On the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States,

the District of Columbia does not appear to be experiencing the peaceful transfer of power.

On the contrary, Washington, D.C. looks like Baghdad's green zone.

Tens of thousands of troops, razor fences, and the public are barred from getting anywhere close to the inauguration.

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded

impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity.

Yeah. imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker.

It's January 19th, 2021.

This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.

I'm Nicole Roussel, here with S3 Averam, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker.

As the crowd grows, the mob fills the halls of the Capitol and police struggle to gain control. The rioters splinter off into different factions throughout the building.

The House is still in session.

Senators wait in the chamber.

Well, I kept thinking how the day before I had driven my husband to the airport to come back to Minnesota

and he said, now be careful, I'm worried about you. You know, there's all this talk about what could happen. And I said, don't worry.

The United States Capitol has got to be one of the safest places in the country.

That was Tina Smith, Senator Tina Smith, the senator from Minnesota, talking about her conversation with her husband the day before the Congress

was seized, she's telling him, don't worry, this is the safest place in the country, maybe the

safest place in the world, the most secure. Her husband had heard something. He heard,

well, there might be real trouble in the

Capitol. And yet, of course, the Capitol was not fortified in spite of the fact that her husband

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