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the following is a cnn special report. >> multiple capitol injuries. multiple capitol injuries. >> an assault on democracy. >> the capitol has been breached. >> an 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 believers attempting insurrection. >> you are a traitor. >> we were in a medieval battle. >> trump's soldiers. >> there is a sea of nothing but red, white, and blue. patriots of trump. >> trump's true believers. >> i feel like he was anointed 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. >> overran the capitol. >> i never dreamed that 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, 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 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 warriors who are saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, disguised as patriotism. wrapped in a trump flag. a lie fed to them from their president, their members of congress, their tv and radio

shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been predictable. you know, we saw people who had been whipped up into believing an election was being stolen and then they were being told it would happen straight away. so you have both radicalization and mobilization. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> 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 lost so many friends, and i hate that my family thinks i'm crazy, and i hate that it is such a struggle, and i hate that people don't see

the truth. >> welcome to communist america. aren't you so proud? >> yvonne, 54, from idaho, filmed herself inside the capitol. 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 is acceptable and not acceptable. >> that path to better nutrition would lead to qanon. >> i believe this is truly the great awakening. this is bigger than q. this is biblical. i believe the corrupt systems are anti-christ. they're all corrupt and they're all evil. i believe we are living out the book of revelation. >> she stormed the capitol, live-streamed her protest and is now unrepentant. >> i don't believe joe biden is the president and i believe that he lost the election and that they tried to steal it and that strum did what he needed to do. he needed to step away to wake

america up. >> josh pruitt, 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 had announced biden won, nobody would care. we really don't care that much. we care that much because we thought we were cheated. >> your idea of this election has been batted down by courts, by republican election officials, by secretaries of state from every state that this was a fair election. >> all i can tell you is 85 million americans feel differently than what you're saying now. guaranteed. the election was stolen. it just was. >> there is untold reams of proof that 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 convoluted. >> i voted for obama. i liked obama. >> he is now a proud boy. a video of him being initiated

into a far right extremist group went viral. >> i'm a western chauvinist. >> got 30 million views, i think. >> i'm a proud boy. >> and gained thousands of followers on 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. >> took over the capitol. overran the capital. >> we're in the capitol. >> donovan crowl was a member of extremist group, the oath keepers, was in a column of the right-wing militia marching into the capitol. he refused to speak to cnn. his sister and mother describe 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 him and everybody idolized him because he had a great personality. >> crowl's life would spiral downward after his second marriage fell apart. his mom, battling leukemia, said he was a mean drunk. >> he just is dr. jekyll and mr. hyde when he's drinking. >> it's all kind of 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 and militia leader named jessica watkins who would recruit crowl into a militia, 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. >> do you consider him a domestic terrorist? >> i didn't, but i do now. >> crowl's 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? >> couy griffin was at the capitol amid thousands on january 6th. he climbed a capitol balcony, borrowed a bullhorn, and tried to preach. >> we've been screaming and we've been fighting. but now i want you to pray with me. >> the next day he would post a

much more menacing message about the building's future. >> there will be blood running out of that building. >> the conservative pastor, cowboy and new mexico county commissioner 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, 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 mess 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 crony steve bannon and when he posted this video about dead democrats, president trump retweeted him. >> the only good democrat is a dead democrat. [ cheers and applause ] 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 beliefs. >> the deep state is just satan 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 even 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. couy griffin, like others, cannot accept their so-called peaceful protest led to death so they deny it. so let me just ask you, do you believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> i'm not even so sure officer sicknick is even dead. >> couy. >> i'm serious. that's how -- and i hate to be so crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not so sure ashli babbitt is dead. >> couy. >> 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. >> i'd say through high school me and my sister were best

friends. >> this is ashli babbitt's brother roger. he says 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 ashli 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, then 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 lie, convinced by powerful forces that her beloved united states was in jeopardy. she and millions of other trump supporters were constantly barraged by the false election fraud on tv, internet, social media, and for some, their place of worship. >> if i go down and the antichrist 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. >> peters is a supporter of what is called the black robe regimen, inspired by pastors

that fought in the american revolutionary war. >> oftentimes these preachers would have their military gear underneath their pastor's robes and would get done with the sermon and unzip the pastor's robe and say, now let's go out and fight for independence. >> would you call it a militaristic view towards religion? >> we talk about warfare, we're talking about spiritual warfare. >> are you ever concerned when you're preaching that 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 onslaught of the enemy upon our nation. we believe that this country is being taken over by satan. we're fighting against demonic forces. not earthly forces. >> peters 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. >> 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 culmination of misinformation, lies, and manipulation steeped in suspicion, racism, and fear. a movement that began more than a decade earlier when america was ushering in another historic change. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear.

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usa! usa! usa! >> to understand how america got to this, we have to go back to this. >> yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! >> november 2008, the election of the first black president. >> change has come to america. >> change is what the country had voted for. but to some, change brought fear. >> everything obama. >> and a right-wing media then led by rush limbaugh began to whip its audiences into a collective 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 hussein 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 couy 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 filthy politicians, 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 pro-christian, i hated how he apologized for america to other nations. >> joann rose's son donovan crowl called obama racist names.

>> he would call him a porch monkey, and it would always make me mad when he would say comments like that. i'd end up hanging up on him because i would get so upset with him. >> he felt that he was going to 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! usa! >> there was a lot of white rage. sure, some of the tea party activists 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 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-down. named after its founder, andrew breitbart.

breitbart news would launch the alt-right into the mainstream. >> this tea party energy. there was a populous power. this was something totally different. this was not standard republican party, and "breitbart" became kind of the blog site for that. >> curt bardelo, former breitbart spokesperson, said the aim was to change america, and bannon directed it. >> truth and fact are not words that are used there. the goal isn't objectivity. it is more about what does the conservative side believe about this and how do they amplify that. >> breitbart's headlines were built on fear, fear that the second amendment was being threatened, fear of obama, and most of all, fear of illegal immigrants. >> this is why bannon and trump are so perfect together because they both are ultimately

perpetuating a massive con. these are people who could give two craps about their base. >> trump had emerged as the perfect candidate to drive bannon's alt-right vision straight 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 warfare and created cambridge analytica to target americans. >> during my experience -- >> cambridge analytica 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 kinds of content and shows you more and more of that 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 couy 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 social media i feel like you can glean more of the stuff that maybe interests you and isn't coming from a mainstream 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 advisers 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 mainstream media didn't see it coming. >> this is for my trump supporters out there. >> bartender josh pruitt, 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 st. cyr says she went from supporting ben carson to trump. >> i saw in his heart and soul how much he loves our country and how much he loved our 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's 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. 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 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 fireworks display for election night. then it happened. >> unlike anything we've seen in our lifetime. donald trump wins the presidency of the united states. >> he won the presidency. but for trump, it wasn't enough. hillary clinton had beat him in the popular vote. trump would tweet she only beat him because of the millions of people who voted illegally. it was a complete lie, and it

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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, 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 particularly mattered to him. >> john bolton was trump's national security adviser. >> if he could convince people that what he wanted to be true was true, he would try to do it. >> in 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. i really do. >> donald trump? >> yeah. >> anointed by god? >> yeah, i do. i feel like he carried god's

anointing in there because he won all the time. >> 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, it grabs us. >> 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 and our heritage. you see that. >> steve bannon, who had hand-delivered trump's messaging, was now ensconced 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 at his side, he would sign a series of orders, one nicknamed the muslim travel ban.

others restricting immigration, building the wall, and increasing border security. all based on the lie that a mass invasion of dangerous criminals was under way. >> 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. >> build that wall! build that wall! >> trump followers were being fed conspiracy theories by the president on tv, radio, and online. >> the migrant caravans, yeah, i completely believe they're staged. with all my heart i do. there is too much evidence. >> ashli babbitt would post video rants about problems on the southern border. >> i live about 15 minutes from the tijuana border so this is something i take personally. because i can see the effects. they are still trying to paint this migrant caravan as full of women and children because that's what the media is pushing, but let me tell you right now the border is an absolute -- show.

>> i believe that donald trump is the only president we have ever had in office that actually was speaking out to represent us, the forgotten americans. >> couy 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 political base. he accentuated their sense of resentment, bitterness, and loss. >> this is our town now! >> part of his political base included white supremacists. >> you will not replace us! >> he saw those people as trump supporters, and he just lacked the ability or the willingness to consider the broader implications. >> curt bordella, 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 proudly proclaim our white pride, and it's okay because the most powerful person in the world is with us right here, too. >> joann rowe could hear it all coming from her basement. her son, an 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 theorist profiteer alex jones. >> he would listen to, like, breitbart, alex jones, bring it upstairs full blast. >> i say it's treason 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 outspoken donald trump supporter, and he will tell people what they want to hear when it comes to the conspiracy theory du jour. >> robert jacobson worked for alex jones for more than a decade. he says the conspiracy theories jones pushed on info wars like mass shootings being fake were about making money, which he did by selling questionable health supplements on the info wars 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 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 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, satanic worshipping pedophiles and the only person who can stop all this evil and save the world is donald trump. >> qanon believers would seek out encoded messages on the internet, 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, child exploitation, and sexual abuse. human trafficking. >> like he did with white supremacists, trump would eventually 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 qanon hashtags including its slogan, where we go one, we go all. >> she had a shirt with a giant we are q on it. i 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 st. cyr, q was much more than 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 the truth. give me the truth. i think trump is part of q, he's q plus-plus. >> qanon is very empowering. what qanon allows a person engaging in conspiracies to do is feel like they're taking action. they're fighting back. of course, it is all profoundly mistaken and none of it is real. >> if you don't hate bill clinton -- >> 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 pruitt, a bartender and personal trainer, lost work. you don't believe in covid? >> i didn't say i don't believe in it. i don't believe it is that big of a deal. it is pretty ironic that covid is a big deal and the flu went away. all of a sudden there isn't such

thing as the flu anymore. because everyone that had the flu has covid. >> i feel like the coronavirus played a lot into it. on everybody'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 capitals across the country. >> so covid happened and started 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 sort of see this in biblical terms, almost. >> a cabal of 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? i mean, he's the president.

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>> these guys have been -- >> years of life, self adulatio and the echo chamber of right wing media. >> probably the worst way to hold elections. so completely denied that fraud even exists when set the stage for many trump supporters to believe 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. member that means is going to b fraud all over the place. >> again and again and again he told people that the election was going to be stolen. >> one of trump's main complaints:increased use of mail-in ballots overwhelmingly used in 2020 by democrats, setting up a covid year

phenomenon called the oak lawn red mirage. in key states the absentee ballot saving joe biden would b counted last. >> hikutini trump go way up and they could see him plateauing the way down. >> this is cnn's election night coverage in america. it is like -- exactly what happened. the results seems to favor president trump, then turned. >> it has flipped him in wisconsin to joe biden with the lead right now. [applause] >> he would try to stop. >> trump has a press conference that's in the middle of the night. he was trying essentially to declare victory for all the ballots had been counted. >> we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. we want all voting to s stop. >> that is not what democratically elected pres president's or candidates for the presidency say. that's what authoritarians say. he called it a fraud? account balance?

in the united states of america? >> from had primed a lie, sprea the lie and most of his supporters would only believe the lie. >> i said "we're going to bed," and i woke up and i was like holy crap what just happened. >> hower street spread than at 4:00 o'clock in the morning sun become blue? >> is called counting the votes. >> no, it's called cheating fee as the election hung in the balanced predation viral videos and fraudulent news stories painted pictures of widespread fraud. it was all a lie. please enjoy a look at this new surveillance footage we will be showing you. mysterious suitcases potentiall will be three believe ballots while rolled out from under a table. >> are some videos where there was suitcases of ballots that were being produced that were all for joe biden. >> the mysterious georgia

suitcases that courtney griffin song were actually bins of legitimate ballots, election workers doing their job, like other viral videos there was no fraud, and it didn't matter. >> are you saying that you don' think there was any fraud at al in this last election? i am saying that all 50 secretary of state warren charg of elections, republicans and democrats -- tease me yes peach district on the what should fraud they could tip 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 for senator ted cruz making those statements as well:p as we have seen in the last two months, unprecedented allegations of voter fraud. >> stay here a lot more to thei on up the level of intelligence briefings. whenever you have those high's

saying that, yes, there is cheating, what do you do, you know? >> the ballot counting in key states continued, and on saturday, november 7th: >> cnn projects joseph r biden jr. is elected the 46th president of the united states. don't be ridiculous. nick roach they're to decide elections. courts do. >> actually, voters decide elections. trump and his allies would unsuccessfully take their stone election case to court after court, nearly 60 times. but millions of trump supporter stuck in an echo chamber of right wing propaganda, using social media, with the only of more and more allegations of fraud. >> they know they stole this, and they also know that we are going to show they stole it.

>> will you accept joe biden is president? no, he'll never be my president. >> to change it at this point? there could be some war, ma you never know. >> the news day after day was hit with things that were designed to look as if somethin bad was happening. claims of fraud, claims of stolen ballots, ms. leading video and social media platform put a huge role in rapidly expanding those claims. >> we have looked at all the dead people that voted, people without actual residences. >> dead people voted. so explained that. >> but where did you get that particular news that the people were voting? it on multiple sources. i don't have my computer in front of me. sit here and look it up. i could find it for you. >> just like the other made up election tales you can find on the computer, the dead voting conspiracy isn't true tease out first, local and think -- is trump elected public election security officials will be

called to testify only to declare trump related lose. >> this was a secure election. that i have no doubt. >> in no way do i believe it wasn't stolen, period. no way. >> even though all those who watch elections? they are all bought. >> all of them? yes. >> trump's own attorney general bill barr, said this is a very election. >> yeah the save himself. >> trump would not accept de defeat. >> he couldn't take an election loss because donald trump was his gravestone to read local i win." he is preoccupied with this ide that he never loses. >> for trump supporters, "stop the steal hose, would be their battle cry. and we began online would take to the streets. >> we were on the trump trainer leon.

>> amy kramer's group lost a face to page that quickly went viral. and recycling an old tactic fro her tea party days would paint new bus, and travel across the country in which he called "the march for trump." >> the selected tea party and steroids and provide a thousand times. i've never seen anything like it. >> we are here at the stop the steal, stop the coup rarely appears in a right-wing activis named alexander would push his own stop the steal for staging protests, and asking supporters to send him money to keep going. >> how much money are you makin in all this? zero. >> how do we know that? i don't answer. they're not doing it. >> 1776. >> 1776! >> the stop the steal movements would merge into one major day of protests december 12th, and washington, d.c.. president trumping the crowd in

a helicopter would energize his base what was coming next. meanwhile, donovan kroll, the out of work alcoholic, had been recruited into the oathkeepers, and paramilitary group that opposes the federal government. jessica watkins, who owned this rule barr in ohio, was a local chapters leader to bartender julie harvey said she saw the group meet every week. >> they were going to dc for th original million maga marsh. was working and went on the pag and saw them sawing the pooches in half the dinette strap. the waitress to explain, it was just preparedness in case they were in harm's way. >> who are the oathkeepers in your mind right now, based on what you know. >> there a terrorist organization, they are white supremacists.

>> 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. >> with no realistic prospect o overturning the election in court, trump watches to focusin on the day vice president mike pence would preside over congress to confirm biden's victory january 6th. trump also encouraged her supporters to brindisi janu january 6, telling them, "be there, it will be wild. opal trump said opal come to dc is going to be wild. rsu to do things, and ready to vote and go to dc." and i knew it was going to be history. >> ashli babbit the airport veteran in san diego was making plans. >> i think my sister truly believed that them going there they were going to change america for the greater.

>> both the oathkeepers and proud boys would put out and al call for members to go to washington, d.c. on janua january 6th. all across social media that is loomed with ominous posts. operation occupy the capitol. we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, the federal employees and agents and demand a recount. capitol hill police received numerous warnings, of violence, failed to properly prepare. criminal complaints would describe training, planning and preparations for an insur insurrection. glen roe says the realtors came from just one person, donald trump. it's like they are called. he's got them brainwashed. i also think they believed so much in what trump was saying that they truly were believing they were following his orders.

>> allies, the anger, escalatio of violence in, had been building for months. >> hevner told y'all this might would escalate? >> the day before january 6, crowd started pouring into washington, d.c.. at a rally there pastor ken peters would preach revolution. >> we will rise up in this time andsay like paul revere opal th leftists are coming, the leftists are coming, leftists are coming." later that evening trump's political trickster, roger st stone, would speak in biblical terms. >> this is less than epic struggle for the future of this country between dark and light. between the godly and the godless. between good and evil.

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>> early morning january 6th, 2021: >> will have to make it through about four different areas and then go through security. >> there was a heightened sense of importance that they, and th pressure of that day. >> for aids nancy pelosi, and kelsie smith it will be a big workday:the certification of th 2020 provincial election. in an exclusive interview they admit the growing number of trump supporters in the city were unsettling. >> my parents were definitely a little concerned for my safety. going in to work my husband was a little bit lower but everybod said once you are in the capito he will be totally fine. >> 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 worthless to even get in line, so we just want us out there in this year people where we thought we coul see a little bit, and here you little bit. it was absolutely packed. >> pastor ken peters is broken at the dc stop the steal rally the night before. >> kobe griffin arrived early long to believing he was speaking for trump. >> i want to the raleigh. i thought i was going to be abl to speak. unfortunately i wasn't included. >> yvonne began posting today for excitement. >> hello, we are here. >> we came off the metro and it was just a recount like they ha the roads blocked off, and dump trucks. >> it just got a different sens of the air that, all right, it' a little weird. but it is to nothing to raise the hairs on your neck. >> huelskamp a police officer. dunn called in to work for what

he thought would be a routine day of protests. he saw the early crowd and took note. >> these people have like wrapped their selves and their flights and it's nothing like i never seen before. and it was like a cultist mentality. >> there is an enormous crowd here, it's hard to get a grasp of it. >> i'm here because my presiden called me. >> the crowd waited for hours, watching speech after speech. this wasn't just a political show support for the president, this was a historic day and a historic order and action might be required. >> let's have trial by combat. >> behind the scenes at the ravages of america the presiden was due to the monitor, showing the crowds. that when he had already pressured pence with a crude phone call from mac derogatory language himself that trump confirmed in an interview with abc is jonathan carl.

>> did he really say that or is that a correct -- >> i wouldn't dispute it appear as crowds watched the speeches near the white house, numbers o the extreme right-wing group th proud boys were already assembling at a preplanned location on the capitol side, flashing the okay sign that's associated with white power. >> they had not come to listen to any speeches. they had arrived in small gr groups, dressed without the usual proud boys tire to blend in, and equip themselves with radios for communication. there they would begin with a prior and in march to the capitol's westside. no two men on a mission with about five behead them ready to kick some butt. >> josh pruitt, who would be among the first wave of proud boys to reach the capitol claim he knew nothing of their plan.

>> i didn't do anything about his plans about meeting the capitol at all. or just with the guys that were merely part of the maryland chapter. so there was like nearly 20 of us. we all hooked up like 10: 10:00 o'clock in the morning, and it was down where trump was speaking. [applause and cheering] piece a the rally trump was finally taking the stage and repeating his election loss lies. >> we wanted by a landslide. this was not a close election. >> members of the right-wing militia the oathkeepers, including jessica watkins, bega to lead the speech. >> we want trump. >> watkins and donovan trial make their way to the capitol. she uses a walkie-talkie to communicate to other oathk oathkeepers. >> everybody is watching on the capitol, all million of us preparing it's insane. we are about to block seminar and police are doing nothing. they're not even trying to stop was at this point. >> now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault

on our democracy. and after this we want to walk down -- make and i'll be there with you. >> people from the ellipse wher the president has spoken will start making their way up here. [chanting we want trump ] a group is talking police had a small barricade, blocking the entrance to the capitol grounds' northwest side. then they make their move, overwhelming officers. [chanting usa lingo]

[we're going to march on the ( bleep ) capitol. >> police continue to fall back. >> as the house comes to order for this important store movement. >> i started looking outside an i saw a lot of commotion. this is not right. >> are there any objections. >> on the floor of the house, paul gosar, a republican from arizona, who appears to been chemigation with the pecile organizer allie alexander, is launching his own protest. >> thursday gentleman from arizona want? i write for myself and safety of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral balance from arizona. all right, so there you have it the first objection. they are going to be separated now.

>> somebody texted me a photo o you on the inaugural platform, and that was the first time i thought meanwhile, i can't believe we at this point. >> it was almost the same momen donald trump was delivering thi prophetic line: >> and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hel you're not going to have a country anymore. so we're going to walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> outside the walls of the capitol, mayhem. a member of the proud boys name dominic mazzola ron kind his hand on the capitol police riot shield. >> you hear officers on the radio screaming for help. >> harry dunn, stationed on the capitals each side, racist to help his comrades on the west, and is stunned at what he sees.

>> multiple capitol injuries lingo. >> and you see these officers come up the steps, being dragge up the steps. ofo i can't see, almost in te tears, "help me, help me," and they are walking with their arm for because you can't see. >> who had supervisors there on white shirts. they were orange stand, because of the orange of the pepper spray and they are just soaked with just orange spray if it is just like health, help! you and officers coming up the steps bloodied. and you are thinking to you yourself, oh, my god, what is happening? and just sitting there fearing some of these officers faces. and that shows presence of mind because i was scared. absolutely scared. just seeing that fear. it's something i don't think i'll ever forget. >> a full-scale riot is underwa

outside the capitol. leading the rally down some and anthony, yvonne cyr has no idea wait for her. >> and i was excited to get to the capitol. oh six sided to see what was going to happen. sweat 1:11 we started marching. >> 1776. alex jones, the conspiracy profiteer, with the organizer o stop the steal, aliaksandr come in toco begins his own march t the capitol ground. >> i skipped, literally skipped with my flag, all the way to th capitol. >> in the crowd, ashli babbit. >> where working with the capitol to the mall. there is an estimated over the molecular today. so despite what the media tells there is a sea of nothing but red, white and blue patriots fo trump. >> at 1:26:00 p.m. the capitol police order the capitol comple

to begin evacuation. two minutes later a call is mad requesting the national guard. pipe bombs are being investigated nearby, at the headquarters of the dnc and rnc. >> mark wohl this is bad, this is bad is it by 2:00 p.m. both sides of the capitol are surrounded with mobs, fighting police. >> were still taking sharpened objects or missiles will projectile, and roxanne hand thrown chemical grade fireworks. this is now officially declared a riot. [sirens blaring] >> capitol police are fighting two front war. >> chaos, total chaos. >> just screaming, yelling. >> bullhorns being blown.

cheers of america, and trader, and we want trump, and just absolute pandemonium. it's so loud you can't even hea your radio that's right here in your ear. they were prepared for war. >> then the moment happens. >> they breached the scaffolds. [chanting usa! ] >> 2:12:00 p.m. highs in the storm police shield proud boy

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[loud banging] piece at 2: 2:12 p.m. using a police shield proud boy dominic pezzola is a window on the capitals what sid and the mom starts pouring in. chad prewett jumps a rail and follows all the proud boys do a now open door. >> what did you do? walking the front door being held up by caps waiting for me to come in to change, no, that' not true. >> there is video of it. when i walked in the front door the cops were at the door and they were standing to the side of the door and they were wavin people in. >> the video i saw of that moment.

>> mm-hmm. >> was a couple of cops overwhelmed by amad. >> he didn't want all the vi videos. >> didn't? i think i did. >> it was all caught on video. here is chad prewett walking to the door 72nd after the window breaks. it is almost the same moment riders/what is on the east si side -- rioters smashed windows on the east side. >> and advisor attempting to break windows on the east front. the capitol has been breached o the east side. >> armed with sticks, flagpoles riot shields, they had stormed past and overpowered police, wh could do little but coax and steer them away from lawmakers. >> mike cairns today is not about the good people of arizon nationale.

[gavel] please i will recess until a call the chair. >> the rioters were just in the building. at the moment the senate adjourned they were streaming straight toward the senate chambers and vice president mik pence. senator mitt romney's mother ha strayed into a mob is intercepted by a single capitol hill police officer. a moment later that same office eugene goodman, somehow coaches the mob away from the senate an straight into a waiting row of capitol police. >> a hero. is great. he did a great job. there were a lot of eugene goodmans that day that did a lo of great heroic things, and people will never know the name. >> there are now hundreds and

the mob, roaming halls, banging on doors, taking photos and video. some members of congress are being escorted to safety, but scattered behind doors staffers news media, are in hiding every time i colleagues that we need to go into lockdown piece insid house speaker nancy pelosi's office, her staffers rushed to conference room, locked the d door. among them alisa law and kelsie smith speaking intrusively to cnn. >> then we started hearing the banging. and like the hooting and the hollering. very close to us. and then i realize, okay, music often everybody silence your cell phones, turn the lights o off. do not say anything. [we are coming for you nancy ]

, i mean, they were like hopeful where is nancy? where is nancy?" , "where are the people that work for her?" >> "we will find you tropical. >> yeah. >> they were barricading ourselves in opening the door hold. >> was coming from other action and we heard someone yelling from nancy pelosi's office. people were chanting nancy, nancy. they had come through this way. so we are hearing it from behin us and the front of our door. so it was completely -- the sound surrounded us to the poin we were just hearing shouting, and the yelling and the banging and the crashing, and the shattering of glass. but then once they started banging on the door, that's all i heard. that's what i start thinking about, the doors sound one of them said to the other they tak us hostage, right? i said yeah. i think. that was one of the few words i said out loud in the room.

>> one of the traps staffers whispers a phone call plea for help. >> we need help. they are pounding on doors trying to find her. >> it was pure terror. >> where i year, nancy? are looking for you. >> the way he was chanting her name, it haunted me. oh, nancy. >> he was not going to be nice if you found her or someone associated with her. and there are multiple of them that were doing that too. i mean, without no. >> nancy! where are you, nancy? >> it was us in a completely dark room and all we could hear was what was outside. >> inside the house of congress the mob refuses to stop. [chanting stop the steal ] outside more and more are trying to get in. in the midst of the massive

protests, what appears to be a single file military column, climbs the eastern staircase, a the crowd sings. these are the oathkeepers. and in the column is due on row absent on donovan crowell. i never dreamed that he would d anything like that. never. it's just heartbreaking to me. it's alleged the oathkeepers ha test weapons in a nearby hotel, had been planning, practicing military tactics the election. now over radio communications they were broadcasting their triumph. >> where in the mezzanine. where in the main building righ now. we are rocking. they are freaking shooting grenades and shooting people with paintballs but we are in here. >> get it. this is what we lived up for, everything we trained for.

>> overran the capitol, overran the capitol. >> where in the ( bleep )ing capitol. >> in almost every corner, in and out, many battles are ra raging. it's over! you better run, cops! >> police officer being crushed trying to keep the surging mob from gaining entry to the lower west tunnel. one officer daniel hodges, screaming as his body is presen to the door -- pressed into the door. >> police officer michael

pannone had heard the radio calls and rushed to help. >> if this is not a lot with operation peabody can catch the moment he faced a mob of thousands. >> we were in a medieval battle. this is hand-to-hand combat in its most brutal form. >> the rioters had come armed and were fighting to get inside. they hit police with bats, mystics, batons, tasers. >> guys were bleeding. these are officers i think othe normal circumstances they'd be an ambience on the way to the hospital. but they were because they we were -- there was nowhere to go. >> if you left that line we wer going to lose that door, and that just wasn't an option. >> pannone trying to defend the line while was jake across it. >> i was pulled away from the other officers out into the

crowd. >> i got one! >> video capture pannone being tossed, pulled, beaten. his own body camera a jumble of confusion and violence. >> all getting the shc kicked out of me. yeah that was like the beating of a lifetime. >> you were in a police uniform? yes. >> the mob grabbed for his gun. someone repeatedly tased him in the neck. >> they were trying to kill me. >> pannone struggling to surviv outside the capitol was trying to defend lawmakers still trapped inside. >> we were just told that there has been teargas in the rotunda and we are being instructed to each of us get gas masks that are under our seats. >> arm capitol police are now blocking the door of the end

state house of representatives. >> your traders! >> opened the gallery colorado congressman jason crow was in a group of members trapped. >> we were the targets. we were the ones the members that they were going to try to kill or capture. >> crow called his wife, told her i love you. then the former remains -- ranger with over hundred missions in iraq and afgha afghanistan, wanted to escape. >> i was thinking, if this mob breaks through those doors will they are going to try to kill soccer and i need to do we need to do to protect myself, protec my colleagues, and protect others peace and the capitol's front lawn the mob was becoming incensed. donald trump had just tweeted. >> mike pence didn't have the courage to do what was done to protect our country and our constitution. >> if there was a scaffold and noose, and chance of , "hang

michael pence." >> security is now whisking pence, and his family, down a back stairway p because i think trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. i think he wanted them to disrupt the certification of th electoral college votes to give him more time, to play out some other scenario that might yet end up with him being president. and that's the most dangerous part. not the crowd in the capitol, although that was later changed. the worst part was donald trump himself. >> back inside ashli babbit is approaching a mob is reached th house of the speakers lobby. it's a hallway that leads directly to the floor of the us house of representatives. members and their staff just steps away. reinforcements arrive. three uniformed officers holdin the door step aside.

all that separates members of congress from the mob is a wood and glass door barricaded with furniture. >> he got a gun! is in that split second ashli babbit tried to climb through a broken window. >> that's one of the hardest parts about seeing the video come if you just want to grab her and shake her villi, or, ashley, why did you have to do that," you know. [gunshots. >> it sounded like a.causing gunshot. >> ashli babbit is shot. >> and nano gunshots pretty wel and i knew that this was real, and people were being killed. >> ashli babbit with dye becaus >> ashli babbit with dye becaus of trump's big lie. last.

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>> the battle raging for nearly two hours, is showing no signs of stopping. >> riders are -- riders are on the senate floor and rummaging

for offices. outside more and more are tryin to fight their way in. dc police officer michael pannone drag into a mob being beaten, and is heard on his bod camera, pleading for mercy. >> i think it saved my life peace officer for known suffere a mild heart attack after being repeatedly tased and be. one of nearly 140 police officers wounded in the protest. and other, officer brian sicknick, sprayed with a chemical corp. would die the next day. officially of a stroke. though, the riot played a role, according to the medical examiner. [chanting usa ] outside chad prewett walkin around the capitol, spotted at

the front lines, and smashing a wooden sign. he calls it all , "peaceful protest, to. >> there's a picture of me picking up a sign. okay, cool. >> and holding over your head throwing it be i seen it. trust me, i've seen all the pictures. because that's -- >> i think we got so lucky that this didn't become worse. and what was remarkable was the hours that went by without a word from trump. >> it has been an hour since th capitol is reached. at rezac 13 donald trump would make his first response to the lies, tweeting , "i am asking for everyone at the us capitol to remain peaceful. no violence. remember we are the party of la and order." >> i don't think the people tha came to the capitol that they had a lot of respect for my coworkers and i. >> lawmakers, including republicans, calling in to cnn

was founded at the president's detachment. >> the election soldier -- over and the objectives that you sto meddling with a moral force of our democracy here. so-called document but the president. we need you to call this off. >> president trump did not call it off. on a perch overlooking the crow alex jones begins to spill the lie antifa was causing the violence. >> we have witnesses, we have the footage. >> choreographing claims he didn't see anybody. makes his way to the inauguration stage. >> but it wasn't part of the capitol building, it was an exterior staircase. i never went inside. >> and try to get a mob siding local fight for trump to pray for trump." >> break your knee, take your knees. >> one of opportunity to pray with people. after that we left him up he walks down the staircase.

we walked away from the capitol. >> the aftermath of ashli ba babbit's fatal shooting is playing out on live tv peace at the time i had made to my parents house. my other younger brother had me on in the -- the parking lot, and told me she had passed. >> one of only two times are never seen my father cry. i mean, you go down here and he's sobbing like a kid crying. my mom was horrible about it. but, i mean, which mother wouldn't be? >> yet the president had not told his followers to stop poking house minority leader kevin mccarthy urges trump to call it off peace and paid him to talk to the nation, don't do it by twitter.

>> he was visiting -- was existing phone calls that pe people. he thought the kevin mccarty. tim mckone nick holden people were breaking to trump's office and his repulsion was you are about the election results. donald trump is watching this o television and i wondered, what is he going to stop this? i think we know now he didn't d anything. not doing anything while the capitol being desecrated, i fel was unforgivable. >> after ken peters says he didn't make it to the capitol till later. >> if there were still people all over the stairs and waving flags. i saw people standing and letting their voices be heard. >> people bashing and will be people fighting through doors with cops. >> do you believe that happened? i do. i do. >> the loop was right, wrong? it was horrible. it was terrible. as christians, we stand but we don't riot. christians are never to be destructive. >> capitol hill police now formed in tactical units were

forming rescue mission to congressman jason carroll among those trapped in the house gallery was being escorted past rioters spread eagle on the ground. >> we were holding rioters at bay, at gunpoint, on the other side. >> nancy pelosi's staff waited two hours for barricaded and terrified, before they too were escorted to safety p that's easily the worst two hours of m life can easily. >> amidst the chaos, qanon believer yvonne st. cyr climbed through a window to get in a creditor window. oh, my gosh we were some of the capitol. i was inside the capitol. i went live in the moment and i stuck my head inside the window and said "this is our house" an other energy and emotion i was feeling. this is america and americans are being beaten for wanting to save their country so welcome t come is america. aren't you so ( bleep )ing pr proud. >> by 4:00 o'clock vice

president pence was going the acting secretary of defense demanding his clear the capitol. a moment later, battle raging, trump finally tweets a pretaped statement. >> i know your pain. i know you're hurt. had an election that was stolen from us, but you have to go hom now. then, despicably, does the mo mob:"you're very special tropical president donald trump asked remember to go home. he just put out a tweet, it's a minute long, he asked remember to go home to john pruitt who claims he is only in the capito for half hour. >> got a little too rowdy in there for me personally, so i decided to leave. >> he says he believes it was all set up. >> i think they let a bunch of people and so they could use their facial recognition and ge every trump supporter with charges that they could. that's what i think happened. now you seeing these pictures, the cavalry, if you will, has

arrived. >> time to get out of here, g guys. >> by 6:00 p.m. january 6th the right was largely under control. at 6:oh one, donald trump was signal to his supporters , "the had done the right thing," and he shot a warning to the rest o the country that the insurrection he launched was no over. these are the things that event that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is s unceremoniously and viciously drift away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairl treated for so long. he finishes opal remember this day forever." >> agoos has returned to the capitol. >> but the day was not over. >> we went back and did a job and fulfilled our constitutiona duty. and they will never break us. >> for those who wreak havoc in our capitol today, he did not win. >> trump lost. the insurrection failed. congress certified joe biden is

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>> why were you calling for him to have it called off? >> in the heat of the moment, everybody knew what the deal was. >> but in the aftermath of trump's attempted coup, what happened on january 6th has become a partisan issue. trump's delusional belief that he was cheated has become gospel for republican supporters who refuse to accept truth. trump himself shows no remorse, even for the january 6th crowd that threatened to hang his own vice president. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> you heard those chants. that was terrible. i mean, you know -- >> he could have -- well, the people were very angry. >> they were saying "hang mike pence." >> because it's common sense. how can you -- if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? >> if pence did what you wanted, you think you would still be in the white house? >> i think we would have won, yeah. >> lower-level republicans, many conspiracy believers themselves, found their opening to rewrite the history of january 6th.

congressman andrew clyde from georgia said -- >> if you didn't know it was tv foot frnlg a january the sisterth, you'd actually think it was a normal tourist visit. >> reporter: no one could look at this video -- this video -- or this video -- and call january 6th a normal tourist visit. >> it's kind of eerie and haunting for 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. >> 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. >> the support for donald trump has recently waned, but he is still a believer. >> i personally will never 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. >> ivan saintcyr thinks it's part of a grand plan. >> i don't regret going on january 6th. i don't regret going through the window. >> bartender josh pruitt has left washington. >> you're in serious trouble. >> i'll be just fine. because i didn't do anything. >> oath keeper donovan crol is facing some of the most serious criminal charges in the capitol breach. >> overran the capitol! >> we found him in ohio. >> i'm with cnn. >> excuse me? >> i'm with cnn -- >> man, i'm good, have a good day. >> i've been talking to your mom and your sister, they mentioned

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? >> um, 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 face 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 -- i don't watch your garbage anyway. >> joann roe lost her battle with leukemia in august. she died ashamed of her son's actions. >> i love the person that he used to be, but i despite the person -- that he is now. he's not my son. i still have a hard time believing he did what he did. if he get twiz years in prison, he'll be 70 years old before he

gets out of there. trump doesn't care about any of those people who stormed the capitol for him, he doesn't care one iota about them. hasn't even mentioned them since he's been out of the white house. >> january 6th only intense fied the collective madness around the lie of a stolen election. republican governors and legislatures are passing new law s targeting mass vote fraud that never occurred. scariest of all, the conspiracy theory that trump could return in a military coup. >> the military's doing their own investigation. 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 theorys. you can't give people facts and expect them to believe. they will just see that as feeding into the same con

conspiracy. >> trump's drew 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 inflewtial is trump himself who is fueling the hysteria. >> i am not the one trying to undermine american democracy. i'm the one that's trying to save it. please remember that. >> 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 absolutely emboldened them. it's like, it's finally happening. this 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. >> the movement threatens the very functioning of the united states government.

>> if you don't change anything, we're on the path 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 more. >> reporter: it is an america where white supremacists can march in the open, politicians can spread lies, push hate, and make millions from it. and violent mobs can storm capitols and threaten politicians if they don't like the result of an election. this is donald trump's america suba

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