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01/12/2021 08:00 AM EST
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Two sources said that a woman was in critical condition from being shot in the chest on the Capitol ground, according to CNN. The cable news channel said it “could not provide further details on the circumstances of the shooting,” but it is unclear if they did not know the detail or if they were unauthorized to discuss it. They were described as “sources familiar with the matter.” Capitol police did not immediately respond to an email from Law&Crime. An attempt to call their spokespeople ended with Law&Crime receiving a message that a voice mailbox was full.
Later, it was reported that law enforcement officials said the woman had died.
Police try to defend US capitol from Trump supporters who have breached the building. Drew Angerer / Getty Images
The US Capitol was placed on lockdown today after Trump supporters broke through police barricades and stormed the building an action that was encouraged yesterday by Trump himself. Congress, who were meeting to certify the electoral college votes, were whisked away to safety as reports began coming in that shots were fired inside the building, and people were injured. Stay tuned for the latest updates.
A BRIEF UPDATE FROM REP. SUZANNE BONAMICI: 4:30 PM
I m preparing to return to the House floor to resume fulfilling our Constitutional duty to certify the presidential election. We won t let domestic terrorists stop us from doing our job.
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With Daniel Lippman
Donald Trump rioters storming the Capitol as lawmakers prepared to certify
Joe Biden’s electoral college victory left K Street stunned this afternoon. “I fear for our democracy,” one lobbyist, who asked to remain anonymous given the situation’s volatility, told PI, adding that they’d never seen anything like the chaos on the Hill that unfolded Wednesday in more than three decades in Washington. “This is a test of our democracy.”
Pence reportedly expected to attend the inauguration as Trump potentially leaves for Mar-a-Lago
Vice President Mike Pence is expected to attend Biden s inauguration,
Politico reports, became easier after Trump publicly lambasted Pence for not overturning the results of the 2020 election, despite his lack of authority to do so. It was a much more difficult decision days ago, but less difficult now, a person close to Pence told
Politico.
Trump had been publicly pressuring Pence to somehow prevent Biden s win from being certified by Congress this week, but Pence, who oversaw the counting of electoral votes, said my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not. Trump reacted by attacking him on Twitter, claiming he didn t have the courage to do what should have been done.