ha happy father's day to my own daddy-o who i like to call that nickname. thank you for joining us this evening. i'm pamela brown and i'll see you next weekend. have a great night. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. multiple capitol injuries. >> an assault on assault on democracy. attack on the capitol, fueled by a president's lies. >> this election was stolen. >> trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. >> inspired by a delusion, an enraged mob of true believe rs attempting insurrection. >> we were in a medieval battle.

>> trump's soldiers. >> there is a sea of nothing but red, white and blue. patriots of trump. >> true believers. >> i think he was anoited by god. >> i don't think joe biden is the president. >> new exclusive interviews. >> the sound surrounded us but then once they started banging on the door, that's all i heard. >> new details. >> over ran the capitol. >> i never dreamed he would ever do anything like that. >> new denials. >> you call january 6th a peaceful protest? >> i do. >> and why it's not over. >> in fact, it is just getting started. tonight a cnn special report assault on democracy, the roots of trump's insurrection. the early morning of january 6th, 2021 started for many as a day of anticipation.

they had come from across the country tens of thousands americans from all walks of life. led by a lying president, and egged on by propaganda could converge on the united states capitol with a singular goal. do whatever it takes to prevent the peaceful transition of power in the greatest democracy on earth. president donald j. trump lost the election. they were deceived into believing the presidency had been stolen, their country was threatened. they had come to washington to fight for what they thought was right. >> they feel they're the heroic revolutionary courageous worry

-- warriors saving democracy. >> they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, dec december guysed as patriotism fed by their members of congress, their television shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been pre predi predictable. you know, we saw people who had been whipped up into believing an election was being stolen and then being told it would happen straight away. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> that threat continues to this day driven by lies that threaten our democracy. how did millions believe a network so deep, so vast they would ignite an insurrection to final the answers we have to go

into that sea of people. see through their eyes. >> i hate i lost so many friends and i hate my family thinks i'm crazy and i hate it such a struggle and i hate people don't see the truth. >> welcome to communist america. i'm so proud. >> yvonne facing two federal charges filmed herself inside the capitol. the form er marine and mom bega her twisted path to this protest with weight loss surgery and a documentary about the food industry. >> they lie to us what is in our food and what is acceptable. >> that path to nutrition led to cue none. >> this is bigger than q. this is biblical. i believe the corrupt systems are anti christ.

i believe living the book of insurrection. >> she stormed the capitol and live streamed the protest and unrepenaltied. >> i don't believe joe biden is the president and they lost the election and they tried to steal it and trump did what he needed to do, step away to wake america up. >> josh pruett, a bodybuilder and bartender from the d.c. area came to the capitol because he, too, believed the election was stolen from donald trump. >> if biden had won, if at 10:00 at night they announced biden won. nobody would care. we don't care that much. we care that much because we thought we were treated. >> your idea of this election is batted down by courts, by republican election officials by secretaries of every state this was a fair election. >> all i can tell you is 85 million americans feel differently than what you're

saying now. the election was stolen. it was. >> there is proof it wasn't. >> there is absolute proof it was but nobody wants to show it and everybody wants to hide it. >> where is the proof of that? >> there just is. >> his journey was more convas rule luted. >> i voted for obama. >> he was being initiated into a far right extremist group went viral. >> i'm a western chauvinest. >> got 30 million views, i think. >> and gained thousands of followers ocn social media. on january 6th, video would capture him again in the first wave of rioters storming the capitol. >> we didn't storm any capitol. okay? we did protest. we peacefully protested. >> you call january 6th a peaceful protest? >> i do. >> you don't feel any responsibility? >> i do not. absolutely not. i don't feel i did anything

wrong. >> over ran the capital. >> we're in the capitol. >> donovan craowl was in a righ wing militia. he refused to speak to cnn. his sister and mother describe him as an ex marine that went from being a little league coach to becoming an alcoholic. >> he was just a genuinely good person. he was always someone i looked up to and extremely proud of. >> his son idolized him and everybody idolized him because he had a great personality. >> his life would spiral downward after his second marriage fell apart and his mom battling lieukemia said he was mean drunk. >> he was dr. jekyll and mr. hide when he's drinking. >> it's all snowballed. then he started going on these

websites that essentially were a vacuum. >> he would move to rural ohio and find companionship from a transgender bar owner named jessica watkins that would recruit him into the oath keepers. >> he found a purpose in his life because he was at rock bottom, and anybody that cared about him didn't want anything to do with him anymore because of his drinking. >> you consider him a domestic terr terrorist? >> i didn't. but i do now. >> his family says trump shares the blame. >> trump gave them a bogeyman. trump gave them someone to fear or blame things on. he gave them an excuse for their rotten life. >> are we live?

>> coy griffin was at the capitol amid thousands on january 6th. he climbed a capitol balcony, bar borrowed a bull horn and tried to preach. the next day he would post a much more menacing message about the building. the cowboy and new mexico county commissioner began his career as a cowboy performer for disney. raised listening to rush limbaugh, he saw in president trump someone who finally understood rural america. he feels the democratic party hurt his family business and pushed unfair regulations and didn't take problems at the border seriously. he launched cowboys for trump and later rode 170 miles from western maryland to washington

d.c. griffin appeared on fox and got noticed by the president himself. it was life changing. >> i was nothing but a locally elected county commissioner with a mass of problems and the president invited me to sit down at his desk with him and hear me out. >> griffin went to the border with trump crow knee steve bannon and when he posted this video about dead democrats, president trump retweeted him. >> the only good democrat is a dead democrat. i don't say that in the physical sense and i can already see the videos getting edited where all i say is murder democrats. no. i say that in the political sense. >> we're not going to get our election stolen from china. >> he sees conspiracies in almost everything. january 6th. it may have been a setup by democrats. he says he doesn't follow qanon but it sounds like he shares some of the same believes.

>> the deep states just say because the devil wants to destroy things. there is those foot soldiers of the deep state those like hillary clinton, george soros, dr. fauci, bill gates. they're the big wheels. they're the controllers. >> griffin doubts the undeniable, that the riot led to deaths. ashli babbitt an air force veteran from san diego shot and killed by capitol hill police. >> he's got a gun! [ gunshots ]. >> sounds like a gunshot. >> u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick died from a stroke one day after being attacked by rioters. coy griffin like others cannot accept their so-called peaceful protest led to death so they deny it. let me just ask you, do you believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> i'm not so sure officer

sick sicknick is even dead. >> coy. >> i hate to be crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not so sure ashli babbitt is dead. >> coy. >> who is to say -- have you seen anything of her family? >> up until the point she passed, we lived two blocks apart. >> the answer is yes. >> through high school me and my sister were best friends. >> this is ashli babbitt's brother roger. he and his 35-year-old sister were very close. >> it was weird because we saw it on the news and it was like, you know, that's my sister. >> he says his sister was a tomboy who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do anything. she was invincible. that's the way i looked at her. >> after the air force she bought a pool company in san diego which she ran with her husband and her brother. >> she was happy. talked about how she lives in a beautiful place, you know, does what she wants, it's the

american dream. >> and he says his sister voted for barack obama. >> i think that proves in itself she wasn't as crazy as a lot of the media is portraying her to be. >> then she became a trump fan. >> we can make america great again. >> ashli's brother says they rarely discussed politics because he just wasn't interested. her passion for donald trump would eventually lead her to qanon, than the capitol where a single shot ended her life. >> i don't think she deserved to be shot. >> ashli babbitt died in defense of a lot convinced by powerful forces her beloved united states was in jeopardy. she and billother trump support believed the false election fraud on tv, internet, social media and for some, their place of worship. >> if i go down and the anti christ will take over, i'll go

down with a fight. >> pastor ken peters runs patriot church near knoxville tennessee and preaches trump's make america great again message. >> we know something crooked went on. there is actual evidence. >> he is a supporter of the black robe regimen inspired by pastors that fought in the revolutionary war. >> often times these preachers would have their military gear under their pastor's robes and would get done with the sermon and unzip the rope and say let go out and fight for independence. >> would you call it a military view towards religion? >> we talk about warfare, we're talking about spiritual warfare. >> are you concerned there is somebody in the audience who actually takes your words literally? >> not a chance. we aren't attacking anything physically. we are attacking this on slot of the enemy upon our nation.

we believe that this country is being taken over by satan. we're fighting against damonic forces. >> he called on followers to protest the election results in person on january 6th. >> president trump has asked every patriot that can possibly be there on january 6th to go to d.c. all right? i'm going to be there god willing. >> and went there himself. preaching before a crowd near the white house the day before. >> and it's important in this moment we stand up like never before. this is our time. and if we don't hold up the shield of faith, satan will take over this land. >> january 6th, 2021 was a disastrous combination of misinformation, lies and manipulation steeped in

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>> change has come to america. >> change is what the country voted for but to some, change brought fear. >> everything obama. >> and a right wing media run by rush limbaugh whipped the audiences into an opposition. >> i know what his politics are. i hope he fails. >> that was a shocking moment when you have one of the biggest voices in american media and global media saying i hope he fails. there were people who let themselves get spooked by the skin color. i think that his name barack hussain obama, i think there were people that couldn't get past that. he never had a chance. >> it was the beginning of a path that led to donald trump's insurrection. new mexico county commissioner coy griffin listened to rush limbaugh every day. >> barack obama was somebody

that i don't feel like i could ever trust. >> preachers should be up in the grill of a filthy politician, immoral politicians. >> evangelical preacher ken peters looked at this christian president and saw a threat to his own religion. >> seeing how pro-muslim he was versus prochristian, i hated how he apologized for america to other nations. >> joann rose's son donovan crowl called obama racist names. >> he'd call him porch a monkey and would make me mad when he would say comments like that. i ended up hanging up on him because i would get so upset with him. >> he felt he would take his guns. what started it was the tea party movement, and then it just grew from there. >> the tea party.

a political revolution launched in opposition to president obama's plans to tackle the financial crisis. >> usa! usa! >> there was a lot of white rage, sure, some of the tea partiests were out there talking about government spending and so on but i remember being at tea party rallies seeing t-shirts that said put the white back in the white house. >> we are going to fire president barack obama. >> a former airline flight attendant named amy cramer would use a painted bus, the tea party express for protests across the country. a decade later, she would be a key organizer of president trump's rally on january 6th. the tea party would capture a new kind of political activism and anger. >> there is a direct link between the tea party rebellion and the trump rebellion and then

ultimately, the insurrection. >> in 2011, donald trump would capture that same energy of the tea party and embrace a conspiracy theory that would launch his own political career. birtherism. >> all i want to do is see this guy's birth certificate. >> that lie that barack obama was not born in the united states is as real in the eyes of some of those who stormed the capitol as it was a decade ago. >> it was in the obama era that something started to stir my soul into politics. i mean, the whole birth certificate thing, there is so much proof he's not a u.s. citizen. >> i don't feel like barack obama is a believer in america or what america is and what america stands for. >> do you believe he's american? >> yeah, you know. i guess. i haven't seen his birth certi certificate. have you? >> barack obama would make two

versions of his birth certificate public. it didn't matter. >> i think the lesson learned from trump in that entire saga is that he could get away with a lie. >> lighting a fire that will burn all the way to washington. >> trump's rise was happening at the same time a former investment banker and movie producer named steve bannon was building a conservative news site so powerful it would turn the republican party upside dod down. named after its founder andrew breitbart. breitbart news would launch the alt right into the main stream. >> there was a populous power. this was totally different. this wasn't standard republican party and breitbart became the block side for that. >> curt former breitbart spokesperson said the aim was to change america and ban bannon

directed it. >> the goal isn't objectivity. it more about what does the conserve ti side believe about this and how do they amplify that? >> breitbart's headlines were built on fear, fear the second amendment was being ing threate and fear of obama and fear of illegal immigrants. >> this is why bannon and trump are perfect for each other because they're perpetuating a massive con. they could give two craps about their base. >> trump had emerged as the perfect candidate to drive bannon's alt right vision to the white house and it would be perfectly timed with the rise of social media. >> donald trump would not have become president were it not for facebook and more broadly, algorithms on social media.

>> bannon worked with a company skilled in psychological war fair and created cambridge analytics to target americans. >> during my experience -- >> whistle blower chris wiley says the delivery weapon used would be facebook. >> as soon as you start clicking on things, it starts to remove other content and shows you more and more of the thing you're clicking on. you start to move further and further away from a common reality with others. >> it was the beginning of a new era of disinformation that continues to tear americans apart today. anyone could create a so-called news story and have it spread like wildfire. >> i think we have fundamentally misunderstood what happened with social media and the scale of change it has brought about.

>> trump supporters like coy griffin increasingly tuned out regular news outlets and paid attention to facebook. >> facebook is where i got a lot of my media from. facebook or essential media i feel like you can glean more of the stuff that maybe interests you and isn't coming from a main stream media outlet. >> social media launched a turning point deliberate disinformation competes equally with truth and facts. a perfect moment for donald trump to launch a presidential bid. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> trump's followers were led to believe american society was under attack and only trump could save them. trump shared more stories from breitbart than any other source and he would make steve bannon the ceo of his campaign.

>> he had political advisors that recognized this grievance, figured they could tap into it, amplify it and went off of it. >> completely scare the crap out of white people. >> yes. >> just to get elected? >> yes. >> it was working. donald trump was racing through the republican primaries picking up wins and picking up believers. >> i spent a lot of time screaming and yelling during 2016 saying trump can win. people who were looking only at elite main stream media didn't see it coming. >> trump supporters out there. >> bartender josh pruett who says he voted for obama was now a trumper. >> i just like the straight to the pointness of him and, you know, his combativeness with people. him not being scared to say stuff. >> i was so sick of politicians. >> yvonne went from supporting

ben carson to trump. >> i saw in his heart and soul how much he loves our country and military. >> absolutely. >> pastor ken peters would also eventually get on the trump train. >> i was much more for ted cruz than i was for donald trump. and i knew hillary or trump, there is only one choice. it got to be trump. >> by 2016, donovan crowl is becoming more and more detached from reality. >> he wanted me to start collecting water and cash. my money in the bank. >> his really main thing with president obama was that he was going to declare martial law so he could stay president. he was trump all the way. but he hasn't voted in his life. >> never voted? >> never voted. >> by november predictions favored hillary clinton by a wide margin. her campaign had readied a

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♪ me and you singing in the park ♪ ♪ me and you, we're waiting for the dark ♪ i donald john trump do solemnly swear. >> his presidency would begin with a lie. >> i get up this morning and turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. i said wait a minute. i made a speech. i looked out. the field was it -- it looked l a million, million and a half people. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. >> i think he in his own mind couldn't tell the difference between what was true and what was false.

and i don't think it part particularly mattered. >> john bolton was trump's national security advisor. >> if he could convince people that what he wanted to be true was true, he would try to do it. >> and the weeks before he took office donald trump would launch the phrase he would use to get away with almost anything. >> you are fake news. >> with those two words, donald trump had told his supporters they no longer needed nor could trust the institutions, the official accounts, the news outlets that dedicate themselves to present actual facts. from now on, it was trump who would tell them what to believe. >> a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> he would lie about anything. >> just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> he could have told folks that

grass is actually blue and the sky is red, and he would have had some segment of his followers believe him. there is a cult-like phenomenon as it pertains to trump. >> somebody had to do it. i am the chosen one. >> this might sound extremely strange to a lot of your viewers but i feel like he was anointed by god. >> donald trump? >> yeah. >> anointed by god? >> yeah, he carried god's anointing because he won. >> he's an unbelievable leader and when he speaks, he strikes a chord in us that grabs us and we go yes, that's the truth. that's right. not everything but most everything he says grabs us. >> others saw in tlump a rare opportunity to further push an alt right agenda.

>> yes, by the way, they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. you see that. >> steve bannon who hand delivered trump's messaging was in the white house turning his world view into policy. >> it not time to bring the country together, it's time to take on elites, hit him with the blow torch. >> trump's blow torch would be the executive order with bannon on his side he would sign a series of orders one nicknamed the muslim travel ban and others restricting immigration, building the wall and increasing border security. all based on the lie that a mass invasion of dangerous criminals was underway. >> people hate the word invasion but that's what it is. it's an invasion of drugs and criminals and people. we have no idea who they are. >> trump followers were being fed conspiracy theories by the president on tv, radio and

online. >> the migrant caravans, yeah, i completely believe tahey're staged with all my heard i do. there is evidence. >> ashli babbitt would post video rants about problems on the southern border. >> i live about 15 minutes from the taijuan tborder so this is something i take personally. they are trying to paint the migrant caravan full of migrant women and children. let me tell you now, the border is an absolute shitshow. >> donald trump is the only president we had in office that actually was speaking out to represent us, the forgotten americans. >> coy griffin who would start cowboys for trump would stake his future on the president. >> anybody that lives on the southern border knows that it's extremely dangerous. >> much like his claim of fake news, trump would use the power of fear over and over again to

motivate his base. >> he never thought of himself as president of the united states. he thought of himself as the president of his base. he kexacerbated the loss and bitterness. >> part of his political base included white supremacists. >> he saw those people as trump supporters and just lacked the ability or the willingness to consider the broader implications. >> curt, the former spokesperson for steve bannon's breitbart news could see the news site attracting more and more racists. >> the overt racist comments from the breitbart audience was littered across their pages. we can probably proclaim our white pride and it's okay because the most powerful person in the world is with us right here, too. >> joann row could hear it all coming from her basement.

her son and ex marine whom she and other family members call an unemployed drunk was constantly listening to right wing and conspiracy news especially the internet show of conspiracy theorists profiteer alex jones. >> he would listen to, like, bright part, alex jones, bring it upstairs full blast. >> i said it crazy and we're reversing it. >> for the last four years, alex has been bar none the loudest and most outspoken donald trump supporter and he will tell people when it comes to the conspiracy theory. >> robert jacobson worked for alex jones for more than a decade. he said the conspiracy theories joaned pushed on info wars like mass shootings being fake were about making money, which he did

by selling questionable health supplements on the website. big stories, equalled big profits. >> to alex, that means that he is going to sell some product that day because of the spike in audience based on somebody else's tragedy. >> jacobson says he doesn't know if alex jones believes his own conspiracies. donovan crowl's mom and sister say crowl believes them oall. >> he would constantly facebook message me sending me stuff about hollywood pedophiles eating babies. i would shame him. that's absolutely ridiculous. i would be like you're a dumbass. this is not true. >> he would tell us such crazy things. hillary clinton had a sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor. tom hanks and his wife were the head of a pedophile ring.

>> your son believed in qanon, basically? >> yes, absolutely. >> a new conspiracy was seeping its way into right wing social media and news outlets. qanon. >> qanon believed that basically all democrats are evil, satan worshipping pedophiles and the only person to stop this evil and save the world is donald trump. >> qanon believers would seek out encoded messages on the internet and parse out numbers and words of trump's messages waiting for some big action from the president. at trump campaign rallies, q followers became a noticeable portion of the crowd. >> q is a real thing. >> corruption, exploitation and sexual abuse. h human trafficking. >> like he did with white s supre supremacist, he would speak to

the q supporters with a wink and nod. >> i heard these are people that love the country. i don't know anything about it other than they do supposedly like me. >> ashli babbitt had gone deep into the q conspiracy posting hashtags including the slogan, where we go one, we go all. >> she had a shirt with a giant we are q on it. had no clue what it was and she just said it was some political thing and that's basically where the conversation ended. >> for yvonne, q was more political. >> i felt like q catapulted me to truth because that was my prayer in the beginning is god, show me the truth. i want truth. give me truth. i think trump is part of q, he's q plus plus. >> q is very empowering. what q allows a person engaging in conspiracies to do is feel like they're taking action fighting back. of course, it all profoundly mistaken and none of it is real.

>> and as the calendar turned on 2020, a global pandemic would take conspiracy theorists down a darker hole. >> america at war with coronavirus. >> the infection is driving fears of a global recession. >> 75 million americans have been told to stay home. >> josh pruett a bartender and personal trainer lost work. you don't believe in covid? >> i don't say i don't believe in it. i don't believe it that big of a deal. covid is a big deal and the flu went away. all of a sudden there isn't such thing as the flu anymore. everyone that had the flu has covid. the coronavirus played on everyone's mental health. i don't want to say just my sister's. i don't want to say it made her crazy but put stress and strain on everyone. everything. >> protests against business shutdowns broke out at state capc capitals across the country.

>> covid started and the mask mandate and things started to feel wrong and they started to have protests so i went to my very protest ever and it was very, very patriotic. >> it was all coming to a head. >> a lot of qanon believers do see this in biblical terms almost. >> blood drinking pedophiles, covid shutdowns trying to destroy the american economy. a conspiracy to replace white people. the election of 2020 would be a battle between good versus evil. and donald trump would be ready to tell the biggest lie of all. >> who is not going to at least listen? he's the president swipe, lift, spin, dry. slam, pan, still...fresh move, move, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness t.

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ballots overwhelmingly used by democrats. the absentee ballots favoring joe biden would be counted last. >> you can see trump go way up and you can see him plateau and go way down. >> this is cnn coverage of election night in america. it is exactly what happened. early results seemed to favor president trump and turned. >> his flip was constant with joe biden with the lead right now. he would try to stop it. >> trump had a press conference in the middle of the night, he was trying to declare victories before all the ballots counted. >> we were getting ready to win this election, frankly we did win this election. >> we want all voting to stop. >> that's not what democratically elected

prespresident or candidate of a president say. >> you call it a fraud to count ballots in the united states of america? >> trump had spread the lie and most of his supporters would only believe the lie. >> i said we are going to bed, i woke up and it was like holy crap, what just happened? >> all of a sudden in the morning it became blue. >> it is called counting the votes though. >> new yoo, it is called cheati. >> viral videos and fraudulent stories painted stories of widespread fraud. >> look at mysterious suitcases rolled out from under tables. >> i saw of videos of suitcases of ballots being produced that were all for joe biden. >> the mysterious georgia's

suitcases that couy griffin saw, election workers doing their jobs like other viral videos, there was no fraud. it did not matter. >> are you saying that you don't think there was any fraud at all in this last election? >> i am saying that all 50 secretaries of state who are in charge of elections, republicans or democrats, found no widespread that could have tilted this election in any way. i am just wondering where is the fraud? >> when you have the president of the united states making those statements -- >> that was a massive fraud. >> senator ted cruz making those statements as well. >> we have seen in the last two months unprecedented allegations of voter fraud. they hear a lot more. when ever you have those high

ups saying yes, there is cheating. what do you do? >> the ballot counting in key states continued and on saturday, november 7th -- >> cnn projects joseph r. biden jr. is elected of the 46th president of the united states. >> don't be ridiculous.net works don't get to inside elections, courts do. >> actually voters decide the elections. trump and his allies would unsuccessfully take their stolen election case court to court, nearly 60 times. >> they know they stole this and they also know that we are going to show they stole it. >> will you accept joe biden has

president? >> no, he'll never be my president. >> how could that change at this point? >> it could be spifl war. >> it is outrageous. >> day after day it was hit with things that was designed to look as if something bad to happen. claims of fraud and social media platforms played a huge role in expanding those claims. >> we have not looked at all the dead people that voted and people without residences. >> dead people voting. explain that. >> where did you get that particular news that dead people are voting. >> it is on multiple sources. >> i don't have my computer in front of me so i can't look it up. i can find it for you. >> just like the other made-up ele election tales, you can find on the computer. the dead voting conspiracy is not true. >> i want first welcome and thank -- >> trump appointed security

officials would be called to testify before congress only to declare trump really did lose. >> this was a secure election. >> no way do i believe it was not stolen. >> no way. >> even though all those people who watched elections -- >> they're all bought. >> all of them? >> yes. >> trump's own attorney general, bill barr, said this was a fair election. >> yeah, to save himself. >> trump would not accept defeat. >> he could not take an election loss because donald trump wants his gravestone to read "i won," he's preoccupied with the idea that he never loses. >> for trump supporters, "stop the steal" would be their battle cry. what began online would take on the streets. >> we were on the trump's train

early on. >> amy cramer launch add facebook page that went viral. she would paint a new bus and travel across the country in what she called the march for trump. >> this is like tea party on steroids amplified a thousand times. i have never seen anything like it. >> it is going to be lit. >> the right-wing activist a alie alexander. >> how much money are you making for this? >> 1776! >> the stop the steal movement would merge into one major day of protest of december 12th in washington, d.c.

president trump buzzing the crowd in a helicopter would energize his base for what was coming next. >> that same weekend, donovan cr crowl, attended a training camp in north carolina. he had been recruited in the oath keepers, a military group that opposes the federal government. jessica watkins who owns this bar in ohio was the group's local leader. bartender julie harvey says she saw the group meets every week. >> they were going to d.c. for the original million maga march. i was working and i walked out on the patio and i saw them sawing the pool keys and perhaps putting the zip strap. the way jessica explained it was

just preparedness in case they were in harm's way. >> who are the oath keepers? >> they are terrorist organizations, they are white supremacists? >> you consider your son one? >> yes, i do. i hate to say that but yes. makes me sad to say that b but -- yes, i do. >> with no realistic prospect of overturning the election in court, trump turned his supporters attention to the day congress would convene to confirm biden's victory. january 6th. telling them be there, will be wild. >> president trump said "come to d.c.," it is going to be wild. i asked you to vote and go to d.c. and i knew it was going to be history, part of the reasons that january 6th happened because donald trump picked the place and time and location.

and everyone can order around that. ashley babbit. >> i think my sister truly believered them going there going to change america for the greater. >> the both the oath keepers and proud boys would put out an all-call for members to go to washington, d.c. on january 6th. all across social media, the date loomed with ominous posts, operations occupying the capitol. we would storm the government building and kill cops and security guards and kill federal employees and agents and demand a recount. capitol hill police received numerous warnings and violence. criminal complaints would describe training and planning and preparations for an insurrection. joanne rogue says the real order came from one person. donald trump.

>> it is like they're a cult. he got them brainwashed. why? i don't know. i also think they believed in so much of what trump were saying, they truly they were following his orders. #. >> the lies, the anger, the escalation of violent rhetoric had been building for months. >> have i told you this fight would escalate? > >> the day before january 6th, crowds started pouring into d.c. >> we'll rise up in this time and say like paul revere, the leftests are coming. the leftists are coming. >> later that evening, trump's political trickster, roger stone, would speak in political

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>> my parents were a little concerned for my safety going into work, my husband was a little bit worried. once you are in the capitol, you will be fine. >> all across washington, trump supporters had been turning out for hours. >> that's how we got up which we thought was early. the line was so big, it was worthless to get in line so we just found a spot out there in the sea of people where we thought we could see a little bit and hear a little bit. it was absolutely packed. >> pastor ken peters had spoken at the d.c. stop. coy griffin arrived early too believing he would speak before trump. >> i thought i was going to be able to speak out which i was included. >> hello, good morning. we are here. >> we came off the metro inn and it was eerie they had the roads

blocked off and dump trucks. >> it just got a different sense in the air. all right, this is a little weird but still, nothing to braise the hairs on your neck. >> u.s. capitol police officer harry dunn called into work for what he thought would be a routine day of protests. he saw the early crowds and took note. >> these people are like wrapped themselves in their flags. it was nothing i have seen before. it was like a cult mentality. >> it is hard to get a grasp of it. >> i am here was my president told me. >> the crowd waited for hours watching speech after speech. >> today is the day america's patriots taken down names and kicking as. >> it was not a political show of support of the president. this was a historic day and a historic moment and action may be required. >> let's have trial by combat.

behind the scenes, donald trump jr. was all smiles. president trump reportedly in a bad mood glued to the monitor showing the crowds. >> we'll wait and see what he had to say. after that all these supporters are kpektded to march over the u.s. capitol. members of the extreme ri right-wing group, the proud boys assembling at the capitol. >> you want to see the proud boys here today? they have not come to listen to any speeches. >> take the [ bleep ] capitol. >> they had arrived in small groups, dressed without their usual proud boys attire to blend in and equip themselves with raid yoes.

they march to the capitol's west side. > >> two men on a mission ready to kick some butts. josh pruitt, the first wave of proud boys reaching the capitol claims he did not know anything. >> i was with the guys. there were 20 of us and we all hooked up around 10:00 in the morning and that was down where trump was speaking. at the rally, trump was taken the stage and repeating his election loss slide. members of the right-wing militia including jessica watkins begin to lead the speech. watkins and donovan crowl made

their way to the capitol. >> everyone is marching to the capitol. police are doing nothing. they're not trying to stop us this morning. >> it is up to congress to confront this aa egregious assault. i will be there with you. >> back at the capitol, a group led by proud boys are taunting police. locking the entrance to the capitol grounds of the northwest side. then they make their move, overwhelming officers.

police continued to fall back. >> the house comes to order for this important, historic meeting. i started looking out and i saw a lot of commotion? >> this is not right. >> are there any objections? >> on the floor of the house, the republican from arizona proeviously been in communicatin with alie alexander is launching her protest. >> what purpose do the arizona

gentleman rise to? >> there you have it. the first objection, they're fwoing to be separated out. >> i didn't have a view into the outside but somebody texted me a photo of the people on the inaugural platform. that was the first time i thought wow, i can't believe we are at this point. it was the same moment donald trump delivered this pathetic lie. we fight like hell. if you don't fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore. we are going to walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> outside the walls of the capitol, mayhem. a member of the proud boys got his hands-on the capitol police riot shield. >> you hear officers on the

radio screaming for help. >> dunn stationed on the east side raced to help his comrade on the west and is stunned of what he sees. >> multiple capitol entrientrie. you see these officers being dr dragged up the steps. >> i can't see, almost in tears, help me, help me. we had supervisors there in white shirts and orange stain, pepper spray and they're just so soaked with orange spray. oh, help, help. you have officers coming up the steps bloody and just thinking oh my god, what is happening and just seeing the fear in some of

these officers' faces. i was absolutely scared just seeing that fear. it is something i will never forget. >> a full scale riot is underway outside the capitol. >> i was so kpexcited to get to the capitol. i wanted to see what's going to happen. at 1:11, we started marching. >> alex jones with the organizer of "stop this steer" beginning his own march to the capitol ground. i skipped with my flag all the way to the capitol. >> in crowd, ashley babbit. >> there is an estimated of 3 million people here. despite what the media tells

you. we definitely see something different. there is a sea of nothing but red, white and blue, patriots and trump. >> at 1:26 p.m. u.s. capitol police ordered the capitol complex to begin evacuations. >> two-minutes later, a call is made requesting the national guards. pipe bombs being investigated near by at the headquarters of dnc and rnc. >> whoa. this is bad. this is bad. by 2:00 p.m., both sides of the capitol are surrounded with mobs fighting with police. >> this is now a riot. >> capitol police are fighting a

two-front war. >> total chaos of screaming and yelling. >> bull horns being blowned. >> cheers of america and traders and we want trump. it is so loud that you can't even hear your radio that's right here in your ears. they were prepared for war. >> then the moment happens. >> usa! usa!

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when i walk into the front door, the cops were at the door and standing on the side and waving people in. >> the video i saw at that moment was a couple of cops overwhelmed by a mob. >> well, you didn't watch all the videos then. >> i didn't? i think i did. >> here is josh pruitt walking through the door, 70 seconds after the window breaks. it is almost the same moment rioters smashing windows on the east side. >> they're attempting to break the windows. armed with sticks and flag poles.

>> they had storm pass andover powered police who could do over. >> my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. >>. >> the rioters were streaming straight the chambers and vice president mike pence. mit romney was about to head straight into a mob. a moment later, that same officer eugene goodman, somehow coaxed the mob away from the senate and straight into a waiting row of capitol police. >> my hero.

he did a great job. there were a lot of eugene goodman that day that did a lot of great heroic things and people will never know their names. >> there are now hundreds in the mob. roaming halls and banging on doors and taking photos and videos. some members of congress are being escorted to safety but scattered behind doors. >> i remember telling my colleagues that we need to go into lockdown. >> inside house speaker pelosi's office, her staffers rushed into the conference room. we start hearing the banging. >> and i am like the hooting and

the hollering. >> very close to us. >> there you go, brother. >> i realized, okay, music off, everybody silence their cell phones, turn the lights off. do not say anything. >> it was menacing. they were like where is nancy, where is nancy? where the the people that work for her? >> they had barricaded themselves in hoping. the doors would hold. >> people are chanting nancy, nancy. we are hearing it from behind us and in the front of our doors. it was completely, the sound surrounded us to the point we are hearing yelling and banging and shattering of glass.

once they started banging on the door, that's all i heard. one of us said to the other, they take us hostage, right? >> you would think. >> one of the staffers whispered a phone call plea for help. >> it was pure terror. >> where are you? >> we are looking for you. >> it haunts me. >> oh, nancy. he was not going to be nice if he found her or someone associated with her. >> could have been multiples. >> we don't know. >> nancy. we didn't know it was happening. >> we are in a darkroom and all

we can hear was what was outside. >> inside the halls of congress, the mob refuses to stop. outside, more and more are trying to get in. what appears to be a single-file mil mil military column climbs the eastern staircase as the crowd sings. these are the oath keepers. in the column, joanne rose and -- >> i would never think that he would do anything like that. it is heartbreaking to me. >> they had been planning and practicing military tactics since the election and now over radio communications. they were broadcasting their tro

triumph. >> we are in the main dome right now. we are rocking it. they're throwing grenades and shooting people with paint balls but we are friggin' in here. >> get it jess. this is everything we have been trained for. >> we are in the capitol. >> we are in the [ bleep ] capitol, bro. >> in almost every corner inside and out, many battles are raging. >> it is over. >> police officers are being

crushed. one officer, daniel hodges, screaming as his body pressed on the door. officer michael fanom heard the radio call and rushed to help. his body camera captures the moment he faced the mob of thousands. >> we were in a medieval battle. >> this is hand to hand combat in its most brutal form. >> the rioters fighting to get inside. they hit police with bats and sticks. batons, tasers. >> guys were bleeding. >> these were officers i think on a normal circumstances they would be in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. they were not because there were nowhere to go. if you left that line, we are

going the lose that door and that was not an option. >> fanom trying to defend the line was yanked across it. >> i was pulled away from the other officers out into the crowd. his own body camera, a jumbo of confusion and violence. >> that was like the ass beating of a lifetime. >> you were in a police uniform. >> yes. >> the mob grabbed for his gun and someone repeatedly tased him in the neck. >> they were trying to kill me. >> fanom struggling to survive outside the capitol trying to defend lawmakers still trapped inside. >> we were told that there had

been tear gas in the rotunda and being instructed to each of us to get gas masks that are under our seats. armed capitol police are blocking the doors of the united states house of representatives. >> you are a traitor. >> up in the gallery, colorado congressman jason crowe was in a group of members, trapped. >> we were the targets. we were the members that they were trying to kill our capture. >> crowe called his wife told her i love you then the former army ranger with more than 100 combat missions in iraq and afghanistan plotted to escape. >> there was a part of me thinking, if this mob breaks through those doors, they're going to try to kill us all. i need to do what i need to do to protect myself and colleagues and others. >> the mob was becoming incense. donald trump had just tweeted.

>> there was a scaffold and a noose and chants of "hang mike pence." >> security are getting pence and his family on the back stair ways. >> i think trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob and disrupt the electoral college votes to give him more time to play out some other scenarios that may not yet end up with him being president. that's the most dangerous part. not the crowd and the capitol. although that was sad and tragic. the worst part was donald trump himself. >> we came this far, what do you say? >> drag him out. back inside, ashley babbit is approaching the mob. it is a hallway that leads directly to the floor of the

u.s. house of representatives, members and their staff just steps away. re-enforcements arrived. three uniform officers holding the door. >> all that separates members of congress from the mob is a wood and glass door barricaded with furniture. >> he's got a gun. >> in that split seconds, ashley babbit trying to breakthrough the windows. >> that was the hardest part of seeing the video. damn it, why did you have to do that? >> babbitt is shot. >> i knew gunshots was very well

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outside, more and more are trying to fight their way in. d.c. police officer michael fanom is dragged and being beaten. >> officer fanom suffered a mild heart attack after being tased and beaten. one of the officers wounded the the protest. another officer is officer brian sicknick. sprayed with the chemical and would die the next day. officially of a stroke. though the riot later overruled

according to the medical examiner. >> josh pruitt is walking around the capitol and spotted a t the front line and smashing a wooden sign. he calls it all a peaceful protest. >> there is me picking up the sign. >> holding it over your head and throwing it. >> trust me, i have seen all the pictures. that's their narrative. >> people got so lucky that this did not become worse. >> it is an hour since the capitol was breached at 3:13. donald trump would make his first respond. i am asking everyone to remain peaceful and no violence. remember, we are party of law and order. >> i don't think the people came to the capitol that day had a lot of respect for my co-workers

and i. >> this is insane. lawmakers including republicans calling into cnn astounded at the president's detachment. >> the election is over. objectors need to stop meddling with the forces of our democracy here. call it off mr. president. we need you to call it off. >> president trump did not call it off. antifa was causing the violence. couy griffin makes his way to the stage. >> i never went inside. and tries to get a mob shouting, fight for trump to pray for

trump. >> take a knee. >> a wonderful opportunity to pray with people. after that, we left and walked down the staircase. >> the after math of as ashli babbitt's fatal shooting is being played on live tv. >> the parking shot, they told me she passed. going down and sobbing with the kids and cried. my mom was torn about it, which mother would not be, you know? >> kevin mccarthy urges trump to

call it off. >> i beg him to go talk to the nation. don't do it by twitter. >> he was resisting phone calls to people. he did talk to kevin mccarthy. people broke into mccarthy's office. they must be more upset than you are about the results. >> donald trump is watching this on television and i wonder what is he doing to stop this? >> we know now he didn't do anything. not doing anything while the capitol was being desecrated. i thought was unforgivable. >>. >> there were still people all over the stairs and waving flags and saw people standing and letting their voices heard. >> people bashing windows and fighting with cops. do you believe that did happen? >> i do. >> was it right or wrong? >> it was horrible. >> it was terrible. >> as christians, we stand but

we continue riot. christians are never to be destructed. >> capitol hill police formed in tactical units performing rescue missions. >> jason crowe among those trapped in the house gallery being escorted. >> they were holding rioters at bay at gunpoint. nancy pelosi waited two hours, barricaded and terrified before they were escorted to safety. >>. >> the worse two hours of my life. >> amidst the chaos, qanon believer, climbed into the window to get inside. >> i was caught up in the moment. i stuck my head out the window and i said "this is our house." this is america and americans are being beaten for wanting to

save their country. welcome to communist america. are you so proud? by 4:00, vice president was calling the secretary of defense demanding he cleared the capitol. >> a moment later battle raging. trump finally tweets a pretaped statement. >> i know your pain and hurt, we had an election that was stolen from us, you have to go home now. >> then in explicablexplicably mob -- >> donald trump tells everybody to go home. >> it got a little too rowdy for me in there personally so i decides to leave. >> he believes it was all a set-up. >> he let a bunch of people in so they can use their facial

recognition to get every trump supporters with charges they could. that's what i think happen. >> now you see the cavalry has ar arrived. >> let's be out of here, guys. >> by 6:00 p.m., january 6th, the riot was largely under control. at 6:01. donald trump would signal to his supporters, they had done the right thing. he shot a warning to the rest of the country that the insurrection he launched was not over. >> these are the things that events would happen when a landslide victory are stripped away from great patriots who had been badly and unfairly treated for so long. he finishes, remember this day forever. >> congress has returned to the capitol. the day was not over. we went back and did our jobs. we fulfilled our constitutional duty and they'll never break us.

> >> to those who reeked havoc in our capitol today. >> you did not win. >> trump lost, the insurrection failed. congress certified joe biden as the 46th president of the united states. but, the big lie has not gone away. the assault on democracy is esc escalating. >> our movement is far from over, it is just getting started.

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responsibility for wednesday's attack my mob rioters. >> kevin mccarthy begged donald trump to stop the riot while it was happening. >> i called the president and begged him to talk to the nation. >> if you don't believe trump had anything to do with the insurrection, why did you call him to call it off? >> mitch mcconnell would signal to the nation that trump was still in charge. if donald trump was the nominee of the party, would you support him? >> absolutely. >> many conspiracy believer themselves found they're open to rewrite the history of january 6th. congressman andrew clyde from georgia helped capitol police

barricaded the doors that day. he later said this. >> you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. no one would look at this is video or this video and call january 6th a normal tourist visit. >> for the rest of my life, i can watch my sister die on camera. it is a horrible video. but, i will always be there. >> the scars of the siege on the capitol are current. the lives of those who took part up ended. >> it caused me a lot. >> couy griffin faced charges.

>> sorry, i am not resigning. >> still, he's a believer. >> i will not recognize joe biden as a president of the united states as long as i have the type of questions that i have regarding the elections. >> evon st. cer thinking it is all apart of a plan. >> i don't regret going on january 6th at all. >>. >> you are in serious trouble. >> i will be just fine because i didn't do anything. >> donovan crowl is facing some of the most serious charges in the capitol breach. >> we found him where he's awaiting trial. >> i am with cnn.

>> excuse me? >> i am with cnn, mr. crowl. >> i have been talking to your mom and sister. you may want to say something about your case and you feel bad about it? you feel bad about what you did? >> well, actually the things i did -- i didn't really do anything. >> did you feel like you were manipulated in going to the capitol? >> no. i really got nothing to say to you. i don't watch your garbage anyway. >> i deispice the person he is now. he did what he did. if he gets years in prison, he'll be 70 years old before he gets out of there.

trump does not care about any of those people that stormed the capitol for him. he does not care one eye about them. he had not mentioned them since he been out of the white house. >> january 6th only intensified the collective madness. amateur republican attempts are on the way to recount ballots and sham ballots only in states trump lost. republican governors and legislatures are passing new laws targeting mass vote fraud that never occurred. scariest of all, the conspiracy theory that trump could return in a military coup. >> the military is doing their own investigation and at the right time they're fwgoing to b restoring the public with trump as president. >> just giving them facts does not work. >> definitely does not work. especially for conspiracy theories, you can't give people facts and expect them to

believe. you are missing the delusional views of so many americans. >> do you think herself coming back? >> oh, he's coming back snoochl i bet he's coming back before then. >> trump's true believers get their so-called news from unapologetic propaganda and lying politicians who are putting their personal careers ahead of the country they claim to serve. most influential of all is the lying chief who fuelled this. >> i am not trying to undermine america's democracy, i am the one trying to save it.

>> donald trump's lie united americans with radical extremist and that could lead to a darker future. >> it emboldened them and it is finally happening. it is the civil war and this is the start of it. it is encouraging people to plot and plan what their next series of attacks would be. >> the movement threatening the united states of government. if we are not changing anything, we are on the pathway of having a failed state. people start to do whatever they want to do. you can whine up with very bad outcomes in the united states over the next ten years or more. >> it is america where politicians can spread lies and make millions of it. violent mobs can storm capitols and threaten politicians if they don't like the results of an election. this is donald trump's america.

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cross roads as a bipartisan infrastructure proposal gains steam, a key progressive works on a sweeping bill on his own terms. >> the president is giving us a blueprint where we need to go. >> i will speak with bernie sanders and bipartisan leaders of the house problem solver and brian fitzpatrick, next. >> president biden gives russia about six months to change. >> if he chooses not t