It happened one year ago ... Here’s how the January 6 assault on the Capitol unfolded.
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00:00This is America, you can do whatever the f**k you want.
00:09So go home, we love you, you're very special.
00:30We're here to make sure that our country still exists for a little while longer.
00:41This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.
00:46Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won
00:51it by a landslide.
01:00Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
01:15Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
01:25Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
01:50You can see that the rioter first broke the window with the wooden beam that you saw
01:53previously, and a lone police officer inside responds and begins to spray the first man
02:02who enters but is quickly overwhelmed.
02:04The second man through the window is wearing full tactical body armor and is carrying a
02:10baseball bat.
02:16And what seemed like a sea of people, capital police officers and metropolitan police officers,
02:23were engaged in desperate hand-to-hand fighting with rioters across the West Lawn.
02:28Protesters are in the building.
02:41As the rioters reached the top of the stairs, they were within 100 feet of where the vice
02:46president was sheltering with his family.
02:49And they were just a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber, where many of you
02:55remained at that time.
03:19Capital police just announced that there was a breach.
03:25Somebody or some people got into the building and passed security.
03:38Watch now how the mob searches for Speaker Pelosi's office, which is marked in red, and
03:44the House chamber itself.
04:03I want to play some audio we have of the Speaker's staff.
04:25As Pence was being evacuated, rioters started to spread throughout the Capitol.
04:33Those inside helped other rioters break in through doors in several locations around
04:39this entire building.
04:48As you were moving through that hallway, I paced it off.
04:53You were just 58 steps away from where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing
05:00to stop them.
05:12At 2.45 p.m., shortly after senators were ushered to safety from the Senate floor, insurrectionists
05:18reached this Senate gallery.
05:25We were just told that there has been tear gas in the rotunda, and we're being instructed
05:33to each of us get gas masks that are under our seats.
05:49Members of Congress, the press, and others wrote to Mark Meadows as the attack was underway.
05:55Quote, we are under siege here at the Capitol.
06:09I told him to just leave the Capitol, and in response they yelled, no, man, this is
06:14our house.
06:16President Trump invited us here.
06:19We're here to stop this tear gas.
06:21One woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled, you hear that, guys?
06:26This nigger voted for Joe Biden.
06:28Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in screaming, boom.
06:39No one had ever, ever called me a nigger while wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police
06:45officer.
07:05Each day, when members enter the Capitol, this temple of democracy, we will remember
07:09his sacrifice and then others that day who fought so hard to protect the Capitol and
07:17the Congress.
07:25The mob brought weapons to try to accomplish their insurrectionist objectives and use them
07:31against us.
07:34These weapons included hammers, rebars, knives, batons, and police shields taken by force,
07:41as well as bear spray and pepper spray.
07:46The rioters called me a traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I, I, an Army veteran and
07:57a police officer, should be executed.
08:02I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend
08:12the Constitution and demand an end to this siege.
08:20I know you're pained.
08:21I know you're hurt.
08:23We had an election that was stolen from us, but you have to go home now.
08:29We have to have peace.
08:31We have to have law and order.
08:54Today, a shameful assault was made on our democracy.
08:59It cannot, however, deter us from our responsibility to validate the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
09:17Votes for President of the United States are as follows.
09:21Joseph R. Biden Jr. of the state of Delaware has received 306 votes.
09:27Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 232 votes.