building, trying to stop congress from surtfying the 2020 election. >> hundreds have been charged in connection to the attack, but it could be months, even years, before their cases are all wrapped up. here is cnn's marshall koehn to explain why. >> reporter: boris and amara were a few days way from the first capitol rioter getting sentenced. it's been five months and nearly 5-1 people have been charged. the defendants come from across america. 43 states and washington, d.c. they are from big cities and small towns. they include people that flew here on private jets and others scraped together the money to pay for gas. a few of the defendants have pleaded guilty. later this week one about be sentenced, anna morgan-lloyd. and back on the day of the attack on january 6th she posted online that it was the best day ever. now she is singing a different