The assault on the Capitol: A timeline

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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.

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