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JOE BIDEN: At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we ve seen in modern times an assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself, an assault on the people s representatives, on the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect them, on the public servants who work at the heart of our republic, an assault on the rule of law like few times we ve ever seen it, and assault on the most sacred of American undertakings, the doing of the people s business.
Let me be very clear. The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent. It s disorder. It s chaos. It borders on sedition. And it must end. Now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.