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dot com and secure your seats today hello and welcome to the rest is politics u., and this special series on January the 6th, 2021 and the riots at the U.S. Capitol.

This is the third episode. I'm Katty Kay.

And I'm Anthony Scaramucci. Katty. Where were we, Katty? You had a cliffhanger moment in episode two. So where are we going?

Well, we left you last week with Trump having just spent the last few months. He was trying to

stay in power. It was all about stop the steel, trying to prevent Joe Biden's victory.

He's had all of these court cases that he's brought unsuccessfully. He's tried to lean on his political

opponents, people like Brad Raffensberger in Georgia, who we spoke about, to fiddle with the results.

And now he's got to January the 6th. And he sees January the 6th as his last stand. He's trying to

stop Congress from certifying the electoral college results.

And going into this day, it was pretty clear that Republicans in both the houses of Congress

would challenge the results in Congress and try to stop the certification process,

and the Democrats have been busily preparing their rebuttals against those challenges.

So in today's episode, we are going to look at the events of January the 6th itself.

The TikTok, what happened hour by hour as Donald Trump's supporters came from all over America.

They came from Arizona, Georgia, Ohio. I mean, really from all over

the country. And they stormed the Capitol building trying to undermine the very foundations of

American democracy. The erosion and support for President Trump comes as COVID-19 cases have been

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