[music] it is a momentous day in washington, and all eyes are on the nation's capital as lawmakers from the house and senate are set to meet to put the stamp of approval of congress on the presidential election results. we had never had a transition that wasn't peaceful, but in 2020, donald trump decided that he was bigger than it all. all these people, tens of thousands potentially. already here this early in the morning. [chris] we knew there was gonna be a rally by a lot of the maga crowd who had been fueled by donald trump continuing to say that the election had been stolen. but i never thought it was gonna be anything more than a rally and a lot of unhappy people. this is up there with some of the most charged events that the president has ever held. i hope mike is gonna do the right thing. i hope so. i hope so. because if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. trump and his lawyers had cooked up the theory that the vice president, as president of the senate,