because he was prepared to say the unsayable. they loved his antiestablishment energy. they backed his trashing of behavioural norms. ahead of the election, he strongly signalled that he was even prepared to reject democratic conventions. he refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. well, we are going to have to see what happens, you know that. i have been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. but more than 7a million americans voted for him nonetheless, the second highest figure in us history. he won almost 47% of the national vote. in events like thisjuly 4th celebration at the lincoln memorial, critics of his presidency saw signs of authoritarianism, america first as a military tattoo. and many people globally viewed episodes like his return from hospital after recovering from the coronavirus as comic opera. some lampooned him as an american mussolini.

but many of his backers saw something different, an american strongman and a fellow victim of elite sneering. the whole number of electors appointed to vote for president of the united states... on capitol hill last night, some of his loyal allies, the trump enablers, started tojump ship. i hate it to end this way. oh, my god, i hate it. from my point of view, he's been a consequential president, but today... the first thing you'll see. all i can say is, count me out, enough is enough. but almost half of republican lawmakers voted last night to overturnjoe biden‘s victory, even after they witnessed first hand what looked like an insurrection on capitol hill. when he emerged on the political scene four years ago, it was said that the new york tycoon had mounted a hostile takeover of the republican party, but there was always massive buy—in from the rank—and—file conservatives who became his personal base. so even after the american carnage

that we witnessed here yesterday, he remains the dominant figure in conservative politics, and could be for years to come. the republicans have always prided themselves on being the party of abraham lincoln, but these past four years, they have become the party of donald trump. many of his supporters display a near cult—like devotion. so it is premature to see the storming of the capitol as trump and trumpism's final stand. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are lizzy burden, uk economy reporter for bloomberg news, and faiza shaheen, inequality lead at the centre for international cooperation at new york university. before we start, let's take a look at some of the front pages from across the world. and the washington post website leads on the riots at the us capitol, describing last night's invasion of it as a disastrous

failure of security. the new york times also focuses on the riots with a lead article claiming that president trump wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency. le figaro reports that the election outcome has been confirmed withjoe biden to become the next president of the united states. the frankfurter also leads on those dramatic scenes in washington last night — with a photograph of mike pence and nancy pelosi at the certification ofjoe biden. the japan times writes that there was "fear and shock "amid the siege at us capitol" the uk's telegraph leads on the threat from the democrats, who say they'll remove trump if he doesn't leave "after america's day of shame". so so let's begin and as always lizzy and faiza it is good to have you both with us after what has been a tumultuous day. we are coming to terms with what happened on wednesday. we will start with the

daily telegraph which lizzy describes the day of shame. the images anyone who was glued to their screen yesterday wilbur member the images of those people rushing up to capitol hill and preaching the security there and many of the papers focusing on what the telegraph is describing as america's day of shame. yeah, really historic scenes. the telegraph is focusing on the growing calls to oust donald trump after what we saw in the capital even though he is only got less tha n capital even though he is only got less than a fortnight left in office. and there are two options to do that. they could try and impeach him again which would mean he couldn't run for a second term. or they could invoke the 25th amendment which would be much faster. and that's intended for if a president unable to discharge his duties. but the fact that it's even being mentioned shows how isolated the

president is at the moment and a list of resignations has been growing. you had trump is a former acting chief of staff, melania trump's chief of staff and the transport secretary who oddly enough, the resignation leader isn't leaving until monday so maybe that shows that there are plans to invoke the 25th amendment. there is speculation about that on twitter at the moment. but donald trump is also being criticised by former presidents. so, it really shows how isolated he is at the moment. and when it comes to the 20 for the amendment, faiza, it is not that easy, is it because ultimately this amendment works towards removing an incapacitated president whereas i think they're trying to get over it by using the fourth section, i think what it is described as, but it is not straightforward and as lizzy was mentioning there is not that much time left before the 20th,

inauguration day. there isn't enough time left or potentially there potentially there isn't enough time left. when you look at but this would mean, it would mean pens and a majority of the cabin into coming out against trump and moving forward with this which whilst there has been recognition and today, there are still people that are standing by his side. —— resignations today. even last night after they returned to confirm the results of the election, there was still 147 republicans that voted against validating those results. so the extent to which they can use the 20 for the amendment is in question. nancy pelosi has come out and said they could try impeachment if the republicans don't move. they have to do something. i mean, what happened yesterday which looked like a who, we saw people running in, they had

weapons, violence, people died, bombs were left, pipe bombs were left. the rampaging of the offices, you cannotjust left. the rampaging of the offices, you cannot just let that go and there have not been that many arrests of fire given what happened and trump of course being at the very ce ntre and trump of course being at the very centre of this, if he is seen to get away with it, it will not to send a signal to the rest of the us and a signal to the others that they're able to get away with this. it was sent a signal to the rest of the world. and you have to remember the world. and you have to remember the us has been self stout as the world's greatest democracy and beacon of hope. —— self—styled. all of this hype around what america stands for. if it doesn't take action now, it will notjust stands for. if it doesn't take action now, it will not just look at soft. it will look like a joke to the rest of the world. and we are just getting a statement from the white house press secretary, katie mecca nanny who is describing the violence that we saw appalling,

reprehensible, antithetical to the american way, and strong words, we contentment, this administration condemns it in the strongest possible terms. but when we look at the washington post and all of the papers focusing on what happened on wednesday evening, wednesday during the day and into the evening, there will be huge question access to how it could happen in the first place, lizzy. security failures, security breach. there will be a lot of soul—searching. i believe that the people in charge have been resigning over this. but a lot of questions being asked how on earth could happen in the first place. for months we have been talking about how a contested election could lead to civil unrest. this was shocking yes but not totally unpredictable. and even historians will be asking whether it was actually inevitable. and yet it was allowed to happen. and yet it was allowed to happen. and yet it was allowed to happen. and yet the protesters orjoe biden

doesn't want to call them protesters, he is saying that they must be called much worse than that — domestic terrorists — how they could get into the capitol building and the other point is how it was that they were treated so differently to the black lives matter protesters last year. —— black lives matter protesters. the black lives matter protesters. the black lives matter protesters. the black lives matter protesters were tear gassed. they were shot at with plastic bullets. and yet this mob was able to get over the threshold. the washington, dc police knew that this rally was going to be happening. as faiza says, many people will be asking for a really long time how this could be about to happen ina long time how this could be about to happen in a place that was held up as the beacon of democracy globally. indeed because a lot of comparison has been made to the black lives matter movement, the protest that we saw, the height of the protest we

saw, the height of the protest we saw over the summer saw, the height of the protest we saw over the summer last year. faiza, the number of people that we re faiza, the number of people that were arrested between may 30 and june the 2nd master at the height of those racial protests, 427. 68 people arrested yesterday. the comparison speaks for itself really. and most of those arrests were for people that hadn't gone home before the curfew. so, i mean, that comparison is quite striking and it was one of the major messages and points of conversation coming out in the us yesterday. i mean, how could they have got in so easily? why aren't this mop and let's face it, they are motivated by trump yes but they are motivated by trump yes but they are motivated by trump yes but they are often motivated, you couldn't help but notice the majority of them are white and male, white supremacist attitudes, why aren't they scared of the police? why were they taking selfies with the police?! and he said the sort of

questions that are being asked this disparity in treatment and how it was so easy disparity in treatment and how it was so easy for them, why there were these images where the police weren't really pushing back. there was going to have to be a serious inquiry into this and it was quite something to see all of these tweets about people that didn't understand white privilege before when they look at the difference in images now between the way in which black lives matter protesters were treated versus these writers and the heart of the us democracy on capitol hill treated in this soft way and not arrested yet, it is striking. —— these rioters. it is ugly and biden's speech today, he was very clear in pointing this out which is a really good thing. he has got a big job on his hand going forward because this isn'tjust big job on his hand going forward because this isn't just about trump. there are a lot of issues that this brings up. and that leads us nicely onto some of the international papers. we have done a us and uk paper, let's

look at the figaro, which is focusing lizzy on the confirmation thatjoe biden will become the next president of the united states. the headline though, "joe biden on a volcano". at that was what faiza was alluding to. that there is an awful lot of unrest and unease and dissatisfaction in the united states and joe biden will now have to deal with all of that and bring the nation together. yeah, exactly. there is some hope that this has united some of the softer republicans with the democrats and maybe this has had a bit of a healing effect, actually. but the fa ct healing effect, actually. but the fact that this is being covered in the french press as well, it really is the only story in town and the whole world is watching it. emmanuel macron said that the right was un—american and boris johnson macron said that the right was un—american and borisjohnson as

well was disgraced —— condemning it as disgraceful. —— the riot was un—american. you have to ask whether trump will be pardoned by biden in orderjust to get back to a state to wipe the slate clean. indeed and all the international papers are focusing on it. the frankfurter, the german paper also faiza has nancy pelosi and mike pence at the certification ofjoe biden they're both together and in fact it was mike pence who had to announce it. he was the one who ultimately voiced what we were all waiting for, that joe biden will become the next president of the united states.. and at least they did go back in and show that defiance. pence has done a lot wrong. he has supported trump really up to the last few days. the

trump supporters are now very angry with him. but, you know, what these different takes on what is happening show us from around the world is how embarrassing this is for the us and also concerns about what happens now in terms of the next couple of weeks. trump is still there until they find a solution on that. what happens with the republicans that have stood by trump? some of them are fiow renouncing have stood by trump? some of them are now renouncing that and stepping back. and biden, this is a really humbling point for the us. and is biden now going to go forward and look at the rest of the world when they have had to deal with these breakdowns be it south africa or ghana and look at how they dealt with these issues afterwards? america is in no position now to teach the rest of the world any lessons and they will have to look to other countries to really start this process. because what we don't wa nt want to happen is for people to think trump is out of the white

house now it is all