when he talked to you on january 6th? >> it's my understanding he was watching television. >> when you were in the dining room in these discussions, was the violence at the capitol visible on the screen on the television? >> yes. >> as the president watched the bloody attack unfold on fox news from his dining room, members of congress and other government officials stepped into the gigantic leadership void created by the president's chilling and studied passivity that day. what you're about to see is previously unseen footage of congressional leaders, both republicans and democrats, as they were taken to a secure location during the riot. you'll see how everyone involved was working actively to stop the violence, to get federal law enforcement deployed to the scene to put down the violence and secure the capitol complex. not just democrats like speaker

nancy pelosi and house majority leader sonny hoyerut vice president pence, mitch mcconnell, john thune and countless over appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. >> we're starting to get surrounded. they're taking me north front, staff only. [indiscernible] >> the door has been breached. the people are gaining access into the capitol. >> we have got to get -- [indiscernible] >> usa! usa! usa! >> they're locked down in the

senate. there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that you can elect the president of the united states. do we go back into session? now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on some gas masks to prepare for a breach. i'm trying to get more information. >> they're putting on their tear gas masks. >> we need house members all walking over now through the tunnels. [indiscernible] >> i'm going to call up the deputy secretary of d.o.d. we have some senators still in

their hideaways that need massive personnel now. can you get the maryland national guard to come too? >> i have something to say, mr. secretary. i'm going to call the mayor of washington, d.c. right now and see what other outreach she has, other police departments. >> get him up! >> this is nancy. i don't know if you had the approach to the virginia national guard mr. hoyer was speaking to governor hogan, but i still think you probably need the okay of the federal government in order to -- thank you. oh my god. [indiscernible]

they said somebody was shot. it's just horrendous. all at the instigation of the president of the united states. okay. thank you, governor. i appreciate what you're doing. if you don't mind, i'd like to stay in touch. thank you. >> virginia guard has been called in. >> i just spoked to governor northam. he said they sent 200 state police and a unit of the national guard. >> they're breaking windows and going in, obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. that's nothing. the concern we have about personal -- >> safety. >> -- personal safety transcends everything. the fact is on any given day, they're breaking the law in many different ways. quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the united states.

now it could lead to somebody -- >> why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general, in your law enforcement responsibility? a public statement they should all leave. >> usa! usa! >> it should not be we're waiting for so-and-so. we need them there now, whatever you got. >> you also have troops. andrews air force base, other military bases, national guard. >> how soon in the future can you have -- [indiscernible] >> i don't want to speak for the leadership that's responsible for executing the operation. [indiscernible]

>> let me say you can get people there. >> we're trying to figure out how we can get this job done. i talked to mitch about it earlier. he's not moving right now, but he was with us earlier and said we want to expedite this and hopefully they can confine it to just one complaint and then we could vote and then just move forward. overriding wishes to do it at the capitol, what we are being told very directly is, it's going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. we've gotten a very bad report

about the condition of the floor, defecation and all that kind of thing as well. i don't think that's hard to clean up, but i do think it's more from a security standpoint of making sure that everybody is out of the building and how long will that take. >> i just got off with the vice president. >> i got off with the vice president elect. >> okay. what we left the conversation with, was he said he had the impression from mitch that mitch -- to do it there. i said we're getting a counter point that it could take time to clean up the poo-poo they're making literally and figuratively in the capitol and it may take days to get back. >> i'm at the capitol building. i'm literally standing with the chief of police of the u.s. capitol police. he just informed me what you

will hear through official channels. we'll inform you that their best information is that they believe that the house and the senate will be able to -- in roughly an hour. >> good news. >> thank you very much, mr. vice president. >> in this video you just saw senator chuck schumer urging acting attorney general jeff rosen to call off the rioters. of course, rosen did take action to defend the government, as did many other officials. congressional leadership recognized on a bipartisan basis that president trump was the only person who could get the mob to end its violent siege of

the congress, leave the capitol and go home. here's senator mcconnell speaking after january 6th about how president trump abandoned his duties and failed to do his job. >> it was obvious that only president trump could end this. he was th only one who could. former aides publicly begged him to do so. loyal allies frantically called the administration. the president did not act swiftly. he did not do his job. he didn't take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and o restored. no. >> in the midst of this violent chaos, kevin mccarthy implored

donald trump to tell his supporters in the mob to leave the capitol. when that didn't work, mccarthy called trump's adult children to try to get them to intercede with trump to call off the insurrection violence. we showed you a description of what mccarthy told republican congresswoman jamie herrera butler. another witness mick mulvaney has also come forward and corroborated her shocking account. >> i asked kevin mccarthy, who's the republican leader, about this. he said he called -- finally got through to donald trump. he said you have got to get on tv, you have got to get on twitter, you've got to call these people off. you know what the president said to him? he said, well, kevin, these aren't my people. these are antifa. kevin responded and said, no, they're your people. they literally just came through

my office windows are running for their lives. the president's response was they're more upset about the election theft than you've seen of kevin mccarthy and the president having a swearing conversation. the president was saying, no, i'm okay with this. >> i had a conversation at some point in the day or week after the riot with kevin mccarthy. it was very similar to the conversation she retold about he called and asked the president to stop and the president told him, kevin, maybe these people are more angry about this than you are. i had a conversation similar to that with kevin in the day to week after the riot. >> we know how kevin mccarthy

described president trump's conduct, both in public and in private. >> the president beared responsibility for wednesday's attack. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump. accept his share of responsibility, quell the unrest and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. let me be very clear clear to the president. he bearstis, no if, ands or buts. i asked him personally today does he hold responsibility for what happened, does he feel bad about what happened? he told me he does have some wh happened. then you need to acknowledge that. >> 2:24 p.m., knowing the deadly

riot was bearing down on his own vice president, president trump composed and sent a tweet attacking vice president pence, accusing him of cowardice for not unilaterally rejecting the electoral college votes. it further inflamed the mob, which was chanting "hang mike pence" and provoked them to even greater violence. this deliberate decision to further enrage the mob against vice president pence cannot be justified by anything that president trump might have thought about the election. the tweet came precisely at the time pence's secret service detail was most seriously concerned for the vice president's physical safety. we've obtained new documents from the secret service, realtime chats that underscore the threat they knew the vice president would be facing because of the president's

escalating incitement of the mob. >> after trump's tweet, one agent in the secret service's intelligence division another agent reported the dramatic impact of trump's anti-pence tweet on his followers. potus said he lacked courage, over24,000 likes in under two minutes. employees at twitter were nervously monitoring the situation. they knew that certain twitter users were rioting at the capitol and tweeting about it at the same time. as the afternoon progressed, the company detected a surge in violent hashtags on the platform, including lines of lethal incitement like, execute mike pence. listen to this former twitter employee who first came to the committee anonymously, but has

now bravely agreed to be named because she wants to speak out about the magnitude of the threats facing our people. >> your office -- [indiscernible] that was threatening toward t voicemail? >> they were literally calling for his execution. >> as the tweet was going out? >> yes and after in response to the tweet too. as many of donald trump's tweets did, it again fanned the flames. it was individuals who were already constructing gallows, who were already wanting to execute someone and looking for someone to kill. now the individual who told them to begin this coup is now pointing the finger at another individual while they're ready to do this. >> here's a small sample of the

reactions that president trump's fan the flames tweet provoked among capitol rioters in realtime. >> what percentage of the crowd is going to the capitol? >> 100%. it has spread like wildfire that pence has betrayed us and everybody is marching on the capitol, all million of us. it's insane. >> mike pence! >> what happened? [ inaudible ] >> mike pence has screwed us. >> between 2:30 and 2:35 within ten minutes of president trump's tweet, thousands of rioters overran the line that the metropolitan police force's civil disturbance unit was holding on the west side of the

capitol. this is the first time in the history of the metropolitan police department that a security line like that had ever been broken. president trump's conduct that day was so shameful and so outrageous that it prompted numerous members of the white house staff and other trump appointees to resign. you heard mt pottinger and sarah matthews explain why they felt compelled to resign on that day. since then, we've spoken to more high ranking officials like president trump's envoy to northern ireland mick mulvaney and transportation secretary elaine chao who resigned after the 6th in protest of president trump's misconduct and to disassociate themselves from his role in the violence. take a listen to what they had to say. >> i was stunned by the violence and stunned by the president's apparent indifference to the violence. i thought he failed at a

leader that the nation needed.f >> i think the events at the capitol, however they occurred, were shocking and it was something that, as i mentioned in my statement, that i could not put aside. at a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue given my personal values and my philosophy. i came as an immigrant to this country. i believe in this country. i believe in the peaceful transfer of power. i believe in democracy. and so it was a decision that i made on my own. >> when security began to arrive at the capitol and the tide turned against the insurrection,