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inside the ceremony is heidi heitkamp, a former senator from north dakota joining us on the lye line. and you were there for this, and so few were, and your observations and takeaways, senator? >> this is my seventh or eighth, i am not sure inaugural, and ever are one different, but this is among the most some ber. s someber. and the poet was the high point, and for many it was the whew, and president biden and we can say that now, and not president-elect, but president biden's speech was workmanlike and it was not poetry and let's get together and i hear you, and pretty much a lot of what he has been saying all along and the mother's milk of communication is repetition, and that is what the president talked about, but there was a collective sigh of relief and bipartisan and then awareness that there is so much to do as the president said in his inaugural speech. these are hugely challenging times. >> the world is watching, and boris johnson spoke in the u.k. that the variant has found the peak and maybe coming down slightly, and he also just said that the united states and the united

senator heidi heitkamp, and abc news contributor tara setmyer. today's violence was years in the making. how would you describe today? protest, insurrection, attempted coup? how did we get here? >> it was an attempted coup. and we got here through a lot of different routes. i know it's fashionable to blame everything on president trump. he's an easy target, he's a loud target. the truth is he's not the only target. in this current administration, he's had a lot of people complicit, a lot of people supporting him, a lot of people who knew better but didn't do better. but again, this isn't something that started with his administration. this is an essential part of the american condition. and i don't mean that lightly, and i don't mean that to be cynical. but you can go through decade after decade after decade, since the pilgrims landed this country, on this land, and fiend find examples in which you will see uprisings of white people being handled differently than the uprisings of minorities. and those of us who have covered these sort of stories

let me go to heidi heitkamp. is this an inflection point? is this something on a par that we saw on 9/11, this attack on the capitol, that will lead, at least for a time, to some unity? >> well, you heard joe manchin talk about how this is an opportunity for unity and that when they all huddled together, they had an opportunity to visit and i think it leads to the camaraderie that people feel about going forward and so hopefully this will, in fact, lead to some kind of healing of divisions. >> we can only hope that, but it comes on the heels, come ytom llamas, of very sad news. the woman shot on the capitol has died. >> we saw first responders putting their hands on her neck wound. we've just learned that she has died. and george, we don't even know her name yet. we just know that she died in this senseless violence and we have to ask ourselves, what did she die for? we don't even know, you know? we don't even know her name. and yet this woman has died, so, this has gone way beyond just a simple protest, this was a riot, through and through,

let me bring in heidi heitkamp, as well. come from a different wing of the democratic party than yvette. what is the right approach to accountability in the wake of this extraordinary incident? >> you know, it's interesting, because i agree with yvette. i mean, you start out, you know, there's good people on both sides. we had people assume the same kind of behavior in the michigan state house and everybody was okay with that. i'm pretty sure if they had been black, they wouldn't have been okay with that. and we have these -- i need a favor, though, moments, and everybody is just like, let's just get through the next four years, let's just get rid of him in the ballot box. we get rid of him in the ballot box, this continues. and harboring and enabling this behavior, it's happening right now on the floor of the senate. at some point, there needs to be a level of accountability. i don't know what that looks like, because we only have 14 days left, but it should not go unchecked. >> how about censure, rahm's idea? >> when i lis

heidi heitkamp is there. ped the skills over a lifetime for this moment. >> i totally agree. he's very, very well-liked among the senate. it's now been ten years since he's been in the senate and the place has changed. he's going to have a heavier lift than what i think he anticipates, probably the biggest advantage he has right now is that the president is leaving -- president trump is leaving with a huge cloud over his head. i think the republican party needs to show some unity and some availability to this president to move an agenda forward. if this president, president biden sticks to infrastructure and systemic reforms that need to be made in health care that will broaden availability and lower costs, i think he'll find willing participants. i have a level of optimism i haven't had about government in a long time. it's interesting being out here because, you know, people who denied that president biden was the president, they're here hob knobbing with people like me who have been ferocious supporters of

. >> former senator heidi heitkamp of north dakota. they are clearing the front of the capitol now. the metro dc police say they were sprayed with chemicals and that's how they entered the capitol. let's listen to this >> on the steps at this part of the u.s. capitol the people who were up there have come down now i don't know if we can walk a little bit -- we don't want to get too close, but i don't know if you can see some of what has been left. people have put up signs you can see some of the signs on cars about pelosi and people have been standing o

. >> kayla, heidi heitkamp, the former senator was on in the last hour, and she was talking about hownks those moderate voices are going to be very important, all the people who were on the call on sunday with the white house during the green bay packers game, talking about some of those issues i think the moderate voices are probably looking for the number of direct checks to be cut down, maybe be a little more targeted. you mentioned at the end that the push back is to get that number changed on who exactly is getting checks, and i wasn't clear what that meant. does that mean that they are pushing for those checks to go to more people or fewer people >> well, first, thank you for bringing up the loss of my beloved packers one more time, becky, you had to do it. but i think that you're right about that some of the pushback is that under the proposal as it was written in the house, a family who is making more than $300,000 in some cases would still qualify for those checks, and they believe that if the country is going to be spending more money, printing more money, that that is simpl

heitkamp, and tara setmayer. thank you for joining us at the end of a long yet historic day. heidiperson at joe biden's socially distanced swearing-in, your seventh inauguration, i understand. you called the ceremony a bipartisan sigh of relief. what was going on in your mind? >> i think everybody is just tired of the drama, and they want to get to the business of governing. joe biden outlined just all of the challenges ahead of us. and they know now, instead of worrying about a tweet or about craziness coming out of the white house, there's going to be a very reasoned and contentious, i think, debate about how do we tackle america's greatest issues? it was always about america, it's no longer about donald trump. and that's a sigh of relief. >> he has a huge inbox. what is on joe biden's priority list right now, heidi? >> well, i think clearly the pandemic. because you can't hear appeals for the economy without figuring out the pandemic. i also think he's looking long-term to income inequality, how do you fix that? he's looking at climate, he's looking at securing a better future g

heitkamp. former u.s. senator and cnbc contributor. and jeff greg. for those who don't know and i don't know who that might be heididemocrat. and judd of course a republican. your take i think is a interesting. republicans and democrats have both been interested about this race but as the republican you think the democrats are going to win. why? >> well first off, i don't think the importance of this race can be overstated because as a practical matter, the entire government becomes controlled by democratic party all government moves left under any circumstances but it is going to lurch radically left in my opinion. why do i think our candidates are in trouble two reasons. one, i think the democratic base is very motivated. and it is going to turn out in very large numbers and two, donald trump has thrown the republican party in disarray and disillusionment and confusion. and the ironic situation here is that none of these team are going to -- with donald trump. but he's become the issue in the campaign and so foolish this has been allowed to happen but of course with this president everything is about me and unfor