Paralyzed. Some white house aids have quit and others are thinking about quitting. The Vice President who was targeted by the president s mob is also remaining quiet. The cabinet is invisible. A second impeachment of the president looks inevitable unless trump resigns. Meantime, some of the attackers from wednesday are being arrested and charged. Man hunts are underway for some of the others. Extremists are threatening more violence in the coming days. State capitols are on high alert and there is now a giant wall encircling the capitol in d. C. Thats our capitol. So trump did get a wall built. Trumps cheering section in the right wing media is desperately trying to downplay wednesdays crimes. They would rather complain about twitter and why they are losing followers. Thats whats going on. Americas two parallel universes of reality still very much in effect. So how did we get here . And will the people on platforms who fanned the flames of fury be held accountable . Online radicalization doesnt just stay online. Crazy talk on tv doesnt just stay on tv. It shows up at our nations seat of power. A web of delusion had real life consequences on wednesday. And it will continue to have real world consequences. Now, you already know the lies that led up to the riot, the lies about te election being stolen from trump. But do you know how deep it goes . The more research i did this week, the more i realized that fox news shows and facebook groups are just part of the pro trump fantasy land, they are the part that exists above the water, visible for all to see, but you dive deeper and it gets worse while more extreme shows went further, demonizing anyone who stood in the way of trumps second term. If you keep diving deeper, you are barely see light at this point and on websites that claim the government has been hijacked and that even mike pence is in on it. These forms are really antisocial websites. They peddle racism and hate and fear mongering and all sorts of garbage. When you are down here, when you are suffocate bd i lies, you can see how people wind up being radicalized enough to storm the capitol and attack Police Officers. Their brains have been poisoned by this stuff. They came they had to go fight the fraud, fraud that doesnt actually exist. It is this mix of grievance, a profound sense of loss and alienation and of course a leader that enables it all and lies with abandon. This is radicalization in america. Its happening every day. These networks are right under our noses and there is a lot of blame to go around. When we talk about the security failures, thats really important. We also have to talk about radicalization. Todays Washington Post reports that, quote, some americans have traveled a path to radicalization that reminds current and current former u. S. National Security Officials of the indoctrination of islamic militants. Go deeper in the trenches and there is already talk about further protests based on the lies that gop peddled for two months. One commenter describing it as hopes for a round two saying, this time no mercy. Lets go back to reality now. You can see the front pages all across the country talking about a second impeachment for invoking the 25th amendment or pressuring the president to resign. This is radicalization. We are seeing the effects today. So id like to begin our conversation. Were going to bring in five or six guests here in the first half hour. But id like to start with two people in washington who know this story so well. Jeffrey goldberg, the editor in chief of the atlanta was there walking along the National Mall on wednesday, interviewing people who attended the state of america march before it became a riot. Staff writer for the new yorker was there last night at what has become an imprompt due vigil. I think we should talk about that story as well. You described wednesdays attack on the capitol as a mass delusion event. I have never heard that phrase before. Tell me what that means and what you heard from people there. Right. Well, i mean, there are so many delusions in this crowd of thousands that i was with on that day. And obviously superficially, the thing that you hear the most, obviously, is the violent rhetoric and you see the violent rhetoric on signs and in behavior even. But what struck me initially was that the crowd, thousands and thousands of people were maskless, right . Maybe 5 of the people were wearing masks. What i mean by masked illusion is that somehow the message has been received by these thousands of people that there is no virus, right . There is no pandemic. You know, it was almost in a kind of way i mean, maybe this is too much. But it is a little like a mass suicide event. In other words, it was a rally against reason and reason, you know, reason when it comes to science, reason when it comes to observable reality, reason when it comes to the Election Results that have been certified and recertified and recertified. What struck me was the comprehensiveness of the fantasy land, as you would say, that people were completely untether untethered. Many many their own ways, different obsessions. But many people i talked to were completely untethered from reality. And that notion about the masks being off, let me take that a step further. Never mind preventing being sick, they were happy to be photographed. Think about 2 00 p. M. On wednesday, they were recording themselves, taking selfies. They wanted to be seen committing these acts of terrorism. Susan, what is the medias responsibility in the days ahead . Well, look, the media has already played a crucial role in identifies many of the perpetrators of this insurrection at the capitol. They have asked important questions and will continue to do so around the massive security failures that led to this, about the political crisis that has resulted from it. All of which have enormous outstanding areas. I think the bigger challenges all along for trump is that part of the reason hes continued to go on and to succeed is because the unthinkable becoming reality is actually very hard to cover. Yeah, its yes. Since the election, donald trump has been engaged in not just a mass delusion event. I think jeffs term is really a good one. But also in a direct attack on the constitutional system itself, which now was made physical and manifest in his supporters smashing the windows of our democratic symbol. But how do you cover that . Were there enough front page stories that opened up the possibility that a violent attack was being planned . How do we write about something thats never happened before in advance . I think thats really a big challenge. And then the next challenge is the language we use in describing it. Cnn decided that domestic terrorism was an appropriate phrase to describe what happened on wednesday. We heard words like insurrection all week long. Of course on fox news, they just say riots. Where does it come down on this issue of the words, the language . Well, what we need now is a commitment to plain language. Susan is right. The novelty of this movement domestically really caught us on the back foot. And our language and plain description never fully caught up to what was going on. What i mean by this is something very specific. Like when you are describing what happened this week, it probably should be described simply as the president of the United States incited a mob to go sack the capitol and lynch the Vice President , his Vice President. I mean, that is a fair way of describing what happened or what could have happened had the mob broken through and got to the Vice President or the speaker of the house or other members of the congress. They were looking for violence. And so that in many other ways we have to describe things as they are. And one lesson very quickly that we could learn from our profession is that we need to almost be like Foreign Correspondents in our own capitol at some point. It is easy for us to describe the arab spring, the coups in turkey and other places. But we have to import some of that language into describing whats going on domestically becauses that whats happening domestical domestically. Sad but true. All three of us. Jeffrey, you, too, about trumps fitness for office. We knew it in 2017 after charlottesville. We knew it deep down inside. This has always been about his mental health, his mental fitness. Was the press Strong Enough about talking about this, susan . You know, look, brian, you can find examples not just in our conversation but many, many great journalists, thinkers, writers, leaders, psychiatrists, you know, breaking with the cannon of their profession in order to warn us about this. It is not that this wasnt a public debate, but it was never able to either, one, overcome the enormous barrier of rigid partisan ship in the United States which has now caused people to see even basic facts through this lens and then, number two, the incredible challenge of writing about a topic that is has no precedent. And what is there to do about it . Donald trump has never been held to account. And unless and until there is a way for the political system collectively to do so remember, the same people who were excusing his behavior right now, literally spent four yearing saying elections have consequences. And then when there is a consequence they said, never mind. Lets override the election. Why have the Republican Leaders of the congress not walked or driven to the white house and told the president to step down . Fear, opportunism. I mean, your guess is as good as mine. We have to ask them. Theyre not interested in being interviewed because there are no good answers. Thats an important point. Mitch mcconnell is not on tv. Kevin mccarthy is not on tv. These guys wont even show their faces right now. No. Its really quite amazing. What is interesting is that at least a few republicans or more than before this disaster happened, a few are coming out and saying enough is enough. But, you know, were ten days from the end of the Trump Presidency, and i think people new years ago that the man was unstable, to go to your previous point. You know what private conversations on the hill have been like for years. They all know that this was a terrific mess and it was going to lead to disaster, but very few people said it. Very few did. Before all this happened, you warned the new yorker about the danger of forgetting, forgetting the scandal of the trump years. You said there is going to be a lot of pressure to forget. You recognize a lot of people are going to want to move on. Why is it important that we never forget. Look, brian, if there is one thing that history teaches us, its that without a reckoning and without accountability, a society cant move on from a traumatic, divisive and criminal event such as what we just witnessed. And until the real nature of the Trump Presidency is taken into account in some important way, there is no possible way. So when you listen to there are politicians on both sides of the aisle, i should say, democrats as well as republicans who have an interest at this point in moving on. Democrats want joe biden to have a successful beginning to his presidency. Republicans want to escape any culpability for their role in inciting this attack on american democracy. There is an enormous pressure. I wrote that in my column at 4 00 a. M. This thursday morning when the house and senate finished the process of certifying the Electoral College results, that people would already be beginning the process of forgetting. There are different forms that accountability can take. But mystery shows us very clearly that there must be accountability or the United States will not be able to successfully move on from these events. I agree. Susan and jeffrey, thank you. Please stick around. I will bring you back later on in this hour. Lets look back at wednesdays mass occupation of the capitol through the lens of a television spectacle because while history was unfolding, i couldnt help but notice all the tv terminology people were using. Yet, trump told his fans he would be watching. Right . Wednesday morning started as a protest along the National Mall, socalled save america march. The entire trump speech was aired live on fox. Look, all protests are stages in order to draw attention and trump wanted that attention. Heres what he told his fans. He told them hed be watching on capitol hill. Today we see a very important event, though, because right over there, right there we see the event going to take place, and im going to be watching because history is going to be made. Okay. Now, he said that in the context of what are the consequence he said that in the context of what are the congressmen going to do. But he was waying, i will be watching. That was 12 20 p. M. By that point, some of the rally goers started to walk toward the capitol. They already started to move toward the capitol. At the 1 00 p. M. Hour, were watching the certification in the congress. Listen to the way ted cruz talked about this. I want to urge my colleagues dont take perhaps the easy path, but instead act together, astonish the viewers and act in a bipartisan sense. Do you hear that . He said viewers. He wasnt talking about voters. He was talking about viewers. Millions of people were watching the certification as it happened. Then the coverage shifted to what happened outside as the capitol was swarmed by the mob. Later in the evening, i want you to look at one of the other insurrectionist senators, josh hawley and how he made his comments directly to the camera. Do you see how hes looking straight at you . Thats not normally how senators look at you on the floor. And lastly, look at the language in this statement from the brotherinlaw of the woman who lost her life in the riot who was shot. The brotherinlaw said trump lost four of his biggest fans. Fans. That is the right word, fans. It goes to show how the crowd was primed to take part in what would be a televised spectacle. The stage was the u. S. Capitol. People, as i said, i they wanted to be filmed. They wanted to be seen doing this. So what other factors led up to the moment of this attack . Well, the president was tweeting many days at a time, encouraging people to come to washington on january 6th. And it wasnt until friday night that his twitter account was finally banned. Banned permanently. Of course hes been deplatformed by facebook, youtube, by practically every service. Too little too late. It is a big moment for Big Technology companies. Lets dig into that next with adam sharp. Adam, you long defended twitter not taking action against trumps account. And then you changed your mind this week. Tell me about that. Well, i think for a long time there were two main reasons why i felt it was important that twitter not suspend the account. Number one, i didnt think that twitter or any private company should be whitewashing the record of this president. I think, just as if cnn were to edit every speech to make the president seem like a, in his words, a very stable genius, it would not be an accurate reflection of the record, no more should a private company in the face of twitter or facebook or anyone else be altering the Public Record to put a false picture of his statements there. His public statements should be out there for the public to digest and inform their vote when they went to the polls next time. The second piece were that the president is a unique figure. If i threaten my neighbor, its a crime. If the president threatens our neighbors, it is a statement of foreign policy. So there are things that the president can do and is uniquely permitted to do that are not the case for other americans. Wednesday, on the other hand, was a different circumstance. The constitution, when it comes to the president and congress, almost the main focus of the document is to keep the president at arms length from the congress. So to the extent that there is an exceptionalism to the presidency, it actually goes the other direction this time. The president s violations of the law and of twitters policies when it comes to threatening congress are so flagrant because he was the president and because he crossed that very specific constitutional line on wednesday. Whats going to happen now . Parlor is this twitter with no rules, popular among right wing radicals. It is being deplatformed as we speak. Theyre crying censorship. Where is the outgoing president going to go . Well, its a tough call. I mean, these are private companies, and the law says they can choose who they have on their platforms, who they dont have on their platforms, and the law is on their side in that regard. And part of the philosophy there has always been that if youre not allowed on that platform, there is other places where you can go and have a voice like parlor. Now, parlor is having particular challenges right now. It has been kicked off the google store, it has been kicked off the apple store. Amazon, which hosted its infrastructure is saying theyre kicking them off. So the question is, is there a place for it to go. And i think thats where google and apple may be in a more difficult spot than twitter and facebook legally because if you look at the precedent of antitrust laws, for example, the Microsoft Case in the 90s when these companies are the gate way through their operating systems, the operating systems from your mobile phone in this case, there is some precedent for requiring access to that platform for these minority entrants like in that entire price netscape. If this does involve into a court case, will you see action requiring the app stores to carry parlor or Something Like that . So there would seem to be a little more legal precedent in the app store case than perhaps there would be in twitter or facebook having to reinstate a donald trump or his allies. Thats the future. Let me ask you one question about the past given there is a lot of folks at twitter. This mob was whipped into a frenzy by so many lies. Is there a responsibility on the part of these companies . Do you feel that your former colleagues have a lot of regrets . Do they feel partly responsible . I think there is surely responsibility on the part of the companies. I think there is surely responsibility on the part of everyone. I think, you know, these companies each share a common history in that they were founded on lots of idealism and very little business model. And then when investors and wall street started pushing for double digit quarterly returns and growth, the alga rhythms had to start shifting to feeding the beast, to feeding that growth, to turning a blind eye a little bit to the health of the platform and focussing on what gets you to click more, what gets you to stay on the platform more, to engage more. Facebooks own reer ch showed that twothirds of the time a user joined an Extremist Group on facebook, it is because facebooks own alga rhythms recommended it. So i think one hope right now is that perhaps were entering a few phase. Perhaps there is a new maturity or understanding of where we are as a society to allow a bit more of an equilibrium, to accept that growth can slow a little bit. We dont need to be doubling every couple of months to be a Successful Company and that the health of the societies we created in this Digital Space is as important as the gigantic growth in revenue and user growth were delivering to wall street. Adam, stay with me. I want to bring in julie. Back then and now, democratic strategist. I just asked adam about social medias responsibility. Lets talk about the tv network responsibilities. Here a few examples of rhetoric on fox news and newsmax in the run up to wednesdayme. Listen to the word that keeps getting used here. He is fighting for us. And we have to fight for him, folks. He is going to do his part to, quote, fight like hell for the white house against this stolen election. If you think the election was rigged, and i absolutely think that. I dont think its high beshly to describe this moment as a constitutional tinderbox. Right. It was a tinderbox that you helped start. So you hear that, julie. You hear we have to fight for trump. How much responsibility should we be assigning to pro trump media . A tremendous amount of responsibility. I want to speak to my old boss Rupert Murdoch by saying you can stop this madness. The revolution will eat its young because the beast has to be fed consistently. What you have seen on fox news in the past going back to his fox and friends days, its still never going to be enough for him. And, so, fox news can stop this. They can stop this by speaking truth to power and saying that we are going to put the wellbeing and the common wheel of this nation ahead of an unhinged man who, by the way, they know is unhinged. Yes, they do. Some of the people that is so important. My sources at fox, they knew the truth. They knew it years ago. Of course. Im sorry. But they have known. Listen, i can tell you firsthand of course they did. I was there when he got elected, and i could tell you in private conversation half the people that you see today praising donald trump to the stars, making excuses for him, they knew then and i suspect they know today even more that hes unhinged. I suspect the murdochs know hes unhinged. But what they dont understand, they seem to not grasp is no matter how far they go for donald trump, no matter how far they excuse his awful behavior, as mike pence has proven, there is no amount of sick fancy that will be enough for this man. they can reason with their viewers and say, listen, we might have supported him on individual policies, tax cuts or judges or other conservative priorities, but this is not normal and we are reasoning with you the voters and the viewers to say this is not normal behavior. They can do much more to let the ted cruzs and the josh hawleys off the hook. But they can do enough to end this cycle of insanity on capitol hill. They can, but they are not. The through line between what adam said is profit. The narrative on fox now is all about big tech biassed. They are obsessed with this issue. They are trying to bury the riot down the memory hole. They will talk more about twitter than they are about the attempt to massacre lawmakers. 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What happens when a president declares the press the enemy of the people over and over again . This is what happens. Murder of the media, it says on the wall. There were numerous assaults of reporters on capitol hill on wednesday. Two were arrested just for doing their jobs. In one minute i will show you a new video that contains a lot of explicit language. I just want to warn you, if you have kids in the room, you will want to mute the tv when we play this two minute video coming up here. Let me set it up by saying the brutal scene, also for the journalists who were americas eyes and ears on wednesday afternoon. These journalists deserve a special thank you for their bravery, for their courage that day. Nobody went to work planning to cover a riot. The associated press, crews were forced away from the area outside the senate. They set up their cameras there trying to do live shots. But as you can see, this area was also attacked. Some of the equipment was destroyed. You hear rants and raves from these what words should we use, right . Theyre not protesters. One reporter captured on a camera cord the rioters tied into a noose and hung from a tree. Again, if you have kids in the room, please mute the tv. This is what happened to our cnn crews when the mob realized they were members of the media. There is graphic language in this video but you need to watch it. You motherfuckers. Lets go. Lets go. We got to go. Go. Go. Dont you punch me. Usa usa usa usa. Lets go. Lets go. Lets go. Come on. Lets go. Get out of here. Get the fuck out of here. You fucking pussy. Who are you with . There is more of us than you. Yeah, yeah. Get the fuck out of here. Hey, this guy is with the media. This guy is with the media boo get the fuck out. Traitor traitor traitor traitor cnn sucks cnn sucks cnn sucks cnn sucks get out of here, you fake news cnn sucks hey, whoa. No, no. You have to come through me. That is not nice. You get the fuck out of here before you get hurt. This is not us. This is not us. This is not who we are. Lets bring in alex. You just saw there the Cnn National Security correspondent walking with ryan mckra out of there. I want the viewers to know news crews did have security at the capitol on wednesday. We normally dont talk about that. That is part of the reality. Yet, even with security, even with your experience as a Foreign Correspondent, you were in the middle of this mob. Did you feel that you could be hurt or killed in that moment . Oh, absolutely. It was very scary. It was a very hairy moment. We were all very rattled afterwards. We knew going into this crowd that this was a hostile crowd. So the entire day, we had to walk this line of how close do we get to actually witness events and do our jobs but also stay safe. And at this point, what was going on inside the capitol was well underway. We wanted to get closer to get a sense what was going on. At a certain point, i dont know how they figured out we were with cnn. Thats when the crowd turned on us. There was this wave of aggression and anger that rippled through the crowd. You could see everyone start looking at us. People calling us traitors and chanting usa and saying get the f out of here, that was kind of the best of it. There was a lot more of an aggressive element. You saw guys saying, there is a lot more of us than you. We could destroy you. At that moment the single focus for my team and my producers, the photo journalist was to get out of there unscathed. We put our heads down and tried to get out of that crowd. You saw at the end there there was a big guy in an orange sweatshirt who pushed the guy back who said, this is not us. For him, i would say thank you for trying to block any physical violence against us, but respectfully many of the people out there that was exactly them. And i think we were lucky to have gotten out of there without any sort of physical assault. But it was a very hairy moment, brian. People need to see these videos. There is still more of them coming in as the days go by. Calls for accountability for attacks against the media on wednesday. Let me second that call. There has to be accountability for the violence in washington. You covered the middle east years ago. Here you are covering this in d. C. Did you ever think you would see it in washington or the United States . In short not really. Certainly not when i got back to the states over three years ago, but there is a moment during all of that on wednesday that our colleague jake tapper said he felt like he was speaking to Foreign Correspondent. What i was seeing, what i was hearing, what i was hearing from the people on the ground and witnessing, i felt like i was a Foreign Correspondent again and it was shocking to see this happening in my own country, in the city that i live in just two miles from my house. But at the same time, you know, we are taught to believe that, you know, america is exceptional. That america has an exceptional democracy. And i really do think that this is a reflection of where we are right now. That that, you know, the people who are out there, millions of people across the country have been told that their country was stolen from them, has been stolen from them. Their votes have been stolen. The press is the enemy of the people. So it is no real surprise when this kind of thing happens. This is where we are as a country. The division, the tribalism, the secretarialism, those are words that we use when we cover Foreign Correspondents. When i witness that, we should be stunned and shocked. But if you have been paying attention, we should not be surprised. Absolutely agree. Alex, thank you. Glad you are okay. Thank you. To hear another firsthand account from outside the capitol, look up our podcast. My guest is an expert in covering far right extremism. She says donald trump takes extremists to the masses. 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Now were talking about a potential impeachment in the house of representatives. On wednesday i tried to log off for a little bit and listen to music and try to process what had occurred. And it is starting to sink in. I walked into work this morning into the russell building and there are Army National guard outside of the capitol where i work every day. People in fatigues Walking Around the building where i work every day. I think that is starting to sink in, that not just what happened wednesday, but this is really going to change how we operate up here moving forward for a long time. So there is an emotional piece of this, but there is also a logistical piece of this that i think everyone is trying to process and work out right now. Lets go back to wednesday and how it unfolded. Lets show some of the photos you took of the damage outside. It was difficult to report on the capitol when it was on lockdown. We didnt have a good sense of the danger we were all in. In fact, when i first went on air to report that the capitol was in lockdown which was very rare. I have only been in two lockdowns in my entire time since covering washington, this was the second time i had ever been in a lockdown. I reported it was probably unlikely that protesters will get into this building because never would i have imagined that we could see the enormous amount of people or even a single protester breach such a heavily fortified building. The first sense we got that things were really serious is when our congressional producer ted barrett told me the capitol was in lockdown. He tried to leave the building. He came back and told me that. We reported that on air. And then just moments later after i was about to go live, our other producers which was here in this booth where i was reporting from showed me a picture from twitter of a reporter shooting these members of the mob in the capitol just steps from the senate floor. I could not believe my eyes. And we were able to confirm that and report it. Also seeing an internal security alert from Capitol Police saying dont leave your offices. Lock your doors. Dont make a sound showing how serious it was. We were reporting throughout the course of the day. We were relying on pool reports. We were reporting things while on the air. It was impossible to sense things. I really got a real sense of how devastating things were when i was evacuated out of this location to a secure location, when i was Walking Around the capitol. It was almost like a war zone, things knocked over. It smelled like smoke bombs in the air. Riot police everywhere. It was a surreal experience to see the halls of the capitol turn into a war zone. It was like prior terror attacks in that information came out drip by drip from different perspectives and vantage points. Youre barely off crutches, what was it like . Yeah. It wasnt super ideal. We were all so laser focussed on the proceed, right . Yes. You had objectors to electoral votes. When we first found out and we saw the notices we were hearing from sources that two of the house buildings had been evacuated, look, evacuations occur. Suspicious packages occur. We dont Pay Attention to them. I was tied to a camera across the street from capitol on the senate side. Once they started the debate, i thought i could unplug and see what was happening. Mostly i wanted to connect and try to figure out how to divide and conquer who separate stories. So i went underground, no sense of what was happening outside. I got to an elevator, hit the button to go up and a Capitol Police officer said absolutely not. Turn around. I told him, im fine. He said, you dont understand. Turn around and go back now. So i hobbled my way back, went up to our camera is and right next to that there is kind of a patio that you can open the doors and walk out into. And i walked out into the patio. This is the east front of the capitol. It was the only the best thing i could liken it to is the scifi movie where the protagonist gets the first sense of the alien spaceship blocking out the sun. You see how many people there were. But they were up the steps. They were banging on the doors. They were breaking through the windows. All of our phones were blowing up from sources, particularly those in leadership offices who were on the second floor, who were barricaded in who were very, very scared for their lives. Second, i think it was checking in with one another. We have a team text chain. We wanted to make sure everybody was in a safe place. And you couldnt really pin that down because things were moving so fast. Lauren, you are on crutches, too, arent you . I am on crutches. I mean, that was one of the things that was so tough and scary about wednesday for me personally because, you know, i kept seeing Police Officers saying, why arent you in an office right now . Because i was trying to figure out how to potentially get back to the capitol. They were saying, youre kind of vulnerable. You need to find a place to stay. So i eventually found an office where i could sit for a little while. But it was difficult to kind of find that balance between wanting to report, wanting to see what was going on and also trying to protect yourself. Thats always one of the tough one of the tough balances. Right. Having to hide from the mob. Manu, do you think its fair to say we were minutes away from a massacre and that now we know that. Yeah. If these guys had gone a different direction, they would have broken into the senate ande so close. I dont think people know how close we were. Its terrifying to think of that. If any of them wanted to detonate an explosive or open fire with an ar15, it could have been a mass, mass, mass casualty event. I can tell you in talking to some of the house members in the House Chamber during that harmed standoff, its surreal to hear the accounts from the members themselves. One of the rioters broke a window to get into the house floor. That prompted an armed standoff with several Capitol Police officers. The members in the gallery were told to put on their masks, hiding under their chairs. One congressman, raul ruiz said he thought he could die. Members were calling their staff and family members telling them what was happening, very quietly while cops were screaming at this person trying to get in. People say its a plur how long it lasted. It showed you how serious, precarious of a situation and how it was escalating so quickly out of control, brian. Im glad youre safe. Im thankful yu were there wednesday to be eyewitnesss. Thank you to all three correspondents. Editorial boards are calling for trump and some gop senators to resign. 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You have corporations and people profiting off lies and conspiracy theory, whether thats big tech, whether thats fox news, tv providers or rush limbaugh. There are a lot of people profiting off lies and conspiracy theories and i dont see how things get better until this informational environment is cleaned up. Right. This is a poisoned information well. Thats the big story. Jeffrey, let me show you the least surprising headline i saw. Its from beckley, west virginia, it says trump fans remain loyal. News from the white house in the past few minutes. The white house has called a lit, which means the press shouldnt expect to see the president. Hes in hiding. Have we ever had a situation like this where the president of the United States is in hiding . Actually, ive been thinking a lot about this. Wes in an unprecedented situation in which we dont know what the president is doing and we dont know what the Vice President is doing. Moreover, were not sure about the president s mental stability. Lets put it plainly. We do not know what condition the president is in mentally and hes the president of the United States. And thats a very frightening place to be for this country. There are so many enablers still. Fox news, the murdock, they are still enabling this stuff, obsessing over big tech bias and trying to ignore the riot. Where are they . They need to be held accountable as well. Were talking a lot about josh hawley and ted cruz. Rupert murdock, lock land murdock, they need to be held accountable for the lies theyve petalled not only in the last two months, but for years that have brought this to the head. Susan, you went to the capitol with your husband peter baker. Theres a vigil. Columbia residents who have gone down with signs. What did you see there . Things like fascists go home. We love you. Welcome joe biden and kamala harris. But the theme really was that this was an attack on american democracy. The capitol is a symbol of democracy around the world as well as the United States. My first job out of college was covering congress for roll call newspaper. I worked there for eight years. Every day i went to the u. S. Capitol i was awed and overwhelmed by the grandeur of the place. It is literally the physical similar bomb of this unique experiment in democracy in the world. I think that looking at the pictures this week, it was a shock upon the system, in some ways the horror of that grows overti time rather than diminishes. I saw people bringing their children to the capitol to take pictures. It was almost like a absolutely. Thank you all for wrapping this hour up. Before we go, a reminder to subscribe to our reliable sources newsletter. Oliver and i will be out with a fresh Edition Later tonight. Sign up at reliablesources. Com. We are t minus ten days until the inauguration of joe biden, i promise. And between now and then well see you right back here this time next week. 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