so rare to see anything like this. a protest in china, especially protest directed at xi, who is about to secure an unprecedented third time in power. ac 360 starts now. good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images what happened outside the capitol on january 6th of the capitol being breached, people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic. but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors where the people in power were making decisions. and that is what you re about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker nancy pelosi and others were supposed to flee the capitol from their
it s another chapter in the january 6th horror. carl, it s extraordinary to me to see speaker pelosi, chuck schumer, steny hoyer there talking to the acting secretary of defense saying pretend this is the pentagon, pretend this is the white house. stop giving us the runaround essentially and get people there. they need people on the ground. and nobody is calling it s not as if donald trump is involved in any of this. this is being led i mean, nancy pelosi is in charge in this one. chuck schumer is charge, steny hoyer, some of these others. they know that they have to save american democracy. it s really moving. you see the leaders of the democratic party, the republican party, and the vice president of the united states knowing that they have a deadline to finish this job, and you hear pelosi say, and you hear the others say if we can t get this job done by
stay with us. the day s top lines are coming up. they were talking to him and he was singing like a canary. yeah, he was singing like a canary, see? he was squealing like a pig, dropping a dime like a dirty rat. we had this guy dead to right, about to send him up the river to the big house, the pen, the slammer, the joint, the gray bar hotel. it was all it was all eggs and coffee until the chief got all hinky and gave us the double cross, the runaround, the high hat. that s what s eating me, see? i aught to fix his wagon. give him a pair of jack johnsons right in the how s your old man? [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance. with a deadline. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go.