Today, I was hoping to bring you a very different show than the one you're about to hear.

With runoff victories in Georgia, meaning Democrats are set to take back the Senate,

I spent yesterday morning interviewing Cliff Albright, an activist who helped turn out

a record-breaking number of Georgia voters.

It was a great conversation, warm, bright, and then all hell broke loose.

Slate had a couple of reporters covering events in Washington on the ground.

One was embedded with the rioters who breached the Capitol, and the other was inside the Chamber

itself with the lawmakers.

So we're going to tell the story of what happened from each of their perspectives, and we're

going to start with Aiman Ismail.

I got there early, I got to the ellipse park just south of the White House.

Aiman was in DC to cover what started out as protests.

He is like your hip photographer friend.

He's undaunted, casual, and it makes it easier for him to sidle up to all kinds of people

and ask them questions.

I would say that the mood was, people were happy.

They felt like everyone had on their cool Trump swag, and they were showing it off.

You ever go to Comic Con?

It really felt like Comic Con.

People had fake Trump faces, cutouts.

People had their favorite slogans, all on their favorite t-shirts.

I would say 95% of everyone who was there was white.

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