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Has been shot, glasses being broken, lawmakers are in lockdown wearing gas masks, and looking at these pictures, where is law enforcement? capitol police struggling to control this, and you dont hear the president saying, we are sending reinforcement. you dont see him saying, we are sending help to protect this federal building, to protect the lawmakers who are inside of it and the people who work there and the people of this city. that is incredibly shameful. >> youre exactly right. what were l...

D.c. calling in the guard, increased police presence there. whats happening on the ground? >> reporter: a heavy police presence particularly getting closer to areas near the white house. we are at the capitol. a lot of capitol police officers are here. arrived dozens extra coming out of that white van just within the last hour or so. we keep walking this way, show you more of what were seeing here. sorry to walk by you, folks. thanks. we do know that the d.c. police, they have asked the national...

Successor. when they reconvene and they start recertifying those votes again tonight are hawley and cruz going to go ahead with this and keep -- keep stoking this grievance that this election somehow wasnt right and donald trump should still be in office and these people are on the right side of this? i mean, thats the first thing theyre going to have to decide. i dont have any faith that they will decide to stand down. >> i mean, let me just add to that hawley and cruz dont have any principles ...

Background, and there are thousands of people who are supporters of the president here on the ellipse. its a lot like a rally, but the mood is different. in part influenced by whats happened in georgia, and, of course, the week since the november election and the grinding the president has done about the status of this election. so the spirit here among the speakers and the crowd has been all about fighting. all about taking the names of the republicans who do not vote or stand up or object in t...

That but you cant upload a video here. you cant send a photo here. essentially, any form of communication is absent here on the united states capitol grounds right now. >> vaughn hillyard, do you feel safe? >> reporter: i feel good. weve got our own private security here. were standing back. paul rigny is our great photographer. todd, we -- we are good out here on these capitol grounds right now, nicole. thank you for asking. >> vaughn, please come back with everything and anything youve got the...

Of things north to the senate side. and you know, if i were a betting man, i would say thats probably where this started, just because the office buildings tend to have more entrances and fewer police stationed around them at any given time. i think that will probably be part of what i suspect will be a pretty comprehensive review of this whole day thats going to have to be conducted at some point by capitol police. >> and indeed, garrett, while youre talking, we see members of the metropolitan ...

Rooms in the capitol that are essentially designated as contingency areas where the senate and house can conduct their business. if the capitol should be deemed unsafe. there are rooms in these various office buildings where they can do their work but they needed these physical documents,the form of the electoral college votes, i guess the affidavits from the states, as well as, by the way, the objections, which we may still hear from members when this process resumes, have to be submitted in wr...

Lighters for this. theres still a picture of josh hawley whether he likes it or not is going to come to symbolize his role in this prior to the violent riots starting he is pictured raising his fist outside the u.s. capitol. this is the senator from missouri, the republican senator from missouri who was the first one really to lend credence to this movement. so what do you think their responsibility is because the senate big on symbolism now wants to be seen as bravely going on about its busines...

And you have to think about things like that. i have an 11-year-old son who i want to be around to raise, and people who are, you know, breaking down barriers and bursting into the capitol and that are armed make it really hard to do that. >> i remember on 9/11 calling my dad to say good-bye. that was the only time i ever felt like my life was in danger because i worked in government. can you tell us why you knew last night that you needed to tell your husband where your will was? >> you know, i...

It says to thee eto the rest ofd about our democracy and i do not understand why. for a minute, just for a second close your eyes and imagine if all of those people who are breaking windows and who were streaming through unauthorized doors and who were putting off fire extinguishes in the senate, if they were all black. just imagine for a minute the police response. i know they were trying to keep people from getting killed and they were out numbered but there will be a lot of hearings over how ...