U.S. Capitol secured, woman dead after rioters storm the halls of Congress to try and block Biden’s win

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Lawmakers reconvened on Capitol Hill to count electoral college votes after supporters of Pres. Trump stormed the halls of the Capitol, engulfing it in chaos. One woman died after being shot in the chest on Capitol grounds. Multiple officers were injured and at least one had to be taken the hospital. Former Pres. Barack Obama reacted to the violence saying “history will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we'd be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise.” Airdate: January 6, 2021 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:02.2	If you are just joining us, the capital, the longest standing democracy on earth is
0:05.8	reeling right now, the entire city under curfew.
0:09.2	The National Guard out in force, at least three pipe bombs or suspected pipe bombs, found
0:13.3	and dealt with today.
0:14.9	One woman has been shot and killed in the capital.
0:17.6	It is important to, impossible to overstate the significance of this moment.
0:22.5	For the first time in generations, the capital building was invaded, invaded and overrun
0:27.3	by a violent mob.
0:29.4	All makers in the middle of carrying out their constitutional obligation of certifying
0:33.2	the outcome of a free and fair presidential election were first put under siege, siege,
0:39.7	terrorized, forced to take cover behind furniture and under their desks and then driven out
0:44.5	of the chamber.
0:45.8	And compounding the obscenity, these insurrectionists took their marching orders from and wore
0:50.7	the colors of a very small man once considered the leader of the free world.
0:55.9	A man who has shown himself to be a coward, who has whipped them into a frenzy with lies
1:00.8	about the election ever since he lost more than a month ago.
1:05.4	Then after feeding them false hope, day after day, making money off of them, about overturning
1:11.5	it, about overturning the election, that's how he was making his money claims about if
1:16.2	they funded him, he would help, they would help him overturn the election, he repeated
1:22.3	all of it this afternoon and then hit the go button.
1:27.4	We're going to walk down and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going
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