![]() ![]() Because from my individual perspective, the Capitol Police did a good job of getting the Senators and getting reporters out of there, and safely ushering us to a secondary location. I just showed my badge and went through the X-ray machine and things seemed pretty normal.Īs for once the crisis really started, it's very hard for me to say. But going into the Capitol, it was the same security process as ever. Even though I wasn't starting work until about 11:00, I got there at about 9:00 due to security concerns. Grace: Well, going into the Capitol in the morning, it seemed pretty normal to me. From your perspective and what you saw, both before all of this happened in terms of the preparation for security going in that day and then as you were being evacuated, what was your perspective on this? Which would have been very unfortunate as rioters broke into the chamber just moments after Senators had left.įortunately, a Senate gallery staff shouted down, "Hey, what about us?" Police officers just told us, "Okay, follow the Senators." They were literally steps away.Īmy: Grace, there's been a lot of criticism about how Capitol Police responded, and we've already seen at least one resignation. This is serious." There came a point where all of a sudden, Senators were being evacuated, and it seemed for a moment that they were going to leave the reporters in the Senate Chamber. Senator Amy Klobuchar put on kind of her best mom voice and shouted, "Shots have been fired. All Senators pretty much were on their phones, standing, looking extremely stressed, and there were police officers all around the doors. ![]() It was very clear that something was wrong. It's like the lip of a fish bowl, and the reporters are looking over this lip into the fishbowl where all the Senators are on the floor. The press gallery sort of overlooks the Senate Chamber floor. The next thing I knew, the doors were being locked behind us. because I needed to tell my editors that I was alive, and to also tell my loved ones that I was okay. Then the officer was telling all of us who were in the press gallery outside of the chamber, "You need to grab your stuff and you need to get inside the chamber, and we are going to lock you inside the chamber." Definitely, kind of illegally, took my phone and laptop into the chamber. My first thought was, "Oh, wow, I guess those protesters outside have gotten a bit more rowdy." Then the next thing I knew, there was a Capitol police officer at the door of the Senate Press Gallery saying, "Lock the door now," just shouting it through the room, and I realized, "Oh, my God, this is serious." ![]() I had actually come out of the chamber and was in the press gallery writing an email and then all of a sudden, I heard a Senate gallery staffer shout, "Pence has left." He had just been taken out of the room, and I assumed that it was for security purposes. What I usually do is I'm in there for about 30 minutes or so, and then I'll come out for 5 minutes to write an email to my editors, let everyone in the bureau know what's going on. You can't have electronics in the Senate Chamber. Then everything was just flipped upside down so suddenly. A day which would require a lot of concentration and very exactness in my reporting. Paul: I rise up, both for myself and 60 of my colleagues, to object to the. Mike Pence: To what purpose does the gentlemen from Arizona rise? Vice President, I, Paul Gosar from Arizona. I did expect it to be a bit of a weird day because of the inherently unusual thing of having dozens of Republicans challenge the election results in several states, which is pretty much unprecedented. I was in the Capitol on Wednesday, reporting mainly from the Senate Chamber.Īmy: What started as a historic day in the Capitol, where for only the third time in history Congress was debating whether to overturn the votes of thousands of Americans, ended with violence and tragedy. Grace Segers: Grace Segers, political reporter for CBS News. Amy Walter: It's Politics with Amy Walter on The Takeaway.Īn insurrection at the US Capitol Building on Wednesday has us taking stock of democracy in America this hour. ![]()
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