signed affidavits at risk of perjury their voices have not been heard in a court of law a section 15 and 17 of title 3 of the us code require that any objection be presented writing and signed by a member of the house of representatives and a senator is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator the objection has writing not signed by a senator in that case the objection is not the 1000 . are there any further objections to counting the certificate of the vote from the state of michigan certificate the teller has verified appears to be regular form and authentic there are no further objections this certificate from minnesota to the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state the ports to be returned from the state and ex

to its certificate for florida from the state supported to appoint and ascertain electors to that certificate and be locked out of the state of minnesota seems to be regular and farm after that and it appears there from the just of our biden jr of the state of delaware receive 10 votes for president and calmly be harris of the state of california received 10 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of minnesota that the tellers verified appears to be regular for an authentic hearing none this certificate for mississippi the parliamentarian's advises the only certificate of votes in that state force to be returned from the state as an extended a certificate of authority of the state forwarding to appoint and ascertain electors . mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of mississippi

seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trop of the state of florida received 6 votes for president and michael r. parents of the state of indiana received 6 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote in the state of mississippi that feller's verified appears to be regular in form and authentic hearing none. this certificate from missouri the parliamentarians advise is the only certificate of vote from the state to purport to be a return from the state that is an extended a certificate from an authority of the state purporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of missouri seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 10 votes for president and michael r. pants of the state of indiana received 10 votes for vice president. are there any

objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of missouri that the tellers verified appears to be regular and authentic bearing on. this certificate from montana the parliamentarian's advises the only certificate of oath in the state the ports to be returned from the state and that as addicks to a certificate of authority of the state reporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of montana seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the downgrade tromp of the state of florida received 3 votes for president and micro are pens the state of indiana received 3 votes for vice president any objections to counting the certificate of the vote in the state of montana but the teller verified appears to be regular in form and authentic. hearing on this certificate from nebraska the parliamentarian's advise is the only certificate of 0 from the

state of the ports to be returned from the state that has an axe to it a certificate of authority for the state for it to appoint or ascertain electors mr president this certificated of the electoral vote of the state of nebraska seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that donald trump of the state of florida received 4 votes for president and joseph are biden jr of the state of delaware receive one vote for president and michael our hands at the state of indiana receive more votes for vice president and calmly being parents of the state of california received one pound for vice president of there any objections to counting the certificate of vote from the state of nebraska the teller's verified regular in form and authentic hearing none. this certificate from nevada the parliamentarian advises is the only step to get

a vote from the state the courts to be returned from the state and that has an axe to it a certificate of authority from the state 40 to appoint or are soutane electors to president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of nevada seems to be regular information and authentic and it appears there from the joseph parr biden jr of the state of delaware receive 6 votes for president and kamel of the harris of the state of california received 6 votes for vice president for what reason does the gentleman from alabama writes mr president i am 55 other members of the united states house of representatives object electoral votes of the state of nevada in order to protect the lawful votes of nevada and all other american citizens. section 15 and 17 of title 3 of the united states code requires that any objection be presented in writing and signed by a member of the house of representatives and

a senator is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator mr president it is in writing but unfortunately no united states senator has joined in this after the it and had in that case the objection cannot be entertained are there any further objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of nevada that the tellers verified appears to be regular informant authentic this certificate from new hampshire the parliamentarians advise me as the all the certificate of votes in that state it purports to be a return from the state has an axe to it a certificate of authority of the state party to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of new hampshire

seems to be regular informant authentic and it appears there from that joseph barr biden jr of the state of delaware receive 4 votes for president and cobble of the hero of the state of california received 4 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of new hampshire that the tellers verified appears to be regular and form an authentic just remind you what she vice president mike pence a presiding aver joint session of congress says mike pence in his role as president of the senate conducting the constitutionally prescribed county of electoral college votes which will. determine and confirm joe biden as the next president of the united states you just need to watch out for any potential objections particularly pennsylvania which should be coming up soon. if you are in the state of delaware receive 14 votes for president and comedy parents in the state of california received 14 votes for vice president are there any objections to

counting the certificate of vote of the state of new jersey tellers verified appears to be regular in form of the certificate from new mexico the parliamentarian's advises the only certificate of vote from the state it purports to be a return from the state and that has an axe to it a certificate of authority of the state supporting to appoint a recitation electors and is to present the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of new mexico seems to be regular in farm and atlantic and it appears there from that just of our biden jr of the state of delaware receive 5 votes for president and common id harris of the state of california received 5 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the state of new mexico that the teller has verified appears to be regular in form and authentic

hearing none the certificate from new york the parliamentarians advise me is the only ship to get a vote from the state of force to be returned from the state as an extended a certificate of authority from the state purporting to appoint and ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of new york seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the joseph or biden jr of the state of delaware receive 29 votes for president and kamel or d. harris of the state of california receive $29.00 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of new york the tellers verified appears to be regular in form an authentic hearing on this certificate from north carolina the parliamentarian's advised me as the only certificate of vote from that state it purports to be a return from the state as an axe to it a certificate from the state purporting to appoint an ascertained electors. this

president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of north carolina seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida received 15 votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 15 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of north carolina it's tellers verified appears to be regular in form an authentic this certificate from north dakota the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote from the state it purports to be a return from the state that is antics to the certificate of authority of the state the porting to appointed ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of north dakota since the regular in form and authentic and appears there from the don draper trump of the state of florida received 3

votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 3 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the significant of both the state of north dakota and the teller is verified as regular and authentic hearing on this certificate from ohio parliamentarians advises the only stiffing get a vote from the state the perforce to be returned from the state as annex to it a certificate of authority of the state purporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of ohio seems to be regular in farm and atlantic and it appears there from that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 18 votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 18 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote from the state of ohio that the teller has verified as regular in form and authentic

hearing none. this certificate from oklahoma the parliamentarian's advise is the only certificate of 0 from that state force to be returned from the state as an ex to a certificate of authority of the states supporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of oklahoma seems to be regular information and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida received 7 votes for president and michael r. parents of the state of indiana received 7 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of oklahoma that the teller has verified to be regular in form and authentic hearing on this certificate from oregon the parliamentarian's advises the only certificate of vote from the state purports to be returned from the state as this is triplicate of authority from the state antics to it to appoint an ascertain

electors this president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of oregon seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the joseph biden jr of the state of delaware receive 7 votes for president and comedy here so the state of california receive 7 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of oregon at the teller has verified as regular and form an authentic hearing on. this certificate from the commonwealth of pennsylvania the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of vote from the state the proportion to be returned of the state as an axe to a certificate from authority of the state forwarding to appoint and ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the commonwealth of pennsylvania seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from

the terms of our biden jr or the state of delaware receive 20 votes for president and comedy harris and the state of california receive 20 votes for vice president for eason does a gentleman from pennsylvania writes mr president sadly but resolutely i object to the electoral votes of my beloved commonwealth of pennsylvania on the grounds of multiple constitutional infractions that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given and on this occasion i have a written objection signed by a senator and 80 members of the house of representatives. is the objection in writing and signed by a senator yes president it is an objection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a senator complies with the law chapter one title 3 of the united states code the

clerk will report the objection that we a united states senator and members of the house of representatives object to the counting of the electorial vote of the state of pennsylvania on the ground that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given sign just harlee united states senator scott carey member of congress are there further objections to the certificate from the commonwealth of pennsylvania the chair here is not to houses will withdraw from joint session each house will deliberate separately on the pending objection of reporters decision back to the joint session the senate will now retire to its chamber. so there you have it says

we thoughts pennsylvania would be the sticking point all the states were going through quite nicely and then the objection was presented by pennsylvania and they will now both chambers will now go off to discuss that objection let's bring in heidi castro who knows more about this than i did he tell us more about the process what's going to happen now. so next now it's on to 2 more hours up to 2 hours of debate in these separate chambers regarding whether or not to accept pennsylvania's electoral college votes for joe biden this is something that was forecasted we saw coming as senator josh holley one of trump's most fiercest defenders said he would object to this you may have heard in this roll call earlier up to now there were actually several states that house republicans objected to including michigan and georgia and of that however failing to have even

one senator sign on to those objections they were not passed to be debated upon pennsylvania though is the 2nd state following arizona has both support from a senator and from in this case 80 members of the house all republicans who are are voicing this objection so now by law we're what we're seeing is this joint session of congress. now separate into the 2 separate chambers of course either of these are the same chambers where we saw members sheltering in place and be evacuated some hours ago during that rioting when violence gripped the national capital so now you have to see the sessions being called back in the various chambers and it could be still more hours dragging on of this debate that will ultimately as i've been saying all night it will ultimately still lead to the

same conclusion which is that joe biden has enough electoral college votes to be certified as the incoming u.s. president whether or not donald trump likes it right what's interesting about this is that this really is just procedural isn't it and it should have just been a straightforward process straightforward business but it's ended up being a day of utter chaos and riots and at least one death. in fact we're hearing now that it's 4 people who have died as a result of the violence we saw today one protester who was shot in the capital after breaching the capital apparently another 3 due to medical conditions that we're still trying to get more details on so certainly this is not how anyone would have expected this very procedural. element of sort of find

electoral college vote to unfold it typically happens just you rattle off a list of states and within an hour's time it's over in fact it's so boring that sometimes the members don't even attend they send their staffers to do it for them so in leading up to the events of today we already knew that this this certification was going to be different than previous years and that we knew there would be objections based on the president's baseless claims that he won the election instead of joe biden so we already knew that was going to happen but that the conclusion would be that those claims fail that biden will still be certified and now after the violence that ensued the words that we heard spoken on the senate floor and on the house floor also worm viewed with new meaning rather than just a ceremonial speech as members would have done they wanted to defend democracy they

denounced the violence that unfolded and several republicans on the senate side at least actually withdrew the objections that they had intended to lodge earlier citing their conscience citing the earlier events of today that was not so much the case on the house side though where you saw more of trump's loyalists sticking by the president representative mag gates from from florida drying. boos from democrats when he defended the president's rally early in the day that really incited much of the violence in which trump said to his supporters marched to the capitol in which his attorney said to those supporters this is going to be. a battle using words that invoked violence but mag mag aides defended trump saying that he had explicitly called for

a peaceful demonstration and he was booed when he compared that to the black lives matter organizers who he said were more insightful of violence but republicans in the chamber applauded his statement so you still see that this deep division certainly it didn't take this as a wake up call this shock of violence that threatened the physical safety of these members it may have drawn some together to speak words of unity but it certainly hasn't healed those very deep divides and we're still seeing the partisan attacks playing out you know the divisions run deep heidi thanks very much for that to have it your custer in washington d.c. . well the procedure to certify joe biden's victory as we've just been hearing in mid-scale politicians had to be evacuated off his own from supporters stormed capitol hill at least 52 people were arrested and least one person has died after being shot political hand reports now from washington d.c. . the u.s.

capitol building under siege. thousands of president donald trump's followers surrounded the building and burst in the result a remarkable scene of lawmakers and the police overwhelmed social media filled with pictures of trump's followers and offices in the chambers running free in what is supposed to be one of the most protected buildings in the country it started as u.s. president donald trump called his supporters to protest what he for sleep. was a stolen election rollin them up with inflammatory words and misinformation are we going to walk down to the capitol. and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women as a joint session of congress met to certify the election the president's followers heeded his words and descended on the capitol chaos followed. tear gas and

flash bangs to try and push them back from the front of the capitol others moved to the back quickly pushing through a lot of police many entering the building congress was dismissed and its members blood at one point reports of an armed standoff at least one protester was shot and killed several officers injured the incoming president responded no this is not to sent it's just shorter. ok so let's get back and we can see this in support of the house of representatives and nancy pelosi the speaker let's have a minute. before i recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania. the house will be in order jack chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania mr perry for 5 minutes . thank you madam speaker this is a somber day for the defense of the constitution see the constitution is just a piece of paper it cannot defend itself that is why our leaders swear an oath poll

and defend the constitution and that's what i'm doing here this evening the constitution states the times place and manner of holding elections shall be prescribed by the legislature not the courts not the governor not the secretary of state or other bureaucrats or elected officials the legislature in pennsylvania the supreme court unilaterally extended the deadline for ballots to 3 days after the election actually wanted 10 the supreme court is not the legislature the supreme court mandated and postmark ballots to be received destroying the validity of all of the votes that were cast timely the supreme court action defied the law the legislature and the will of the people the supreme court authorized the use of drop boxes where ballot harvesting could occur the legislature never authorized that form of voting and the court had absolutely no right to do so responded to the

secretary of state cappy book for the supreme court ruled that mail in ballots need not authenticate signatures once again the court not only defied the constitution and the will of the people but by so doing they created a separate class of voters thereby violating the equal protections clause prescribed in the constitution how can we have to legally separate classes of voters yet the court made it so not the legislature. the constitution doesn't mention the court when determining the time place and manner of elections because they're not authorized to make those decisions and yet they did it and the u.s. supreme court has refused to hear the case denying the evidence and denying to demands for justice from the people of pennsylvania and america these are my opinions these are partisan viewpoints these are era futile facts 6 days before the election guides email from the secretary of state required that cammy shall not

free canvass or canvass any mail in or civilian absentee ballots received between 8 o'clock tuesday and 5 o'clock friday and that they must be kept separately that was 6 days before the election 2 days before the election cammy received new guidance from the secretary of state informing counties that they shout canvass segregated absentee and mail in ballots as soon as possible upon receipt the secretary of state is not elected by the people she is not a member of the legislature yet she and she alone determine the time and manner of elections unconstitutional ladies and gentlemen in defiance of a u.s. supreme court or that all ballots received after election day be segregated the secretary of state knew once they were canvassed that is opened in commingled with all the other ballots they would be counted with all the rest and what's the remedy for this defiance for this law breaking so far the court has decided there is no remedy there is no penalty for this lawlessness this dilution of lawless of

lawfully cast votes this defiance of the constitution no remedy when the state legislature requested the governor convene a special session to address the under answered questions and try to provide a remedy he refused. when votes are accepted under unconstitutional means without fair and equal protection for the only result can be an illegitimate after illegitimate the voters did not create this mess but the will of the people is absolutely being subverted by the deliberate and willful actions of individuals defying their oath the law and the constitution in pennsylvania we use the statewide uniform registry of electors or the sure system as the basis of determining who can vote unfortunately a recent attempted audit by the democrat state auditor general could fluid that he was able and able to establish with any degree of reasonable assurance that the

sure system is secure and that pennsylvania voter registration records are complete and accurate that's all relying on ladies and gentlemen that right there this is the very same system used to certify the election in the contest for president of the united states this is the very same system that the state used to certify the 2020 alexion even though its figures do not match more than half of pennsylvania's $67.00 counties to this day right now while we stand here how can this election be certified using a system that after 2 months still displays that over 205000 more votes were cast in pennsylvania than people who voted in the november election let me say that i get 205000 more votes than boat tours. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado think recognition that

a speaker. manage speaker i rise in opposition to the objection. that a speaker to my colleague from pennsylvania i will say this i carry the same constitution that you do. united states constitution when the 2 has not allow you me or any member of this body to substitute our judgment for that of the american people it does not allow us to disregard the will of the american people because under this constitution under our constitution congress doesn't choose the president the american people do and they have chosen in resoundingly numbers as every single member of this body well understands now i have been at a loss not a speaker to explain what happened today but as a statement i found it largely summarized my thoughts on the matter the scenes of

mayhem unfolding at the seat of our nation's government are a sickening and heartbreaking sight this is how election results are disputed in a banana republic not our democratic republic i am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions our traditions and our law enforcement the violent assault on the capital and the disruption of a constitutionally mandated meeting of congress was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falshood state and false hopes insurrection could do grave damage to our new something from the house of representatives to the senate chamber where the 33rd floor looking at this pennsylvania electoral votes objection .