Four hours of insurrection

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today, we reconstruct the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong.

The four-hour insurrection: How a mob of Trump supporters tried to disrupt American democracy.

Reporters Rebecca Tan, Marissa J. Lang, Rhonda Colvin, and photojournalist Bill O’Leary were all witnesses to the violence on Jan. 6. They share their harrowing accounts of what it was like, inside and outside of the Capitol.

Reporter Peter Hermann explains how battered D.C. police made a stand against the Capitol mob.

And reporter Carol D. Leonnig chronicles the experience of outgoing Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who told her that House and Senate security officials hamstrung his efforts to call in the National Guard.

Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:07.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:09.8	It's Friday, January 15.
0:16.3	We have all seen what happened at the Capitol on January 6th.
0:21.0	Shocking videos, photos, snapshots of a chaotic day.
0:26.2	But there are still so many questions.
0:28.6	Like, why weren't there more police?
0:30.8	What were they doing in these videos we saw?
0:33.4	Why did more people expect this violence?
0:36.3	And what was happening behind the scenes?
0:39.1	Today, we try to answer those questions.
0:42.2	We're telling the story of the Capitol invasion from the outside and inside.
0:46.9	And we're bringing invoices from people who were there, people who have been working
0:50.8	to better understand what happened, and people who you may not have heard from yet.
0:56.5	This episode contains explicit language as well as the sounds and descriptions of violence.
1:03.0	And the story of the day, of course, starts with the president.
1:11.8	Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd.
1:15.5	Even when I turned on today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here.
1:21.0	And Wednesday, January 6th, the place where President Trump is speaking is known as the ellipse.
1:27.0	It's this grassy area, except the White House.
1:29.8	And the crowd, at this point, is huge, even by Trump rally standards.
1:33.8	8,000 people here to listen to the president's baseless claims about the election.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Washington Post, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Washington Post and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.