police are squabbling with protesters oh, there we go. and they just breached the capitol again. >> to those who engagein the gleeful desecration of this our democracy, american democracy, justice will be done. >> the best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. >> thousands of pro-trump

supporters stormed the capitol in a scene played on tv around the globe. the stunning images of rioters clashing with police as they forced their ways into the hallowed halls of congress officers threw their guns in the crosshairs what's next in the final 13 days of donald trump's administration glad you're with us for this coverage i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. january 6th, 2021, is a day many will remember as far as views of democracy. the headlines declaring that rioters invaded the united states capitol and there was an unprecedented insurrection in the "washington post" and "the new york times," both papers reporting the president incited a mob. congress was eager to get back into the capitol, though, to show they would not be intimidated. >> on the side of the american people, united states senate

will not be intimidated. we will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats. >> this mob was in good part president trump's doing, incited by his words, his lies, this violence in good part, his responsibility, his ever lasting shame. >> after being forced to take shelter, lawmakers continued with the work of formally confirming the presidential election results let's bring in our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts tracie, many, many, many, many hours later we are feeble seeing this formal process come to an end. >> yeah. keep in mind this is something that is normally routine and takes 20 or 30 minutes this year it was anything but routine.

it was violent it was dangerous it took more than 15 hours from the start of this vote count for lawmakers to finally declare joe biden and kamala harris the winners of this presidential election it happened just a few minutes ago. of course, after the riots forced lawmakers into hiding and they came back with a new resolve. many of them decided not to object to the electoral vote count. some still did those objections were dealt with, and under urging from both democratic and republican colleagues, this count is finally done. >> no congressional audit is ever going to convince these voters, particularly when the president will continue to say that the election was stolen the best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. [ applause ] >> when it's open, it is over.

it is over the final thing, joe biden, i traveled the world with joe. i hoped he'd lost. i prayed he'd lose he won he's the legitimate president of the united states. >> reporter: president trump through dan scavino, one of his advisers at the white house. the president has been stripped of his ability to tweet this morning. in a tweet scavino says on behalf of the president, even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election, there will be an orderly transition on january 20th, and he goes on to talk about continuing the fight so this is a done deal the votes have been certified by the states they have now under duress at points been counted and confirmed by the u.s. congress with joe biden and kamala harris on january 20th taking their places in history. >> all that's left is the

inauguration thanks. >> hopefully it will stay peaceful until then unfortunately after three people are left dead and four officers injured. the d.c. police chief said three trump supporters died in the siege on the capitol and a san diego native was shot and killed by the capitol police. she was protesting the president's loss according to her brother-in-law and as the smoke clears at the capitol, the question is how did the smoke escalate into such mayhem kasie hunt looks at how it all unfold unfolded. >> reporter: it was a frightening scene. thousands of trump supporters storming the capitol, rioters breaching the walls of congress. tear gas, broken windows, even shots fired. chaos and tragedy. it began when trump supporters

gathered in washington, d.c., urged on by the president to protest congress's vote count to declare joe biden the winner for weeks trump has lied about the election results, alleging voter fraud, and he expressed defiance about the election's outcome to his supporters. >> we will never give up, we will never concede it doesn't happen. >> reporter: after that speech, his followers marched to capitol hill to protest where inside senators and congressmen began counting the electoral college votes. while some republicans were trying to dispute biden's win inside the capitol, the mob outside was growing out of control. defia defiant jeering, they faced off on the capitol steps and the standoff bake a tussle, the crowd pushing to get inside. suddenly the mob broke through, past metal barriers and the police, climbing through

windows, sweeping aside security deep into the heart of congress. >> my challenge today -- >> reporter: on the senate floor, a senator's speech was interrupted, and the business of the day, to count electoral college votes, halted. lawmakers were evacuated to safety others sheltered in their offices. and the rioters continued to rampage, trying to smash through doors, even the doors to the house chamber. on the other side, police waiting with their guns drawn. elsewhere protesters made themselves comfortable, breaking into offices, even climbing the walls. and then a sudden frenzy outside as paramedics rushed a woman to the hospital she had been shot and she died a few hours later. as a shocked world watched the chaos unfold at the capitol, joe biden took the stage. >> i call on president trump to go on national television now to

fulfill his oath and defend the constitution and demand an end to this siege. >> reporter: biden who takes office in two weeks blasted the rioters' actions. >> it's not protests it's insurrection. >> reporter: and as he walked off the stage, this. >> enough is enough is enough. >> reporter: minutes later trump tweeted out a video telling his supporters he felt their pain, repeating his lies about a stolen election, and only then did he urge the mob to go home twitter locked the president's account for 12 hours by later that afternoon, the national guard converged on the capitol, using smoke and tear gas to disperse the rioters. with a curfew in effect, officials declared the inside of the capitol secure questions piled up about how this kind of assault could happen, but with a capitol and a

nation shake on the the core, members of congress were undaunted, going back to business counting votes to declare joe biden the country's next president. >> kasie, thanks for the breakdown. the question on a lot of people's minds this morning, how did this assault on capitol hill happen that building is supposed to be secured by about 2,000 members of its own police department mark, good morning this was a major security fail how could this have happened >> i think the first thing you have to think about is the last time there was an insurrection against the u.s. capitol was 1812 this is not just something that happened in america. so security is focused mainly on

bioterrorism or a counterattack or by a lawmaker it happened to steve scalise in virginia but not anticipating a mob takeover of the capitol by particularly right ring militia, something that perhaps mentally was not in their playbook and therefore they didn't rehearse for it. >> that's the thing that's so tough to digest, that they weren't prepared for it, it didn't register in their playbook, but how, knowing that that's right wing groups exist, that they may have wanted to take advantage, proud boys and all that, and they spread their message on social media and online. >> the intelligence was absol e absolutely there it wasn't even intelligence. it was in the open president trump has been saying january 6th was going to be the day. proud boyce are the organizing force for the trump political movement they've been saying the revolution happens today and

organizing from all across the country, and all of the false conspiracy theories the president has been spinning up, all of them supposedly culminate today. evan it is pated this. this was preventible and planned and anticipated. all that was needed was just a spark, and today i think the president was the fire in the theater, the incitement that led to this attempted interaction. >> because of that, several lawmakers are calling for actions to be taken against president trump including invoking the 25th amend, congression congressional action what might he face >> a social media platform ban is certainly in our day and age as close to a 20th type amendment as there's going to be president trump is probably going to get his twitter account

restored, but the 25th amendment is a radical solution. we're in unanticipated, unchartedterritory initially it was passed and ratified because president eisenhower wanted to await transfer of power when he was sick and not capable of fulfilling the office. there's a provision this allows the vice president and the majority of the members of congress or the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to remove the president, and that would set up a fairly complex congressional procedure. have 14 days yet again, this has not happened before we haven't anticipated or come up with a mental framework to handle what's going on the next two weeks could be quite dangerous. >> given that, marc, two weeks could be dangerous knowing that if they go so far as the 25th amend being invoked or looking ahead to the inauguration with this possibly emboldened by what we saw yesterday, what do we need to prepare for? what do you see in the days

leading up to it and on inauguration day itself? >> i do think groups will be emboldened by what they saw yesterday. they saw a temporary but successful takeover of the most secure building on the planet or one of them, and if anything start as movement, it's something like that. if you're a member of congress, i would worry about personal security in the next couple of weeks because they're going to go home on recess before inauguration you don't have the resources of the capitol police to protect you, and, frankly, you are a target we're going to have to recalibrate the way we interact with our elected officials and probably create some distance in the near term. and i don't necessarily think that's a good thing, but it's a necessary thing. this is the new normal that we live in. >> what about recalibrating our approach ore at least president-elect biden's approach about the misinformation that's out there. >> first, president-elect biden is going to do something which

president trump wasn't able to do, which is acknowledge the fact where the threats come from which is right-wing groups come from but the misinformation that has curdled all of these fantasies to people who feel they don't have a place to belong in america, those are something that are going to live with the biden administration and all of us we all worry about depot larization and depoliticalization. >> this is where we stand in our country today. marc ambinder, thank you for your perspective. let's bring in nbc meteorologist janessa webb good morning. >> good morning. good morning, everyone we do have a storm system across the tennessee valley it's feisty and will spark up. a, you're on our radar tracks to the easte is on the northern half, winter weather advisories and storm

warnings in place for arkansas where we could see 3 to 5 inches rare snow in that area accumulation of rainfall, it will be near a quart over an inch before the system gs intoo. this is where you need to be philadelphia highs in the lower 40s and that's your latest forecast, guys. >> janessa, thank you very much. "early today" is back in a minute with more on what we touched on but first this from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> if this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death

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to our fellow americans, i know that i speak for all of us when i say that we saw an unprecedent attack on our american democracy incited by the united states president and he must be held accountable. >> d.c. mayor and democrat muriel bowser calling fo president trump to be held accountable for yesterday's attack. social media took measures twitter suspended the president's account for 12 hours. facebook and instagram blocked his account for 24 hours and snapchat also blocked mr. trump's account until further notice nbc's jake ward has more. >> good morning, frances

social media and the web in general have been alight with the threat of violence for months this was entirely predictable. we called out information repeatedly before and after and yet the president and his supporters fanned the flames also fanning the flames was the cottage industry of live streamers like facebook and instagram and twitch those companies get a cut of the money sent in. now, at the same time, those platforms also recognize what's going on, or at least they did eventually facebook, youtube, twitter all took the president's video down when he called the election stolen by the end of the day direct incitement from the president combined with the amplifying attention of the economy is what drew people to storm the capitol itself

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crowds have dispersed from pennsylvania avenue as washington, d.c., remains under curfew until 6:00 a.m. local time this comes after mass chaos broke out on capitol hill. a mob of trump supporters storming the halls of congress nbc's josh letterman, he was in the thick of those protests yesterday. josh, good morning it is a much calmer scene, i suspect now. is law enforcement anticipating any more mayhem today? >> reporter: that calmer scene taking place just a few minutes ago. the deal was done. the vote to affirm the electoral

college results in the capitol now completed, moving us toward that inauguration of president-elect joe biden on january 20th but not without an entire day of mayhem at the capitol. four people dead i watched a woman. she was shot, then carried out on a stretcher, brought to a hospital where she later died. three others who suffered medical emergencies later died dozens of arrests. and the u.s. capitol occupied for several hours. the d.c. mayor now putting a state of emergency into effect for another 15 days throughout the inauguration and warning there will be accountability for those who cause the violence take a listen. >> to our fellow americans, i know that i speak for all of us when i say that we saw an unprecedented attack on our american democracy insighted by the united states president and he must be held accountable.

today i signed an extension of the public emergency that i declare today for 15 days so that we can continue to ensure peace and security through the inauguration of president joe biden and vice president kamala harr harris. >> reporter: and tonight we heard something from president donald trump we have not heard in the two months since he lost the presidential election. in a statement issued by the white house on twitter, president trump acknowledging his presidency is coming to an end, promising there will be an orderly transition of power but also promising he's not done yet with his broader goals to make america great again. phillip? >> all right, josh thank you so much. that's what so many people were hoping to hear, some call for unity. he said he would never concede he said yesterday, you know, they must hold strength, take back the country, never show weakness now we're hearing a different

tone from the president. >> here's the thing. he said we will continue to fight. yesterday was a dramatic day little did we know it would be a deadly day hopefully we can see things turn around and be peaceful from here on out we thank you for starting your day with

right now at 4:30, breaking news. the count is now over. overnight, congress affirmed joe biden as the 46th president of the united states. now making january 6th the day our nation will never forget. >> to those who wreaked havoc in our capitol today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins. this is still the people's house. you saw it all. shots fired. smashed windows, congressional offices