Elle Reeve recounts the Capitol riot and her interviews with Trump supporters who were radicalized on the internet

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

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CNN correspondent Elle Reeve tells Brian Stelter what she witnessed in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 6, from the Save America March near the White House to the riot at the Capitol. She examines the process of MAGA media radicalization that led up to the insurrection and the links to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017. Reeve explains how her team members were able to move nimbly through the mob and says the people were not all "Internet basement dwellers." She says "I don't think, as a culture, we've grappled with the way social media is a brainwashing machine."

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0:00.0	When the United States Capitol was attacked on Wednesday, reporters were America's eyes and ears.
0:08.0	The cameras inside the House and Senate chambers were turned off by those two legislative bodies.
0:16.0	We didn't have live pictures from inside the Capitol, but we did have views from the outside, and reporters who were in the crowd were telling us
0:26.2	about the rioting as it was happening.
0:29.8	Those testimonials, those photos, those videos, are critical so that we understand what happened and so that we never forget.
0:39.0	So here on this week's podcast, normally I would say let's cue the music but doesn't seem right this week.
0:47.0	I think we should just get right to our conversation with Ellie Reeve.
0:52.0	She is a correspondent for CNN who is one of the leading
0:56.2	reporters in the country covering the far right. She has been on this beat for
1:01.9	years and she was in Washington on Wednesday. She has been on this beat for years.
1:03.0	And she was in Washington on Wednesday interviewing protesters at that Save America March,
1:10.0	some of whom then became rioters who attacked the capital.
1:15.0	So I asked Ali to sit down with me and talk in depth about what she saw,
1:20.0	about how the entire day unfolded.
1:22.9	This episode is a little bit longer than usual,
1:25.4	but I think you'll find it's worth it.
1:28.2	Her observations, her reflections on what happened
1:32.4	are really important to hear.
1:35.4	So let's get to it.
1:36.4	Ellie, thank you so much for coming on with me.
1:38.6	How are you doing?
1:39.6	I'm doing pretty good all things considered.
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