Four Hours of Insurrection
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As we reflect on the anniversary of Jan. 6, we wanted to share an episode from last year. We reconstructed the riot inside the U.S. Capitol — hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Clee Wutzen. I've been guest hosting post reports this week as we've been |
| 0:04.8 | reflecting on the January 6th anniversary. We wanted to share this episode of post reports |
| 0:10.0 | that published last year, less than two weeks after that day. It's a really powerful episode |
| 0:16.5 | and a reminder of what that day was like, how traumatic it was for so many people and for our |
| 0:22.0 | institutions. Okay, Martina's gonna take it from here. We have all seen what happened at the |
| 0:29.7 | Capitol on January 6th. Shocking videos, photos, snapshots of a chaotic day. But there are still |
| 0:38.4 | so many questions like, why weren't there more police? What were they doing in these videos we saw? |
| 0:44.5 | Why did more people expect this violence? And what was happening behind the scenes? |
| 0:50.4 | Today, we try to answer those questions. We're telling the story of the Capitol invasion |
| 0:55.8 | from the outside and inside. And we're bringing invoices from people who were there, |
| 1:00.9 | people who have been working to better understand what happened, and people who you may not have heard |
| 1:06.3 | from yet. Just warning, this episode contains explicit language as well as the sounds and descriptions |
| 1:12.4 | of violence. And the story of the day, of course, starts with the president. |
| 1:17.3 | Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even when I turned on today, I looked and I saw |
| 1:30.4 | thousands of people here. Noon Wednesday, January 6th. The place where President Trump is speaking |
| 1:36.0 | is known as the ellipse. It's this grassy area except the White House. And the crowd, at this |
| 1:41.9 | point, is huge, even by Trump rally standards. 8,000 people here to listen to the president's |
| 1:48.0 | baseless claims about the election. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory |
| 1:54.0 | stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which is what they're doing. And stolen by the fake |
| 2:00.3 | news media, that's what they've done and what they're doing. We will never give up. We will never |
| 2:06.1 | concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when this theft is wrong. |
| 2:13.7 | A little less than two miles away, straight down the national mall, Rebecca Tan is one of many |
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