this is insane. lawmakers, including republicans, calling in to cnn, were astounded at the president s detachment. the election is over and the objectors need to stop meddling with the primal forces of our democracy here. so call it off, mr. president. we need you to call this off. president trump did not call it off. on a perch overlooking the crowd, alex jones begins to spin the lie, antifa was causing the violence. we have the witnesses, we have the phenomenally. coy griffin, who claims he didn t see any fighting, makes his way to the inauguration stage. it wasn t part of the capitol building, it was an exterior stai staircase. i never went inside. and tries to get a mob, shouting fight for trump, to pray for trump. take a knee!
mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. there was a scaffold and a noose and chants of hang mike pence. hang mike pence! security is now whisking pence and his family down a back stairway. i think trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. i think he wanted them to disrupt the certification of the electoral college votes to give him more time to play out some other scenario that might yet end up with him being president. and that s the most dangerous part. not the crowd in the capitol, although that was sad and tragic. the worst part was donald trump himself. we came this far, what do you say? drag them out! back inside, ashli babbitt is approaching a mob that has reached the doors of the house speaker s lobby. it s a hallway that leads directly to the floor of the
each of us get gas masks that are under our seats. armed capitol police are now blocking the doors of the united states house of representatives. you are a traitor if you go against up in the gallery, colorado congressman jason crow was in a group of members, trapped. everybody stay down! we were the targets. we were the ones, the members that they were going to try to kill or capture. crow called his wife, told her i love you. then the former army ranger with more than a hundred combat mission in iraq and afghanistan, plotted to escape. there was a part of me that was thinking, if this mob breaks through those doors, they re going to try to kill us all. and i need to do what i need to do to protect myself, protect my colleagues, protect others. on the capitol s front lawn the mob was becoming incensed. donald trump had just tweeted.
they had overpowered police who could do little but coax and steer them away from lawmakers. my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. stand in recess until the call of the chair. the rioters weren t just in the building. at the moment the senate adjourned, they were streaming straight toward the senate chambers and vice president mike pence. senator mitt romney is about to head straight into a mob but is intercepted by a single capitol hill police officer. a moment later, that same officer, eugene goodman, somehow coaxes the mob away from the senate and straight into a waiting row of capitol police. my hero.
me in. now, you know that s not true. i know it is true. there s proof of it. there s video of it. the cops were at the door, standing to the sides of the door and they were waving people in. the video i saw of that moment. mm-hmm. was a couple of cops overwhelmed by a mob. well, you didn t watch all the videos, then. i didn t? i think i did. it was all caught on video. here is josh pruitt walking through the door, 70 seconds after the window breaks. it is almost the same moment rioters smash windows on the east side. be advised they re attempting to break a window on the east front. the capitol has been breached on the east side. armed with sticks, flag poles, riot shields. whose house! our house!