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An armed pro-Trump mob is storming the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, clashing with police and forcing a delay in the constitutional process to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Watch KTLA 5 News' coverage of the breaking news, here.
NBC's Monica Alba reports it's unlikely President Trump will address the public after a mob took over the U.S. Capitol building today.
President-elect Joe Biden condemned the protests at the U.S. Capitol as "chaos" and "sedition."
WARNING: This event is streaming live and may contain adult language and footage not suitable for all viewers. Viewer discretion is advised. Pro-Trump protesters stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a march decrying the vote in the Electoral College and oppose Congress' certification of the Republican president's Nov. 3 election loss to president-elect Joe Biden.Now police have responded to remove the angry mob. The protests interrupted Congress as Republican lawmakers mounted their first official challenge to the certification of Biden’s presidential election win, objecting to state results from Arizona as they took up Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the election results in an extraordinary joint session of Congress.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Trinity Christian has suspended one of its varsity assistant football coaches after a racially charged social media post suggested violence against white people during Wednesday’s mob scene on Capitol Hill.A coach at the school made a post on Instagram that said: “I’m ready to see some white bodies drop… start shooting them and taking lives. If it was us we’d be slaughtered by now. They need to start letting rounds go on them boys!”
CBS News has learned of a threat to attack the U.S. Capitol on the same day Congress is set to count Electoral College votes. The threat cited Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by the U.S. last year.
Calling for Trump's fast and legal removal from office, an incredulous Chris Hayes reacts to the quick return of normal tones in the House and Senate on a day when Capitol Hill saw deadly violence from a mob egged on by Trump himself.
Award-winning journalist and author Dan Rather breaks down the attempted coup that President Trump incited at the United States Capitol Building.
Unbelievable failure of federal law enforcement....
I chatted with President Donald Trump’s niece Mary, the author of “Too Much and Never Enough,” on her uncle’s behavior today. “Donald is feeling on the one hand emboldened they got away with it,” Mary said. “On the other hand he’s locked out of Twitter, he’s probably more desperate than he’s ever been in his life. Short of the congress stepping in impeaching and removing him the next two weeks are going to be the most dangerous in our countries history and after today that’s really saying something.”
"Smeleie," a male voice yells twice, which in the English equivalent would be something like "Come on!", "Do it!" or "Don't be scared.""Davai bystreie," the voice also yells, which stands for "Do it faster," Segodnia reports.
A real-time account of the hours when rioters breached the Capitol and brought the government to a halt.
CNN's Brianna Keilar says that Republican lawmakers who support President Trump have fueled the language and conspiracy theories that led to the riots at the US Capitol.
‘Senator Josh Hawley has blood on his hands,' The Kansas City Star wrote in a scathing editorial slamming the Missouri Republican for ‘inspiring one of the most heartbreaking days in modern American history.’
"I believe they have blood on their hands. And no one should forget that," says Rep. Ilhan Omar of the Republicans who enabled Trump's anti-democratic fallacies.
Federal prosecutors have begun filing charges in connection the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Captiol on Wednesday.
Is it even worth living in a world where holding criminals accountable is not a socially-acceptable Democrat party platform, but willingness to commit a coup is completely sensible enough to be an "electable" Republican party platform???
Late Thursday sources told CNN that Trump's mental state was deteriorating and he was 'ranting' and 'raving' as he watched the 25th Amendment being discussed on television - with Pelosi and Schumer's demand being played repeatedly. But if they had hopes that Pence might join in a speedy potential effort to seize the reins of power from a volatile Trump in his final days in office, the reception they got may provide an answer.'Speaker Pelosi and I tried to call the vice president this morning to tell him to do this,' Schumer told reporters in New York Thursday. 'They kept us on hold for 25 minutes and then said the Vice President wouldn't come on the phone.'
In total, 8 Senators and 139 Representatives voted in favor of the doomed coup, even after the violent insurrection. There are 262 Republicans in Congress, which means 56% of Republican members of Congress decided to go forever on the record as committing sedition by supporting a futile coup attempt. Repeat this over and over again: a majority of Republicans supported this. These are the people who are going to be making our laws for the next 2+ years.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) says she warned President Trump, Vice President Pence and others months ago against potential violence and “nobody did a darn thing.”
A Marine confronted a Trump supporter who had returned from Washington, DC after taking part in the protests that turned into a mob attack on the Capitol.
CNN's Van Jones condemns President Trump and his supporters over breaching of the US Capitol during a joint session of Congress.
World leaders and top diplomats have issued strong condemnations of rioters who stormed the US Capitol building in Washington, some pressing President Donald Trump to call off the violence. CNN's Clarissa Ward has the latest.