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Thursday January 07 2021
US President-elect Joe Biden speaks at the Queen Theater on January 6, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware. PHOTO | AFP
Summary
President-elect Biden demands that President Trump goes on television to call an end to the violent siege.
President Trump tells his supporters to go home after they stormed the US Capitol.
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President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced the storming of the US Capitol as an insurrection and demanded President Donald Trump go on television to call an end to the violent siege. At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault, the veteran Democrat said in Wilmington, after hundreds of Trump supporters protesting his election defeat swarmed the Capitol building and put the nation s lawmakers at risk.
he has the sole authority to invoke the insurrection act, and if necessary, he will do so to protect american citizens. reporter: this morning, the pentagon had ordered 200 troops in the d.c. area to go home. but after the meeting this afternoon, an abrupt reversal. the pentagon said the troops will remain in place. esper was part of the team that walked with the president from the white house to st. john s church for a photo op about 30 minutes after law enforcement forcibly removed hundreds of peaceful protesters to clear the way. the white house says that was done on orders from attorney general barr. secretary esper insists he knew nothing about it. i was not aware of law enforcement s plans for the park. i was not briefed on them. reporter: today, the president claimed he didn t know about the plan to force out the peaceful protesters, either. i didn t say, oh, move them out. i didn t know who was there. i figured i was going to walk
because a few years ago, i don t think it would have happened. reporter: large crowds turning out from new york to los angeles to the u.s. capital, where protesters laid face-down in silence in remembrance of george floyd. the crowd urging capitol police to take a knee. for days, protesters in philadelphia have tried to tear down this controversial statue of former mayor and police commissioner frank rizzo, widely accused of being a symbol of racism for his tactics against the black community in the 1960s and 70s. the city taking it down in the middle of the night. this is the beginning of the healing process, this is not the end. we have a long way to go. reporter: late today, barack obama making his first on-camera comments about george floyd and the protests. i want you to know that your lives matter. your dreams matter.
carriage, former larry snyder had the honor of providing the tree after winning the national christmas tree association s annual contest. will be featured in the blue room of the white house and is quite an honor. in addition to their arrival of the white house christmas tree is a capitals christmas tree also arriving today. the 60-foot blue spruce making the 2,000-mile journey all the way from carson national forest in new mexico to the u.s. capital, the cross-country tour included 31 stops across nine states from a professional truck driver delivered by capital tree today. he joins me now. that was quite a trip, had precious cargo you are carrying. i sure did. dana: how did you get selected to do this and what does it mean to you? wilbanks was selected through insurance companies, i heard about it last spring, and then we selected out of our company three drivers selected out of our management team is what we ended up doing and we used a