>> i think what makes it worse for these officers is the perception and probably truth that about a third of the country doesn't believe it ever even happened and doesn't believe that their service counts as something. that takes a massive emotional toll, and that's why i think it is important for history to show how brave these people were. >> i go to get on the airplane to fly back to michigan and there are a handful of members of congress on the plane. everybody else is from the rally. everybody else is from the mob, and they are celebrating and we are just sitting with our heads down, overhearing for the one-hour flight from washington to detroit this mob recounting
york emerged is a leading voice against slavery. they gave passionate speeches and essays admitting missouri as a slave state, and even offered an amendment to the missouri compromise that would have outlawed slavery, next to the mississippi. >> -- >> his pureness that he was a skilled politician. taylor became the anti slavery or candidate. still, it took 22 ballots before he was elected speaker that. year as political factions realigned to coalesce around him. but he faced greater oddly here, later when he ran to be reelected speaker of the 17th congress. after 12 ballots, he was ousted from the position and replaced by philipp barber, a slave owner from virginia. in the years leading up to the civil war, the fight for slavery would become even more of a central issue in the contest for the speakership of the house.
violently. and people were banging on the doors. "let us in, we're coming in." >> that is the most haunting sound i've ever heard. people trying to barrel their way into the main door of the u.s. house of representatives. everybody starts to rush over to put furniture up against the door, to secure the door. but then all of these officers start telling everybody to get back. and they have their guns drawn. >> stop the steal, stop the steal! stop the steal, stop the steal! >> a member of congress was with me, mark wayne mullin. and because of covid, there are these little hand sanitizers. and they were made out of wood, wooden bases. i'm watching him and he's breaking that hand sanitizer off the base. i said, "well, mark, what are you going to do with that?"
>> okay, we finally made it out. we're being evacuated. we were stuck on the gallery level when the -- when the protesters were storming into the -- into the chamber. a lot of other members already made it out, but now we're finally getting out. we're evacuating. >> then we get to the safe room. it's a very large room. and, you know, there's probably 100-plus members of congress in there. it's the first time we just take a -- many of us take a sigh of relief, you know, let our breath out. >> we're the last ones to get there. and it's chaos. nobody knows what we're doing, nobody knows how long we'll be
>> people are freaking out. they're scared. there's some young staffers that are starting to cry. >> the fear comes from not knowing what's going on. at this point, if you are watching this on television at home, you know far more than any member of congress. >> it's a scene of utter chaos inside the capitol building. once these protesters stormed the doors and got actually inside the capitol itself, reporters and lawmakers alike were barricading themselves in various rooms and offices and hide-aways, locking the doors. >> you start hearing a roar getting closer and closer to the door. it's clearly the -- the voices of a mob. >> that's where i kind of had an internal breaking point of, wow, i don't know what's on the other side now of those doors.
>> everybody down, get down! >> break it down, break it down! break it down, break it down! break it down, break it down! break it down, break it down! >> a republican member leans over and looks and says, "i can talk to these people, i'm one of them." and i look at him, "you're crazy, these are -- these people are -- they're out of their mind, they're attacking us, they don't care if you're a republican, if you're a conservative republican, they just care that you're a member of congress. we're inside and they're not." >> one young man is looking through the glass, and he said, "you're from texas, you should be with us!" and i says, "oh, no, sir." i said, "i cannot support what you're doing right now." i says, "we are here today, we are conducting business. this is a sacred place."
the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states. the purpose of the joint session having concluded pursuant to senate concurrent resolution 1, 117th congress, the chair declares the joint session dissolved. >> at the last gavel my heart was broken because so many republicans voted against the will of the people after they had seen death, destruction, harm done to people, an assault on the capitol, on our constitution and our congress, our democracy. >> but there's a relief that for the moment this is over and the election has been certified and the constitution worked and joe biden is going to be the president of the united states of the united states in two weeks. that felt good. that felt really good.
he opted to step down in the middle of his term shortly after congress negotiated the missouri compromise which resulted in the admissions of missouri as a slave state and maine as a non slave state. in the course of the debates for the missouri compromise, john w taylor, an abolitionist and a congressman chriesman from new york emerged as a leading voice against slavery. he gave passionate speeches, he wrote essays against admitting that missouri is a slave state, he even offered up the amendment to the missouri compromise that would have outlawed slavery anywhere west of the mississippi. taylor was on the loser end of that issue, his amendment was not adopted, but his peers recognized that he was a skilled politician. and when henry clay stepped down as speaker in 1820, taylor became the anti slavery groups favorite candidate to replace him. but it took 22 ballots before taylor was elected as speaker, as political factions realigned and coalesced around him. but he faced greater odds a year later when he ran to be reelected speaker of the 17th
frightened. you know, i'm just really shaking. >> take your pins off. >> pins off. >> some members recommend that we take our pins off. these are the pins that identify us as members of congress. i knew if they broke through the doors and came after us that we'd be very easily identified by the pin. so i took my pin off. and several others did. >> i call my wife. you know, that was -- that was the hardest moment of the whole thing. as soon as i hear her voice, and i go to speak with her, i can hardly speak. it's because it is occurring to me right now that i'm making that phone call. you know that phone call that everybody knows about. the phone call from the 80th
joining us now is california congressman eric swalwell we had about that and intelligence committees in the 117th congress. -- committee to silence in the 118th congress. but that could be four of. congressman, it's great to see you. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks, alex. >> first, the fact that the former president is still repeating defamatory lies about election workers, the fact that we have reporting out of, i believe it's new mexico, that the three homes of elected democratic officials in that state were hit by gunfire, the fact that kevin mccarthy is giving the keys to the house to a group of election deniers -- i mean, how concerned are you right now about the integrity of our democratic process? about free and fair elections going forward? >> well, alex, two years ago from today, the insurrectionists failed to take over the capital capitol but