Riot at the Capitol as Georgia votes blue: Politics Weekly Extra
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
4.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | This is Politics Weekly Extra. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Jonathan Friedland. |
| 0:14.0 | Our country has had enough. |
| 0:16.0 | We will not take it anymore, and that's what this is all about. Well, come on, this, |
| 0:24.0 | Shocked but not |
| 0:28.0 | shocked but not surprised. Shocked but not surprised. |
| 0:30.0 | We've been using that phrase over these last four years of the Trump presidency, but we've been |
| 0:36.5 | particularly using them and hearing them. In the hours since those extraordinary scenes on Capitol Hill in Washington. And shocking is obviously the right word as we saw the storming of the US capital with pro-Trump |
| 1:00.1 | extremists, some calling them insurgents or domestic terrorists, |
| 1:05.0 | breaking down the doors, |
| 1:07.0 | smashing the windows and bursting in, some of them armed, |
| 1:11.0 | into the United States Congress and it's cool it's opened up all kinds of issues about |
| 1:17.7 | policing but the main issue is about the man who incited those disturbances, the man who egged it on and who is still there |
| 1:27.7 | in office, Donald Trump. There's even now discussion about the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, talk also of a |
| 1:37.6 | speeded up accelerated impeachment and removal of Donald Trump even though he's only due to be in post for less |
| 1:46.1 | than two more weeks. The strange thing is we thought that the big political story of |
| 1:51.5 | this week was going to be the Senate runoff |
| 1:54.7 | contests in Georgia with control of the Senate up for grabs and we'll certainly be |
| 2:00.3 | talking about that just as we will be talking about the certification, the final |
| 2:05.2 | official seal on the election victory of Joe Biden and Carmelah Harris. |
| 2:11.0 | And we're certainly going to get to those. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Guardian, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Guardian and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.