from future attacks. we have been told that the capitol is under lockdown. >> they broke the glass? everybody stay down. >> we are watching in attempt sedition. a bloodless coup in the united states. >> this is a bonfire that we are

watching in the capitol right now and all from trump. >> his initial action was not horror which was almost everybody else's reaction. his initial reaction was to watch the show. >> i heard multiple conversations loudly and publicly, find the vice president and hang the vice president. >> we want pence! now, history in the making, a revealing look inside the trump insurrection. thousands triggered by lies and calls to battle, attempted coup that left five people dead. a mop that came armed with conspiracy and overwhelming under manned police and shocking presence. >> and now a cnn's special report, the trump insurrection, 24 hours that shook america.

>> where i can stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i would not lose any voters. it is incredible. >> i am afraid the election is going to be rigged. i have to be honest. >> we'll be at the rallies and he referred to the disgusting news immediamedia and liars and. >> stick with us, don't believe the crap you see from these people, they're fake news. >> what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening. >> the coronavirus pandemic is a perfect example of how trump's corrosive effect on the truth on what we consume in the news media and what it can do to the country. >> looks like by april, you know in theory when it gets warmer and miraculously it will go away. >> covid is a made-up government

thing. >> i have read the facts. i don't listen to the news. >> i want to always play it down. voting by mail is fraud and abuse. >> they'll try to steal the election. >> he talked about the lack of security around by mail voting. it created a real sense of unease for voters. the only way we are going to lose the election is it is rigged. it is the only way we are going to lose the election. take a look at the top line vote. there has been record turn out throughout the country. after four long tense days, cnn projects joseph r. biden jr. is the 46th president of the united states. >> talking to my sources, the president understood in the days after the election that he had lost.

he was willfully misleading and lying to the american people and telling his supporters that he in fact won the election that it was a rigged election. >> no evidence or fraud has emerged. the election was not rigged. >> his allies and supporters and some formally filed a number of legal challenges to try to overturn the results. >> there had been 60 lawsuits brought by the president and his ally the try to challenge the election results throughout the country. 59 out of 60 of them, they lost. one thing that they sort of talking about the lawsuits started seeing trouble was can we get protrump electors in various states and have those certified and sent to the electoral college. those also failed. >> president trump tweeted "peter navarro releases 36-page

report alleging election fraud." a great report by peter, impossible to lost the 2020 election. big protest in d.c. on january 6th. be there. will be wild. >> his supporters understood that as the code they have been waiting since the election day. they believe that he'll remain the president. >> he was following trump's message board and tweeted this warning on december 21st. armed trump's militias will be at d.c. i don't think it has sunk inuit.

>> a discussion of whether or not given how many people there are. they set blockades around the congressional district to stop congress. >> this raises a question, why didn't law enforcement catch this? a number of republican politicians spread their own lies and disinformation to support and abet president trump's efforts to overturn the election results and incite supporters. >> the court is saying we are not going to touch this, you have no remedy. basically, it affects the ruling that you got to go to this -- >> we'll not go quietly in to the night. we'll defend liberty into the future. we are going to win.

>> it is very clear and looking at the record that not only president trump but other elected officials, his allies are out there trying to whip up anger and get people to believe that an election had been stolen. >> president trump speaking in front of thousands of his supporters gathering in washington the so-called march to safe america rally. >> it is a difficult to secure a crowd of this side. more people are continuing to show. they are angry. animosity in the air of this crowd. >> today is the day american patriots taking down names. >> do you accept that joe biden won the election? >> no. >> what did you think happened? >> fraud. >> i just hear it over and over again. >> why did you come here? >> fraud. >> i can see it all over and

online. it is not made-up. >> people were ready to go. standing at the mall with them and i said here in two week's time, biden is going to be in inaugurated. no way, it is not happening. >> as the crowd got amped up. he and his adult children were all backstage giddy with excitement. ivanka at her father's side and ir rick celebrating his birthday and this. turning into anger on stage. >> if you are going to be the zero and not the hero, we are coming for you. we are going to have a good time doing it. . >> all of us here today do not want to see our election stolen. we'll never concede, it does not

happen. you don't concede. our country had enough. we'll not take it anymore. that's what this is all about. you will never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength. you have to be strong. i know that everyone here will be marching over the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. >> they started with president trump, his lawyer rudy giuliani and his son, donald trump jr. at rally whipping up people into anger and whipping up people into fear. >> we'll be made fools. if we are right, a lot of them will go to jail. >> yeah! so, les have trial by combat. >> he just said trial by combat.

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let's walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> he basically had a match and a can of kerosene and he lit it. >> fight for trump! the manifestation were these folks streaming down pennsylvania avenue headed towards the capitol. >> the people that came to this rally were not the ones of the real trump supporters. they were the hardest of the heart core, extremely radicalized. >> do you accept the results of the election? >> absolutely not. >> they got between that and

people having a rally after hearing the president speaks. >> we walked from the white house with the trump's supporter who is are marching to the capitol just as we got to west side of the capitol. there was a small lineup and one set of barriers. all ocf a sudden we heard a bit of commotion and next thing we just saw is trump's supporters streaming through the barriers and onto the lawn of the u.s. capitol. and i just got a sense that this is about to get out of control. >> i was inside the capitol as these protesters were gathering. we were getting report of how much more unrest there was

outside. the extent to which members of congress aids people at capitol hill could be in danger did not come close to the radar of anybody in congress. >> before the joint section of congress to certify the electoral college vote, mike pence was preparing to preside over the proceedings. >> the republican movement to essentially throw out the electoral vote was all fed by president trump's disinformation, conspiracy and the lies he told the american public about the election. >> what does it say to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged? >> despite the objections, president trump was not going to be president trump anymore come january 20th. >> mitch mcconnell despite being a loyal republican through all

of this were saying no, he's not going to have it. >> this election were overturned by allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a spiral. >> mike pence was made clear to president trump that he was not going to do what president trump wanted which is overturning the results. the president refused to accept that. it shows you how detach he is to reality. mike pence is telling the rest o f the world that i am not in on this. it is over for donald trump. that sets the president off and set him in this tirade and that's part of the reason why you saw the president charging up the crowd. >> we are not going to let it happen. >> although president trump holds that rally and that crowd

that he was prepared to join them and marching for the capitol, that never happened. >> we have been told by capitol police that the capitol is in lockdown, people could not leave the building. >> when i got to the capitol, you can tell there was different factions and energy within the crowd. >> there is some people that just want to be there and wave flags. there are others that were much aggressive and those were the people at the front. >> the mob mentality does not even begin to cover what it feels like. >> there is just this energy and no sense of personal resp responsibility. you see team who look like your parents like a suburban soccer

mom. >> the protesters were able to rush through and rush up the stairs and up the area and suddenly i was looking up and they were jamesust everywhere. >> i was on the phone with the reporter on a different issue and somebody said they reached the perimeter room. what? how does that even happen? >> i was shocked because the police were overrun so easily and quickly. >> and just the sheer number of people in this mob, insurrection was able to reach the capitol. it was just mayhem. it was total chaos. i kept looking around for law enforcement thinking how on earth is this possible? there should have been a larger police presence there.

there should have been more fencing or all the things that law enforcement typically does when ever you have a large crowd gathered inside the united states capitol. >> the police chief said police responded. >> let's go. >> there was a moment that the crowd clocked onto us and it became hostile very quickly. just to watch the crowd turn on us -- >> cnn sucks! cnn sucks! >> it was really unsettling and luckily we got out of there unsc unscathed, all of us and we are all quite experienced. we are pretty rattled by it. i have been in a lot of riots and protests and this was the

most hostile crowd i think i have ever been in. >> some calling it violence and some calling it lawlessness. the definition of terrorism is violent pursuit of a political goal. >> the supreme court is not helping us. no one is helping us. only us can help us. only we can do it. >> what we saw take place in an unprecedented way was deceomest terrorism. >> what are you going to do? >> what we have to do, what did you think 1776 was? >> i was scared and was not clear out it was going to end. >> would the police be prepared to hold back an angry crowd from entering the united states capitol.

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once the crowd makes their way inside, past law enforcement into the building. it is total chaos.

>> what you see is this mob storming the building. going floor by floor. in certain instances, they pushed forward past them and some officers stepped aside and allowed them by. what you see is this constant building and building and more people coming and more people coming. >> let him in. let him in. >> so the way they got into the capitol was rioters and looters and the mob walking up the west

front steps at the capitol. broke the windows on the first floor of the senate's side. occupy the doors and walking through the first floor of the capitol. >> at that point many of them walked towards the senate side of the capitol, they were confronted by one police officer. >> i heard a commotion and yelling and i ran downstairs where i encountered this lone police officer making a stance against the mob of 20 or so, trump supporters. you can see him trying to but

failed to prevent them from moving in, shocking moment because at that point nobody really knew that there had been an intrusion into the capitol itself. >> it is hard to say of the police presence out here. i can't see any law enforcement. where is law enforcement? where are the re-enforcements for the capitol police inside? why has the national guards shown up or the npd? >> the vice president and the united states -- >> one thing i did notice is the security seemed lighter than it did earlier in the session.

>> the house will be in order. >> house members were meet to consider the electoral votes. it was an hour of debate before we realized that the mob and riots fighting with police outside and they had broken through. >> we are watching an attempted sedition. trump supporters stopping the constitutional process, the counting of electors. >> we came into lockdown, mike pence was ushered out of the senate chamber. most of the senate were still in the senate waiting for instructions. >> look at this. protesters are inside the hall. this is a legendary place, it is hard to believe what we are seeing. >> i have never been this in house, how about you? >> we own it. >> that's right, we own you.

>> you have a crowd of rioters approached the door way with a block of capitol police. it appears that officers are going to keep them back but then officers suddenly stepped aside. the mob begins using objects to crash through the door. we then see what those officers haves done is leaving jeopardy, their colleagues behind the door. they tried to grab everything they can, chairs, desks and furniture to try to block the way. >> this is a bond fire of the insanity that we are watching at the nation's capitol and it all flows from trump. i could not imagined that in my wildest dreams to see trump supporters carrying the confederate flags through the

halls of the u.s. capitol. it is traitorist. >> president trump can stop this with one tweet. he's on twitter attacking vice president pence for refusing to go along with his attempt at a coup. >> it was just a constant. hundreds of people at the steps of the capitol chanting that for quite some time. i heard multiple conversations loudly and publicly and not anything people were trying to hide. discussing what are we going to do with the vice president? we should go in and find the vice president, we should hang the vice president. >> donald trump put a price on the head of his own vice president. the message was very clear that somehow pence could overturn the results of the election and hand it to trump. they believed it.

>> so it is not surprising that some would go hunting for pence when they went over the capitol after he annoyaunced he was not going to play that role. >> the president has blroken silence. he's not telling protesters to lead the capitol. >> it is odd that he says peaceful given the fact that this crowd is not peaceful. >> there has been efforts in imploring him to send out something to calm down his supporters. what that tweet was stay peaceful but things got out of control and it was not the condemnation folks were hoping for. >> as these rioters approached

the house floor, there was a deadly incident. they were warned to step away. this video contained some disturbing content. >> protrump supporter tries to make her way through the window. there was a shot. >> that person after she was shot given medical assistance and taken to the near by hospital and died. this was a terrifying tragic scene that was unfolding steps away from the halls of freedom on capitol hill. >> i was right there with her. >> they shot her. >> cnn spoke to her mother who said she was the type of person would be willing to die for her believes. >> her social media feed was flooded with post supporting president trump and qanon conspiracy theories. >> one thing is clear is this

was not a protest, it was not a demonstration, this was a violent mob causing destruction, this was a violent insurgence, this was not a protest. >> more violence. >> they broke the dpglass. >> lawmakers under sieged. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein,

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around 3:00 p.m. on wednesday afternoon, january 6th, the shaky video tells the story of sharken nerves. the house members were on the first floor of the house had been evacuated already but there were members in the upstairs gallery part of the chambers. those members were scared of what was happening. >> i saw the capitol police locking the doors and started to barricade us in the chamber. it was at that point that i realized that we are trapped and we are trying to protect ourselves within the chamber.

cf we had to shelter in place order, they told us to use the gas masks that's under the seat. they asked to put on mask to make sure it is locked. >> they broke the glass? >> i heard the sound of breaking glass and gunshots that rung out. and rioters trying to ram the doors down. i thought i should call the kids, i was on with them telling them what was going on and that we were waiting to get out that i was okay. at one point my son said what do you mean you are okay? i can hear gunshots. >> i was frighten that it would be a mass casualty incident if they had automatic weapons, they could have killed hundreds of members of congress. >> i was preparing myself to make a stand and have to fight our way out. >> my heart was pounding out of my chest.

elves i was getting really upset. jason crowe reached out and took my hands, you are going to be hands. you are going to be okay. everything is going to be okay. >> ithe was the perfect person be in the fox hole with. >> outside the house floor near by, lawmakers were hunkered down hiding. >> within about 150 or 15 minutes, i started hearing a lot of stomping and chanting right outside. >> i realized that they were literally outside my door and so i was really frightened. i moved a lot of furniture that i was able to and tried to barricade the door. across the capitol. protesters were entering offices. >> people climbing the walls,

breaking windows and breaking into doors and the parliament office. >> this is a breach of national security office. >> that's what ensures where the senate can function and where all the papers are kept. nancy pelosi's office is one of the heavy guarded office on capitol hill. you can't just walk into nancy pelosi's office. that's what these demonstrators did. there was a photo with one rioter sitting there with his feet up. >> i am at her desk. we loan her, her desk. >> the rioter took away her name plate that was on top of her suite. a lot of these rioters sitting

on desks. this is something that's not done. you don't walk into the senate floor and that's the place where the senators gathered. these rioters gotten in and stunning image, sitting where the presiding officer sits and where mike pence, as the president of the senate sits while presiding over the chamber. while chaos reigned, authorities made sure those members of the house in the gallery got out safely. >> while we were crouched down, jason crowe told us to take our pins off so when we got out of the hallway, if there were perpetrators there, they would not know we are members of the congress. this identifies me as member of 117 member of congress. >> we got out, we saw officers with guns on. they took us to the underground

tunnel and with police and additional security. the speaker came in at one point and gave some remarks just to reenforce our results and most importantly make a commitment that we were going to return that night. >> as both house members and senators stayed locked down in the capitol, fearing for their lives and vowing to return to finish the votes. the president and the lawyer were trying to stop it. >> they tried to convince him to de delay the scertification in som way. the concern was not whether tuberville was safe. >> i am calling because how we need you, our republican friend

to try to slow it down so we can get these legislatures more information. rudy giuliani's case, he left a voice mail on the wrong person's phone. the president's case, he called senator mike lee thinking he was calling tommy tuberville. >> inside sources tell cnn during that deadly insurrection, the president was enthusiastic about the attempted coup. >> his reaction was not horror which was almost everybody else's reaction. his reaction was to watch the show. >> i call on president trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the constitution. demand an end to this siege. >> i know your pain and i know

you were hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. you have to go home, we love you, you're very special. >> i know how you feel. go home and go home in peace. >> when you are telling your violent supporters that you love them, what kind of message does that send? i mean it sends a message of approval. >> we learned later that a curfew was imposed at 6:00 p.m. we know the cavalry is going to show up and get all these rioters out of here. and sure enough as dust started falling, we did see a huge number of washington, d.c. police showing up. national guards showed up and we saw a contingent of fbi. >> i was up on the left side at

the very top before they started spraying tear gas. why did you decide to come here today? >> to represent my country. to fight for what i believe in and what i know to be true. >> which is? >> trump won. there are people in high places trying to take advantage of everybody in lower places. >> here believes and uprising came with a heavy price. >> at one point you see an officer trapped in the door as he's pinned in screaming for help. >> that's one of the many officers that were injured on that day. you know another capitol police officer died from injuries. >> dozens of officers were injured in mob violence like

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the senate will come to order. >> 8:00 p.m. eastern on wednesday night they came in and they kicked off a pretty somber moment. >> for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capitol, the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> we will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats. >> there's no question that when

the congress returned after this siege to their vandalized chambers to finish the work that they started, there was a different atmosphere. >> i have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this capitol. >> today was heartbreaking. >> it was a cold shower for a lot of people. and it changed the tenor of the debate. it didn't change everyone's mind. >> we do need an investigation into irregularities, fraud. we do need a way forward together. >> some politicians decided to back off the objections in the aftermath of the violence that we saw. josh hawley of missouri still went forward with his objection. his critics said he was helping incite the passions that led to the violence. >> those who choose to continue to support this dangerous gambit

by objecting to the results of a legitimate democratic election will forever be seen as being -- in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. >> i don't think that the 147 who voted to overturn the results of the election ever believed that they were going to be successful. >> joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. >> they were doing it to posture for the president but more importantly for their base. there is abject fear of the trump base among some republicans. >> we will never give up. we will never concede. it doesn't happen. you don't concede when there's theft involved. >> donald trump has posted a new video on twitter. >> i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on

the united states capitol. like all americans i am outraged by the violence. >> it took a while for the president's advisers to get him to agree to shoot this video message. >> a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th. my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. >> among the things that his advisers did to get him to do that was pat cipollone, the white house counsel, told the president he had legal exposure, potential legal exposure anyway, over what had happened in terms of him speaking to this rally of people before they became a mob and urging them to fight and whipping up the crowd. others told him that he faced mass resignations of his cabinet members. so he agreed to do this video. and then as we have seen over and over with the president, he regretted it within 16 hours, 12 hours, 14 hours. he told some aides that he wished he hadn't done it. >> well, i thought the message

was as persuasive and sincere as a hostage tape. >> usa! usa! >> and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> this was a manmade disaster. and while he had a lot of people abetting him in this project the man was the president of the united states. >> these people who were at the capitol were really radicalized by donald trump. >> the government did this to us. we were normal good law-abiding citizens and you guys did this to us! >> what's really called for here is yes, the 25th amendment ought to be invoked. >> if you incite a mob to violence and they then commit violence and people are killed, you're guilty. you're guilty of a crime. >> do you think president trump has blood on his hands? >> i think he does. >> if the vice president and cabinet do not act, the congress may be prepared to move forward

with impeachment. >> with less than two weeks left in this presidency, how on earth could you invoke the 25th amendment and get that done before the end of this term? how on earth could you have an impeachment process that results in a senate conviction? with less than two weeks to go. >> the president is not happy about another impeachment call. the president didn't like being impeached the first time. he could be the first president to be impeached twice. and he is well aware of that. but he has been more consumed with the fact that his twitter feed was taken away. >> they were worried about plans for future armed protest that's have already begun proliferating on and off twitter regarding some sort of planning for potentially a secondary attack on the u.s. capitol on january 17th of this year right before the inauguration. >> we have a man who has proven that he's willing to do just about anything. and if he gets back to that place where he just wants to burn it all down, he will look

for opportunities to cause damage to the united states. >> today he's announcing that he will not attend joe biden's inauguration, one of the country's most symbolic acts for a peaceful transfer of power. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> what did all of this achieve today? >> we'll see. i think -- >> the day isn't over yet. and the week isn't over yet. there's still much more evidence that will come out. >> to all of my wonderful supporters, i know you are disappointed but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning. >> it was striking how easily these insurrectionists, these terrorists were able to penetrate the capitol. and you have to ask yourself the question how did that happen? how could that possibly be? and then you contrast it with what we saw last summer when there was a black lives matter

march in washington. >> you saw mass arrests as these crowd members engaged and encountered police officers. you saw a president using law enforcement to clear a street in order to hold a photo op in front of a church. compare all of that with what we saw on january 6th at the united states capitol. we didn't see mass arrests after the fact. what we saw were law enforcement officers opening the door, letting these criminals leave the building. >> cops are very cool. they're like hey guys, have a good night. some of them. it's just crazy. you can see some of them are on our side. >> no one can tell me that if that had been a group of black lives matters protesting yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently. than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol. >> i sat on the set on wednesday night and i watched these scenes from our capitol, and i cried.

i love this country. i believe in this country. i believe in our democracy with all its imperfections. >> everybody stay down. what happened in the united states of america was devastating. and i hope that feeling is pervasive and i hope that it causes all of us to do some thinking about where we go from here and how we prevent such a thing from ever happening again. >> more than 150 people have been charged in federal court in the weeks following the domestic terror attack on the united states capitol that resulted in multiple deaths including a capitol hill police officer who died from injuries he sustained fending off the insurrectionists. former president trump has been banned permanently from his preferred mode of communication, twitter.

which cited the risk of further incitement of violence. and he's been impeached for a second time by the house of representatives, charged with incitement of insurrection against the government of the united states. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. well, from covid-19 to donald trump's impeachment trial, we're following several major stories for you this hour. first a glimmer of hope in the battle against coronavirus. for the first time in nearly two months current covid-19 hospitalizations in the u.s. have fal