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democrats addicted the most brazen outrageous election. is never going to have purity. everybody knows it but does the right. welcome to the program we start with a to mulch of us 24 hours in the united states a day that has up ended the nation's capital it started with purely political drama with democrats poised to win control of the u.s. senate and republicans attempting to sabotage the come from ation of joe biden's election victory election victory and a special session of congress but outside chaos erupted protesters had massed in washington as part of trump's save america march but after hearing trump speech and more false claims of election fraud the crowd stormed the capitol some making it

inside the building police say one woman shot in the arm rest has now died the mayor of washington d.c. issued a citywide curfew to start at 6 pm local time. with me here in the studio a reporter and member of our election coverage team. welcome what's your immediate reaction to what we saw today well i think it's similar to reactions that were coming in from all around the world that this was not a historical moment because of what it achieved symbolically historical moment it's been building up to this moment for a long time during the elections before the elections there was talk on both sides democrats and republicans wondering if there was going to be an outbreak of violence after the election there was a lot of moments when that could have happened and hadn't happened yet i think today we're seeing the culmination of a lot of rhetoric from trump a lot of a lot of preparation from extreme. areas on the right wing in the united states and

but i think what is going to be investigated in the next few days is the unpreparedness of law enforcement to stop a break into one of the most secure buildings in the country or what should have been the most secure building in the country at that moment and also the culpability of politicians donald trump of course and also the culpability of the senators and congressmen who congresspeople who had decided to challenge the election results despite the fact that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud and they have no reason to do that it's possible to plot a course to how we got here in hindsight but. there's a kid if you are in place do we know of any other security measures that are taking place in washington well the army has announced that 1100 troops have been sent into washington at 1st there was a denial of the request for national guard troops to be sent there but i think they've decided to do that now there's troops on the ground of course they've

secured the building now at least that's the latest news we have is that the protesters are out of the building the building is secure nancy pelosi announced earlier just a few minutes ago actually that the voting will continue tonight. congress people once members of congress get back into the building so it looks like the situation has been largely secure you said there is the curfew there are still protesters around the area so they haven't gone home as donald trump had said on twitter that they should do but it looks like the worst is over ok i mean stay with us and we'll move on as we plot that way through the day because those inside the capitol when protested into the building and clashed with police have been tweeting about what they experienced at that incredible moment democrat congresswoman a van load wrote i just had to evacuate my office because of a pipe bomb reported outside supporters of of the president are trying to force their way into the capitol and i can hear what sounds like multiple gunshots she

continued i don't recognize our country today and the members of congress who have supported this anarchy do not deserve to represent their fellow americans and other democratic members of congress doing phillips twitted they've asked us to take cover on the house floor and get out gas masks ready this is inside and journalist matt fuller wrote this slamming on the doors everyone has gas masks i can see some flashes outside the chamber as well amid the violent clashes with law enforcement it was joe biden not donald trump who 1st called for calm at this hour or democracies under pressure they saw like anything we see in modern times. you just saw the citadel of liberty the capital so an assault on the people's representatives

in the capitol hill police sworn to protect the public servants who work at the heart of our republic in assault on the rule of law. to turn over she. assault on most sacred of america not undertake it's the doing of the people's business the may be very clear the scenes of chaos in the capital do not reflect the true america do not represent who we are but we're seen are a small number of extremist dedicated to lawlessness this is not the scent it's disorder it's chaos it borders on sedition and it

must and now so that was joe biden meanwhile donald trump and only tried to talk down his supporters on twitter then quickly released a video message of his own but you have to go home now we have to have peace we have to have law and order we have to respect our great people of law and order we don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough period of time we have to have peace so go home we love you you're very special you've seen what happens you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil i know how you feel but go home and go home and peace. so very different messages from joe biden and donald trump amina safe is still with me in the studio trunk calling the protesters off but not condemning their actions specifically even telling them we love you you're very special what do you make of

the contents of the message of course if he's asked about this will probably say that he meant the protesters who didn't storm the couple has done this before when we saw violence at the white nationalist protests re said the people who were not the white nationalists were good people of course that's understandable of democrats also do this when there's violence in the black lives matter protesters say we condemn the looting but we support the idea behind it that's what he's doing here the problematic thing i guess that he's going to be challenged on especially he's already been challenged on by republicans is the fact that the idea behind the storming of the capitol building today was anti-democratic in nature it wasn't saying we're oppressed we want justice it was saying we want to stop the counting of electoral college votes and overturn a legitimate election which the vast majority of republicans in the house and senate say we're going ahead with this we've counted the results it's over donald trump your term is over and so that was what donald trump was saying these are good

saying that i understand you which in itself is anti-democratic in nature at least that's what people are probably going to say after this is anyone wondering whether they say things would change she's mando change is time we soon found out he also repeated his unsupported claims of electoral fraud that's not exactly trying to defuse the situation right the video was just over a minute long and i think of only a few seconds of that were him trying to deescalate the situation the video begins with him saying this is a fraud on the american people he says this is we've never seen anything like this before which is an echo of the speech he gave right before people are stormed the capitol so it is just a repetition of the rhetoric he was using which encouraged people to go there during his speech just out. earlier he said that you can't take back your country with weakness we have to show strength and this was in the context of him saying that i know you guys are going to march toward the capitol i think democrats have

already jumped on this and said that trump is directly responsible for what happened and in that short twitter video that donald trump posted he didn't really say he wasn't responsible. joe biden meanwhile was the one leaning into his future role the role he'll be sworn into just quickly in a couple of weeks time as he was acting very presidential i think he was aware that he's already assumed the role that he is supposed to soon later in the month that he is the legitimate leader of the country at this moment he's not the one calling for the overthrow of the election so i think you assume that role and that's what he was projecting today he also called this unprecedented and i think the way that he characterized it was that this is never happened in american history of course american history is a very violent history i think he was laying it on thick with a lot of what he said but that's been his role from the beginning that he's the person who understands tragedy and his big historical events i mean again stay with

us because trump for his pot remains defiant despite critics saying the months since his election to fade has been nothing but a desperate coup attempt during his speech on wednesday trump repeated multiple claims of election fraud he also piled pressure on his vice president mike pence to overturn biden's victory even though pence has no such power on the congressional rules. states want to revoke this state's got to fraud it they were given false information they voted on it now they want to recertify they want it back all vice president says to do is send it back to the states to recertify. and we become president and you are that. donald trump they saw the same time inside the capitol building the joint session of congress was on the way it's held off to every us election to tally the

electoral college and it's usually just another formality in the process of transferring power instead it descended into a partisan political fight several dozen of president trump republican allies had threatened to challenge the results in an attempt to block joe biden's final certification as president elect the state's read out alphabetically and it took trump's allies until arizona to object mr president this typically be electoral vote of the state of arizona seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that joseph are biden jr of the state of delaware received 11 votes for president and kamel id parents of this state of california received 11 votes for vice president. mr vice president i polled those are for america what sort of thing does the gentleman from

arizona write i write for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral ballots from arizona thank you the 2 houses will withdraw from joint session each house will deliberate separately on the pending objection and report its decision back to the joint session the senate will now retire to its chamber. and so we know how it ended i mean it's still here with us what was the plan from the republican object is to stop this that's a good question what was the plan i don't know if they believed that they were going to stop biden's basically becoming president here i think it was also symbolic they wanted to show support to trump who is seems more convinced than anybody else that he can remain in office i think republican senators like ted cruz

who kind of led this movement know full well that wouldn't succeeded but basically what they were saying is we're going to object to the counting of electoral college votes and send this back to states so that they can recount their votes so it would force it would give states the opportunity to to reassess the elections and of course there's plenty of republican states that have at least signaled that they were willing to go along with terms plan of staying in office but like i said it's very unclear how many people planned on getting an outcome out of this and how many people are just hoping to please donald trump before they come up for reelection have to face his supporters so speaking of placing tunnel trump we're saying the pressure on mike pence he was a role player in this and he was asked to step in and recertify the election now he is a trump loyalist but this was a big ask from the president not just a trump loyalist he was a running mate and it was interesting to see trump go after him in the speech earlier i was wondering if they're even going to talk after this is all over

because he said this is a big day for mike pence we have to see what he does now i will point out which is very interesting to me is that. believe it or not this similar slightly similar thing happened in 2016 when trump won several democratic members of congress objected to the counting of electoral college votes and it was actually joe biden who presided over that count and he laughed it off his own democratic. fellow congress members so he laughed it off that never came to fruition this is gone much further than i think a lot of people expect. with the senators joining in but like you said mike pence stepped in and said i'm not going along with this i took an oath to the constitution i mean stay with us as we continue to plot our way through this extraordinary day because democrats meanwhile op poised to take control of the u.s. senate following georgia's 2 runoff elections media projections now. also off headed for washington that means democrat chuck schumer will take over from mitch

mcconnell as the majority leader breaking the g.o.p.'s blockade in the senate president by vice president elect harris will have a partner in me and my caucus who is ready willing and able to help achieve forward looking at gender and deliver all change to the american people for too long much needed help has been stalled or diluted by a republican led senate and president trump. that will change with a democratic senate democratic house democratic president. reminding us that among the chaos a major turning point for congressional politics that i have crucial is control of the u.s. senate for biden it changes a lot doesn't change the everything of course because biden would have been stopped by a republican controlled senate mitch mcconnell was not willing to go along with anything democrats with very little democrats had tried to do over the past 4 years so that

would have been a repeat mitch mcconnell still would have been in charge of the senate there this shifts power within the senate not just by one or 2 votes it shifts all the structural power to the democrats that means that you have democrats in charge of the senate overseeing committees and things like this so it does shift a lot of the power to democrats this is a major loss for trump and as we can see i think trump had miscalculated he bet that they would win back the seeds i think and he didn't realize what he was putting at risk by challenging the election results you know we don't know a lot of what's going to happen but one thing we can say with some surety is that winning candidates themselves now could face challenges either days lead this results. that's true with this but this was already a runoff election we'll have to see what happens because you have to remember that in a few days joe biden is going to be the president we're going to have

a democratic congress so whatever happens over the next few weeks is suddenly going to change when the new congress comes in and the new president comes in ok let's move on and point out so the new administration will have both the house and senate to push through its agenda but as we've seen today that they've division in the u.s. is a highly volatile and not just for americans leading risk consultancy has just put joe biden's presidency at the top of its list of global. threats 2021 the annual report from the u. brazier group is a keenly watched assessment of geo political risk it says trump's baseless allegations of voter fraud and refusal to concede defeat means that half the country see joe biden as illegitimate and which seen the consequences of that. earlier my colleague phil giles'. president in britain we've got as his reaction to what was unfolding in washington the originally you're going to talk about. the

biggest risks facing a 2021 and is now we are in a situation where trump supporters have massed on and in the u.s. capital and i think number one on your list of the biggest risks facing 2021 was that joe biden presidency just explain to us why that was a big risk for the world. the risk was 46 asterisk it was the level of division in the united states the most powerful country in the world and yet by far the most dysfunctional and divided political system and for the last week everyone's been asking me how could you not make coronavirus risk number one and i think we're all seeing exactly how in front of our eyes right now this is a president of the united states who has personally done everything he can to deal

of jet-a minds this election outcome to say that joe biden has stolen in spite the fact that that is indeed not the case this is by far the worst election since 876 in the u.s. and it's the 1st time an american president has acted to undermine that role of law in such a direct way since the founding of the republic it does me no good personally to say this i consider myself a patriot of what has been a great nation but this is the worst day for this country in my lifetime i mean it's right up there with 911 and yet this is self-inflicted that's what's so incredibly painful about what we're seeing in front of our eyes today so would stay i mean it is bad and unprecedented but we're looking at live pictures now and what we're seeing is hundreds of people on and around the capitol building police as

well but the there appears to be no violence i'm putting it up there with 911 but that sounds a bit strong explain to us why. first of all a woman has already been critically injured and shot inside the capitol building the virginia national guard is being deployed to the area i fear you're going to see a lot more violence but the point is not how many people die the point is that. nearly half of the american population actually believes that the selection that was stolen believes that joe biden is not their president come january 20th and that is the law i that has been directly propagated by the president of the united states with the support of a majority of elected officials in the republican party in the house and the senate that is staggeringly unprecedented i want to be clear biden will still be the

president on january 20th there will still be an inauguration but the impact on the legitimacy of u.s. institutions will be felt for decades and for the most powerful country in the world the the the ostensible leader of the free world a country that exports to mocker see perhaps we've export in too much we should have kept a little more 'd here in the united states you know when when president trump says the election is rigged he's lying but when he says the institutions are rigged he's actually telling the truth a majority of americans believe that their political institutions do not reflect our referer sent them and that that's something that's inconceivable what's happening in the united states right now you could not imagine happening today in japan in germany and france in the u.k. and canada and australia could not happen that's happening in the united states because too many americans have felt like their political system has been rigged

against them for decades and president trump has done everything he can to accelerate that divide that's why this is such a painful day it's not just about today it's about something that's been happening for quite some time. that was in president of you raise your group talking earlier to my colleague phil we've been talking about a day of turmoil in the u.s. where supporters of donald trump have stormed the capitol building in washington and into the chamber where lawmakers had been meeting to certify joe biden's electoral election victory well mike is on now in emergency recess they are reports of tear gas is being used to disperse the protesters washington d.c. has issued a citywide curfew which started at 6 pm local time. so an apocalyptic weeks of the trump presidency we're in the last 2 it's hard to say where it goes from here. where do you see it going well i think trump has shown

today that he has a firm hold on a least a segment of right wing of the republican party right wing voters in the republican party and that that's not going away this hold that he has on them this speech that he gave before people stormed congress before the storm the capitol building was largely. talking about the achievements that he made but in terms of him coming back to into the office of the presidency he even one point said well my advisers say look we still have a chance in 2024 so that's almost a declaration that he's going to run again he said but i don't want to talk about 2024 i want to talk about today i want to remain in office now so you can see that he has plans to stay in power as long as possible and that he is able to mobilize a large segment of america's right wing so the president is staying the course

pretty clearly at this point and at this munda but one of the many things to come out of this is did now that trump object is holding to they stay with the president here surely this is shaking a lot of paper that they. yeah of course i think that he was making people choose up or down are am i going to bank the rest of my political career on donald trump or am i going to go with what i believe in you saw mike pence who was his vice president his running mate his last election somebody who stood behind him and smiled for the whole presidency barely said a word about a lot of the other things that donald trump has done little many democrats took objection to but he came out today and he said i will not do what trump wants me to do i mean the safe and incredible day many thanks to it. that indeed was the diet like no other as ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter at g.w.

news for now i'm anthony how it thanks for joining us.

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