obviously the capitol police inside trying to clear the u.s. capitol of protesters. we're told the fbi and atf are also inside of the u.s. capitol going room by room, trying to figure tout where protesters went, where they are, get them out of the middle of the beginning. we're told the senate side is mostly clear. they're working on the house side now. reaction is coming in from all over. vice president mike pence tweeted out about this pretty soon after it happened. peaceful protest is the right of every american but the attack on our capitol will not be tolerated. those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. senator tom cotton also tweeting that violence and anarchy are unacceptable. we are a nation of laws. this needs to end now. house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying that they have a right to be heard, protesters but they must remain peaceful. there are windows and cabinets, windows broken inside of the u.s. capitol. cabinets have been gone through, offices ruffled a little bit there is some damage inside. the capitol police cleared th

the capitol police as well as atf and fbi are going room to room inside the u.s. capitol. act, we've heard reports from some of the producers from fox news they knocked on the door and ushered them out into the downtown -- into the underground tunnels that are underneath the u.s. capitol where they are checking ids of everyone who is going through to make sure they've gotten all the protesters occupant of the building. lou -- out of the building. lou? lou: ed, the president called up the national guard, he is the only one who can do so. muir yell bowser, the mayor, wanted that protection. he also asked for other federal protective officers and agents. we haven't seen video that shows them in any large presence. what can you tell us about that,? >> reporter: yeah. there are 1100 national guardsmen that have been activated. they're staging, so they're not on site as of yet, but they will be throughout the city of d.c. including near the u.s. capitol to back up the capitol police. it's not an active force that's going to be on the front lines. this is something that's going to

, militia members have emerged and the georgia state capitol, help me in the booth -- the georgia state capitol has been -- the secretary of state has benes escorted out of the georgia capitol for safety, militia members there. so, this is happening in more than one place, none more prevalent or making a larger statement, of course, than here in washington. at last the president is on board, urging calm that has not been his -- that has not been his mantra for quite some time. it is easy to remember the president telling the proud boys to stand by, to stand up there it is, the american flag sim and others this was an area on which people could not travel today this was locked down for security reasons much of washington had been locked down for concerns about violence it was clear from our reporting yesterday and the day before that intelligence officials and capitol hill police and others had been monitoring -- had been monitoring the scene, have bee monitoring social media and the internet and had come to the conclusion that these organizations, if you will, or these groups, had

building the u.s. capitol building we believe the media has got attacked by the supporters on the front side of the capitol we've seen coast pictures on social media of protesters getting access to the speaker of the house's office the fact that they will bear. on the house floor which is on social media where they had to put a dress up like a some sort of big piece of furniture in front of the door. this is a chaotic scene the masses have seem to have mostly gone there between the side of the capitol that i'm on but in the distance you can hear the constant tear gas being fired i know they were using flash bang grenades earlier it is a remarkable scene here. then there's a curfew that is now going to be coming into effect in about. 2550 minutes or so i think speedy and local time but he doesn't look like patty people are going to be moving are going to go anyway despite president himself calling on what is to go. well let's not forget that the president earlier in the day told protesters that he wanted to mar

the u.s. capitol descended into chaos on wednesday as hundreds of pro-trump protesters swarmed the building, forcing the senate to evacuate vice president mike pence to be ushered to a secure location the frenzied scene after protesters broke through a barricade, and abruptly paused the ceremonial event, affirming that president-elect joe biden did, indeed, win the presidential election. vice president pence was presiding over the joint session of congress at the time. he was rushed out by secret security vice president pence and pro temp were taken to a secured location senators were told to stay away from locked doors. the chaotic situation came after president trump, who has refused to accept the results of the election and today said he would never surrender spoke to a large crowd in front of the white house. he angrily vowed that he would never concede to president-elect biden and baselessly asserted that the election results were fraudulent quoting the president, we will never give up. we will n

they keep the capitol safe. and those here that we love. >> bill: are you still in your office, sir? >> i'm with some of the other house and senate leadership. we are working to get things back in order. >> bill: okay, do you know whether the matter that began earlier today can continue tonight with the electoral college? >> i think it will, and it needs to. we were talking about that come about getting things back on again tonight. and doing her job. but i was in the chamber when it ultimately started to shut down and the reports were pretty clear that there were people overtaking and storming the capitol, storming the doors and. >> bill: you said i think it will. is that spoken with the level of confidence that we will see sometime later the sea evening coming back to the house chamber? >> i'm confident that we will, yeah. >> bill: well met, steve scalise thank you for your time. best of luck to all of you and the men and women on the hill, thank you, sir. >> god bless our men and women in law enforcement. >> b

through the capitol police. that is being analyzed right now, i'm being told by the department of defense officials and they're considering that. they do not want the images of uniformed troops on the capitol. so they're considering an option, hasn't been decided to back fill more police and have a bigger police presence to try to get rid of the protesters. this is an incredibly dangerous situation as we see it right now. there are protesters not only on the house floor but the senate floor and you heard the house majority leader there -- we haven't heard from the president on that mode to get the president involved. you remember in the uprising, the looting in different cities, he was very quick to say the governors and the mayors should call the national guard and it would be cleared out in a minute. he has the power to do the same thing after this request has beneficially made from the d.c. mayor and the capitol police. that decision has not been made as of yet from the defense department. what we're watching

we have taken to a safe area and the capitol police were extremely on too much things. which i think everybody got a little nervous when there was that literal banging trying to knock in the doors held by the cabinet. >> do you have any -- head ed, jump in. >> zak, take us back to what was going on in the house chamber itself. there are conflicting reports about whether guns were drawn and used or whether other barricades put in place to keep people out. what can you tell us having been in the room? >> i can tell you that guns were drawn, handguns and there were i believe two of them from -- >> by whom. >> in. >> security or capitol police when they mocked in the door and got mocked in. we did see what appeared to be a gun -- from a distance, some kind of loud bang. and just -- i think as soon as that door started getting knocked, everyone, the members, the staff included were trying to get out of there as soon as possible. >> and from your vantage point, zak, in the house chamber did you see anyone injured or hurt in any way? >> i did not, no, no. >> okay. and there wer

supporters storming the capitol. again, i don't think that it would made a difference, but at least try. you are the president of the can united states, at least try. >> terry, i know you were hearing some of our conversation. and i keep seeing these photos and i cannot believe this happened. >> i can't either. but here is what is going on. i know the visual is on the exterior of the capitol. that has to be dealt with. but inside the capitol in some areas, they are retaking the rotunda, retaking the area around the house, and then i believe that they will begin the retaking of the senate area. so there aare joints operations in there by both the capitol police and metropolitan police department of washington. so again, it will take some time to do that. even the pictures you showed, it appeared that they were trying to escort people out and then wandered away. there are a lot of problems here. we'll have to examine it. but right now, if you were back in my old job as sergeant of arms, i'd be taking care of the people

what happened at the capitol yesterday was an abomination. it was no less than an insurrection mounted against our federal government, inspired by the president and his enablers in congress. donald trump may have lit the match that caused those protesters to march onto the capitol, break through barriers, breakthrough windows and doors and seek to do harm to members of congress, but the bonfire that donald trump lit, it was prepared by members of congress, by members of the house and the senate who decided to raise objections to the certification of the electoral college and create an expectation amongst those protesters that by joining in to this effort, they could keep donald trump in office for another four years. i'm glad they were not successful, i will say i was proud of most of my colleagues yesterday, we spent a lot of time together behind closed doors in a secure room, and there was effective unanimity amongst senators that we needed to get back into that chamber as soon as possible to get the people's work done and i was glad that th

they have stormed the u.s. capitol and something else that should be noted, they have done so with ease. we are wondering where law enforcement has been. if you were wondering the same, you are not alone. the whole world is watching this. the whole world is now able to see what has happened to the u.s. capitol. by our reckoning both houses, house and senate, have been breached. members of the house and senate have been told to shelter and, yes, we have seen guns drawn in the house chamber, point-blank range. those are gas masks, oxygen hoods handed out to all members of congress, some of whom got behind the railings in the balcony. this is your house and senate and these are our fellow citizens who have, as we say, with ease stormed the u.s. capitol today. we have our entire team, our entire on air family on stand by waiting to talk to us. with me in following hours rachel maddow and nicolle wallace and nicolle wallace, i understand you've been doing some reporting among national security types. >> i spoke to three for

members of the national guard and d.c. capitololice are working to contain any of the remaining protesters outside of the building. d.c.'s police chief says five weapons were recovered. at least people were arrested all of whom out-of-state according to the d.c. police department. today's events began peacefully enough after tens of thousands president trump's supporters showed up in washington to listen to president trump. following an hour and ten minutes speech arizona congressman paul and senator ted cruz of texas where objecting to the state selectors providing electoral fraud in the election that they say has yet to be resolved. as protesters swarmed the capital, vice president mike pence was rushed out of his chambers and the capital was put on lockdown by capitol police. police failed to hold the crowd as more than thousands were actually inside the lines and had surrounded the capital building itself. some of those protesters penetrated within the capitol building itself. this man managed to breach the floor of the u.s. s

instead tonight the u.s. capitollaw enforcement officers surrounding it. the pentagon says up to 25,000 national guard troops have been authorized to secure the area around the capitol, of course to prevent another breach. all across the country, authorities are on high aler

capitol police have the ultimate jurisdiction on the capitol grounds. they could call in that help as well. those doors on the east front known as the columbus doors are bronze doors. they're immensely huge, heavy doors. once they close the doors, there's no way anybody will get into the building. having them on the steps is not what the police had in mind. we understood earlier that a portion of the library of congress which is, if you were standing up there where all those people are, you looked out towards where we are towards the camera and across the street. you would be looking at the library of congress. we believe part of that was evacuated. staffers were asked to leave and parts of the building across independence avenue if you were standing there in the plaza and we have been told it was a suspicious package. now, you know, suspicious packages, frankly, we see those almost every week here in washington. but obviously under the current circumstances there's a little more concern because of it. i think it's fair to say that the protesters are not

once the u.s. capitol grounds is cleared, lawmakers are planning to possibly come back and start that again tonight. the process where they were is they were on the first objection in arizona and the joint session had been paused. members went back to their respective houses, the house and senate chambers. they started debates on that. it was in the middle of the debates when protesters forced their way into the u.s. capitol. that caused them to pause what they were doing, the work that was done. we understand the pause may be lifted later on tonight. they're still trying to work that out. they do have a number of other states to get through. each of these processes of objections takes three to four hours. we're looking at first objection, arizona. there are five more to go. again they're trying to clear the capitol complex and that's what is going on right now. back to you. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you so much. we're hearing reports protesters want to occupy the capitol hill building throughout th

truly horrifying, david. >> this was at the u.s. capitol. all right, martha raddatz, thank you. >>> and of course, there are still major questions tonight with the president calling for demonstrations for weeks, why wasn't there more security. the president himself had said, "this will be wild. "here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, federal agents releasing these images in the desperate hunt for these people seen inside the capitol during the siege. and tonight, we're learning just how dangerous the situation was. more than 80 people arrested. five firearms recovered, including a military style assault rifle. two powerful functioning pipe bombs and 11 molotov cocktails which shorts say were, quote, ready to go. and there may be and there may be national security implications. federal prosecutors saying today, a trove of items stolen including potentially sensitive documents. information. the new details coming as there are tough questions about what was, by all accounts, a near total collapse of security. >> the men and women of the met

the capitol police and the leadership at the capitol, they did not make the decision to call in guard support. i cannot order the army, the national guard, to the united states capitol grounds. i can in the district, with the approval of the secretary of the army. so i guess we called up our guard, and we've had guard support throughout our covid pandemic. but specifically for public safety issues, i will issue an additional request to the army which i think i did at the end of december. and the secretary of army approved that request. and we put our guard troops on the ground to support mpd. yes. >> reporter: mayor, you said there was a state of emergency you were declaring for i guess two weeks. what does that mean, how is that different from what we would expect anyway over the next two weeks? >> the state of emergency is a way that i can organize the resources of d.c. government to move on an emergency basis. so some things that you might expect would have community notice. we may not be able to have that type of notice because we need to move urgently. it helps me organize my pro

for the damaged capitol to be repaired. lly, after five years in the temporary quarters across the street, congress would move back into the capitol in november of 1819. >> this is they small senate vestibule, it is known as. what is unique about it are these capitals designed by henry latrobe. he was incorporating american teachers into the american building. this is 1800. we don't have a lot of american objects, we don't have a lot of american symbolism yet. the eagle is starting to be thought of as a symbol for our country. so corn was very unique. >> the corn or one of the few things in the interior of the building that survived the fire of 1814 intact. the first professionally trained american architect was latrobe, who had worked with jefferson to complete the north and south wings of the building, before the fire. and again, it was latrobe, this time chosen by president madison, who was hired to rebuild of the capitol following the fire. as you make your way through the dimly lit covert doors of the oldest part of the

the u.s. capitol overwhelming law enforcement, this is an image inside what is called the capitol crypt. as those supporting the president sought to storm the house and senate chambers, what can only be viewed as an attempt not only to thwart the democratic process but also an effort incited by the president of the united states, to try one last effort to overturn the presidential election. senators, congressmen, their staffers, were quickly whisked into a secure location. among them as well, the vice president of the united states. brought by the u.s. secret service into a secure location, all of them holed up for hours trying to remain secure. this picture encapsulates it all. the u.s. capitol police, guns drawn, those are members of congress on their knees with bags to protect them from chemical agents in the galley watching stunned. staffers, scared. these are some of the people who tried to storm the capitol and the law enforcement with long guns drawn, asking them to stop this assault on democra

mobs storming the united states capitol from all sides. law enforcement taking hours to secure the area. and tonight, many are wondering, what if those rioters had been black? >> if it had been a group of black lives matter protesting yesterday, they would have been treated very, very differently. >> reporter: the size of the demonstration was similar to this one months earlier, but the response was not. this summer, when thousands took to the same streets in d.c. to peacefully protest racial inequality, law enforcement was out in full force. military helicopters flying low. tear gas and pepper balls deployed. the president said that he wanted to see a crackdown, he wanted to see more military presence, well, just take a look right behind me. this is the closest that any of these protesters are going to get to the white house tonight. protesters forcibly removed to clear a path for president trump's photo-op at st. john's church, holding up that bible. over the summer, the president called those protesters thugs. yesterday, calling his own

on the capitol, on the house of representatives. threatening the safety of duly elected officialings. it's not protests. it's insurrection. the world is watching. like so many other americans, i'm genuinely shocked and saddened that our nation, so long the beacon of light and hope for democracy has come to such a dark moment. through war and strife, america has endured much. we will endure here and we will prevail again. we will prevail now. the work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy, of decency, honor, respect, the rule of law. just plain something decency. the renewal of politics. it's about solving problems, looking another for one another. not stoking the flames of chaos. america is about honor, decency, respect. tolerance. that's who we are. that's who we have always been. the certification of the electoral college vote is supposed to be a sacred ritual a firm purposes -- to affirm the majesty of american democracy. today's a reminder of a painful one, democracy is fragile an

this is a much smaller crowd on this side of the capitol that we saw on the other side of the capitol but again this is what everybody was afraid of when the president started talking about don't let them steal the election they are what they're very very angry and they're trying to get in to do the president's bidding to convince congress that he should be given the election that he lost in a fair and fair election so again when you get out of the way what you see what we're seeing here trumps supporters were waving flags none of them masked i heard one supporter say when the tear gas was on the other side of the capitol let's around. so again we're seeing police there were seen even more police officers move in the line is in tears to be holding but again this is unheard of in the history of the united states of america we see american troops supporters trying to get into the u.s. capitol to disrupt what is normally a very mundane ceremonial procedure making joe biden the next president of the united states directly these people starting to use force possibly to try to make sure tha

people trying to reach the united states capitol in the nation's capitol. e that yesterday. >> yes? >> michael with "the washington post." the three who died from medical emergencies yesterday, have we determined whether they were part of the riots, or other people who are on capitol grounds? >> what was that question, michael? >> for the three people who died of medical emergencies yesterd yesterday. >> thank you. >> there were a lot of people on the ground of the capital yesterday, and i guess to the extent we can say right now is that they were on the grounds of the capitol. >> but you can't specify? okay. and then yesterday at 12th and pennsylvania, a couple of shootings on 200k street northeast. has police determined as any of those were related to the unrest in the city? >> it does not appear that any of those were related. those matters are actually actively being arrested, but it does not appear that they were related. >> could you talk about how the events of yesterday will impact how the city is preparing for the inauguration? >> i can't speak to y

and throughout the capitol, overwhelming police. lawmakers diving for cover, told to shelter in place. the country watching, the world watching. what america looked like today. the mob storming the barriers, pushing through thisor. capitol police unable to hold them back. others smashing through windows at the capitol. there were so many chaotic moments. the tense interactions with capitol police overwhelmed. members of congress and their staffs rushing for cover. reporters told not to reveal their whereabouts. this image tonight of a man walking through sach statuary hall carrying a confederate flag. some trying to breach the house chamber. armed security barricading the door, keeping them out. behind them, members were taking shelter, some of them on the floor, some told to grab their gas masks to protect against tear gas. in an empty senate chamber, this trump supporter declaring donald trump won that election. the march to the capitol following those words from president trump, speaking to his supporters, who he invited to washin

at the capitol. we need 80 men at a time-- the tear gas. >> take our-- back, we the people. >> and there were others saying similar things. in fact i heard a few people say this is siferl war. so they-- civil war, they were intent on breaching the capitol and they did. and their actions today raised questions about whether law enforcement was truly prepared for what was going to happen today. everybody knew in the city that this day was going to come. the president had been advertising it-- followers for at least a week, urging them to come to d.c.. they did. they got permits. so city officials and law enforcement knew that the crowds would be big. perhaps they didn't know that this would be this big. and then at the capitol there are some who feel as if capitol hill police did not do enough to prepare for this event. in fact we talked to a former capitol hill police officer who told cbs news that this structure, of course, should not have been breached. there should have been a larger perimeter of ca

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 on top of that car it seems like capitol police have started to get control of this area. they are not leaving entirely, but have backed them down from in front of the door where they have been for so many hours now. ellison barber speaking with savannah guthrie this will end and order will be restored >> president trump said we don't want violence and they said we are not doing violence and then people said they needed to fight and be patriots and come back. some people dispersed. some saying we should go home. others saying absolutely

the nation's capitol under threat from what former d.h.s. counterterrorism official tom warrick says is the textbook definition of domestic terror. >> an assault on the capitol in an attempt to disrupt the federal election by the counting of the electoral ballots really is an act of domestic terrorism and really needs to be condemned as such by everyone. >> reporter: at the height of the attack, capitol police say they were also responding to reports of two different pipe bombs. their manpower was stretched thin, 60 officers were injured. tonight, capitol police are being hammered for what members of congress have called a "total failure," and are calling for an investigation into what went wrong. >> sense of impunity that many of these attackers have, by virtue of the fact only 14 arrests were made on the capitol grounds yesterday, means they might come back. >> reporter: veteran f.b.i. agent tom o'connor says more manpower was needed from the start. >> i don't care who you are, you are in fear for your own life because, in all reality, anyt

the capitol itself. an assault on the people's representatives, the capitol hill police, sworn to protect them. the public servants who work at the heart of our republic. an assault on the rule of law like few times we have ever seen it. an assault on those sake -- on the most sacred of american undertakings, the doing of the people's business. let me be very clear. the scenes of chaos at the capitol do not reflect a true america. do not represent who we are. what we're seeing are a small number of extremists, dedicated to lawlessness. this is not dissent. it's disorder. it's chaos. it borders on sedition. and it must end. now. i call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward. you heard me say before in different contexts, the words of a president matter. no matter how good or bad that president is. at their best, the words of a president can inspire. at their worst, they can incite. therefore, i call on president trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and

the capitol police chief has been replaced. a lot of unanswered questions here and frankly, a lot of concern in the broader capitol hill community about how that workplace can once again be made safe for everyone who goes there every day. >> a lot of questions. also, we're seeing the social media posts of members of congress being publicly harassed as they move about airports in this country. yamiche, what are you hearing about the president's state of mind. we got a little glimpse into it when he did one of his press conferences or made some comments on his way to texas. what is the mood as pressure groegs for him to be removed one way or the other? >> the president is furious at the idea that he will be possibly meechd for a second time. necessary full on denial. he is blaming all sorts of groups like antifa and really, in some ways, not the wanting to look at the truth which is that his supporters heard him at the capitol. heard him nearby the capitol, tell them it is time to march to the capitol and then incited a mob. and o

special forces moved in after the u.s. capitol building is stormed by pro trump protesters as chaos and gulfs the hearts of washington congress has put into lockdown halting a session to confirm joe biden as the winner of the presidential election donald trump tells his supporters to remain peaceful and go home. one woman is reportedly carried out of the capitol building with a shotgun wound to her chest pull a knife edge senate race in georgia looks set to give the democrats control over congress for the next 2 years that's despite donald trump's renewed refusal on wednesday to conceive the presidential vote. to rig this election they rigged it like the devil rig did election before it we will never give up we will never get a seat it doesn't happen.

. >>> all this comes after a mob stormed the u.s. capitol. what's being called an attack on democracy. they forced their way into the building, following a speech from president trump. >>> well, good morning. good to be with you. i am anne-marie green. what a morning it is. a lot happened overnight. lawmakers reconvened and finished what they set out to do yesterday before chaos erupted at the capitol. earlier this morning, just a short time ago, in fact, congress officially validated the electoral vote count, clearing the way for joe biden to be sworn in as the next president. >> the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the person's elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term -- >> lawmakers were forced to go on lockdown yesterday after the unprecedented breach at the capitol building by trump supporters. now, some democrats are pushing vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office. mr. tr

professor johnson: sure, i think specific to the capitol. there is probably at least three ways that it's -- off-duty police officers felt safe to go be part of at least the rally that took place. when we think about what that rally was about, it was about not counting the electoral votes of an election we just all had gone through. it's kind of squarey that police officers, -- scary that police officers, oh i can take a day off work and go to this rally. we know at least 34 officers are under investigation. officers from all over the country, for the role they may have played on january 6. two officers. my understanding, have been arrested for actually being inside the capitol. they are allegations at this point, but that's something that should really be disturbing to all of us. there are some who believe that capitol police that day may have helped facilitate the attack. we have all seen the video of officers taking selfies with the crowd. there were reports that officers, at least one officer, took off his department issued hat and wore a

nobody should be storming the capitol. i think there's a way to peacefully protest, and i think that's what they should be doing. liz: at least on the outside, it looks peaceful. however, they've breached the house chambers. you do have the entire capitol under lockdown. this began happening right before the 3:00 hour when pro-trump ralliers and protesters began marching down pennsylvania avenue. this entire electoral college are vote was a very tense situation because there were going to be senators who were protesting it, and they were going to object state by state, wouldn't you have thought there was a perimeter set up where nobody could get within at least a block or two of this area? >> keep in mind, liz, i don't know what the number is, but i would bet -- i was actually at the rally with the president and the mayor. i don't know what the numbers are, but i would bet in the hundreds of thousands of people. that's a big crowd, and they left the rally and they marched down to the capitol. you know, the capitol police --

the u.s. mall and capitol. i want to take this opportunity to provide the identities of the persons that lost their lives yesterday. yesterday the police department -- as i mentioned yesterday, the police department's handling the investigation into the shooting that occurred in the house area. the dissident in the shooting identified as 35-year-old ashley tten. also known as ashley babbitt of huntington, maryland. this remains an act of mpd investigation -- active mbd investigation. three other deaths occurred which we believe all to be the result of medical emergencies. 55-year-old kevin greeson of alabama, and 44-year-old rosanne boland of kennesaw, georgia. lastly, i would like to thank all of bc and our neighboring jurisdictions in virginia, maryland, forward hearing to the mayor's and the governor's curfew orders. and i will turn it over to secretary mccarthy. >> thank you chief, mayor bowser. yesterday was a horrible and shameful day in our history. but one thing we did see was incredible leadership by ma

big swaths of the capitol lay wrecked and ransacked. dozens of police officers are being hospitalized. here's the president's lawyer calling as the president's lawyer, not as, like, rudy giuliani, concerned citizen, but like, i'm calling as the president's lawyer, telling republican senators even that night, in the down draft of the violence, hey, you need to block every state. you need to object to every state's electoral votes being counted. we need you to do what the rioters were demanding. we need you to do what they were demanding. we need you to stop the votes being counted for biden. do it tonight. this isn't done. they're not done. they're not done. it's not like the attack on the capitol and all these people dead, and everything that they have seen wrought by their words and their incitement, it's not like this has made them like cowed and rueful and -- no, they're trying just to save their own skin now from the repercussions of what they did, from the consequences and accountability for what they did. i mean, here's the preside

into the capitol. so a little bit unusual because those technically, president trump would be in the chain of command and the white house is pushing back on that saying that the president authorized the troops. but i'm told it was mike pence, the vice president, who was on those goals with the pentagon to. >> bret: that is a big development. do we -- we will press the white house for answers on that about president trump's role. do they have a sense how long they will be deployed here or what this deployment looks like? >> it is an open-ended deployment at this point in time. what is significant and this is true as of monday when the acting defensive secretary agreed to mobilize the national guard, and that was that these would be unarmed troops that would be used. they would not be wearing camo, black jackets. they would be used basically for traffic patrol and for helping with moving crowds, but they were not going to be used as law enforcement. that was at mayor bowser's request and the pentagon. tha

new warnings tonight after the assault on the u.s. capitol the manhunt for these men, as the f.b.i. asks the public for information. why there's concern some of them are still in town, and the new intelligence that some may be planning new attacks. plus, the new fencing around the nation's capitol, less than two weeks before joe biden's inauguration. >> they were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. >> o'donnell: removing the president from office. the calls tonight from the top two democrats in congress telling vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment or they may impeach president trump. the double standard-- tonight, why the former first lady is posing the question, what if these rioters look different? as president-elect biden points out, "black lives matter" protestors were met with extreme force this summer. and finally, the standard- bearers of democracy. the heroes who were a bright spot on a dark day in american history. this is a special edition of the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting

which turned into the murderous capitol siege. congresswoman mikie sherrill is going to be joining us live in just a moment. as we start to realize that the next phase of this may be trying to root out and potentially expel, potentially prosecute members of congress who were part of the insurrection effort. it's just an astonishing place to be. but for now the focus remains on the president who's now twice impeached. we has a week left in office. he's now making these public statements trying to unlight the match that he used to set that fire last week in the hopes that that's the sort of tape that will play when we think about him in this incident, instead of what actually happened that day and the days leading up to it from him. one of the ten republican members of congress who voted to impeach the president today, congresswoman jamie herrera butler, in her statement about why she was going to vote to impeach as a republican, she actually did something i think very helpful today. she put the spotlight back on something that i thi

they cleared the western side of the capitol pushing the protesters away from capitol building that was invaded earlier today, erin? >> alex, thank you very much. many reporters in other places in the world, amazing to see the images here. sort of just dumb founding. manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, amidst this, they're now reporting saying they're going to resume that joint session, not putting it off until tomorrow, they're coming back which is important. 8:00 p.m. eastern time. so as this started, right, you had langford objecting and mitch mcconnell broke in, we're going in recess now, that's it. but a lot just happened. so what's going to happen tonight? are they going to continue with the same planned objections or could something dramatically change? >> reporter: that's the big question right now is how long the proceedings will go, erin. there's a lot of pressure on the republican objectors to essentially drop the objections, move forward. remember how this actually has to play out. if one house republican objects, one senate republican objects, each chamber will recess up to

>> we're in the capitol! >> many are now wanted by the fbi. >> i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building. >> as american patriots, we have to do what we can to take back this country. >> we're going to walk down, and i'll be there with you. >> what are you going to do? >> whatever we have to do! what do you think 1776 was? >> on january 6th, thousands of trump supporters came to washington, d.c. from all over the country, believing the president's false claims about election fraud. but some of this crowd would soon become a mob, launching an attack on the u.s. capitol. >> they're absolutely domestic terrorists, it is very clear that these are groups that engage in violent criminal acts for a political purpose. it is that combination of violent crime and political ideology or social ideology or a racial ideology that turns this activity into domestic terrorism. >> who planned the assault and how were they able to incite hundreds of people to willfully break the law? no one lea

of the capitol. our colleague ted barrett has been told by police officers on the senate side that it has been cleared of rioters, of protesters, of demonstrators. there's debris on the senate floor because that was breached by protesters, but there's no more protesters, demonstrators, rioters, they're not on the senate floor, they're not in the senate wing of the capitol. these demonstrators have been pushed to the rotunda of the capitol area. the rotunda is the dome in between the house and the senate. there are many protesters that are there. at the moment police are escorting out these rioters outside of the capitol, on the east and west front steps of the capitol. they've been escorted out one by one on that side. it's uncertain what's happening on the house side of the capitol. what we do know is that the house members have been evacuv e evacuat evacuated. they've been told to go in their offices. they're not leaving their offices, similar on the senate side, but we do know there is a house stan

tipped off the capitol police that there could be threats. we have those quotes are the fbi's washington field office, the lead of that, and he says there was no indication that there was anything planned other than first amendment-protected activity. d.c. police chief says there was no intelligence that suggested there would be a breach of the u.s. capitol. where is the disconnect there? or are they just trying to evade the question? >> no. i think -- well, i think when we are seeing now is a clarification occurring because i share your concern about a disconnect. so part of it sts use of the technical definition of intelligen intelligence, which is actionable information, news you could use is the common vernacular -- news you could use legally. when we hear the field spokesperson saying we didn't see plans for organized breach and insurrection, what i think he's -- and i -- i haven't talked to him but i understand there is a distinct intelligence community definition of intelligence, right? what he seems to be saying and the fbi seems to b

guardsmen coming in to secure the united states capitol. it is so far. i'm sorry quicker action air force. with armored vehicles. to mean that i'm on the air right now but. just to have a look at the scene the united states capitol how they got in the building is beyond me so far from this side it looks like the doors are holding but we've seen police in riot gear pull up and now we're seeing the united states national guard coming into the capitol to try and secure. the united states capitol again this is a remarkable unprecedented scene it's tense but there's also a feeling of solidarity among these protesters that i haven't seen any confrontations as yet but again take a look at what you're seeing here this is people penetrating the united states capitol thousands of people descended here the u.s. national guard quick reaction force at. i think patty can you hear me. i think we've lost the audio to apache call hinges there outside the capitol hill. and just coming in the capitol police say that individuals have breached the capitol buildi

the u.s. capitol yesterday. the mayor ordered an overnight curfew and public emergency which has been extended. she was joined by the acting dz police chief and other officials at this news briefing. >> good morning. i am the mayor of washington, d.c.. update,e to provide an to provide the public with the district's posturing update on the act of terrorism and sedition that unfolded in the nation's capital yesterday. i'm joined by members of my team including chief of police and the director of homeland security chris rodriguez. we are also joined by the secretary of the army, secretary ryan mccarthy, who will be available to answer your questions as well. i want to begin by thanking dz residence for heating our call during the last two days. you did your part to keep our city safe. affront, notas an only to our democracy but also to our values. the values that make the district of columbia a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive city. i also want to thank the men and women of the metropolitan police depa