Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. It is 11.15 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, January 6th.

I'm Scott Detreau. I cover the Biden transition.

And I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.

And Sue, as we are talking, the Senate is beginning to make its way back to the House of Representatives.

Both chambers have voted on Arizona's electoral college votes, which is what they were starting to do.

When, of course, mobs storm the Capitol, starting off, what was the vote?

Well, we always knew what the outcome of the vote was going to be. We've known from the beginning

that they did not have the votes to sustain any of these objections. And that played out tonight,

just six Republican senators in the Senate voted in favor of the objection and 121 Republicans in

the House voted in favor of the objection. Otherwise, overwhelmingly rejected by a bigger bipartisan

margin. And they proceed now through the roll call of the states. We do know that there will be at

least one more objection. Missouri Senator Josh Holly set on the floor earlier this evening

that he did still intend to object to the state of Pennsylvania, but he would not speak. He would

yield his time on the issue. But it will again force the chambers to go back into competing session.

And it still is, could be several hours before we have the final conclusion, which is affirming

the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is our third podcast of the day. Democrats

won control of the US Senate by sweeping Georgia special elections. We did a podcast on that this

morning. A mob of extremists stormed and occupied the US Capitol. And we did a second episode on

that earlier this evening. Now we are going to take a few moments to walk through this actual

certification of the vote. As we mentioned in a show of defiance saying that this mob will not

stop Congress from doing its job, both the House and the Senate returned to their chambers this

evening. The Senate will come to order. They were there to finish the task of certifying Joe Biden's

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