Trump's Last Stand Part V: Where It Ends

How It Happened

Axios

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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National political correspondent Jonathan Swan tracks the unfolding of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, revealing what happened in the Senate and at the White House — and what it means. Swan brings listeners into the secure room where senators sheltered in place, heard remarks from both President Trump and President-Elect Biden, and deliberated how to resume the vote certification process. Swan also reports on the reaction inside the Trump administration, where officials were rapidly resigning, and the ones who remained were strenuously pressuring the President to discourage and disavow the mob of his supporters. Note: This episode contains some explicit language. Credits: This show is produced by Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin and Alice Wilder. Dan Bobkoff is the executive producer. Additional reporting and fact checking by Zach Basu. Margaret Talev is managing editor of politics. Sara Kehaulani Goo is Axios’s executive editor. Sound design by Alex Sugiura and theme music by Michael Hanf. For more on this series and our sourcing, click here.

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0:00.0	Something I said at the beginning of this story bears repeating.
0:04.4	You can draw a straight line from Donald Trump's speech on election night
0:10.2	to the events of January 6th. And now we're at the end of that line.
0:14.8	We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen.
0:22.4	Not going to let it happen. It's just after noon and President Trump is riling up his supporters.
0:31.8	Now the vice president Mike Pence is in the car on the way to the Capitol.
0:37.2	Trump finishes his speech. It's just after 1pm. We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
0:45.9	He doesn't. Trump heads back to the White House instead. But his supporters follow his direction.
0:52.7	They march to the Capitol.
0:57.7	Inside the Capitol.
0:59.2	Madam Speaker, the vice president and the United States Senate. Pence is already presiding.
1:07.6	Presumed the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
1:11.5	The Senate and House of Representatives are meeting in joint session.
1:14.8	Trump is sequested in his private dining room, looking across to the giant flat screen TV he's
1:20.4	installed on the other side of the room. He's watching his supporters get closer to the doors of
1:26.3	the Capitol building. And at first, at least, he likes what he sees. Then shortly after 2pm,
1:37.7	the riot has break into the Capitol.
1:45.2	They smash the windows.
1:46.5	January 6th is the day where all of these insidious trends that were been watching and
1:58.0	covering for the past four years coerless and became flesh and blood, conspiracy theorizing,
2:05.8	online disinformation, a president using irresponsible inflammatory rhetoric.
2:13.1	And his supporters taking that rhetoric seriously. January 6th forced
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