Insurrection in Washington following Trump encouragement; Biden speaking about U.S. Capitol mob violence; CNN projects Ossoff wins, Democrats gain control of Senate; Trump tells rioters to go home while repeating election lies
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Phil Mattingley is up on Capitol Hill right now. You're getting more very disturbing information. |
| 0:05.1 | What are you learning? |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah, Wolf, I was talking with a couple sources aligned with the Capitol Police. |
| 0:09.7 | We're trying to kind of walk me through what's occurred over the course in the last hour and a half. |
| 0:13.5 | And at the words of one, they were quote, simply overwhelmed. |
| 0:16.3 | They did not expect the outline barriers, the ones that are about 100 yards away from the capital |
| 0:21.2 | building would be breached. |
| 0:22.6 | Once those were briefed, they were stunned that the protesters, in the words of this |
| 0:26.5 | individual, that the protesters actually walked up the steps on both the House side, |
| 0:30.8 | on the Senate side, and the center steps and then we're willing to break through |
| 0:35.1 | the windows now what's been going on inside the Capitol is a couple of things the |
| 0:39.4 | first priority for Capitol Police and for law enforcement inside with secure leadership |
| 0:45.0 | make sure they are in a safe place. I'm told they are in a safe place, the leadership |
| 0:48.9 | as well as the Senate Pro Tem, Chuck Grassley. I'm also told that based on everything that I've been talking to up to this point |
| 0:55.8 | all lawmakers are safe as well they are in an undisclosed location we are |
| 0:59.9 | going to spit that way for the time being. Now the process is what's been I think most |
| 1:05.2 | unusual as the Capitol Police tried to get their arms around this is how to |
| 1:08.6 | actually get the protesters out of the Capitol building right now. They have been moving kind of starting with |
| 1:14.7 | the floor, the House floor in the Senate floor and trying to push the protesters |
| 1:18.5 | into a single place. I'm not going to call protesters, pushes the riders, the trespassers, |
| 1:23.7 | into a single place where they can then escort them out of the capital. |
| 1:27.1 | Slowly, but surely, I'm told, they are making progress. |
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