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>> ahh, help! >> reporter: pleading and screaming for help, as police in riot gear try to hold the line. the mob keeps pushing, one of them yelling out, grab their damn shields. one showing trump supporters playing chemicals and beating police with bats and pipes. the images and fallout of wednesday's insurrection continues to reverberation as the country's leaders and law enforcement look to hold those responsible, including president trump, accountable. >> i've been saying for well over a year, he's not fit to serve. he's not fit to serve. he's one of the most incompetent presidents in the history of the united states of america. >> reporter: at the white house, the president more isolated than ever, both personally, now offline. in a stunning decision, twitter banning the president permanently, quote, due to the risk of further incitement of violence. the president, who had over 88 million followers, is a prolific

tweeter, using the social media platform to announce policies, as well as to attack those he disagreed with. >> this hits the president where it hurts probably the most. i mean, twitter is the instrument that fueled his rise to power. it is the instrument that has caused some of the biggest problems for this white house over the past four years. but it's the way the president goes directly to his supporters. >> reporter: yesterday, trump releasing this video on twitter, where he seemed to denounce the events at the capitol. >> i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. >> the president released that video under enormous pressure from republicans, from some of his own staff, even from members of his family. but he is not happy. for the first time condemned the violence and said he will work toward an orderly transition, and i'm told he regrets saying those things. >> reporter: from what may be his last tweet, president trump announced he will not be going

to the inauguration on january 20th. >> one of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. it's a good thing i'm not showing up. >> reporter: even his bitter opponent, hillary clinton, attended the inauguration four years ago. she wrote she felt responsibility to be there, to demonstrate the peaceful transfer of power. >> i don't think anybody thought trump was going to go to joe biden's inauguration. it just never seemed plausible. now he's made what was obvious official. and it's an incredible break with precedent. >> reporter: the president tried to tweet from the offici official @potus account but twitter deleted them saying in a statement, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules. even though there are only 12 days before the biden administration takes office, there are increasing calls for the president to resign. and democrats in the house of representatives have drafted a four-page impeachment resolution for incitement of insurrection, charging trump with willfully inciting violence against the

government by urging his followers to march to the capitol. today, federal authorities announcing arrests of those who took part in the assault on the capitol. >> i put a quarter on her desk! >> reporter: richard barnett arrested in little rock, arkansas, facing multiple charges. afp photographer saul lowe took the picture. >> richard barnett sitting at a staffmember's desk in her office, feet up, making himself at home. sort of like he owned the place. rifling through the mail on the desk. just sort of a jarring sight. >> reporter: taking this series of photos to illustrate the contrast between barnett and pelosi. >> here you have nancy pelosi, one of the highest members of the u.s. government in this theoretically highly secured location, highly secured building, and these people basically doing whatever they want. >> reporter: also arrested, lonny coffman, who authorities

say brought these 11 molotov cocktails along with handguns and an assault rifle like this one to the capitol. >> for most of those members of the mob who were charged, you're going to see charges ranging from weapons violations to being on restricted government property to using violence or force to break onto the capitol grounds. >> reporter: authorities investigating the death of capitol police officer brian siknik, the possibility he may have been struck with a fire extinguisher, the flag over the capitol flying at half staff in his honor. >> investigating how that police officer died is going to be an a-1 priority for federal investigators. they're going to want to know how it happened, who was responsible for it, and then what charges are appropriate. >> reporter: in the morning before the mob set siege to the capitol, trump and his family were watching the rally backstage. in this since-removed video from

the president's son don jr.'s facebook account, his girlfriend kimberly offering what was just the first of many calls to action. >> have the courage to do the right thing, fight! >> that mood was festive. even though so many trump supporters believed the president was defrauded out of the election, they were there to support him, they were there to say, we love you, we're here for you. >> reporter: on stage, speaking to followers, the president's family and allies riled up the crowd. >> if you're going to be the zero and not the hero, we're coming for you! >> let's have trial by combat! >> reporter: trump spoke for an hour. >> we will not take it any more! >> reporter: urging his followers to take action. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol! [ cheers ] because you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength. >> once they got their marching orders from the president, they marched down constitution avenue. as we got closer to the capitol,

things got to a fever pitch point. it got to a point where i just knew things were going to get out of control pretty quickly. >> reporter: from the beginning of his presidency until his final days, president trump has not only repeatedly failed to call out the kinds of hate groups that besieged the capitol this week but used dangerous rhetoric to stoke the flames of hate. after white supremacists held a rally in charlottesville that led to a woman's death, he equivoca equivocated. >> you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were very fine people. on both sides. >> reporter: and during the 2020 presidential debate, he used language that foreshadowed wednesday's events. >> you want to call them, what do you want to call them? give me a name. >> white supremacists. >> who do you want me to condemn? >> white supremacists, proud boys. >> stand back and stand by. >> reporter: many point to the president's words as the match that lit the flame at wednesday's rally. >> i really think what's so

worrying is we are on the precipice of something quite dark. because people are literally -- they distrust the system. >> reporter: jonathan greenblad is ceo of anti-defamation league that tracks far-right extremists. we visited their office where they monitor hate groups. >> this is our heat map, which means hate, extremism, anti-semitism, terror. tracks in realtime hate crimes across the country. >> if this is an indication of hate crimes, we're in a bad place. >> as the adlc sees it, donald trump didn't perhaps facilitate what happened on wednesday, you believe he enabled it? >> white supremacy existed before donald trump and it will persist after donald trump. it's not going to go away on january 20th. however, it's clear that he has amplified and incited far-right

extremism. and there have been lots of signs along the way. >> reporter: some of those far-right extremists were seen inside the capitol wearing sh t shirts bearing slogans praising the holocaust. >> this is one of the first times i have seen so vividly displayed the normalization of extremism. yes, there were hard-core white supremacists who were leading the charge into the building, assaulting police officers, vandalizing the facility. but there were also hundreds of ordinary people who followed them. they were ordinary americans who believe in the president and his message. they are ripe for radicalization. >> if this is a trump-led movement, where do all these people go after january 20th? >> this existed before trump, and it will exist after trump. but make no mistake, other leaders will emerge. other people will step forward. this isn't going to go away any time soon. up next, powerful

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♪ with the tweeter in chief now banned from twitter, earlier tonight we got perspective from former chicago mayor and democratic adviser rahm emanuel, former white house political director sara fagen, abc news political director rick klein.

thanks for joining us. rahm, what is donald trump without twitter? where does this misinformation go now? >> donald trump, this is just one layer down, a significant layer, given that this is his direct line of communication to his followers. he is going to be a bit immobilized but it has to be more than just twitter. there has to be a lot of different ways. i think mainstream media, they can't treat him just as any former president and give him the type of attention that president bush, president obama, jimmy carter that is in that sense, and he will be less effective, less of a voice with that. but that doesn't mean he won't be able to impact and still communicate to those that listen, follow, and take their lead and cue from him. >> rick, trump was able to speak directly to his base like no president ever has through twitter. many will say he used twitter as a political weapon. what's your take? >> his political rise was fueled

by twitter, able to connect directly to people. there's a certain symmetry to being shut out of that platform here at the end because he used it for such misinformation, starting prominently with the birtherism movement, incitement of violence at the capitol wednesday. he needed these platforms, he was fueled by them and off of them. it had so much to do with the way he was able to command and control the republican party. and look, to be robbed of that as a president, he'll have other ways to get his voice out over the last week and a half of his presidency, if it even lasts that long. he will have ways is as an ex-president as well. but it is a statement, it's a rather stunning one, to have him shut off from these very channels of communication that he's used to directly connect with his followers. >> rick, you raise an interesting point. i know that you're not a fortune teller. but how likely is it that he will, the president will finish out his time in office? >> i don't think he's going to resign, and i don't think the 25th amendment is going to be

invoked. i do think there's a decent chance he'll get impeached for a second time. i think nancy pelosi and house leaders are going to move for an impeachment that will probably pass with a significant degree of bipartisanship in the house, i just don't think there's enough time in the senate to take it up, much less deliver that two-thirds vote for conviction. >> sara, where do his followers go now? how are they going to react to this news? do you think this will backfire, perhaps? >> great question, byron. i do think it backfires. look, notwithstanding trump's incitement of the mob attack on the capitol, which i think he deserves full blame for, this is probably unhelpful in the grand scheme of things in terms of technology's relationship with the conservative movement. they're in a tricky business perspective as they're trying to balance societal pressures, employee pressures, their own views. this will only be seen by trump supporters as another example of

elites trying to remove them and discredit them and censor them. >> along the lines of what happens with president trump, what happens to his people, there's mounting pressure for the president to step down. today alaskaer? lisa murkowski became the first gop leader to call for his resignati resignation. with 11 days left what will republicans do about him, about their party? >> most republicans in congress i think are privately done with president trump and would be fine with him resigning. there's a whole lot who are very late in the presidency saying they have major problems with president trump, cabinet resignations, members of congress saying he should leave. it's going to be up to the voters when those men and women are up for re-election whether you believe those political conversions are authentic or matter at all. you've got a lot of folks playing i think right now for the history on the other side of president trump. because he will be gone in 11 days. what won't be gone is this movement.

and the folks who are at the capitol, yes, a tiny slice, but they are a motivated slice of the electorate. they will be relevant in a republican primary, they will be relevant in american politics. >> final question, we've been talking about politics but i want a closing personal thought from each of you. 15 seconds. i know all of you love this nation, love the political process. how did it strike you, what happened wednesday? each of you, about 15 seconds. >> it was horrifying to watch that. it's heartbreaking. first of all, five people lost their lives. and that's a tragedy that could have been avoided. you know, i'm repulsed by it. >> byron, it was disgusting. it was disheartening. it was horrifying. it was frankly depressing. as an american, as a journalist, as a washingtonian, to see that desecration, to see an attempted coup. it's not something any of us ever thought we would see. as it happened, it was surreal. literally cannot believe that this happened in our country. >> rahm, we'll give you the last

word. >> a little over 100 years ago my grandfather left eastern europe to come to this country. because america was a beacon. and i never in my wildest imagination, on the steps of the capitol of the united states of america, people wearing t-shirts that said "camp auschwitz." "6 million not enough." not the america my grandfather came to. not that america. we're better. >> as the late congressman elijah cummings from my hometown of baltimore said in 2019, we are better than this. rahm, sara, rick, thank you for your time. and we'll be back with "the final note."

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symbols of our democracy damaged by the mob at the capitol wednesday, this small memorial to the congressman john lewis. alongside his picture, his words. "when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to stand up, speak up, speak out, and find a way to get in the way and get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble." but in john lewis' america, violence by anyone was never an option. that's "nightline" for this evening. we'll see you back here monday. have a safe and good weekend. thanks for the company, america. good night.