house
The people's house
Swore an oath to preserve protect and defend our constitution against all enemies
Foreign and domestic
Over the last few hours
We have gained a better understanding of what that means
The future of the Constitution the most precious of the founding documents of the greatest democracy humankind has ever
Is in our hands
Defending democracy is not
And should not be a partisan tasks
It is a sacred one
Right here
Right now we must recognize that Fidelity to the founding principles of our nation
Are not about loyalty to one man
But rather to ensure that government of the people
By the people
And for the people shall not perish
From the Earth
The world is watching us all right now
We must must get it right rejected ill-conceived attacking our democracy I yield back
Document down speaker
What purpose does the gentleman from gentle
Woman from New York City's recognition speaker I Rise to support the objection
Gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker I Rise with a heavy heart
This has been a truly tragic day for America
And we all join together in fully condemning the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred
Today in our nation's capital
Americans will always have the freedom of speech and the constitutional right to protest
But violence in any form
Is absolutely unacceptable
It is anti-American
And must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Thank you to the heroic
United States Capitol Police
And thank you to the bipartisan professional staff of the United States capital for protecting the people
House and the American people
This hollow Temple of democracy is where
Generations of Americans have peacefully come together to face our nation's greatest challenges
Bridge our deepest Fishers and create a more perfect system of government
This is the appropriate place we stand to respectfully
And peacefully give voice to the people we represent across our diverse country
The representatives of the American people in this house are standing up for three fundamental American belief
The right to vote is sacred
The representative has a duty to represent his or her constituents
And that the rule of law is a Hallmark of our nation
And in the spirit of healing
Those are not my words
Those are the words of you madam speaker
From this very chamber
When some of my colleagues and friends across the aisle objected to the 2005 Electoral College certificate
Station
In fact there were objections on this floor to the certification of nearly every Republican president in my life
Lifetime
In 1989
In 2001
In 2005
And in 2017
So history is our guide that the people sacred house
Is the appropriate venue for a peaceful debate
And this peaceful debate serves as a powerful condemnation
To the violence that perpetrated our Capitol grounds today
The violence that was truly an American
Today's discussion is about the Constitution
And it is about the American people
But it must also be about clearly and resolutely condemning the violence that occurred today
I am honored each and every day to represent New York's 21st congressional district and I believe it is my solemn and
And sacred Duty
To serve as their voice and their vote in the people's house
Tens of millions of Americans are concerned that the 2020 election
Featured unconstitutional overreach by unelected state officials
And judges
Ignoring state election laws
We can and we should peacefully and respectfully discuss these concerns
In Pennsylvania the state supreme court in Secretary of State unilaterally and unconstitutionally rewrote a letter
Election law
Eliminating signature matching requirements
In Georgia there was constitutional overreach when the Secretary of State unilaterally and
Gutted signature matching for absentee ballots
An innocence eliminated voter verification required by state election law
In Wisconsin
Officials issued illegal rules to circumvent a state law
Passed by the legislature as the Constitution requires
That required absentee voters to provide photo identification before obtaining a ballot
And in Michigan
Signed affidavits document numerous unconstitutional irregularities
Officials physically blocking the legal right of poll Watchers to observe vote counts
The illegal counting of late ballots and hand stamping ballots with the previous day's date
My North Country constituents and the American people terrorists the Constitution and they know according to the Constitution
Institution
Elected officials closest to the people in state legislatures have the power of the pens to write
White election-law
Not unelected bureaucrats judges Governors or secretaries of State
To the tens of thousands of constituents who have reached out to me thank you please know that I'm listening and I hear you
Those who agree and those who disagree
Our constitutional republic will endure this tragic day because
The founding fathers understood Congress and the American people would face unprecedented and historic town
Challenges by debating them
On this very floor
I believe that the most precious foundation and the Covenant of our Republic is the right to vote and the face
In the sanctity of our nation's free and fair elections and we must work together in this house
To rebuild that faith
Federal elections are free
Fair secure and safe and most importantly that they are according to the Constitution
I know you're back thank you
AAA
For what purpose does the gentleman from Texas seek recognition
Arise in opposition to the objection by the speaker
Without objection to gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Better speaker today the people's house was attacked
Which is an attack on the Republic itself
There is no excuse for it
A woman died
And people need to go to jail
And the President should never
How to spawn up certain Americans to believe something that simply cannot be
IPod
I bought house leadership
Both parties for bringing us back to do our job which is to count the electors and no more
The problem we Face though is even bigger
We are deeply divided
We are divided about even life liberty and the pursuit of happiness the word which used to bind us together
Maritime Terrace Apartments we disagree about what they even mean
My constituents at home in Texas or genuinely upset I say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle
Eddie constant barrage of those who wish to remake America into a socialist welfare state
Efforts to attack or institutions tear down statues
Erase our history defund our police
We've seen the debasing of our language we teach our children that America is evil
We destroy our sovereignty and power cartels we attack or second amendment
We destroyed small businesses
Through lockdowns we divide ourselves by race
And we can't even agree that there is man and woman
And we extinguish The Unborn before they even have a chance to see daylight
About path forward lies the essence of our Republic
It's Cornerstone that we are a union of States bound together for common defense and economic strength
And more so bound together through federalism which when they live together peaceably and citizens in his vast land
Agreeing to disagree
Free delivery according to our own beliefs and according to the dictates of our conscience
Now many of my colleagues are poisonous afternoon to vote to insert Kyra's
End of the constitutionally prescribed decision-making of the states
By rejecting the soul official elector sent To Us by each of the states of the Union
I hope they will reconsider
I can tell you that I was not going to and I will not be voting to reject the electors
And that boat maywell signed my political death warrant
But so be it
I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and I will not Bend its word to the contortions for personal political it's
Expediency
Number one rejecting me Electra certified to Congress by sovereign states violates the 12th Amendment of the entirety of the Constitution
Little man's notwithstanding claims that you must read certain sections first it is clear
It is black and white we count
It is ministerial
And our only job is to count the electors before us
We have only one slave electors first $0.08 was under color of Law and no more
Number to titties thank you believe we do have constitutional authority to reject
We are arguing using incomplete and often misleading beta points to prove it
I'm not afforded time to go point-by-point but there are more misleading claims than legitimate ones
Three rejecting the electors ignores the founders specific admonition that congress not choose the president
As articulated in Federalist 68
Indeed number for Northpointe
The founders drafted the inclusion of afraid specifically put in Congress into the manner of the election process been specifically rejected
It's more than a trivial block of this body
Boots projected sovereign states electric irrevocably Empower Congress to take over the selection of presidential elect
And doing so almost certainly
Guaranteed future houses
Wilbert to reject the electors of Texas
Or any of our state's
For whatever reason
6 voting to reject the electrician's not remotely consistent with our vote
On Sunday a bowtie forced to highlight the very apocracy to accept the outcome of the election of ourselves
Through election conducted under the same rules by procedures put in place by the same executive branch officials
Impacted by rulings from the same judges state and federal
To do so is entirely inexplicable on its face
The argument for rejection was given by my colleagues as based on the allegations of systemic collection of used by executive or judicial branch
Article 2
Many states made poor policy decisions
What are these poor policy decisions violate state laws a contested matter and a matter for the stage to resolve for themselves
More five of the six legislatures are controlled by Republicans
Not one body is sent separate electors
Not one body scent is even a blood or by a majority of its whole body
The only body to Pennsylvania Senate who managed to come up with a majority of Republicans to complain only did so yesterday and then
11th Hour face-saving political statement
Not one Gob Statewide official is formally called in his to change not one law enforcement organization state or federal
Presented a case of malfeasance
History will judge this moment
Let us not turn the last firewall for Liberty we have remaining on its head and it fit a populist rage for political expediency
When there's plenty of looking into the mirror for Republicans to do for destroying our election system to the expansion a mail-in ballot
I may well get attacked by this but I will not abandon my arm sometime and I will make clear that I'm stay
Standing up a defensive that Constitution to protect our Federalist order in the Electoral College to power the very States we represent
Set alarm in the federal government
Emma
What purpose does the gentleman from Alabama seek recognition
Verizon support of the objection
My dad objections of gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker for years Democrats and their media allies deceived America about Trump Russian collusion in the
The extent of foreign interference in the 2016 election
In 2020
Democrats promoted massive foreign interference in American elections by helping
Illegal aliens and other non-citizens vote
An American election
Thereby canceling the votes of and stealing elections from American citizens
What evidence
Exhibit a
In 1993 Democrats ran through Congress the national voter registration act making Italy
Legal illegal to require proof of citizenship that prevents illegal aliens and non-citizens from
Registering to vote
Why did Democrats do that simple
Just steal elections of course
Exhibit B
How bad is the non-citizen voting problem
In 2005
Democrat President Jimmy Carter's Commission on federal election reform horn that quote
Non-citizens have registered to vote in several recent elections in quote
And recommended that quote
Allstate should use their best efforts to obtain proof of citizenship
Before registering voters in quote
Exhibit C
Hey June 2005 General accountability office report
Discovered that up to 3% of people
Voter registration list
Are not US citizens
Exhibit d
In 2008
Electro study surveyed 339 non-citizen
8%
Admitted voting in American elections
As an aside
I have seen higher percentages in other studies
Exhibit e
The 2010 census counted 11 million illegal aliens in America
Exhibit f
A 2018 Yale study estimated as many as 22 million
Illegal aliens in America
Exhibit G
The math means between 880000 and 1.72 million illegal aliens
Illegally voted
In the 2020 election
Exhibit h
In 2014 Old Dominion University and George Mason University professors
Surveyed non-citizens and illegal aliens
And found a vote Democrat roughly 80% of the time
Exhibit I
The math is again straightforward
The 60% Vine Advantage times it illegal alien alien voting number means Joe Biden
Find James roughly
1032000 votes
Trump illegal
Alien voting
That's the high number
Exhibit J
Well no one knows for sure how massive
The illegal alien voting block is
We dunno
Joe Biden and his campaign believed it large enough
And critical enough
Who winning the presidential race
At the October 22nd presidential debate
Joe Biden publicly solicited the illegal alien black vote by promising quote
Within 100 days I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship
4 / 11 million undocumented people
Ladies and gentlemen Madame speaker
That is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for illegal aliens
Joe Biden exactly what he was doing
Bye
Seeking the illegal aliens block vote
Afterall on May 11th 1993
Then-senator Joe Biden voted for the national voter registration Act
That makes it illegal to require proof of citizenship
From illegal aliens another non-citizens when they seek to register to vote
Madam speaker the evidence is compelling and irrefutable
Non-citizens overwhelmingly voted
For Joe Biden in exchange for the promise and Dusty and citizenship
And in so doing help steal the election from Donald Trump
Republican candidates and American citizens across America
Madam speaker in my judgment
If only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted
Joe Biden lost
And President Trump won the Electoral College
That sucks
It is my constitutional duty to promote honest and accurate election
By rejecting Electoral College votes emissions
From States whose electoral systems
Are so badly flawed
Esther render their vote submission
Unreliable
Untrustworthy
And Unworthy of acceptance
Mana speaker I yield the remainder of my time to the opposition
Show me is that
What purpose does the gentleman from New York State seek recognition as Speaker as a proud Republican
Horizon opposition to the objection to the elector
I got of Jackson's agenda
Roman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker
I come to this side of the aisle
As a proud Republican
But most importantly
As a proud American
Today we saw an assault
On our democracy
I love this institution
I love the United States Congress
And I love the United States of America
And what I saw today
Was mob rule
That's patapon
The blood of my father
That is in the soil of Europe
And in the soil of Korea
Davis
Do that blood
This sacred Constitution
And the sacred
Ability
To leave this world
Is a power
That says
We settle our differences not with mob rule
We settle our differences through elections
And when those elections are over
We have
A peaceful
Transition of power
No make no mistake to my colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle
I will be passionate in my disagreement with you
I will be passionate in my ideas for a
The future of this country
And I will fight for my Republican ideas that I hear he hold near and dear
But I will stand with you tonight
Send a message to the nation in all Americans
That what we saw today was not American
What we see tonight in this body Shelby
What we do
In America
And that is the transfer power in a peaceful way
And with that
High-yield
To my best friend in Congress
Are they Democrats
Josh gottheimer mycoach are the problem solvers caucus
I think my friend for yielding and for standing with me and with all of us
Tom Reed is my co-chair of the problem solvers caucus he's Republican and I'm a Democrat
When it comes to policy views we often disagree
But at the end of the day we are United as Americans
My good friend like me always puts country first
Today group of Lawless Thug saw table and the Constitution
Had a peaceful transition of power
Because they didn't like the outcome of the presidential election
Play try to know if I it using improvised explosive shattering windows
Breaking down doors and ring law enforcement and eating tearing down
American flag that Rise Above This Beacon of democracy
But their attempted obstruct democracy failed
The resurrection was foiled
The American people and the greatest democracy the world has ever known
1
Abraham Lincoln who served in this very body famously said
A house divided against itself cannot stand
That's why for the sake of this country we must stand together
United
And celebrate a peaceful transition of power
In 14 days President Biden will be sworn in
Despite all of our differences I have faith that for the American people
We will come together
Democrats and Republicans
Committed to Unity Civility and Truth
We will recognize a higher purpose to help America through these dark days
That is the only way we will be covid rebuild our economy and stand up the threats at home and abroad
Working together as Democrats and Republicans
I know our best days
Will always be ahead of us are y'all back
Madam speaker
Encourage my colleagues to always search their conscience
And their souls
And I respect
My Republican colleagues and my Democratic colleagues
But today
Pause
I remember what happened here today
Let us pause that our tenure in this Congress
Will far surpass the time that we stay here
And that'll let us pass and cast our votes today
Recognizing that what we do here today
We'll set the course of this institution
For years to come
And this institution
Madam speaker
Shall not fail
Because the United States of America shall forever be the Beacon of Hope
The inspiration to all
And may God bless our great country
Biohacking
What purpose does the gentleman from New York recognition
Madam speaker I rise in support of the object
Barrett-Jackson the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Thank you madam speaker my constitutional oath is sacred and I have a duty to speak out about confirmed
Evidence field issues with the administration of the 2020 presidential election
Inserting Battleground States
Signature verification Bell d'observation voter roll Integrity voter ID requirements
Invalid collection protections were weekend on top of the Millions
A mail boxes that were flooded with unrequested mail-in ballots
Many of my constituents have been outraged
And demanding that I voiced their objections here today
This debate is necessary
Because Rogue election official secretaries of state and courts
Circumvented state election laws
They made massive changes to other states election would be wrong
These acts among other issues were unlawful
An unconstitutional
Congress has the duty to defend the Constitution
And any powers of state legislatures that were usurped
Some claim today's objections set new precedent by challenging
State electors
The claim of course ignores that Democrats have objected every time a Republican Presidential
Is winning election over the past generation
If you don't have any objections today that your call
But Don't lecture about president
Over the past 4 years
Democrats boycotted President Trump's inauguration and State of the Union addresses
Push the Trump Russia collusion conspiracies and investigations and knowingly lied about it
Voted to impeach the president before even knowing what to impeach him for
It actually passed articles of impeachment before Senate Democrats voted to remove him from office
Things to be this necessary
Especially because of the assistance
Everything President Trump and his supporters say about the 2020 election is evidence free
It's simply not true
No one can honestly claim it as evidence free
What I say that are Arizona courts unilaterally extended the legislatively set deadlines to Reggie
Register to vote
The Arizona State Senate issue subpoenas
Post-election to get information from the Maricopa County Board
On various election matters but the board and the courts refused to help at all to let the state senate complete
Meet its constitutional duties
In Pennsylvania where state legislators wrote us about their powers being usurped
The Democratic majority on the state supreme court
Change signature signature matching impulso marking requirements
The date to submit mail-in ballots was extended contradictory to the date set by state law
The state legislature expanded no excuse mail-in ballot in without a constitutional amendment
Constitutions applied to the acts of all branches of government
The issue is magnified by the voter rolls being so inaccurate
The more voters submitted ballots than they were registered voters
Signature authentication rules for absentee and mail-in ballots were weekend
By the Democrats Secretary of the Commonwealth without authorization
Valid defects were allowed to be cured in some counties but not others
Liverpool Watchers denied the ability to closely observe ballot-counting operations
In Georgia the Secretary of State unilaterally entered into a settlement agreement
With the Democratic Party
Changing statutory requirements for confirming voter identity
Challenging effective signatures was made far more difficult
And the settlement even required election officials to consider issuing training materials drafted by an expert
Retained by the Democratic Party
In Wisconsin election officials assisted voters
On how to circumvent the state's voter ID laws and signature verification laws
Well also placing unmanned drop boxes in locations picked
To boost Democrat turnout
The Democracy in the Park event in Wisconsin head over 17.000 balance transfer to Trinidad
These are all facts
And certainly not evidence free
Americans deserve nothing less
Then Full Faith and confidence in their elections
Any guarantee that their vote
Your voice counts
And it's our concerns
Or being hurt
That's why we need to have this debate today
Whether you like it or not
This isn't about us
This is about our constitution
Are elections
This is about our people
Entel Republic
I go back
Airhead Mega
Does the gentleman from Arizona seek recognition opposition to the objection
The gentleman is recognized for five minutes I'm the proud son of immigrants
Growing up I heard stories about parties politicians and presidents
Invalidating elections
From the people
That took power for themselves
That's why when I join the Marine Corps the most sacred part of my old
What's the protect the Constitution of the United States
I never thought I would have to do that on the floor of Congress
But here we are
The people have spoken
And the power the people
The Constitution will be preserved
That speaker I left my youth
I left my sanity
I left it all in Iraq for this country
Because there was just one precious idea
That we all had
And we all believed
The dis country
What's going to protect everyone's individual rights
But you're going to be able to vote that you're going to be able to preserve democracy and pass it on it's a legacy azide heritage
Every American
But today
Today was treason in this house
Traitors traitors in this house
So I'm not asking my Republican colleagues
Does help me and stop this objection to Arizona
I'm asking you to death
Off
All these objections
It is time for you to save your soul
It's time for you to save your country
Batman
It's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will forget you
He will use you and he will dump you to the side
But what would be left will be the sting
The stain of democracy that you are engaging in right now
Listen to yourselves
I consider most of you very smart
Believe it or not
But the idea
That we would rig an election
For the president but not preserve
The congressional seat for all of our friends that we just lost the last election it's absurd
The idea that we would help
Vice President Biden win but wouldn't make sure that we got enough servers
In the senate for us to pass a full agenda
Is absurd
The idea that there is somehow nefarious voter registration in Arizona tipped the scale
Went because during that same kind of voter registration there were more registered voters that were Republican
The Democrats
You are better than this
Many of you did serve
Man you have never served
But there is an opportunity at a time for courage
I hope you never have to face
Fire
Or bullets or bombs for your country
But right now
Right now this is asking you to be better
Navigate to show courage
Your soul will stay with you for the rest of your life
You owe it to democracy
You all went to the hundreds of thousands of men and women that is sacrifice their life
You can do better
You are better
Be the good American be there making you want
Preserve this democracy reject this movement
And stop this terrorism that is happening from the White House are you back my time
Members are reminded to redirect their room
Remarks to the chair
What purpose is the gentleman from North Carolina seek recognition
Thank you madam speaker to speak in favor of the objection
Jeremy's recognized for 5 minutes
Speakers Going To Fly today
And in contrast to the Jones comments just now
Can get over this text that I received from the mayor of Charlotte
Vials about 30 minutes ago
She is a
Progressive Democrat
Political opponent
4 years
Tremendously grateful person he said representative Bishop I hope you're safe and well
It must have been a day of Anguish for the world to see our capital buildings Under Siege
I know you have a long night ahead
And want you to know I was thinking about you your family and staff
God bless
VY
Back home the generosity of spirit still exists
And I understand
The shark words and feelings on the other side
Tonight
But they're also good people back home
And I've heard from many many many of them
News would suggest or millions of Americans that's a big number Millions tens of millions who believe
Something went awry
In this election
And they aren't dumb
They aren't mindless
They don't
Believe things simply because the President says them
There were problems
I know that
Joe Biden will be president
But I don't know that it hurts
Or would hurt any of us to have the generosity of spirit
To continue to reflect on what might
Be better or what might seriously have gone wrong here
Even if
You reject the notion
The result was wrong
I'd like to offer a slightly different
Perspective
A distinct perspective perhaps it will be rejected I think if I were sitting on the other side of the island be very difficult for me to listen to tonight but
You all heard it said and it certainly is true that many
Executive branch officials around the nation
Departed from State
Legislators enacted laws
I didn't flush understood how this came to pass
It was not a spontaneous independent decision-making
But it resulted
I would argue from a coordinated Nationwide
Partisan plan
And the fact in scope of the plan it really isn't disputed if you go to democracy docket.com
It is the website of Mark Elias
The national democratic
Election lawyer
Who appeared in
Hundreds of cases
Across the country in the course of the election year
This plan was not a response to covid by the way it pre-existed that in his website shows that as well he
Explain that in January 2020
It was a
Chaos strategy
I plan to flood state and federal courts with hundreds of simultaneous election-year lawsuits and it displacing
State Legislative control
Only the most experienced and independent judges appear to have recognized
What was the foot
In the fourth circuit dissenting judges Wilkinson and AG said this
Let's understand the strategy that is being deployed here
Our country is now plagued with a proliferation of pre-election litigation as they put it
385
Election-year cases
To that point on October 20th
And they referred to the election Duty website healthy elections. Org to verify that
Around the country they wrote
Courts are changing the rules of the upcoming elections at the last minute
It makes the promise of the Constitution selections and electors clauses
Into a farce
This was a political operation masquerading as a Judicial one
And in keeping with that it featured gross breaches of litigation ethics Forum Shopping
Repetitive suits after losses
And collusive settlements with cooperating Democratic officials of state and local government
That
Ladies and gentlemen is what led to officials changing rules in state after state
Mainly through consent order
Or the preliminary unreviewed decisions of State
And federal trial judges
Implied bipartisanship or having limited experience with the electors clause
Intern the displacement of rules set by state legislatures led the chaotic conditions on the ground
About which
So many Americans are angry
And dishearten
I think we can do better
I think that strategy was unwise
And I think
Particularly in light of what's happened here today we should thank you Ministry
Germantown is expired for what purpose is a gentleman from Arizona speech recognition
Better sticker I rise tonight in opposition to the objection
Subjects in the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
As a nation we have endured trying times and overcome any challenges
And now we Face an unprecedented effort
To ignore the will of the American people
And the people of Arizona
Given the facts
The unprecedented events of tonight
This must be finished
And America has
Pecan be United again
That is going to take leadership
We are all leaders
We are elected to be leaders
And if we're going to do that we have to do it
From the respect
Two others
The idea the truth is important
The factual content is important
We're going to tell the American people
What is going on in this country and that what we hope to hear from a 30-second sound bite
I used to be a homicide investigator
My job was to follow the facts develop a case
Make decisions and recommendations based on where those facts LED be
Following the process means
That decisions cannot be made
And what rumors
Innuendos
Alone
I am proud
To say that Arizona has used mail-in voting for over two decades
Both Republicans and Democrats have long been proud
Hope our state has administered elections
In 2020 over 65% of eligible
Arizona's voted in record number
A republican governor Republican Attorney General
Democratic
Secretary of State in our state's election administrators and volunteers
Worked with integrity
To administer a fair election
We saw a turnout increase
In both Republican and Democratic areas
In fact more Republicans registered this election than any other party
I'm proud
That many of our tribal rule
And underserved communities voted in record numbers
All during a pandemic
In 2020 Arizona's made their voices heard
The factors
Multiple federal state judges
Agencies
State elected officials concluded
The winner was Joe Biden
In Arizona this process was administered and overseen by officials
From both parties
Elections officials conducted random
Hancock County Auditor
Of many precincts
They confirmed there were no errors
That would change the result of the election
The factors that the Republican chairman of
Maricopa County the largest
Republican county in the state the biggest
Population County
He stated more than two million ballots were cast
And there was no evidence of fraud
Or misconduct
Or malfunction
He concluded
No matter how you go to
This election was administered with integrity
Transparency
In accordance with state laws
The factors the president whose campaign and shovel Republicans like groups
Filed 8
Election lawsuits
All of which were dismissed the Arizona Supreme Court
Abadi were all justices have been appointed by Republican governors
Unanimously dismissed the case
Justices found that the party had failed
To present any evidence
Misconduct
Or illegal votes
Let alone establish any degree of fraud
Or significant air rate
That would undermine the certainty of the election results
Cassidy's judicial rulings
The governor said I trust our election system
Search integrity
In our election system
The fact is Joe Biden is a certified winner
Of Arizona's 11 electoral votes
Arizona's elected appointed officials
From both parties
Follow the facts and came to this include conclusion
Irish my colleagues to do the same
To my colleagues across the aisle I know we
Make disagree on who we want as president
But what we personally want is not what matters here
Rather the people's influence
As reflected in the certified Electoral College results
Is what matters
Facts matter
Undermining faith in our election process by attempting to mislead the American public
Only serves to weaken us
And make us vulnerable
Perform foreign actors
Who do us harm
For the good of our country
This must stop
Now is the time to come together
Preserve our democracy interprotect
Our national security I know my constituents are looking to
Congress to move past its divisions
Find common ground
And passed legislation to improve the lives of struggling families
We must stay focused
I'm fighting the pandemic
We must work to ensure all Americans can be vaccinated as soon as possible
So we can save American Life
Safety safely reopen schools get people back to work and visit loved ones again
I heard my phone Alex to follow this
Another speaker ideal
Germantown is expired what purpose
Says the gentleman from Florida seek recognition
I'm speaker I tries to claim time in support of the objection
Madam speaker one of the first things we did
When the house convene today
What's to join together to extend our Grace
And our kindness and our concern for a colleague who has
Experienced
Just an insurmountable amount of grief with his family and I want all of our fellow Americans watching to know that
We did that
Because we care about each other and we don't want bad things to happen to each other and our heart hurts when they're due
I'm sure they're playing folks over there don't like me too much nephew you that I don't care for too much but if any
Anybody have been hurt today
It would have been even more of a catastrophe then we already saw
And I think that's an important point for the country another important is that this morning
President Trump explicitly called
For demonstrations and protests
To be peaceful
He was far more you can moan and groan but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace
Then some of the BLM and left-wing Riders were this summer when we saw violence sweep across
This nation now we came here today to debate
To follow regular order to offer an objection
Just follow a process that is expressly contemplated in our constitution
For doing that
We got called a bunch of seditious Traders
Not since 1985 has a Republican president been sworn in absent some democratic
The new violation of all Norms in with those things are said
People get angry
Now I know there are many countries were political violence may be necessary but America is not one such country
On speaker
It was wrong when people vandalized into face your home it was wrong when thugs went to Senator Hawley
Home
And I don't know if the reports are true
The Washington times has just reported
Some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company
Today
We're not Trump supporters
They were masquerading As Trump supporters and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group
Antifa now we should seek to build America up not tear her down and Destroy her
For one day I didn't hear my Democratic colleagues. too.
Defund the police
I appreciate all the talk
No I appreciate all the talk of coming together but let us not pretend
There are colleagues on the left
Have been free of some anti-democratic impulses
Briefs
And ask courts to resolve disputes
There were some who said that we should not even be seated in the body
Maybe even jail
Those arguments anger people but people do understand the concept of basic fare
Fairness
And no competition contest or election can be deemed fair if the participants are sub
The different rules
Baseball teams that cheat and steal signs
Should be stripped of their championships
Russian Olympians who cheat and use steroids should be stripped of their medals and states that do not run clean
Elections should be stripped of their electors
It was repeated it was the same system
And I daresay it was effective
We saw circumstances where when Democrat operative couldn't get the outcomes they wanted and state legislators
When they couldn't get the job done there they went in pressured and litigated and usurp the Constitution
With extra constitutional action
Of some officials in some states they fraudulently laundry ballots
Votes voter registration forms
They limited review
In 2016 Democrats found out that
Bacon beat
Donald Trump at The Ballot Box with voters who actually show up
Return to impeachment
In the witness box
And when that failed they ran to the mailbox
Where this election Saint unprecedented amount of votes that could not be authenticated with true
Friday with two signatures match
It was true confidence for the American people
Or article three courts have failed by not holding evidentiary hearings to weigh the oven
We should not join in that fit failure
We should vindicate the rights of States we should vindicate the subpoenas in Arizona that have been issued to get
Get a hold of these voting machines and we should reject
These electors audio back
Colorado State recognition
Erase an opposition to the objection
Objects into gentleman is recognized for five minutes to the
Dean of the Arizona delegation mr. Grijalva
Accu-Chek is nice
Thank you madam speaker and thank the lady from Colorado freely time
I'll be very brief speaker there's really nothing left to say
This challenge brought by
Members of this house
Republican members from this house from Arizona
And a senator from Texas
The whole discussion today
This challenge
To the electro 11 electoral votes that are
Designated for
President Biden and vice president Harris
The discussion today prove there is no merit
Denying those electoral votes
There's no legal standing in the course of proving that in Arizona time and time again
There is no precedent
There is no constitutional violation
But we're here today Madam speaker
Because of the
Because of one man
And those who
Are desperate to please him
So what do we have to show for this process today
Fear
A lockdown
Violence
And regrettably and sadly death
The rest
Present
And real Danger
Threats
And assault
On our Institution
This house this Congress
And the Very democracy that we practice here
And to what end
What we accomplished
The reality is that
The challenge will be defeated
Come January 20th
President
Biden president Harris
Will be the president vice president of the United States
So what are we accomplished
To further divide this nation
To continue to Fan the same rhetoric of division
An us-versus-them
To paralyze and dismantle
Our democracy
Is that what we attempted to accomplish today
The mob
That attacked us Institution
I hold no member specifically responsible for that Madness it was around us
But we do share a responsibility by friends
The end
It's past time to accept reality
Do we affirm our democracy
And move on
I would urge my colleagues from Arizona
Who filed this challenge
Who would rather challenge
To this
To Arizona into the electric
That have been chosen
Do together 11 votes
To the winners in that election
But if that doesn't happen
Then I would urge my colleagues
To reject this challenge
And
Defend all voters
Defend the borders of Arizona
And
That democracy that we've
Practice daily
In the representation of our constituents that's what the state today
And with that
Are you back to the gentlelady from Colorado
And thank you for the time
I think the gentleman Madam speaker on Sunday every member in this chamber
Took an oath to uphold the Constitution
And there's only one vote
Tonight
For those who took that oath
And that vote is to reject this challenge ideal back
All the time for debate has expired
The question is
Tell the objection to the Arizona Electoral College vote count
Submitted by the gentleman
From Arizona
Mister gozar and the senator from Texas
Mr. Cruz
Be agreed to
Those in favor say aye
Those opposed know then you know the chair the nose have it
Speaker for what purpose does the Japanese term ohayo seek recognition
The athanasius have been requested pursuant to section 3s of house resolution 8
The yeas and nays are ordered members will record their votes fire electronic device device
And her Chief reminder to vote when their group is called
The house now voting on whether to uphold the Republican objection to Arizona's Electoral College vote
That was certified by the state in favor of Joe Biden
The objection was raised earlier this afternoon when Congress was in a joint session
Forcing the House and Senate to meet separately to debate the issue
The debate was soon interrupted when the US Capitol was placed on lockdown
After rioters protesting the election results breached security and stormed the building
What's order was restored lawmakers return to finish the debate
Farewell Address the chamber
Today
Play shameful talk was made on our democracy
It cannot however do Tara's
For my responsibility
To validate the election of Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
For that reason Congress has returned to the capital
We always knew that this responsibility
But take us into the night
I will stay as long as it takes
Our purpose will be accomplished
We must and we will
Show to the country
Energy to the world
That we will not be diverted from our duty
That we were special responsibility to the Constitution
And to the American people
On Sunday was great my great honor
We sworn in as speaker to preside over sacred ritual of renewal
As we gathered under the stone
Temple of democracy
To open the 117th Congress
I said that was as we were sworn in
Then
We accept the responsibility as daunting and
Demanding as any previous
Generation of leadership
Has ever faced
We know that we're in difficult times
But little
Could we have imagined
The assault that was made on our democracy
Today
To those who struggle
For my responsibility
You have fails
To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this our Temple of democracy
American democracy
Justice will be done
Today
January 6th
Is the Feast of the Epiphany
On this day of Revelation
Let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide an epiphany
For a country to heal
In that Spirit of healing I vote the song of Saint Francis I usually do Saint Francis is the patron saint
Find my city of San Francisco and she is
Song of St Frances
Is our anthem
Lord Make Me a Channel of thy peace
Where there is Darkness may I bring light
Weathers
Hatred that is spring
Love
Where there is despair
Let us bring hope
You know that we would be part of history in a positive way today
Every four years
When we
Demonstrate again the peaceful transfer of power
Someone president to the next
And despite the shameful actions
Up today
We still will do so we will be part
Of a history that shows the world
What America is made of
That these
This is salt
It's just that
I chose
The weakness of those who had to show through violence
What their message was
My colleagues it's time to move on I wear this 10 quite frequently actually I gave it
Up2us
Beloved John Lewis just a weekend before he
Weekend or so before he left us
And it's a flag of our country
A flag of the United States of America
I want on it it says
One country
One destiny
One country
One destiny
Sitting on the flag
That was also what was embroidered
And Abraham Lincoln
Coat
That he had on
That fateful night
Lincoln's party
Lincoln's message
One country one destiny
Someone this holiday of epiphany
Let us pray
I'm a big believer in pair
Let us pray that they will be peace on Earth
And that it will begin with us
Let us pray
That God will continue
To bless America
What's up let us proceed
Outside responsibilities
To the Constitution
To which we have just within 72 hours taken the oath to uphold
But what purpose does the gentleman
From Maryland Seacrest recognition opposition to the objection
Domino's recognized for 5 minutes
Adam speaker it is a sad day in America
It is a wrenching
Stay in America
See the day it is today and which are words
Interactions
Have had consequences
A very very negative nature
We are watch our words
And think
What it may mean
Twosome
My remarks
We're written
Before
The tragic
Dangerous
An unacceptable actions
Unacceptable such a
Team word
My remark started with Madam speaker
The American people today are witnessing one of the greatest challenges to our democracy
And it's 2244 year history
Little did I know
That this capital
Would be attacked
By the Enemy Within
I was here on 9/11
When were young we were attacked
By the enemy without
We need to all work together
To tame
And reduce the anger
And yes I hate
Let some stoke
What's some not all Madam speaker but some
In this house and in the Senate are doing today will not change
The outcome of the election
Which is the clear and insurmountable victory of President like Biden and vice president like Tyrus
Instead
All they will accomplish is to further
The dangerous
Divisions
This was written
Before this Capital was assaulted
Before this democracy
Was put aside
But thousands
Encouraged
By the commander-in-chief
Instead all they will accomplish is to further the dangerous divisions as I said among our people and energize
Heresy theories
Stoked by Foreign adversaries which seek to a road America's confidence in our democracy and our system of
Free and fair elections
I was here
Mm
I was strongly in favor of Al Gore
For president
An accountant got more boats
Then the other candidate
His name was George Bush of course
And one of the saddest days was
January 20th
2001 win
The our candidates who won the election in my view was not elected
But it was also one of the proudest moments of my career
Because the greatest power on Earth passed peacefully
From Bill Clinton
To George W bush
Not a shot was fired
Nobody assaulted this caucus
Or this Congress
Or this chamber
Because we were not disappointed no
Cuz we were not angry no
Because
We believe in democracy
We Believe
And we the people
And the way
The people
One of the speakers I think it was the senator from Texas Express we're here for the people
If those were the people
We are in a lot of trouble
Our electoral system or democratic system
Power but did not break
Under the strain
Of the misinformation
Claims of fraud
Which court after court after court have dismissed
Out of hand
Not because there was a little Evans because there was
No
Evidence
That's why we're the longest lasting constitutional democracy in the world
I hope all of us in this body are proud of that
And understand why that's the case
Because
Azteca part sit on this floor many years ago
Democracy is a substitute
The war to resolve differences
It proved once more than ever beating strong heart that gives life
To our Republic and our freedoms
That strength Madam speaker is derived in part from our Institution
Andar Louis
But most importantly it is powered by citizens and leaders commitment
To our constitution
Not just us we swear an oath
But it's all of America
Barack Obama spoke from that chamber and he said
I'm going to be
Take another title next year
Citizen
He was proud to take that and every citizen needs to protect preserve and uplift are.
Pharmacy
Some today did not do that
Many
Today
68 years ago in Springfield Illinois governor
Adlai Stevenson
Gracefully conceded his loss to General Dwight Eisenhower
He said this in traditionally
It is traditionally American
He told his deeply disappointed supporters
The fight hard before an election
But then he added it is equally
Traditional
To close ranks as soon as the people
Have spoken. The Congress
Lectors
People
Spoken
That what unites us
As American citizens is far greater than that which divides us
As political parties
It was another man from Springfield
Four score and eight years earlier
Who won re-election to the presidency and the national crisis that tested our country and its Democratic institutions
Who pleaded even in his hour of victory
For The Same Spirit of reconciliation
That was the party of Lincoln
That hasn't happened
To this hour
Lincoln said now that the election is over
He asked me not all
Having a common interest
Reunite in a common effort
To save our common country
Such as the duty of American who stands for elections
Or participate in our politics to be there humble
In Triumph or gracious in defeat
I've lost some elections
Not too many
And I hope that I've been gracious in defeat
And humble in Victory
I hope that I put my state and my country first
Not myself
It is clear to all that the outgoing president is not followed the path
The Stevenson
And Lincoln
Urged
So we the funk people
Each one of us represents about 750 to 800 thousand people some a few less
The people
And I've spoken
In the way that our constitution
Set for them to be
Heard
By us and by the country
Devoted
And they voted pretty decisively
We the people together must turn away from division and its dangers
The senior member of our
Body
Don Young from Alaska
Spoke the other day
When we were sworn in and said
Ladies and gentlemen of this house we are so divisive
That it's going to destroy our country we need to reach out and hold one another's hands
We all have a tail that we honor more than any other
Perhaps parent perhaps husband but
We are all Americans
Not Americans are not Americans t
We are America
Let us hope today that
Tonight
So we Act
Like
American
Not as Dee's and ours but as Americans
Justice algor Just as
Hillary Clinton
Justice Adlai Stevenson Justice Abraham Lincoln who had won that election of course
David defeated people he said
That's not the issue the issue is to reunite
We the People
Must again be the strong heart of American democracy we the people on this day and Congress must be agents of
Community and constructive action to face the grave threats that can front us and tell those who would have solved our capital
That is not the American way
And we the members of Congress
Who swore an oath
Before God
To preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States and our democracy
Must do so now I don't usually read Senator McConnell speeches
But I'm not speaking as a Democrat nor was he speaking as a Republican
Just a few hours ago
We're debating a step that has never been taken
In American history
Whether Congress should overrule the voters
And overturn a presidential election
He went on to say
That he supports a strong state-led voting reform
The Constitution esaid gives us hearing Congress
A limited role
We cannot simply declare ourselves a national Board of Elections on steroids
The boulders
The courts
And the states
The voters
The courts
And the states
Have all spoken
5 people
Said the election
A2000
Was over
We didn't agree with them
But Al Gore said
We are a nation of laws
5 people
Yes they were members the Supreme Court but they were five people said the election is over
And I sat on that Podium and saw that power transfer to George W bush
McConnell went on to say
If we over real then overrule them
It would damage
Our Republic
Forever
He said that McConnell the Republican leader of the Senate
About 2 hours ago
3 hours ago now for hours
He went on to say if this election were overturned by a mere allegations
From the losing side
Our democracy
Would enter
A death
Spiral
He can put it it would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise American voters and over will the courts and States on this extraordinary
Ordinarily thin bases
And I will not
Pretend such a vote would be a harmless protest gesture
How
Presently he spoke
People who think they say lesson has been stolen there's some fraud why did he think it was the commander-in-chief set
And they respect him and they follow him
And words matter
Essien did I will not pretend such a vote would be harmless protester while relying on others to do the right
Nothing
I will vote to respect the people's decision
And defend our system of government as we know it
High arch my colleagues
About no
Under subjection
Has McConnell said
A danger to our democracy
And I yield back the balance of my time
Republicans
For what purpose does the gentleman from California seek recognition
Address of house for 5 minutes
Play objects in the gentleness recognize her 5 minutes
Thank you
Arise to address
What happened in this chamber today
Where do we go from here
The violence
Destruction
The cast we saw earlier was unacceptable
Undemocratic America
It was the saddest day
I've ever had is serving as a member of this institution
The capital was in chaos
Police officers were attacked
Guns were drawn on this very floor
A woman tragically
Lost her life
No one wins when this building and what it stands for destroyed
America in this institution is better than this
We saw the worst of America this afternoon
Yet in the midst
Violence and fear
We also saw the best
Of America
It starts with our law enforcement
The Capitol Police
The National Guard
Bfbi the Secret Service who faced the most difficult challenges
But did their Duty with confidence and strength
Many of them are injured right now
And it also extends to this chamber
We're both Democrats and Republicans
Showed courage
Calm
Resolve
I'd like to recognize the members now who helped to hold the line
Markwayne Mullin
Tony Gonzalez
Jason Crow
Pat Fallon
Controller nails
Working with the Capitol Police the insured the floor this chamber
Was never breached
These are the heroes Among Us
Thank you for the
Looking back on the past few hours
It is clear
This Congress will not be the same
After today
And I hope
It will be the better
I hope not just this institution but I hope every Amer
Pauses for that moment
And thanks among themselves
Do we can disagree with one another
But not dislike each other
We can respect the voices of others
There's many times we debate on this body and we should
There's many times we can get heated
I still consider
Steny Hoyer a very good friend
There's times I get upset
I'll call him at home
To express
What things I may not see Fair
Or just
But that's the way we should handle thing
The majority leader is right we are all Americans first
What should we also think for a moment
What do we put on social media
What are we convey to one another
Just because you have a personal opinion different than mine
You have a right to say it
But nobody has a right to become a mop
And we all should Stand United
Condemning the mob together
We solve problems before a nation not to destruction
But through debate
That is the heart of this democracy
I know what we debate today is tough
But it's just
It's right
This isn't the first side of the aisle
It's ever debated this issue
I thought what
Madam speaker said
Back in 2005
This is democracy at its best
When they talked about a presidential election
In Ohio
These are the moments
Do we should raise the issue about integrity
Accountability
And accuracy in our elections
But you know what we should do the next difference
Not just raised the issue
Put work together to solve the problem
Now is the moment
Now is the moment to show America
We can work
Best together
I will tell you
Size of the majority of slim
So gives us the opportunity
To make that happen
The only thing that can hold us back
Is the we love one another to do it
This side of the aisle always believes
The working with anybody who wants to move it forward
That does not mean that we're going to agree a hundred percent of the time
The does not mean or voice cannot be heard that does not mean we cannot be treated fairly we should be
That may mean on the size of committees that means that our ability to offer an amendment
It means our ability to have our voice
But the end of the day
It helps us come to a better conclusion
Returning
Curative complete the work
We are sent to do we are proving that our democracy cannot be destructed
A criminal Behavior
We will not falter
We will not Bend and we will not shrink from our duty
Let me be very clear
Mobs don't rule America laws rules America
It was true when our cities
We're burning this summer and it's true now
OneAmerica
Romaric has go to bed tonight their lasting memory should not be a congress overrun by rioters
It must be a Resolute Congress conducting healthy debate
We may not disagree on a lot in America but tonight we must show the world
It we will respectfully but thoroughly carry out the most basic duties
A democracy
We will continue with the task that we have been sent here to do
We will follow the Constitution and the law on the process for hearing valid concerns
About election integrity
We'll do it with respect
We will respect your opinion
Who respect what you say
And will willing to listen to it
I think the nation will be better for it
On both sides of the aisle
Let's show the country
The mob did not win
We have a job to do it
Let's do it with pride
Must be better
When the Sun rises tomorrow
Without a yield back metal speaker
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The nose have it the objection is not agree to and without a objection a motion to reconsider
Dinner is laid upon the table
The clerk will Now notify the Senate of the action of this house informed me that body that the houses
Is now ready to proceed in joint session with the further counting of the electoral vote
For the president and the vice president to remind both sides of the aisle
During the joint session there 11 house
Republicans 11 house Democrats 11 house
Senate Democrats 11
Senate Republicans 44 members on the floor please use the proceedings from
We are offices thank you
Temple to the Paw
Public House seriously take a coronavirus threat and
Need for social distancing please my colleagues if you are not having
A participating in the next
Part of this please return to your offices
And as you heard speaker Pelosi say the house has rejected
The objection to the electoral vote certification for Arizona
So therefore those 11 electoral votes have been awarded to Joe Biden and Kamala
Harris the Senate also rejected it 93 to 6
82 House Republicans voted against the objection 120
Two House Republicans voted for it
The house is
Letting the Senate know
What they just did the Senate will be coming back over
To the house chamber
Walking across the capital
To the house chamber and then they will rejoin the joint session
And start working their way
Through the state's up next is Arkansas
Followed by California and Colorado now the next state that's coming up
Were there was a potential objection
Noted was in Georgia so that will be coming up and then potentially Pennsylvania as well
But they've gone through three states now three states have been certified Alabama Alaska and then
Arizona
What's a 2:15 this afternoon was interrupted and that's what they were just finishing
So the joint session will continue in just a minute
Houses waiting for the Senate
Numbers to come back into joint session they have not gaveled out at this point
As they usually do during this part from potentially a cleaning break
Or something like that but they seem to be staying in session so
We wanted to keep
Keep the program going tonight
And joining us once again today is Niels lesniewski he's a senior reporter with CQ roll
Call mr. lesniewski for those viewers who maybe haven't been with us all day
Where did your day start
So I've I've had the I suppose Good Fortune for myself of having
Been working
Up from home today is part of our
Effort to keep down the number of journalists
You are operating out of capital
The capital because of the pandemic
I am so
My my job today was
Designed to be
Large we looking at aggregating the feeds that we're coming in for my colleague
Who were in the Capitol building for the purposes of
Basically monitoring what we thought was going to be a fairly predictable proceeding
With
Some objections and some votes and maybe it would take a while and maybe we'd still be going at 11 p.m. or midnight
But at the end of the day it seems like it was going to be a fairly predictable
I afternoon and evening
Sort of piecing together what was going on in the capital
It turned out that was what I ended up doing today but certainly the
The circumstances changed mightily
As you say run
At 2 when
It became clear that the
Capitol building itself was going to be breached
I am was breached in and then ultimately we had these
These mobs of protestors that ended up
Overtaking both the house and the senate floor so at 2 to listen
Afternoon what were you hearing from your colleagues on the hill
Well so what we what we initially heard
Was that there were reports that there would be a lockdown going into effect
And there was some commotion
On both the house and the Senate
Floors with with people being hurried out particularly
Key officials like
Vice president Mike Pence
Some of the house leaders we had a report fairly early on that both steny Hoyer
The House Majority Leader and some of the other house leaders were being
I hustled away at one point in time there was actually a capitol police officer
On the Rostrum in the house
I'm making an announcement that there was going to be a lockdown
And that was where we knew things were we're getting out of hand we could see the pictures from outside obviously hidden we knew
People who are out
With the demonstrators but we didn't expect I don't think anybody really expected that they would not
Only get as close as they did to the carriage entrances in the other doors the capital
I bet they would actually be able to break windows and actually break into the physical building
So the Arizona debate is now finished Arizona's electoral votes have been certified
As I've been rejected by both the house and the Senate
What happens
First of all listening to the speeches in the house in the Senate
What did you hear that you want to comment on
Well there was a
Sort of interesting change in Kenner from the ones that had taken place
Before
The
Violence of this afternoon you know the attempted
Failed Insurrection I guess you would call it that
Before that
Things were going according to plan
Afterwards there were a couple of senators I was mainly watching the Senate debate this evening and there were a couple of senators
Who talked about
Ben Sasse and Rand Paul coming to mind immediately who said they had speeches
Did they had planned to give this afternoon
They were completely basically non-operable would have sounded completely out of tune with the fact that their attack
Actually been an Insurrection attempt in the middle of the day
I am so I think that was sort of the
The remarkable quick adjustment that everybody was
Making from something that seemed like a hypothetical that maybe someday if
If Congress this time we're to start rejecting electoral votes than someday there could be
Some sort of
A violent scene in the Capitol Building to Ono it happened today
And so I think that was sort of the
The most jarring part of some of the speeches they took place this evening Mr lesniewski I don't know if you were
You said you were monitoring mainly the Senate and
What are the speeches given tonight was by Lindsey Graham
And what does Senator Graham had to say was Trump and I we've had a hell of a journey
I hate it to end this way oh my God
I hate it
Did you hear that
I did and then Senator Graham of course his has been
Sort of Gone full circle with President Trump you know he he ran
For president himself in 2016 I can remember
An event he was doing in his home state of South Carolina
Where I want to say I was one of two reporters who were not from South Carolina who were in the room
And he maybe only got a couple dozen constituents of his own
To show up
Up from that and the incident where President Trump write out his telephone number in the prime
Memory process
To being one of his closest allies really on the cap in the capital someone who we would you would play golf with
Not infrequently
I think that this sort of
Disorder
Coming around and back around to the other side again perhaps for Senator Graham
That was kind of remarkable to hear
How quickly the flip the switch flipped
This evening
Couple of questions before we go back to the house
There's been some talk in a lot of
Social media comments
About the 25th Amendment what are you hearing
Well so that the 25th Amendment question whether or not a vice president Pence and
Majority or the bulk the cabinet
Atwood
Set aside the presidency of Donald Trump temporarily presumably for the remainder of the
The president's term
It seems one of the seams
Fathomable and I would have said this morning it would have been unfathomable let you know
Have to see I think what
President Trump does in the neck
Sort of 24-hours when this process concludes
At what are we
Finding out the
He intends to do
Or attempt to do
Between now and noon on January 20th if he's sort of
Literally or figuratively sort of goes away whether it's it's stays in the White House and doesn't do anything
Or he actually gets on an airplane and goes to Mar-A-Lago and spends the
The remaining time in Florida
Then maybe we don't technically have to see it a debate about the 25th Amendment but certainly
If there were to be a repeat of the
Rally that he did this morning outside the White House or near the White House
Seemed to be the green light for the group of
Protesters in the mob that then
Was going to the Capitol Building
Then I don't think anything is out of the question in the next week week and a half okay
We're going to go back to the house here in 2 seconds but very quickly
Will there be more objections tonight do you think
Georgia and Pennsylvania specifically but there may be a deal to sort of
Truncate the debate time on on that Pennsylvania jection so we might see the
Then I quickly walked across the building and then relatively quickly be back in the house I don't know if he'll be another
A 2-hour break
Niels lesniewski CQ roll call hope we can check in with you again later tonight
The house
Is about to be joined by the Senate
For the joint session
As the Electoral College certificate
Certification continues
Up next is a state of Arkansas
And the joint session between the house and the Senate is about to begin as they continue their own
Electoral-vote certification process they've gone through three states so far Arizona being
The last there was an objection
To the Arizona certification which was rejected Arkansas California and Colorado are the next state
Dates that are coming up
The house is currently waiting on 11 Democratic senators and 11 Republican Senators
To walk across
The capital
To the house chamber
Along with vice president Pence who will join speaker Pelosi on the Dyess
And then they will continue the process of certification
As we heard from Niels lesniewski of CQ roll call
There's potentially a challenge to the Pennsylvania
Certification coming up but there may be
Some operating going on so that the two-hour debate. Is not
Used and it's a quicker process
So
Given that we are waiting for the Senate to come over
Showing the house
As Speaker Pelosi said 11
Republicans in the house 11 Republicans in the Senate 11 Democrats in the house 11
Senators
Democratic senators maybe on the floor
For the house rules
Because of the covid prevention
Rules
And that should begin very shortly the Senate should be working its way
Into the house chamber
Very shortly so
This will go on for another couple hours still go through each state
And certify the electoral vote or object
To the electoral vote if there is an objection reminder that both a member of the house and a senator
Have to sign the objection
So there was talk earlier prior to
This afternoon and the breach of the capitol
That Georgia could also be subjected to
Senator Loeffler
Who is defeated yesterday in her room in her election bid
She's filling the seat
Publix editor who resigned sewing
It was a special election
Was going to object
To Georgia but
The word right now is that that probably will not happen
United States Senate
The Joint session of Congress to count the electoral vote will resume
Retailers having taken their seats
Two houses retired to consider separately
And decide upon the vote of the State of Arizona Tuition of ejection
Has been filed
Secretary of the Senate will report the action of the Senate
In the Senate of the United States
Ordered that the Senate by a vote of six eyes
293 nase
Rejects the objection the electoral votes cast in the state of Arizona
For Joseph R Biden for president and Kamala D Harris for vice president
The clerk of the house will report the action of the house
Order
At the House of Representatives reject the objections
To the electoral vote of the State of Arizona
Pursuant to the law
Chapter 1 of title 3 the United States code
Because the two houses have not sustain the objection the original certificate
Submitted by the state of Arizona will be counted as provided therein
The tellers will now record announce the vote of the state of Arkansas for President and Vice President
In accordance with the action of the two houses
This certificate from Arkansas the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote for the state
Sports to be returned from the state
And that is annex to it a certificate from an authority of the state
Reporting to appoint
Or ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote in the state of Arkansas seems to be in regular
Regular inform inauthentic
And it appears they're from
Donald J Trump
The State of Florida receive 6 vote for president
And Michael R pence from the state of Indiana received six votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate
A vote of the state of Arkansas that the tellers verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from California the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate a boat from the state boards to be returned from the state
Metagenics tuita certificate
Primitive 40 of that state reporting
2 point
Or ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote
Of the State of California I would say the great state of California
Seems to be regular in form and authentic
And it appears they're from
The Joseph R Biden Jr the state of Delaware receive
55 votes for president
And Kamala D Harris the state of California
Receive 55 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the State of California that the teller has verified appears to be regular in form
Inauthentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Colorado the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate about from the state
If reports to be returned from the state
That is an extruded certificate from an authority of the state
According to a point and ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote in the state of Colorado seems to be regular in form and
Authentic
And it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr the state of Delaware
Received nine votes for president
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California received nine votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote in the state of Colorado that the Taylor is verified appears to be regular and for
Hearing none
This certificate from Connecticut to parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote in the state that purports to be returned from the state
And that is annexed to it as certificate
Authority that state reporting to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Connecticut seems to be
Irregular inform and aesthetic and it appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of do
Delaware receives votes for president and Kamala D Harris of the State of California
57 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the boat of the state of Connecticut that the teller is verified appears to be regular informant
Theragun
This certificate from Delaware the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote from the state that purports to be
Return from the state
And it has annexed to it a certificate from an authority to stay performing to a point and ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote of the state of Delaware
It appears therefrom
Joseph R Biden Jr
State of Delaware received 3 votes for president
Kamala D Harris of the State of California
Received 3 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Delaware
The tellers verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Terri Nunn
This certificate from the District of Columbia the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote
From the district that purports to be returned for the district and has an ax to it a certificate
I'm going to thorny of the district 442 pointer ascertain electors
President the certificate of the electoral vote of the District of Columbia seems to be regular in form and
Authentic
And it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware received three votes for president
And Kamala D Harris from the state of California
Received 3 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the District of Columbia
The teller is verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Terri Nunn
This certificate from Florida the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote from that state that purports
Return from the state
And that is annexed to it a certificate from Authority the state reporting to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president that certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Florida seems to be regular in form
And authentic
It appears they're from the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida
Received 29 votes for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana
29 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the State of Florida that the tellers verified appears to be regular in form
Inauthentic
Terri Nunn
This certificate from Georgia the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state that prefer
Sports to be returned from the state
And then a Xanax to get a certificate from an authority to State reporting
Two-pointer ascertain electors
Mr. president
The certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Georgia
Seems to be regular in form and a sentence
And it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware
Received 16 votes for president
And comedy Harris of the State of California received
16 votes for vice president
What purpose does the gentleman from Georgia rice
Mr. president
Myself members of the Georgia delegation and some 74
Have my Republican colleagues and I
Objective the electoral votes from the state of Georgia on the grounds that the election conducted
November 3rd was faulty and fraudulent
Doodle
I do the unilateral actions by the Secretary of State
To unlawfully
Change the state selection process without approval
From the general assembly and thereby setting the stage for an unprecedented amount
A fraud and irregularities
And I have signed the objection myself
Sections 15 and 17 of title three of the United States code require that any objection be presented in right
And signed by member of the House of Representatives and a senator
Is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator
President
Prior to the
Actions and events of today we did but following the events in today it appears
That some Senators have withdrawn their objection
In that case the objection cannot be entertained
Section 18 of title 3 the United States code
This certificate from Hawaii the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote from the state that purports to be returned from the state
And then his Antics to it a certificate from an authority that's tape reporting to appoint or ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote of the state of Hawaii seems to be regular
Inform and authentic
And it appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr
Of the state of Delaware received four votes
For president
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California
Received four votes for vice president
Are there any objections to Cali this certificate to vote from the state of Hawaii that the Taylor is verified appears to be regular in form
Hearing on this certificate from Idaho the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate about from the state
It purports to be returned from the state
That is an extruded a certificate from an authority the state reporting to a point
Or ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Idaho seems to be regular in four-man.
Authentic and it appears they're from the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida receive for votes for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana receive for votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of both in the state of Idaho
At the teller has verified appear to be regular form in athletic
Terri Nunn
This certificate from Illinois
The parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of elephant State before it's be returned from the state
And that is an extruded certificate from an authority that stayed 442 point
And ascertain electors
Sister president-elect of the state of Illinois
Seems to be regular in form and authentic
And it appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr
For the state of Delaware received 20 votes
For president
Kamala D Harris
Of the State of California received 20 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Illinois that the Taylor is verified appears to be in regular
Hearing on
This certificate from Indiana
The parliamentarians advise news the only certificate about from that state that purports to be returned from the state
And then his Antics to a certificate from an authority that state
According to a point and ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Indiana seems to be regular
Inform anaesthetic
And it appears they're from that Donald J Trump of the State of Florida received 11 votes for
And Michael are pants of the state of Indiana received 11 votes
For vice president
Are there any objections to Counting Pacific
I got to go to the state of Indiana that has verified
Crispy regular informant thing
Theragun
This certificate from Iowa the parliamentarians advises he only certificate about from the state that reports to be returned from the state
That is an extruded certificate from an authority to stay 442a point
Or ascertain electors
Mr. president certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Iowa
Seems to be regular in form and authentic
And it appears there from that thumbsy Trump of the State of Florida receive six votes for
And Michael R Pence the state of Indiana
Received six votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Iowa that the teller is verified
Appears to be regular inauthentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Kansas the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of both in that state that purports to be returned
Central State
That is annexed to it a certificate of authority the state for pointing to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Kansas seems to be regular inform and authentic
It appears there from that Donald J Trump is the state of Florida receive six votes for president
And Michael are pencil the state of Indiana
Received six votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Kansas
The teller has verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Terri Nunn
This certificate from the Commonwealth of Kentucky the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate about from that state
The reports to be returned from the state
His Antics to get a certificate of authority of the state reporting to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president there's certificate of the electoral vote of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Sims 3 regular in form and authentic
And it appears they're from that Donald J Trump at the State of Florida received votes for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana received April's for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Taylor is verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing done
This certificate from Louisiana the parliamentarians advise musing only certificate about from that state
Forced to be returned from the state has annexed to it a certificate of authority from the state
According to a pointer ascertain electors
Mr. president that certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Louisiana seems to be regular in
Forming a scented candle appears there from that Donald J Trump of the State of Florida received eight votes for
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana received eight votes
For vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Louisiana
But the Tailor's verified to be regular
Informative
Theragun
This certificate from Maine the parliamentarians advise
Is the only certificate of vote from that state that reports to be returned from the state
It is annexed to it a certificate of authority from the state for pointing to a pointer ascertain electors
President of the electoral vote of the state of Maine seems to be regular form and authentic
And it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr
State of Delaware received 3 votes for president
And Donald J Trump of the State of Florida receive one vote for president
And Kamala D Harris at the State of California received three votes for vice president and Mike
Who are pets of the state of Indiana receive one vote for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Maine that the teller is verified
Appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing done
This certificate from Maryland the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote
From that state for ports to be returned from the state
Is annexed to it a certificate
Authority of the state
According to pointer ascertained electors
This President the certificate of the electoral vote in the state of Maryland seems to be regular inform and authentic
And appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware
Received votes for president
And Kamala D Harris is the state of California receive 10 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Maryland that the teller has verified appears to be regular info
Terri Nunn
This certificate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the parliamentarians advise
Is the only certificate about from that state
Forced to be returned from the state and has an X Toyota certificate from an authority of the state
According to a point for ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Seems to be regular in form and authentic it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr
State of Delaware
Received 11 votes for president
Kamala D Harris of the State of California received 11 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The tellers advised to fear to be regular informant authentic
Hearing none this certificate from Michigan
The parliamentarians advises the only certificate to vote in that state
Purports to be returned from the state
And his Antics to it a certificate of authority of the state
According to a pointer ascertain electors
Mr.president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Michigan seems to
Regular inform and authentic and it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr of the state
Delaware receive
16 votes for president and comedy Harris of the State of California receive 16 votes for Vice
President
For what reason does the gentle lady from Georgia runs
Mr. president I along with 70 of my Republican colleagues subject to the counting of the Electoral
Votes for the state of Michigan
On the grounds that the error rate precedes the SEC
Rate allowed at .000 8%
And that the people who signed affidavits at risk of perjury their voices have not been heard in a court of law
A section 15 and 17 of title 3 of the US code require that any objection be presented right
Writing and signed by a member
Well the House of Representatives and the senator is the objection in writing
Inside by a member and a senator
The objection is riding
Not signed by a senator
In that case the objection cannot be entertained
Are there any further objections to counting the certificate of the vote for the state of Michigan
Certificate the teller has verified appears to be regular Foreman authentic
Harry no further objections
This certificate from Minnesota
Parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state the first to be returned from the state
Annex to its certificate of authority for the state reporting to a point
And ascertain electors
Mr. president both certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Minnesota
Seems to be regular in farm antiseptic
And it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware received 10 votes for
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California received 10 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Minnesota that the tellers verified appears to be regular in form
Inauthentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Mississippi the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of votes in that state
Forced to be returned from the state as Annex to get a certificate of authority the state
According to a point in ascertain electors
President certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Mississippi seems to be regular in four-man.
And it appears they're from the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida received six votes for president and
Michael art prints of the state of Indiana received six votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate to vote in the state of Mississippi that the tellers verified
Appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from Missouri the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of vote from the state it purports to be a return
From the state
Xanax to get a certificate from an authority the state reporting to a point
Or a certain electors
President certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Missouri seems to be regular inform and authentic
Do the piers there from that Donald J Trump of the State of Florida received 10 votes for president
And Michael are pants of the state of Indiana received 10 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of Missouri that the tellers verified appears to be regular and authentic
Hearing.
This certificate from Montana the parliamentarians advisors the only certificate evolved from the state that purports to be returned from
State
Advantix II certificate of authority of the state
Supporting to a pointer ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Montana seems to be regular in form
And on Sunday and it appears they're from that Donald J Trump in the State of Florida received three votes for
And Michael are Pence the state of Indiana received three votes for vice president
Certificate of the boat of the state of Montana
At the teller verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Theragun
This certificate from Nebraska the parliamentarians advisors the only certificate about from the state that purports to be returned from
Interstate
That is annex to the certificate of Authority for the state
40 to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president this certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Nebraska seems to be regular
Inform and authentic
And it appears they're from that Donald J Trump of the State of Florida received four votes for president
And Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware received one vote for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana receive for votes for vice president
And comedy Harris of the State of California
Received one vote for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate to vote from the state of Nebraska
Stella's verified as regular informant authentic
Hearing on
This certificate from Nevada the parliamentarian advises is the only certificate about from the state for its to be returned
From the state
And that has annexed to it a certificate of authority from the state 42a pointer ascertain electors
President certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Nevada seems to be regular
And it appears they're from
Joseph R Biden Jr for the state of Delaware received six votes
For president
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California received six votes
For vice president
For what reason does the gentleman from Alabama rise
Mr. president I am 55 other members of the United States House of Representatives
Objective electoral votes of the state of Nevada in order to protect a lawful votes of Nevada
And all other American citizens
Section 15 and 17 of title 3 of the United States code requires that
Any objection be presented in writing and signed by member of the House of Representatives and a senator
Is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator
Mr. president is in writing but unfortunately no United States Senator has joined in this effort
In that case the objection cannot be entertained
Are there any further objections to counting the certificate of o2 the state of Nevada that the tellers verified appears to be regular
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This certificate from New Hampshire the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote for that state
Deportes to be returned from the state
Has annexed to it a certificate of authority the state reporting to appoint
Or ascertain electors
This present the certificate of the electoral vote in the state of New Hampshire seems to be regular informant authentic
And appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware
Received votes for president and Kamala D Harris or the state of California
Received four votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate Abode of the State of New Hampshire
The Taylor is verified appears to be regular informant authentic
This certificate from New Jersey the parliamentarians advises the only certificate
A vote from the state that purports to be a return from the state
Has nxt22 certificate of authority in the state
Boarding to a point in ascertain electors
Mr. president and certificate of the electoral vote of the state of New Jersey seems to be regular in form and
Junior for the state of Delaware receive
President and Kamala D Harris in the state of California received 14 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate to vote in the state of New Jersey
Keller's verified appears to be regular informant authentic
This certificate from New Mexico the parliamentarians advises the only certificate about from the state
Return from the state
And then his Antics to a certificate of authority of the state 442 pointer ascertain electors
Certificate of the electoral vote of the state of New Mexico
Seems to be regular in form and authentic
And it appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr the state of Delaware receive five votes for president
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California received 5 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of the state of New Mexico that the teller
Has verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from New York
The parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from the state that purports to be returned from the state
His Antics to a certificate Authority from the state
Converting to a point in aspartame electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of New York seems to be regular ant form and authentic
It appears there from the Joseph R Biden Jr of the state of Delaware receive
President and Kamala D Harris or the state of California receive 29 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate to vote for the state of New York that the tellers verified appears to be regular informant authentic
Hearing on this certificate from North Carolina to parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote and that's
It purports to be a return from the state
As Annex to the certificate
From the state reporting to a point in a certain Electric
Just present the certificate of the Electoral voter the state of North Carolina seems to be regular in form and author
And appears they're from the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida receive 15 votes for president
And Michael R Pence of the state of Indiana received 15 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate
A vote of the state of North Carolina
Sellers verified appears to be regular informant authentic
This certificate for North Dakota the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of votes in the state
It purports to be a retard for the state
It is an extruded a certificate of authority of the state reporting to a point and ascertain electors
Is the president's and certificate of the electoral vote in the state of North Dakota CC regular inform and
Is there from the Donald J Trump in the State of Florida receive free votes for president
And Michael are pensive the state of Indiana received 3 votes for vice president
Difficult about the state of North Dakota
The Taylor is verified as regular inauthentic
Hearing on this certificate from Ohio
The parliamentarians advises the only certificate about from the state
It purports to be returned from the state
Has Anixter to certificate of authority of the state 442 pointer ascertained electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Ohio seems to be regular info
And authentic and it appears they're from that Donald J Trump of the State of Florida received 18
Votes for president and Michael are pensive the state of Indiana received 18 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of votes in the state of Ohio
Tell her his verified as regular inform antithetic
Hearing none
This certificate from Oklahoma the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of open that state
Forced to be returned from the state
Is an extruded a certificate of authority of the state reporting to a point or ascertain electors
Mr. president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Oklahoma seems to be regular in form and also
And it appears they're from the donaldjtrump of the State of Florida received seven votes for president
And Michael are pads for the state of Indiana received 7 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate a vote of the state of Oklahoma that the teller has verify to be regular informant
Reniec
Hearing none
This certificate from Oregon the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of vote
From the state return for the state
Has a certificate of authority from the state and its to it
2.10 ascertain electors
Certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Oregon seems to be regular in form and author
It appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr the state of Delaware receive seven votes for president
Kamala D Harris of the State of California
7 votes for vice president
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of o2 the state of Oregon
Tell her his verified as regular informant authentic
Hearing none
This certificate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania the parliamentarians advisors the only certificate
A vote from the state that purports to be returned to the state
Has an extruded certificate from Authority in the state
According to a point and ascertain electors
Mr. president of the electoral vote of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania seems to
Regular inform hand authentic and it appears there from that Joseph R Biden Jr
State of Delaware
Received 20 votes for president
And Kamala D Harris of the State of California received 20 votes for vice president
What reason does the gentleman from Pennsylvania rise
Mr. president sadly but resolutely I object to the electoral votes of my beloved Commonwealth of 10
Pennsylvania
On the grounds of multiple
Constitutional infractions that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given
And on this occasion I have a written objection
Signed by a senator and eighty members of the House of Representatives
Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator
Interjection presented in writing and signed by both our representative and senator complies
With the law
Chapter 1 title 3 of the United States code
The clerk will report the objection
We are United States Senator and members of the House of Representatives of Jack
To the counting of the electoral votes of the state of Pennsylvania
On the ground that they were not under all of the known circumstances
Regularly given
Sign Josh Hawley United States Senator Scott Perry member of Congress
Are there further objections to the certificates from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The chair hears none
The two houses will withdraw from joint session
Each house will deliberate separately on the pending objection and report its decision back to the Joint session
The Senate will now retire to his chamber
And you're watching live coverage on C-Span of the Ali
Electoral College certification by the Congress
This was a joint session by the House and Senate
There've been objections throughout the evening including to Georgia Nevada and Michigan
However both a representative and a senator
Need to sign those objections
To the certification if they want to debate it
Those did not have sent it
Signatures
Pennsylvania had a signature and 80 house members
So
The Senate is going back on the other side of the capitol
To the Senate chamber
The house will debate
The Pennsylvania certification
The Senate will debate
The Pennsylvania certification
He'll watch live coverage of the Senate on C-Span 2 and the house
Bond
C-SPAN after that they're still
12 states to get through there no predicted
Objections to those 12 States
Throughout the evening now we're going to be taking your calls getting your reaction
Today's events up at the capital and also the certification process
This is life coverage on C-Span now back to the house
The house will be in order
Pursuant to senate joint resolution one
How to be in order
Thank you
Pursuant to Second send it to concurrent resolution 1
And section 17 of title 3 United States code
The two houses withdraw from The Joint session session to count the Electoral
Vote for separate consideration of an objection a representative may speak to the objection
For 5 minutes
And not more than once
Debate shall not exceed 2 hours
After which the chair shall put the question
Show the objection be agreed to
The clerk will report the objection made in joint session
We are United States Senator and members of the House of Representative objective accounting of the elector
Both of the state of Pennsylvania on the ground that they were not under all of the known circumstances reggae
Hilary Gibbons
Signed Josh Hawley and Scott Perry
The charitable endeavours to alternate recognition between number speaking in support of the objection
And number speaking in opposition to the objection
Before I recognize the gentleman from Pennsylvania
The chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania mr. Perry for 5 minutes
Thank you madam speaker this is a somber day for the defense of the Constitution
To the Constitution is just a piece of paper
It cannot defend itself
That is why our leaders swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution
And that's what I'm doing here this evening
The Constitution states
The times places manner of holding elections
Shall be prescribed by the legislature
Not the courts
Not the governor not the Secretary of State or other bureaucrats are elected officials
The legislature
In Pennsylvania the Supreme Court unilaterally extended the deadline for ballots the three days after the election
Especially wanted 10
The Supreme Court is not the legislature
The Supreme Court mandated on postmark
Balance to be received
Destroying the validity of all the votes that were cast Timely
The Supreme Court action defied the law
The legislature and the will of the people
The Supreme Court authorizes use of drop boxes where ballot harvesting could occur
The legislature never authorized that form of boating and the court had absolutely no right to do so
Responding to the Secretary of State Cathy book for the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots need not author
Predicates signatures
Once again the court not only defy the constitution in the wilderpeople
But by so doing they created a separate class of Voters
Thereby
Violated the equal protection Clause prescribed in the Constitution
How can we have
Legally separate classes of Voters
Get the court made it so
Not the legislature
The Constitution does it mention the court when determining the time place and manner of Elections
Because they're not authorized to make those decisions and yet they did it
And the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the case the nine
The evidence and denying the demands
For Justice from the people of Pennsylvania in America
These are my opinions
These aren't partisan viewpoints
These are irrefutable facts
6 days before the election
Guidance email from the secretary of state required that County shall not free Canvas OR canvas
Any mail in our civilian absentee ballots received between 8 Tuesday and 5 Friday and then
They must be kept separately
That was six days before the election
2 days before the election
County receive new guidance from the Secretary of State
Informing counties that they shall
Canvas segregated absentee and mail-in ballots
As soon as possible
Upon receipt
The secretary of state is Not Elected by the people she is not a member of the legislature yet she
Is she alone
Determine the time and manner of Elections
Unconstitutional ladies and gentlemen
In defiance of a US Supreme Court order that all ballots received after election day be segregated
The Secretary of State newonce
They were canvas that is
Open Intel mingle with all the other balance they would be counted with all the rest
And what's the remedy for this defiance
For this law-breaking
So far the court has decided there is no remedy there is no penalty
Play this lawlessness this dilution of Lawless of lawfully cast boats
This Defiance of the Constitution
No remedy
When the state legislature requested the governor convene a special session to address
Bianca answered question
And try and provide a remedy he refused
What votes are accepted under unconstitutional means without fair and equal protection for all
The only result can be an illegitimate outcome illegitimate
The voters did not create this mess
But the will of the people is absolutely being subverted
By the deliberate and willful actions of individuals Define their oath
The law
And the Constitution
In Pennsylvania we use the Statewide uniform registry of electors or the shore system as the basis
Of determining who can vote
Unfortunately a recent attempted audit by the Democrat state auditor general
Concluded that he was unable unable to establish with any degree of reasonable assurance
That's a sure system is secure and that Pennsylvania voter registration records are complete
Inaccurate
Better rely on ladies and gentlemen that right there
This is the very same system used to certify the election and the contest for president of the United States
This is the very same system
That the state used to certify the 2020 election
Even though it's figured do not match more than half of Pennsylvania
67 calories to this day
Right now are we staying here
How can this election be certified using a system that after 2 months
Still displays that over 205 thousand more votes
Forecast in Pennsylvania
The people who voted
In the November election let me say that again
205.000 more votes
Then voters
Time is expired
For what purpose does the gentleman from Colorado seek recognition
Manistique arise in opposition to the objection
Indominus recognized for five minutes Maddie speaker to my colleague from Pennsylvania I will say this I carry
The same Constitution that you do
And the Constitution sir
Does not allow
You me or any member of this body The Substitute our judgment
Forgot of the American people it does not allow us
To disregard
The will of the American people
Because under this Constitution under our constitution
Congress doesn't choose the president
The American people do
And they have chosen in resulting numbers as every single member of this body well understands
Fatespeaker
Explain what happened today but
Is a statement that I found it
Largely summarized my thoughts on the matter
The scenes of Mayhem unfolding at the seat of our nation's government
Are sickening and heartbreaking sight
This is how election results are disputed in a Banana Republic
Not our Democratic Republic
I'm appalled by The Reckless Behavior of some political leaders
Since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions
Our traditions
And our law enforcement
The violent assault on the capital in the disruption of a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress
Was undertaken by people whose Passions
Have been inflamed
My falsehoods
And false hopes
Insurrection could do great damage to our nation and our reputation in the United States of America in
Is the fundamental responsibility of every patriotic citizen to support the rule
Of law
Tuvo sport disappointed in the results of the election
Our country is more important than the politics of the moment
Those are not my words
Those are the words of former Republican President George W bush
To my colleagues
It is after midnight tonight
It's been a long day for our country
A long day for our Republic
Let us dispense with this
Let's do the right thing let's honor our oath let's certify the results and let's get back
To the wharf
The American people and with that
A yield to this thing as chairwoman
Speaker art duty today is significant but straightforward
We must count the votes of the electors as cast in the Electoral College
Announce the results
As discussed our roles and responsibilities
Established by the Constitution and federal law and they're clear
The facts before sir also clear
Pennsylvania submitted one slate of electors
Has chosen by the voters of the state
The flight was certified according to state law now those lawful results must be counted in and out
Despite this information and any number of false claims that you may have heard including here today
As former Attorney General Barr said quote
We've not seen fraud on the scale that could have affected it different outcome in the election
This is not simply a conclusion statement
The results of the election have been litigated
The record is clear the lawsuits challenging the election results failed they failed because they're simply
No evidence to support these baseless claims
So it's one thing that we do believe
Quite another to provide actual evidence
These cases fail because there is no evidence
Judges ruled in the lawsuit that the 2020 election was sad
Should come as no surprise
The Republican officeholders have recognized the election results as legitimate
And actually determined in an election that was conducted safely securely and with integrity
We all take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and as we near the end of the task before
Boras let's remember the beginning of the Constitution
Before Article 2 and the 12th Amendment which spell out the Electoral College and before Article 1
Which creates Congress the Constitution begins with the preamble
The Preamble is short and bald
We the People
The people spoke in historic numbers their votes have been counted
Their choice is
Clear is time as the law requires
To announce the state of the people's vote
The violence and disorder
Inflicted our democracy by seditious rioters today
Is an indication of why adherence to our constitution
Is so vital
I ordered all of us
Stand up for law
For democracy
For our constitution
And to stand up for America and reject
This objection
And are you back
What purpose does the gentleman from Pennsylvania
Recognition
Madam speaker I Rise to support the injection
Rejection the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Thank you madam speaker day that was intended to debate the importance of Elections integrity and the rule of law tragic
Quickly became a day that will be a black mark on our nation's history
Nevertheless the work of this house must go on as America Will Go On
We must all sincerely thank the Capitol Police and Metro Police with a selfless actions today putting their safety and lives
Is on the line not protect this house
The lawlessness and violence of today must be condemned just as full violent protest must be condemned nevertheless
The fact remains a large number of pennsylvanians are normally frustrated with actions taken by a
Elected and appointed officials
In Pennsylvania which have led to a high level of distrust
For this past election
We have the United States Constitution
Which is the reason
We have been will continue to be a great country and a country of laws
The US Constitution is unambitious madam speaker and declaring that state legislators are the entity with your thigh
Already beset
Election procedures and to enact any changes
To election law
Article 1 Section 4 Clause 1 States the time
Places in Manor
Holding elections shall be prescribed in each state by the Legislative there of the authority of election procedures
Lies with the state legislator.
Pennsylvania this Authority was indisputable usurp
By the Pennsylvania Governor's Office
By the Pennsylvania Secretary of State
And by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
These are full actions include but are not limited to accepting ballots past 8 p.m. on Election Day
Inconsistent application of verified signature requirements for in-person ballads versus Maryland balance
Authorizing the curing of mail-in ballots with less than 24 hours notice
Leading to inconsistent preparedness between counties
Authorizing the use of unsecured dropboxes
Which is not permitted in statute
It's such a lawful action that the be accepted why do we what we have to look forward to next year
The Pennsylvania Secretary of State allowing online voting because it may be raining in Philadelphia
It was a free-for-all
Better speaker it was back in 2005
When minority leader Pelosi
While leading 31 Democrats as they
Objected to the presidential elector certification
As they did in the last three
Presidential
Elections when Republican won
And stated quite well actually that the members of Congress have brought this challenge
And are speaking up for their aggrieved constituents many of whom have been disenfranchised in this process
This is their only opportunity to have this debate
While the country is listening and is it appropriate to do so
Thank you for those words manspeaker they were appropriate then as they are now
If there is an American idea that all citizens regardless of party affiliation can agree upon
Is that we must have election Integrity integrity
We should not certify these electors which were
Derived by unlawful actions and a result of inaccurate vote tallies
I yield the remainder of my time to representative Joyce
That you stay standing
Madam speaker
Horizon support
Of the objection
Tonight
My heart is heavy
As we consider the Dark Axe
The transpired in this chamber today
But Madam speaker
The American people can be assured
That violent in your rationale attacks on this body
Can not derail the Constitutional responsibility
What lies in front of us
This is always been about upholding the law
It's always been about protecting government of
Bye
And for the people
Preserving the rule of law
Is more important than ever
We must acknowledge it unconstitutional Acts
Unduly impacted the presidential election in Pennsylvania
Contrary to law
The Supreme Court extended the deadline for mail-in ballots
First 3 days beyond the election day
Contrary to law
The secretary of the Commonwealth discarded mail-in ballot signature verification safeguards
These leaders took advantage of a deadly pandemic
And sees the state's legislators
Rightful Authority
I took an oath to uphold the law
And defend the Constitution
I pledged to protect free
And fair elections
I cannot in good faith certify electors
That were selected
Android unlawful process
I will objective electrically certification
To protect the will
A Pennsylvania voters
To uphold the law
To restore trust in our electoral system
And ultimately
To save our constitution
At Gettysburg which is in my district
President Abraham Lincoln spoke about the great task
Heaven oven scheuring government
Bye
Of and for the people shall not perish from the earth thank you and I yield
Thank you
What purpose does the gentleman from Pennsylvania seek recognition
Madam speaker I rise in opposition
The gentlemen's recognized for five minutes without objection
Thank you madam speaker
Nearly 7 million pennsylvanians
Showed up to vote in the 2020 elections
They cast their votes for Democrats and Republicans up and down the ballot
Including the entire US House delegation
The entire State House
And half of the state senate
And other state and local races
Since the election
There have been allegations of widespread election fraud in Pennsylvania
Remarkably
The 20 suits filed by the Trump campaign Pennsylvania Republicans and others
Challenging the results in Pennsylvania
I've never claimed that there was voter fraud
Perhaps that's because attorneys can lose their license
When they make unsubstantiated claims in court
That's where the rubber really meets the road
So
If these lawsuits didn't claim election fraud
What did they claim
Most of the legal challenges to the presidential election in Pennsylvania
Question relatively small numbers of ballots
It were allegedly painted by technical violations
Even assuming that all these ballots have been cast for Joe Biden
Pulling them out wouldn't have changed the result of the election
Now what exception
Is the lawsuit filed by one of our colleagues from Pennsylvania
Kelly vs Commonwealth
Which would have thrown up all the mail-in votes cast in the 2020 general election
On the grounds that act 77
The state law allowing those votes
Was unconstitutional
That suit would have disenfranchised
Two-and-a-half million pennsylvanians
Let's let that sink in two-and-a-half million pennsylvanians
Would have had their votes nullified
Not want to provide my colleagues with some background about the state law at the heart of this challenge
In 2019
The republican-controlled state legislature
Approved at 77
A bipartisan bill
To reform the state's election laws was instituted no excuse mail balloting
X77 was supported almost unanimously
But Republicans in the state house and state senate
In fact it was unanimous in the state senate and Alba to Republicans in the State House
Moreover against this Act was passed
X77 had a hundred twenty day.
Or challenges could be filed against the app
If people thought it was unconstitutional well
Mx150 nobody Falls a challenge
In June 3rd Pennsylvania had their primary under this new system
Nobody challenged the primary election
It was only challenged in November
When Republicans didn't get the result they wanted
At the top of the ticket
Not surprisingly this case was dismissed
By the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
An appeal to the US Supreme Court was denied
Another exception is Texas versus Pennsylvania
They asked the court to reject the results of the Pennsylvania contest
The presidential contest in Pennsylvania
And several other states
Disenfranchising tens of millions of Voters
Seven Republican members
Of the Pennsylvania US House bill legation
Song the US House Republican brief in support of Texas versus Pennsylvania
Why I feel compelled to point out to my colleagues
Get the same voters who sent them to the 117th Congress
Cast their votes for the president
The very same ballots
Which were read by the very same ballot scanners
And monitored by the very same election workers
Yet or calling to sign the brief
Only want to involve our dates the presidential votes
This is illogical and inconsistent colleagues
And I'm pleased to note that the Supreme Court rejected as well
The fact is
The election has received unprecedented scrutiny in the courts
I believe it's your responsible
And undemocratic to argue today
That the US Congress
Order re-litigate the 2020 presidential election
And second-guess the will of the voters in multiple States
The decisions of numerous state and federal courts including the Supreme Court
And the counts and recounts conducted by state election official
There were 20 lawsuits filed in Pennsylvania
Challenging aspects of the Pennsylvania presidential election
And 19 of them you got laughed out of court
The one case you won
Affected roughly a hundred volts
Joe Biden Kamala Harris won by over 80000
Aspire
Are you back
But for what
Purpose of gentlemen from Pennsylvania speak recognition
Recognized for 5 minutes for that objection
The violence that occurred today at the US Capitol with senseless destructive and
Counter to our American values
This past Sunday's member this body took a nose
The poll the United States Constitution
Why the path of least resistance particularly following today's events
Furby remaining silent
Biostar pull the Constitution does not permit me to maintain silence
Will systemic voter fraud was not something proven
We witness a systemic failure in the application of Pennsylvania's voting law
When it comes to the 2020 general election
In late 2019 to Commonwealth Revisited modernize its election law
With the bipartisan act 77
Granted in late 2019 the Commonwealth legislature did not have the foresight to anticipate
How covid-19
What present challenges to voting
Despite that is not up to the governor the secretary of the Commonwealth nor the state supreme court
The unilaterally create law
The election of uses to Pennsylvania x77 taken by
The Pennsylvania executive branch and upheld by the Pennsylvania judicial branch
We're clearly unconstitutional
And had an obvious if not measured impact on the 2020 election
Protect me when it comes to the citizens faith
And the electoral process
Irregularities in Pennsylvania included on even application of the law
Volunteering
Ignoring signature validation requirements using unsecured dropboxes accepting ballast beyond the deadlines
An interfering with certified poll Watcher access
Among others
These actions were taken by the Commonwealth governor and Secretary of State
For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court circumvented the authority of the State Legislature
Furthermore the chief law officer the Commonwealth
Settling
Why this process non-folding
I joined many of my colleagues in Pennsylvania requesting the legislators in Harrisburg
Conduct an investigation and audit
Ensure such negligence will be prevented in future elections
I've serious concerns about how these irregularities in the application of the Commonwealth election laws
Will play in future elections
Only with equal application along with the voters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have certainty and their election processes
I remain committed to ensuring the voters received an electoral system they deserve
And we're equal application of law is guaranteed
If our election Integrity is compromised
We have failed the very voters who sent us here
To defend the Constitution I yield remaining
By remaining time to the gentleman from Maryland mr. Harris
Thank you very much I asked thank the gentleman for yielding
The oath I took his very simple
Madam speaker you administer it
It's the support
And defend the Constitution
Now she walk back to the office buildings
You walked by that wall
It has when the various States accepted that Constitution
And remember when it states except the Constitution it agrees to accept every
Part of the Constitution that don't get to pick and choose
Pennsylvania was there when it was written
They were so enthusiastic about the constitution approved in 1787 my state Maryland is little further down the wall
1788
They were there when it was written
The Clause that gave the legislature the power over the elections was there when they accepted is
Been there since
How dare
The judicial branch
What the executive branch of that state
Usurped the legislative Authority
That's a clear violation of the Constitution that we heard there's no evidence
Evidence
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court you know how to Extended the deadline to receive absentee in the mail in ballots
Does anybody can test that over here
Does it say the legislature did that no it doesn't it says
Fortunate
That's a violation that's what the Texas lawsuit was all about
We disadvantaged other states and States like Pennsylvania
The executive branch and judicial branch
She on the Constitution and that's what they did here but there's more evidence but wait there's more
Commonwealth eroded integrity
By dismissing signature Authentication
Anabolic
Does anyone here believe the Pennsylvania legislature would have agreed to create a separate system for mail-in ballots and in-person ballet
But if you mail it in you don't need a signature
Photo of course not
The legislature clearly wouldn't have agreed to that
But that didn't stop the usurpation of constitutional Authority
Madam chair
Vigorously support this objection
And I asked unanimous consent after the record the objection to counting the electoral votes
Without objection objection
What purpose does the gentleman from Pennsylvania speak recognition
Barrett-Jackson to gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes
Madam speaker
Tonight we will not be picking the president
For the people did that
On November 3rd
Weather tonight in this house
We will decide whether American democracy survive
Let us be under No Illusion
These are the stakes
If this objection succeeds
And the wheel of 7000000 Pennsylvania voters is cast aside
It will be the end of our representative democracy
Now
There is no reasonable debate
About what happened in this election
In Pennsylvania
7 million pennsylvanians Bowden
Joe Biden won by over 81000 votes
This was certified in 67 counties
By Bart bipartisan local elected officials
Including Republicans
And every single Court
Whether the judge is a Democrat or a Republican
Has reaffirmed this outcome
The objectors however claim
We do not know the will of the people
Because the election in Pennsylvania was somehow conducted correctly