The Capitol, Mobbed

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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With the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week, at the same time that Congress was set to certify the presidential election results, 2021 is off to a rocky start. Sam checks in with NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis and NPR White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe on the Capitol breach and the week in politics.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:03.8	This week on the show, what's next for American Democracy?
0:08.8	Hey y'all, from NPR, you are listening to It's Been a Minute.
0:14.6	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:16.3	So what a week.
0:18.7	You've seen it.
0:19.7	We all saw it.
0:20.7	On Wednesday, Congress was set to certify the November election results and make President
0:25.6	elect Joe Biden's victory official.
0:28.8	At a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and for hours they interrupted the vote tally.
0:34.4	It began earlier in the day.
0:36.4	There was a rally on the other side of the mall and President Trump seemed to instigate
0:41.4	the siege.
0:42.9	All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical
0:48.8	left Democrats, which is what they're doing and stolen by the fake news media.
0:54.2	That's what they've done and what they're doing.
0:56.7	We will never give up.
0:58.0	We will never concede.
0:59.0	It doesn't happen.
1:00.0	You don't concede with this theft involved.
1:04.2	And later, bedlock.
1:13.1	The Capitol vandalized.
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