so rare to see anything like this. a protest in china, especially protest directed at xi, who is about to secure an unprecedented third time in power. ac 360 starts now. good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images what happened outside the capitol on january 6th of the capitol being breached, people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic. but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors where the people in power were making decisions. and that is what you re about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker nancy pelosi and others were supposed to flee the capitol from their
must continue no matter what happens, and then they work the phones for hours with chuck schumer and others going blasting jeffrey rosen, the acting attorney general, demanding he get the president to make some sort of a statement, demanding that they start arresting protesters before they are able to get away. joining us right now is bob woodward, cnn political analyst carl bernstein. together they broke some of the biggest stories, the watergate. simply they remain prolific authors and investigative reporters and in bob s case, one of the leading chroniclers, as you ve just seen. bob, you just watched this for the first time. as you reflect, what sticks out to you? what it tells us about donald trump, first. i mean, the idea that he was watching this. a case has been made that is provable that he s behind this. so where s the common decency?
fuck cnn, fuck cnn, fuck cnn! finish it! finish it! . madam speaker, i m at the capitol building. i m literally standing with the u.s. capitol police. he just informed me their best is they believe the house and the senate will be able to reconvene in roughly an hour. good news. we re going have to keep certain areas offlimits. it s basically a crime scene. there is blood outside. there is a body on one side by
so rare to see anything like this. a protest in china, especially protest directed at xi, who is about to secure an unprecedented third time in power. ac 360 starts now. good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images what happened outside the capitol on january 6th of the capitol being breached, people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic. but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors where the people in power were making decisions. and that is what you re about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker