survived. >> thanks to our affiliate wplg for that. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer live from surfside, anyway. thanks watching. >> i'm pamela brown. the roots of insurrection starts now. >> an assault on democracy. >> an attack on the capitol. fueled by a president's lies. >> this the election was stolen. >> trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. >> reporter: inspired by a delusion an enramgd mob of true

believers, attempting insurrection. >> you're a traitor. >> you're in a mid ooel 3w589. >> trump's soldiers. >> there's a sea of nothing but red, white, and blue, patriots, trump. >> reporter: trump's true believers. >> i felt like he was a. >> announcer:ed by god. >> i don't think joe biden is president. >> reporter: new interviews. >> that's all i heard. >> reporter: new details. >> over ryder cup the capitol. >> i never dreamed he would ever do anything like that. >> reporter: new democrats. >> you call january 6th a peaceful protest? >> i do. >> reporter: and why it's not over. >> in fact, it is just getting started. >> reporter: tonight you can a cnn special report: saumt on democracy, the roots of trump's insurrection.

( the early morning 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, they would 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 has 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 warriors saving democracy. >> reporter: but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection disguysed as patriotism wrapped in a trump flag. their president, their members of congress, their tv and radio shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been predictable. well saw people who had been whipped up into bleefg an election was being stolen. and then they were being told it's going to happen straight-aways. you've got radicalization and mobilization. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> reporter: that threat continues to this day, driven by lies that endanger our democracy. how did it happen? how did millions of americans come to believe a network of lies so deep, so vast, they

would ignite an insurrection. to find the answers, we have to go into that sea of people, see through their eyes their beliefs. this is that story and it is not over. >> i hate that i've lost so many friends and i hate that my familiar hi thinks i'm crazy and i hate that it's such a struggle and i hate that people don't see the truth. welcome to communist america. aren't you so fucking proud. >> reporter: the former marine and mom began her twisted path to this protest with weight loss surgery and a documentary about the food industry. >> they lie to us about what they put in our food and what's acceptable and not acceptable. >> reporter: that path would lead to qanon. >> i believe this is the awakening. this is bigger than q.

this is biblical. they're all corrupt and part of the same evil. i believe we're living out the book of revelation. >> reporter: she is now up repent ent. >>. >> believe joe biden is the president and i believe that he lost the election and they tried to steal it and that trump did what he needed to do, he needed to step away to wake america up. >> reporter: josh pruitt, a body builder 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, we don't care. we care because we thought we were cheated. >> this election has been batted down by republican election officials, by secretaries of state from every single state that this was a fair election. >> all i can tell you is 85

million americans feel differently than what you're saying right now. guaranteed. the election was just stolen. it just was. >> there's untold reams of proof that there wasn't. >> there's absolute proof that there was but nobody wants to show it. >> where is that? >> it just is. >> reporter: he is now a proud boy. a video of him being initiated into the far right extremist group went viral. >> i'm a western chauvinist. >> 30 million views, i think. >> and gained thousandings of followers on social media. on january 6th video would capture him again in the first wave of rioters storming the capital. >> we didn't storm any capitol, ok. we did protest. we peace friday protested. >> reporter: you call january 6th peaceful?

>> i do. >> reporter: you don't feel any responsibility? >> absolutely not. >> overran the capital, overran the capitol. >> reporter: a member of the extremist group the oath keepers was in a column marching into the capital h capitol. he refused to spoke to cnn. his senior and mother cry him as an ex marine who went from being a little league coach to becoming an alcoholic. >> he was just a genuinely good person. he was always someone that i looked up to and that i was extremely proud of. his son idolized damon. everyone idolized him because he had a great permit. >> reporter: his life would spiral down yard after his second marriage. his mom battling leukemia, said he is a mean drunk. >> she's a dr. jek m, mr. hyde

when he's drinking. >> it snow bald. he started going on these websites that essentially were a vacuum. >> reporter: he would move to rural ohio and find comp companionship from a transgender bar owner named jessica watkins who would recruit into the oath keepers. >> he found a purpose in his life. because he was at rock bottom. anybody that cared about him didn't want anything to do with him anymore, because of his drinking. >> reporter: you consider him, what, a domestic terrorist? >> i didn't. but i do now. >> reporter: his family says trump shares the blame. >> trump gave them a boogeyman. trump gave them someone to fear or to blame things on. he gave them an excuse for their lot in life.

>> are we live? >> griffin was at the capitol amid thousands on january 6th. he climbed the balcony, borrowed a bullhorn and tries to preach. the next day he would post a much more menacing message about the building's future. >> there's going to be blood running out of that building. >> reporter: the conservative began his career as a cowboy performer in a wild west show for disney paris. 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, push unfair regulation 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. he appeared on fox and got noticed by the president himself. it was life changing. >> i was nothing but a wloly elected coup commissioner with a mess of problems and the president invited me to sit down at his desk with hem and hear me out. >> reporter: griffin went to the border with trump croney steve bannon. when he posted this video, president trump retweeted him. >> only democrat is a dead democrat. [ cheers and applause ] don't say it in the physical sense. i can already see the videos getting my words. that i want to murder democrats. no. i say that in the political accepts. >> we're not going to get an election stolen from us from china. >> reporter: he sees conspiracies in almost everything. january 6th may have been a

set-up by democrats. he said he doesn't follow qanon but it shares like he shears some of the beliefs. >> because the devil wants to destroy things. there's those foot soldiers of the deep state, hillary clinton, dr. fauci, bill gates, you know, they're the big wheels, you know, they're the controllers. >> reporter: griffin even doubts the undeniable, that the riot led to deaths. ashley babbitt, an air force veteran from san diego, shot and killed by capitol hill police. >> he's got a gun. >> sounded like a tucking gunshot! >> brian sicknick died from a stroke one day being attacked. griffin cannot accept their so-called peaceful protest led to death so they deputy it. >> do you believe he died because of the riot?

>> i'm not sure he's even dead. >> reporter: coy. >> i'm serious. that's how -- and i hate to be so crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not so sure ashley babbitt is dead. >> come on. >> who's to say -- have you seep anybody in her family? >> the answer is yes. >> i'd say through high school me and my sister were best friends. >> reporter: this is her brother roger. he said 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. >> reporter: he says his sister was a tomboy who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do figure. she was invincible. that's how i looked at her. >> ashley babbitt ran a pool company which she ran with her husband and brother. >> she was happy.

talk about how she lest in a beautiful place, does what she wants, it's the american dream. >> reporter: and he sews her sister voted to barack obama. >> i think she's not as crazy as the media is making her out to be. >> reporter: then she became a trump fan. >> make america great again. >> reporter: ashley's brother said they rarely discuss politics because he just wasn't interested. her passion for donald trump would eventually lead her to qanon and then the capitol where a single shot took her life. >> i don't think she should have died. >> reporter: this by powerful forces that her blofd united states was in jeopardy. she and millions of others of trump supporters were con stabtly barraged with false messages about election fraud on tv, the internet, social media, and for some at their place of

worship. >> if i'm going to go down and the anti-christ is going to take over, i'm going to go down with a fight. >> reporter: he runs a chump near knoxville, tp. >> we know something crooked went on. there's actual evidence. >> reporter: he is is a supporter of what's called the black robe regiment, inspired by a group of pastors who fought in the american revolutionary war. >> oftentimes they'd have their military gear underneath their pastor's robes. he'd say now heats go out and fight for independence. >> reporter: would you call it a militaristic view? >> we're talking about spiritual warfare. >> reporter: are you concerned that there's somebody in the audience who actually takes your words literally? >> not a chance. we aren't attacking anything

firz physically. we're attacking this onslaught of the enemy on our nation. we're fighting against dee moppic forces, not earthly forces. >> reporter: he called on his 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. >> reporter: and went there himself, preaching before a crowd near the white house the day before. >> and it is important that 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. >> reporter: january 6th, 2021 was a disastrous culmination of

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november, 2008. the election of the first black president. >> change has come to america. >> reporter: change is what the country had voted for, but to some, change brought fear. >> everything obama -- >> reporter: and the right wing media then led by rush limbaugh. >> i know what his politics are. i hope he fails. >> that was a shocking moment when you have one of the biggest voices in the media -- in global media saying i hope he fails. there were people who let themselves get spooked by the skin color. i think his name, barack hussein obama, i think there are people who cooperate get past that. didn't have that chance. >> reporter: it was the beginning of a path that led to donald trump's insurrection.

new mexico county commissioner cow griffin listened to rush him baugh 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. >> reporter: ken peters looked at this crisp president and saw a threat to his open religion. >> seeing how pro muslim he was versus pro-christian, i hated how he apologized for america to other nations. >> reporter: jonathan called obama racist names. >> he would call him a porch monkey. it would make me mad. i ended up hanging up on him because i get to upset with him. he felt that he was going to take his guns, what started it was the key party movement and

then it just grew from there. >> reporter: the tea party, a political revolution launched in opposition to president president obama's man's to tackle the financial crisis. usa! sauchlt! usa! >> there was a lot of white rail. sure, some of the tea party activists were talking about government spending and so on but i remember seeing t-shirts that said put the white back in the white house. >> we are going to fire president barack obama. >> reporter: a former airline flight attendant named amy cramer would use a bus 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's a direct link between

the tea party rebellion and the trump rebellion and then ultimately the insurrection. >> reporter: 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. >> i just want to see this guy's birth certificate. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: 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's so much proof he's not a u.s. citizen. >> i do not feel like barack obama is a believer in america or what america is and what america stands for. >> too you believe he's american? >> oh, yeah, you know, i guess.

i haven't seen his birth certificate. have you? >> reporter: 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's going to burn all the way to washington. >> reporter: trump's rise was what happening at the same time. a former investment banker and movie producer named steve bitmapon was building a site so powerful it would turn the republican party upside-down. named after its founder andrew breitbart. breitbart news would launch the alt right into the mainstream. >> there was this real populous power. this was not standard republican party. breitbart became the blog side for that. >> reporter: former breitbart

spokesman said the aim was to change america and ban on directed every story on breitbart arson home page. >> truth and fact is a word that's not used there. it's more about what does the conservative side believe about this and how do they amplify that. >> reporter: breitbart's headlines were built on fear, fear that the 2nd amendment was being threatened, fear of obama, and most of all, fear of. >> this is why bannon and trump are great together. they are ultimately perpetuating a massive con. they could give two craps about their base. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: he worked with a company skilled in psychological warfare and it targeted americans. >> during my -- >> reporter: whistle-blower said the weapon used would be facebook. >> as soon as you start clicking on things it starts to remove other kind of content and shows you more and more of that thing that you're chibing on. you start to move further and further away from a common reality with others. >> reporter: 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. the scale of change it has brought about. >> reporter: trump supporters like him increasingly tune out regular news outlets and paid attention to facebook. >> facebook is where i got a lot of my media from. i feel you could gleep more of the stuff that maybe interests you and isn't coming from a mainstream media outlet. >> reporter: drisinformation competes 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. >> reporter: 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 it would make steve bannon the ceo of his campaign. >> he had political advisors that recognized this grievance,ing figured they could tap into it, amplify it. >> completely scared 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 are looking only at elite mainstream media didn't see it coming. >> this is for my trump supporters out there. >> reporter: the bar tender says he voted for obama, was now a trumper. >> i like the straight to the pointness of him and his combativeness with people, him not being scared to say stiff.

>> reporter: she said she went from supporting carson to trump. >> i saw his heart and soul how much he loves herr country and how much he loves our military. >> reporter: 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's only one choice. it's got to be trump. >> reporter: by 2016, donovan crowell is becoming more and more detach from real. >> he wanted me to start collecting water and cash. don't keep my money in the bank. his really main thing with president obama was that he was going to declare martial law so that he could stay president. he was trump all the way. he hasn't voted in his life. >> never voted? >> reporter: never voted. >> reporter: by november

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i donald john trump do so manically swear -- >> reporter: his. si would begin with a lie. >> i 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 looked like a million, a million and a half people. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,

period. >> i think he in his own mind cooperate tell the difference between what was true and what was false. i don't think it particularly mattered to them. >> reporter: john bolton was trump's national security advisor. >> if he could equips people that what he wanted to be true was true, he would try to do it. >> reporter: the weeks he took office, he would launch the phrase he would use to get away with anything. >> you are fake news. >> reporter: donald trump told his supporters they could no longer trust the officials, the official accounts, the news outsidelets 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. >> reporter: he would lie about anything. >> and just remember, what you're seeing and what you're

meaning 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 jemgt of his powers believe him. there is a cult-like phenomenon as it pertains to donald trump. >> somebody had to do it. i am the chosen one. >> this might sound strange to a lot of your viewers, but i feel like he was anointed by god, i really do. >> reporter: donald trump. >> reporter: yeah, i do. >> reporter: anointed by god? yee, i feel like he's been anointed. he won all the time. >> he's an unbelievable leader, and when he speaks, he strikes a cord in us that grabs us and we go yes, that's the truth, that's right. not everything but most everything he says, it grabs us.

>> reporter: others saw in trump a rare opportunity to further push an alt right agenda. >> and yes, by the way, they are trying to take away our history an our heritage. you see that. >> reporter: steve bannon, who had hand delivered trump's messaging was ensconced in the white house, turning his world view into policy. >> it's not time to bring the country together. it's time to take on the elites in this country, take the torch to them, hits them with a blow torch. >> reporter: trump's blow torch would be the executive order. with bannon at his side, he would sign a series of orders, one nicknamed the muslim travel ban. others restrictioning, building a border wall all based on a lie that dangerous criminals was under way. >> people hate the word "invasion," but that's what it is. it's an invasion. people we have no idea who they

are. >> reporter: trump followers were being fed conspiracy theories by the president on tv, radio, and on line. >> the mieg rapid care advance, yeah, i completely blaef they're staged. with all my heart i do. there's too much evidence. >> reporter: ashley babbitt would post video rants about problems on the southern border. >> i live about 15 minutes from the tijuana border. i take this permanently. they're trying to pain this as full of women and children because that's what the media's pushing. let me tell you right now, the border is a shit show. >> i believe that donald trump is the only president that we've ever had in office that actually was speaking out to represent us. the forgotten americans. >> corey griffin who would start cowboys for trump would stake his future on the. >> anybody that lives on the southern border knows that it's extremely dangerous. >> reporter: 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 p of the united states. he thought of himself as the president of his political base. he accentuated their sense of resentment, bitterness, of loss. >> reporter: part of his political base including white supremacists. >> he saw those people as trump supporters and he just lacked the ability or the willingness to consider the broad or implications. >> reporter: the former spokesperson for steve bannon's breitbart news could see the news site attracting more and more racists. >> the overt racist comments from our audience was littered across their pages. we can probably proclaim our white pride and it's ok because the most powerful person in the world is with us right here,

too. >>. >> reporter: joanne could hear it coming from her basement. her son, an ex marine who she and other people call an unemployed drunk was listening to right wing conspiracy news especially the conspiracy theorist alex jones. >> he would listen to bright bart, alex jones. he'd bring it upstairs full blast. >> i say it's treeson and trump says it's treason and we're reversing it period! >> for the last four years alex has been, bar none, the loudest and most outside spoken donald trump supporter and he will tell people what they didn't want to hear when it comes to their conspiracy theory du jour. >> reporter: he says the conspiracy theories jones pushed on info wars, like mass

shootings being fake, were all about making money, which he did by selling questionable health supplements on the info war's website. big stories equal big profits. to alex, that means that he is going to sell some product that days because of the spike in audience, based on somebody else's tragedy. >> reporter: jacobsen says he doesn't know if alex jones believes his own conspiracies. donovan crowell's mother and senior say crowell believes them all. >> he would constantly facebook message me. sending me stuff about hollywood pedophiles eating babies and i'm like, i would just shame him. i mean, that's absolutely ridiculous. i would be like you're a dumbass. this is not true. >> he would say such crazy things. hillary clinton had a sex ring in the basement of a pizza

parler. tom hanks and his wife were the head of a pedophile ring. >> reporter: your son believed in qanon, basically? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: a new conspiracy was seeping its way into right wing social media and news outlets. qanon. >> qanon believes that basically all democrats are evil satanic worshipping pedophile and the only person that can stop and say the world is donald trump. >> reporter: they would seek out encoded messages, parse out numbers and words of trump ace messages, all 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. >> child exploitation and sexual abuse, human trafficking. >> reporter: like he did with

white supremacists trump would eventually speak to his q supporters with a wink and a nod. >> i heard they love our country. i don't know anything about it other than they do supposedly like me. >> reporter: ashley babbitt had gone deep into the conspiracy theory, where we go one, we go all. >> she had a shirt with a giant "we are q" on it. she said it was some political thing. that's where the conversation ended. >> reporter: for yvonne, q was much more than political. >> i feel like q just catapulted me to truth, because that was my prayer in the beginning, god show me the truth, i want the truth. i think trump is q plus plus. >> kthey're fighting back.

of course it's all pro foundly mistaken and none of it is real. >> reporter: and as the calendar turned on 2020, a global pandemic would take conspiracy theorists down an even darker hole. >> the infection is driving fears of a global recession. 75 million americans have been told to stay home. >> reporter: josh pruitt, a bartender and personal trainer lost work. you don't believe in covid? >> i don't say i don't believe it. the flu web away. all of a sudden there's no such thing as the flu anymore. because everybody who had the flu has covid. >> on everybody's mental health. i don't want to say not just my sfr because i don't wam to say it made her crazy but it put a lot of stress and strain on everything. >> reporter: protests against

business shutdowns broke out at state capitols across the country. >> covid started and we started the mask mandate and things started to feel wrong and they started to have protests. i went to my very first protest ever and it was very, very patriotic. >> reporter: it was all coming to a hode. >> a lot do sort of see this in biblical terms almost. >> reporter: a kabal of blood drinking, 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. >> at least listen. i mean, he's the president. ♪ ♪ ♪ and i never turn it down ♪ ♪ aw ♪ ♪ aw ♪ ♪ no ♪

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years of lies and the echo chamber of right wing media. probably the worst way to hold elections. >> reporter: some defied that fraud exists would set the stage for what eventually would become the biggest lie of them all. >> the only way we're going to lose this election is if the

election is rigged. remember that. it's going to be fought all over the mace. >> again and again and again he told people that the election was going to be stolen. >> reporter: one of trump's main complaints, the increased use of mail-in ballots in key swing states the absentee ballots favoring joe biden would be counted last. >> you could see trump go way up a and you could see him plateau and go way down. >> this is cnn's coverage of election night in america. >> reporter: on election night, early results seem to favor president trump. then turned. >> it has flipped wisconsin. joe biden with the lead right now. >> reporter: he would try to stop him. >> trump has a press conference. it's in the middle of the night. he was essentially trying to declare victory before all the

ballots has been counted. >> we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. we want all voting to stop. >> that is not what democratically elected presidents or candidates for the presidency say. that's what authoritarians say. >> you call it fraud to count ballots in the united states of america? >> reporter: trump had spread the lie and most of his supporters would only believe the lie. >> we went to bed and it was like holy crap, what just happened? >> it's called counting the votes. >> no it's not. it's called cheating. >> reporter: as the election hung in the balance for days, viral videos and fraudulent news stories painted pictures of widespread fraud. it was all a lie.

>> in georgia, look at this new surveillance foodage we'll be showing you. mysticous suitcases potentially filled with ballots rolled out from under a table. >> there was suitcases of ballots that were being reduced that were all for joe biden. >> reporter: the mysterious georgia suit cases that couy griffin saw were bins of legitimate battles, election workers doing their job like other viral videos, there was no fraud. it didn't matter. >> you say that you top think that there was any fraud at all in this last election? >> reporter: i'm saying that all 50 secretaries of state who are in charge of elections, republicans and democrats, found no widespread fraud that coo tilted this election in any way, so i'm just wondering, where is the fraud? >> whenever you have the

president of the united states making those statements -- >> this was a massive fraud. >> senator ted cruz making those statements as well. >> and we've seen in the last two months unprecedented allegations of voter fraud. >> they hear a lot more. they're on upper level intelligence briefings. whenever you have those high-ups saying that yes, there's cheating, what do you do, you know? >> the ballot counting in key states continued, and on saturday, november 7th. cnn projects joseph r biden is elected the 46th president of the united states. >> don't be ridiculous. networks don't decide elections. courts do. >> reporter: actually, voters decide elections. trump and his allies would unsuccess any take their stolen election case to court after

court, nearly 60 times. but millions of trump supporters stuck in an echo chamber of right-wing propaganda, news, and social media would hear only of more and more allegations of fraud. >> they know they stole this and they also know we're going to show they stole it. >> will you accept joe biden as president? >> no. he'll never be my president. >> how could that change? >> you never know. >> reporter: day after day, the news cycle were hit with things that looked like something bad was happening. misleading video and social media platforms with a huge roll in rapidly expanding those claims. >> we haven't let that -- all the dead people that voted, people without actual residences. >> dead people voted, so explain that. >> but where did you get that particularly news that dead people were voting? >> it's on multiple sources.

i don't have my can computer? front of you so i could look it up. i could find it for you. >> reporter: just like the other made-up election tales you can find on the computer, the dead voting conspiracy isn't true. >> i want to first welcome and thank -- >> reporter: officials would be called to testify before congress, only to declare trump really did lose. >> this was a secure election. of that, i have to doubt. j in no way do i believe it wasn't stolen. >> period. >> no way. >> even though all those people who watch elections -- >> they're all bought. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. >> reporter: trump's own attorney general bill barr said this was a fair election. >> he had to save himself. >> reporter: trump would not accept defeat. >> he couldn't take an election loss because donald trump wants

his grave stone to read "i woman." he is preoccupied with this idea that he never loses. >> reporter: for trump supporters, stop the steal would be their battle cry and what began online would take to the streets. >> we were on the trump train early on. >> reporter: amy cramer's group watched a facebook page that quickly went viral and recycling an old tactic from her tea party days would be what she called the march for trump. >> this is like tea party on steroids, amplified a thousand times. >> stop the steal, stop the coup rally. >> reporter: and ally alexander would push his own stop the steal movement. staging protests and asking support issers to send him money tom keep going. >> what money do you make?

>> zero. i dedicate my time. >> how do we know that. >> they're not donors. >> 17176. >> 1776. >> reporter: the stop the sale movement would mermg into one day of protest september 12th in washington, d.c. president trump buzzing the crowd in a helicopter would energize liz base for what was coming next. that same weekend, donovan crowell, the out of work alcoholic attended a training camp in north carolina according to prosecutors, though crowell's lawyer denies it. crowell had been recruited into the oath keepers, a paramilitary group that opposes the federal government. jessica watkins who opened this bar in ohio, was the group's local leader. bar tender julie harvey says she saw the group meet every week. >> they were going to d.c. for

the original million maga march. i was working and i walk out on the patio and i saw them sawing the pool cues in half, putting on the zip straps. the way that jessica explained it, it was just preparedness in case they were in harm's way. >> reporter: who are the oath keepers in your mind right now based on what you know? >> they're a terrorist organization. they're white supremists. >> reporter: you consider your son one? >> yes, i do. i hate to say that, but yes. it makes me sad to say that. yes, i do. >> reporter: with no realistic prospects of overturning the election in court, trump turned his supporters' attention to the day congress would convene to

confirm biden's victory. january 6th, tell them to be there. we'll be wild. >> i've asked you to vote and to go to d.c. and i knew it was going to be history. >> part of the reason january r 6th happens is because donald trump picked the place, the time, the location. >> ashley babbitt was making plans. >> trump 2020. >> i wrote my sister truly believed that they were going to go in and change america for the greater. >> reporter: 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, occupation occupy the capitol. we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents and demand a recount.

capitol hill police received numerous warnings of violence, but failed to properly prepare. criminal complaints, we described trangs, planning and preparations for an insurrection. joanne roe says the real orders came from just one person, donald trump. >> it's like they're a cult. he's got them brainwashed. why, i don't know. i also think they believed so much and what trump was saying that they truly were believing they were following his orders. >> reporter: the lies, the anger. the escalation of vice president rhetoric had been being for months. >> haven't i told y'all this fight would escalate? >> reporter: the day before january 6th, crowds started pouring into washington, d.c. at a rally there, pastor ken peters

would preach revolution. >> we will rise up in this time and say like paul revere, the leftists are coming, the leftists are coming, the leftists are coming. >> reporter: later that evening, trump's political fixture, roger stone would speak in biblical terms. >> this is nothing less than an epic skrugle between dark and light. between if godly and the godless. between good and evil. >> reporter: ashley babbitt tweeted nothing will stop us. in less than 24 hours, dark to light. to anyone paying attention, a powder keg of violence had been set and was waiting for a match. >> it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen, ok. it's going to be quite extraordinarily different. all i can say is strap in.

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importance of that day and the pressure of that day. >> reporter: aides to nancy pelosi, alicea and kelsey, it would be a big workday. the certification of the 2020 presidential election. in an exclusive interview they admit the growing number of trump supporters in the city were unsettling. >> my parents were concern for my safety going in to work. my husband was a little bit worried but everybody said once you're in the capital you'll totally fine. >> reporter: all across washington, trump supporters had been turning out for hours. >> by the time we got up, which we thought was early, the line was so big, it was hard to get in line. we found a spot in the sea of people where we thought we could sea a little bit and here a little bit. it was packed. >> reporter: pastor ken peters had spoken the night before at the stop the steal rally.

couy believed he would speak before trump. >> i went to the rally -- i thought i was going to be able to speak at it, which unfortunately, i wasn't including. >> reporter: yvonne began the day posting her excitement. >> good morning! >> we came off the metro and it was eerie. they had the roads blocked off and dump trucks. >> they got a different sense in the air that, all right, this is a little weird but still nothing to raise the hairs on your neck. >> reporter: u.s. capitol police officer harry dunn called in to work for what he thought would be a routine day of protests, saw the early crowds and took note. >> these people have wrokd their selves in their class. it was like a cultist mentality. >> it's hard to get a grasp of it. >> i'm here because my president told me. >> reporter: the crowds waited

for hours watching speech after speech. >> today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! >> this wasn't just a political show of support for the president. this was a historic day and an historic moment and action might be required. >> let's have trial by combat! >> reporter: behind the scenes, jump jr. was all smiles. but president trump reportedly in a bad mood was glued to the monitors showing the crowds. >> we'll see what he has to say at 11:00 when he's set to speak. then these supporters are expected to march over to the capitol. >> reporter: members of the extreme right wing group the proud boys were assembling at a preplanned location at the capitol's east side, flashing the ok sign.

they had not come to listen to speeches. they had arrived in small groups, dressed without their usual proud bow attire to blend in and equipment themselves with radios for communication. their day would begin with a prayer. >> dear lord ask you today -- >> reporter: and a match to the capitol's west side. >> men on a mission with about 500 behind ready to kick some butt. >> reporter: josh fruit, who would be among the first wave of proud boys to breach the capitol claims he knew nothing about the plan. >> i knew nothing at all. i was with the guys that were part of the maryland chapter. so there was probably like 20 of us. we all hooked up around like 10:00 in the morning and that was down where trump was speaking. >> reporter: at the rally trump was finally taking the stage and repeating his election loss lies. >> we won it by a landslide.

this was not a close election. >> reporter: members of the right wing militia, the oath keepers, including jessica watkins, began to lead the speech. watkins and donovan crowell make their way towards the capitol. she uses a walkie-talkie to community to other oath keepers. >> everybody's matching on the capital, all million of us. it's insane. we're about two blocks away from it now. police are doing nothing. they're not even trying to stop us at this point. >> now it is up to congress to con front this egregious assault on our democracy, and after this, we're going to walk down -- and i'll be there with you. >> reporter: the president has spoken, people are making their way up here. >> reporter: back at the capitol, a group led by proud boys are taunting police at a small barricade. locking the entrance to the capitol grounds' northwest side.

then they make their move. overwhelming officers. >> we're rushing the capitol! >> reporter: police continue to fall back. >> the house comes to order for this important historic meeting. usa! usa! >> i started looking out and i saw a lot of commotion.

this is not -- this is not right. >> are there any objections? >> reporter: on the floor of the house, the republican from arizona who'd previously been in communication with stop the sale organizer ali alexander is launching his own protest. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from arson rise? >> i rise for 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral ballots from arizona. >> there you have it. the first objection. they're going to be separated out. >> i didn't have a view into the outside. someone texted me a view of it on the inaugural platform. that's the first time i was like-way, i can't believe we're at this moment. >> and we fight. we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. so we're going to walk down pennsylvania avenue.

>> reporter: outside the walls of the capitol, mayhem. a member of the proud boys named dominic pa zolla got his hands on a capitol police riot shield. >> you heard on the radio screaming for help. >> reporter: harry dunn stationed on the east side races to help his comrades on the west and is stunned by what he sees. >> multiple capitol injuries. multiple capitol injuries. >> they come being dragged up the steps. i can't see. almost in tears, help me, help me, and they're walking out with just their arms full, because you can't see their supervisors there in white shirts and orange stain, the orange of the pepper

spray and they just soaked in this orange spray and it just like, help, help. you had officers coming up the steps bloodied and our thinking to yourself, oh, my god, what is happening, and just seeing the fear in some of these officers' faces. i'm sure it was present on mine, because i was scared, absolutely scared. just seeing that fear is something i don't think i'll ever forget. >> reporter: a full-scale riot is underway outside the capitol, leading the rally down pennsylvania avenue. she has no idea what awaits her. >> i was so excited to get to the capitol. i wanted to see what was going to happen. so 1:11 we started marching. 17176! >> reporter: alex jones, the profiteer with the organizer of stop the steal, ali alexander in

to you, begins his own march to the capitol. >> i skipped literally skipped with my flag all the way to the capitol. >> reporter: in the crowd, ashley banner. >> there's an estimated over three million people here today. despite what anybody tells you, we say something different. patriots and trump. >> this is what you get! >> reporter: 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 guard. pipe bombs are being investigated nearby at the headquarters of the dnc and rnc. >> whoa, this is bad. this is bad. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: by 2:00 p.m. both sides of the capitol are surrounded with mobs, fighting police. >> they're throwing bottles and

rocks and chemical fireworks. this is a riot now. >> reporter: capitol police are fighting a two-front war. >> chaos. total chaos. screaming, yelling. bullhorns being blown. cheers of america and traitor and we want trump and just absolute pandemonium. it's so loud you can't evenly hear your radio that's right here in your ear.

they were prepared for war. >> reporter: then the moment happen s at 2:12 p.m. using a stolen police shield, proud boy dominic pa zolla breaks a window. the capitol has been breached. the danger has only begun.

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shield, glass was broken and the mob pours in. he jumps a railing and follows other proud boys through a now open door. >> what do you do? walk in a door. >> you know that's not true. >> no. i know that is true. when i walked into the front door the cops were at the door and they were standing to the sides of the door and they were waving people in. >> yeah. the video i saw of that moment. >> uh-huh. >> was a couple of cops overwhelmed by a mob. >> you didn't watch all the videos, then. >> i didn't? i think i did. it was all caught on video. here is josh pruitt walking through the door, 70 seconds after the window breaks. it is almost the same moment rioters smash windows on the east side.

>> and they're attempting to break a window on the east side. the capitol's been breached on the east side. >> reporter: armed with sticks, flagpoles, riot shields, they had stormed past and overpowered police, who could do little but coax and steer them away from lawmakers. >> my job today is not about the good people of arizona. we will stand in recess until the call of the chair. thank you. >> reporter: the rioters weren't just in the building. at the moment the senate adjourned, they were streaming straight toward the senate chambers and vice president mike pence. senator mitt romney is about to head straight into a mob but is intercepted by a single capitol hill police officer.

a moment later, that same officer eugene goodman somehow coaxes the mob away from the senate and straight into a waiting row of capitol police. >> my hero. he is great. he did a great job. there were a lot of u mean goodmans that day that did a lot of great heroic things and people will never know their name. >> reporter: there are now hundreds in the mob. roaming halls, banging on doors. taking photos and videos. some members of congress are being escorted to safety, but scattered behind doors staffers, news media are in hiding. >> when i called i said we need to go into lockdown.

>> reporter: inside house speaker pelosi's office her staffers rushed to a conference room, locked the door. among them, alicea lah and alicea smith. >> then we started hearing the banging. the hooting and the hollering. >> nancy, nancy! >> very close to us and i realized music off. everybody silence your phones, turn the lights off. do not say anything. >> we're coming for you, nancy! >> it was menacing. i mean, they were like where's nancy, where's nancy where are the people that work for her. >> find you. >> yeah. >> reporter: they had barricaded themselves in hoping the door would hold. >> the din was coming from all directions. we heard somebody yell, i found nancy pelosi office. they were chancing "nancy,

nancy." we're hearing it from behind us and in front of our door, so it was completely -- the sound surrounded us to the point we're just hearing shouting and yelling and banging and crashing and shattering of glass. but they were banging on the door rm that's all i heard. that's what i still think about, the door sound. one of us said to the other, they take us hostage, right? said yeah. i would think. that was one of the few words i said out loud in the room. >> one of the staffers whispers a phone call asking for help. it was pure terror. >> where are you nancy! we're looking for you. >> he was chancing her name. >> nancy, oh nancy! >> he was not going to be nice

if he found her or someone associated with her. it could have been multiple that they were doing that, too. we don't know. >> nancy! where are you nancy! >> we didn't know what was actually happening because it was just us in a completely dark room and all we could hear was what was outside. >> reporter: inside the halls of congress, the mob refuses to stop. stop the steal! stop the steal! >> reporter: outside, more and more are trying to get in. in the midst of the massive protest, what appears to be a single file military column climbs the eastern staircase as the crowd sings -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: these are the oath keepers and in the column is joanne row'sson, donovan crowell. >> i never dreamed he would do anything like that. never. it's just heartbreaking to me.

>> reporter: it's alleged the oath keepers had stashed weapons in a nearby hotel, had been planning, practicing military tactics since the election. now over radio communications, they were broadcasting their triumph. >> we are in the mezzanine. we are in the main building right now. wore wronging it. freaking shooting people with paint balls but we're in here. >> get it. do your -- this is what we -- lived for, everything we -- trained for. >> overran the capital. >> we're in the fucking capitol! >> in almost every corner inside and out, many battles are raging .

>> it's over! you better run, cops! >> reporter: police officers are being crushed trying to keep the surging mob to gaining entry to the lower item. one officer, daniel hodges screaming as his body is pressed into the door. officer michael fnome heard the radio calls and rushed to help. >> this is not a law enforcement operation. >> reporter: his body camera captures the moment he faced a crowd of thousands. >> close the door. >> we're in a medieval battle. it's hand to hand combat in its most brutal form. >> reporter: the rioters had come armed and trying to get inside. they hit police with bats, sticks, batons, tasers.

guys were bleeding. these were officers that i think under normal circumstances, they'd be in an ambulance on the way to the hospital but they weren't, because there was nowhere to go. >> clear the door! >> if you left that line we're going to lose that door and that just wasn't an option. >> reporter: trying to defend the line. was yanked across it. >> i was pulled away from the other officers out into the crowd. >> reporter: video would capture him being tossed, torn, beaten. his own body camera, a jumble of confusion and violence. >> i was getting ttting the shid out of me. that was the ass kicking of a lifetime. jurp the police. >> yes. >> reporter: the mob grabbed for

his gun. someone repeatedly tased him in the neck. >> they were trying to kill me. >> reporter: struggling to survive outside the capitol, was trying to defend lawmakers still trapped inside. >> we were just told that there has been tear gas in the rotunda and they're being instructed to each of us get gas masks that are under our seats. >> reporter: armed capitol police are blocking the doors of the united states house of representatives. >> you are a traitor. you go against -- >> reporter: up in the gallery, colorado congressman jason ceo was in a group of members trapped. >> we were the ones, the members that they were going to try to kill or capture. >> reporter: crow called his wife, told her i love you. then the former army ranger with more than a hundred combat missions plotted to escape. >> there was a part of me that

was thinking if this mob breaks through those doors they're going to try to kill us all and i need to do what i need to do to protect myself, protect my colleagues, protect others. >> reporter: the mob was becoming incensed. donald trump had just tweeted -- >> mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been to protect our country and our constitution. >> reporter: there is a scaffold and a news and chants of "hang mike pence." security is now whis kingsessing pence and his family downa back stairway. >> i think trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. i think he wanted them to disrupt the certification of the college votes to give him more time to play out some other scenario that might end up with him being president. and that's the most dangerous part. not the crowd and the capitol,

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the battle raging for nearly two hours is showing no signs of stopping. rioters are on the senate floor. >> whose office is this? >> reporter: and rummaging through offices. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: outside more and more are trying to fight their way in. d.c. police officer michael fa known dragged into a mob being beaten is heard on his body camera pleading for mercy. >> i think it saved my life. >> reporter: he suffered a mild heart attack after being repeatedly tased and beaten. one of nearly 140 police officers wounded in the protest.

another, officer brian sicknick, sprayed with a chemical, would die the next day. officially of a stroke, though the riot played a role according to the medical examiner. usa, usa! >> reporter: proud boy josh pruitt walking around the capital is spotted at the front lines and smashing a wooden sign. he calls it all a peaceful protest. >> there's a pick of me picking up a sign, ok. cool. >> reporter: now holding it over your head and throwing it. >> trust me, i've seen all the pictures, because that's their narrative. >> i think we got so lucky that this didn't become worse, and what was remarkable is the hours that went by without a word from trump. >> reporter: it's been an hour since the capitol was breached. by 3:13 donald trump would make

his first respond to the violence. tweeting i'm asking for everyone at the u.s. capitol to remain peaceful. no violence. remember, we are the party of law and order. >> i don't think people who came to the capitol today had a lot of respect for my co-workers and i. >> this is insane. >> reporter: lawmakers, including republicans, falling into cnn, were astoupded at the president's detachment. >> the election's over and the objectors need to stop med allege with the primal forces of our democracy here so call it off, mr. president. we need you to call this off. >> reporter: president trump did not call it off. on a person overlooking the crowd, alex jones begins to spin the lie antifa was causing the violence. >> we have the witnesses, we have the footage. >> reporter: coy griffin makes

his way to the inauguration stage. >> it wasn't part of the capitol building. it was an exterior staircase. i never went inside. >> reporter: and tries to get a mob shouting fight for trump to pray for trump. >> if you wane to -- >> wonderful opportunity to pray with people. after that, we left. we walked down the staircase. we walked away from the capitol. >> reporter: the aftermath of ashley babbitt's shooting is playing outs on live tv. >> by the time i made it to my parents' house, my younger brother met me out in the -- the parking lot and told me she had passed. one of only two times i've seen my father cry. go down there and he's sobbing like a kid.

crying. my mom was tore up about, but i mean, which mother wouldn't be, you know. >> reporter: yet the president had still not told his followers to stop. republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy urges him to call it off. >> i begged him to talk to the nation, don't do it by twitter. >> he did talk to mckavrty. mccarthy told him what's happening. trump's reaction was they must be more upset than you are about the election results. >> donald trump is watching this on television and i'm wondering what is he doing to stop this? we know now he dip do anything. not doing anything while the capitol was being desecrated i thought was undefendable. >> there were people over the stairs and waving flags. people standing.

>> people bashing in windows, pushing through doors, fighting with cops. do you believe that happened? >> i do, i do. >> reporter: was it rights, wrong? >> it was horrible. it was terrible. as christians, we stand but we don't riot. christians are never to be destructive. >> reporter: capitol hill police formed tactical units and were performing rescue missionings. jason crow among those trapped was being escorted past rioters spread eagle on the ground. >> they were holding rioters at bay at gunshot. >> reporter: nancy pelosi's staff waited two hours before they were escorted to safety. >> the worst two hours of my life, easily. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: qanon believer climbed through a window to get inside. >> i was caught up in the home.

oh, my gosh, we're storming the capitol. i was inside the capitol. i went life in the moment and stuck my head out and said this is my house. super sad that this is america and americans are being beaten for wanting to save their country. so welcome to communist america. aren't you so fucking proud. >> reporter: by 4:00 vice president pence was calling the acting secretary of defense, demanding he clear the capitol. a moment later, battle raging, trump finally tweets a pretaped statement. >> i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. but you have to go home now. >> reporter: then inexplicably tells the mob -- >> you're very special. >> reporter: donald trump asked everybody to go home. he put out a tweet. it's a minute long.

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on the morning of january 7th, like the country itself, the united states capitol appeared in shock. broken glass, smashed doors. damaged but not broken, democracy had survived trump's mob. joe biden's election has been certified but at tremendous cost. five people died, nearly 140

in the immediate aftermath, there was no doubt who had caused it. >> president trump is practically and morally responsible. >> republicans briefly united with democrats in disgust. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. >> reporter: republican house leader kevin mccarthy who begged donald trump to stop the riot while it was happening. >> i called the president, i begged him to go talk to the nation. >> reporter: within weeks would do an about-face. >> i don't believe he provoked if you listened to what he said at the rally. >> if you don't believe that trump had anything to do with this insurrection, why were you calling him to have it called off? >> in the heat of the moment, everybody knew what the deal was. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy would fly to mar-a-lago. >> if the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? >> the nominee of the party, absolutely. >> reporter: in that hypocrisy,

lower level republicans, many conspiracy believers themselves, found their opening to rewrite the history of january 6th. congressman andrew clyde from georgia who actually helped capitol police barricade the door that day later said this. >> you know, if you didn't know the tv footage was a video from january the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. >> reporter: no one could look at this video, this video, or this video. >> it sounds like a gunshot. >> reporter: and call january 6th a normal tourist visit. >> it's kind of eerie and haunting to me that for the rest of my life i can go watch my sister die on camera. a horrible, horrible video, but it will always be there. >> reporter: the scars of the

siege on the capitol are permanent. the lives of those who took part have been upended, many face prison time, lost jobs. >> this cost me a lot. it's cost me a lot. >> reporter: coy griffin faces federal charges his county commission seat is being threatened. >> sorry, i'm not quitting. i'm not resigning. >> reporter: and still, he is a believer. >> i personally will never recognize joe biden as the president of the united states as long as i have the type of questions that i have regarding the elections. >> yvonne st. sere also charged for storming the capitol thinks it's all part of a grand plan. >> i don't regret going on january 6th at all, and i don't even regret going through the window. >> reporter: bartender josh pruitt said he can't find a job because of his role in the riot, and as for the charges against him. >> you're in serious trouble. >> i'll be just fine. because i didn't do anything.

>> reporter: oath keeper donovan crowell is facing some of the most serious charges in the capital breach. >> look over the capitol, overran the capitol. >> reporter: we found him in ohio where he's awaiting trial. >> i'm with cnn. >> excuse me? >> i'm with cnn, drew griffin. >> no thanks, man, i'm good. how's your day? >> i've been talking to your mom and your sister. they mentioned that you might want to say something to us about -- >> about what? >> about your case and whether or not you feel bad about it. >> i feel bad about my case? >> feel bad about what you did? >> well, actually, the things i did i was hanging out with some of the wrong people, it seems like, but i didn't really do anything, so i feel pretty good that my case is going to come out and show that. >> do you feel like you were manipulated into going to the capitol? >> no, no, i really got nothing to say to you. i don't watch your garbage anyway. >> i love the person that he used to be, but i despite the person that he is now.

he's not my son, and i still have a hard time believing that he did what he did. if he gets 20 years in prison, he'll be 70 years old before he gets out of there. trump doesn't care about any of those people that stormed the capitol for him. he doesn't care one iota about them. he hasn't even mentioned them since he's been out of the white house. >> reporter: january 6th only intensified the collective madness around the lie of a stolen election. amateur republican attempts are underway to recount ballots in sham audits only in states trump lost. republican governors and legislatures are passing new laws targets 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 going to be restoring the republic with trump as president. >> well, once people are already radicalized, it is very difficult to bring them back. >> so just giving them facts doesn't work. >> it definitely does not work, especially for conspiracy theories. you can't give people facts and expect them to believe, they will just see that as feeding into the same conspiracy. >> reporter: if you are watching cnn, reading news based in fact, not fiction, you're missing what is driving the delusional views of so many americans. >> do you think he's going to come back? >> oh, he's coming back. >> in 2024? >> i don't know. >> i think he's coming back before then. >> reporter: trump's true believers get their so-called news from unapologetic propaganda, conspiracy profiteers on social media, and lying politicians who are putting their personal careers ahead of the country they claim to serve. most influential of all is the liar in chief, trump himself,

who fuels the hysteria. >> i am not the one trying to undermine american democracy. i am the one that's trying to save it. please remember that. >> reporter: donald trump's lie united ordinary americans with radical extremists on january 6th, and that could lead to an even darker future. >> there's still a lot of angry people. it absolute emboldened them, and it's like it's finally happening. the civil war, this is the start of it, and it has encouraged people to plot and plan for what their next series of attacks are going to be. >> reporter: the movement threatens the very functioning of the united states government. >> if you don't change anything, we're on the pathway to having a failed state, which means the government can't govern, which means people just start doing whatever they want to do. you could wind up with very bad outcomes in the united states over the next ten years or so. >> it is an america where white

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