rioters storm the Capitol building to try to stop the electoral college vote count for Joe Biden.

The left blames all Republicans for the insurrection and Twitter suspends Trump.

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was, no, bar none, not one of the, the most horrifying thing that I have seen in American

politics in my lifetime. It was absolutely horrific on every possible level. And we're going to

go through today, the entire string of events. We're going to go through the reaction to the

events, which also

has been quite terrible. So I guess the synopsis of today's show is that everything is terrible.

That's the synopsis. But what we saw yesterday is inexcusable, unjustifiable, awful on every level,

disgusting on every level, just terrible, terrible. When you have rioters taking over the U.S. Capitol building, the seat of American democracy, and when you have those rioters saying that they are doing so in the name of the president of the United States, and when you have them doing that to the legislative branch of the government, and when you have those people, they are rioters, they are not protesters, okay? As soon as you commit an act of vandalism or violence, you are no longer in the category of protester, you are now a rioter.

And unlike some folks who have justified riots based on the perspective of the rioters, if you're a criminal, you're a criminal and you should go to jail. You should go to jail.

And this was an attempted act of insurrection.

I mean, technically speaking, that's what it was,

considering that the reason that this happened is because Congress was simply there doing

with their constitutional duty and tabulating the state certified electoral count.

That's all they were doing. They do not have the power. Congress does not have the power,

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