The needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all the way but i remember everything what have i become my sweetest friend everyone i know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dearth i will let you down i will make you hurt good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, january 7th. The morning after one of the saddest, most chaotic days on capitol hill in history. Just hours ago, congress confirmed joe bidens election victory, but lets get everybody caught up on what made that normally mundane task such big news. Pro trump rioters, insurrectionists, incited by the president stormed the United States capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the certification of joe bidens win. Here was the president addressing his supporters just before the capitol was breached for the First Time Since the war of 1812. And were going to have to fight much harder and mike pence is going to have to come through for us and if he doesnt, that will be a sad day for our country. And after this, were going to walk down and ill be there with you, were going to walk down were going to walk down, anyone you want, but right here were going to walk down to the capitol and were going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and were probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because youll never take back our country with weakness. It wasnt only from the president. Heres what we heard yesterday morning from his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Over the next ten days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent and if were wrong well be made fools of. But if were right, a lot of them will go to jail. [ cheers and applause ] so lets have trial by combat. And this was the message from the president s son, don jr. , who to republicans who refused to help steal the election. Guess what, folks. If youre going to be the zero and not the hero, were coming for you. Were going to have a good time doing it. Just after 2 00 p. M. About an hour after the president s speech came news of the breach. The senate was forced in to recess, just as senators were debating an objection to arizonas electoral count. An aide was caught on tape telling james lankford, quote, protesters are in the building. Chuck grassley was rushed out of the chamber to a secure location. Those inside the Capitol Building were told to stay away in windows and doors. And that was unfolding in the senate. This is what was happening in the house. Those are rioters trying to break into the house chamber. Capitol police fired a single gunshot and one woman was killed. By the way, those were not antifa as some losers were saying on another network. Those are supporters who support trump with trump hats. Yesterday was Donald Trumps day. This all happened because donald trump tried to have these people commit insurrection against the United States of america. And theyre wearing trump hats, so go ahead, mika. Lets be very clear its owned 1,000 by trump and all those who have quietly look at the other side of that door. Members of the house and their staff crouched in the house gallery including jason crowe a former u. S. Army ranger. Meanwhile, calls mounted for President Trump to call off his supporters including from president elect joe biden who delivered a public address denouncing the violence. There are also calls for the 25th amendment to be evoked to remove the president from office. The social secretary has since resigned and more resignations could follow possibly from National Security adviser robert obrien, deputy National Security adviser, and transportation secretary elaine chao. A little late, elaine. You stood by him after charlottesville. Heres how itv news correspondent robert moore covered the story for the uk. We followed the aggrieved and infuriated Trump Supporters as they stormed the building. Through broken windows and doors they had forced open. And for a few they felt they had won a precious victory. Usa usa stop the steal stop the steal stop the steal reporter they were in the heart of the congressional building. Whats the purpose of storming congress itself . Because they work for us. Congress still completed its work. The debate resumed just after 8 00 p. M. The president elects win was certified early this morning with Vice President pence making the announcement. We heard from biden calling for calm, calling for the president to call off these rioters, these insurrectionists and these terrorists and the president made a very pitiful response. And he had to be pressured by the aides who wanted him to Say Something. He could barely bring himself to put out a tweet. When he did, he furthered the conspiracy theories that the election was stolen before saying we love you, youre special people, talking to the rioters but now its time to go home. But then two hours ago, the president released a statement on twitter through one of his aides, dan skow vino. Even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election, the facts bear me out they dont of course, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on the 20th. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in president ial history, it is only the beginning of our fight to make America Great again. So joe, even there when the obvious is in front of him, when hes forced at 3 49 in the morning finally to say, okay, there will be an orderly transition, he pushes the Conspiracy Theory and ends after a day like yesterday when we witnessed what we witnessed in that building, he says the fight continues. Knowing full well what message that sends to his supporters. Well, its continued insurrection. Just like yesterday. Hey, t. J. , im going to say a few things and while im saying a few things if you can show pictures of the people breaking inside the capitol, id really appreciate it. Terrorists. Because i think a lot of us have some questions. A lot of questions. Not just for donald trump. I got no questions for donald trump, hes an insurrectionist, he should be arrested today. He should be sent to jail today for insurrection against the United States of america, but i just i do wonder this morning why they werent better prepared for this. Why werent the Capitol Hill Police better prepared for this. Why wasnt the city of washington, d. C. , better prepared for this. Why wasnt the National Guard better prepared for this. Why werent Law Enforcement agencies all across the region better prepared for an invasion. An invasion against the peoples house. Against the worlds greatest deliberative body. And for those of you who have never been up on the capital, i spent quite a bit of time there and even as a member of congress i had to have my i. D. To get in. If i walked across an adjoining street when no cars were on that street, but i didnt have a walk sign, Capitol Hill Police would scream at the top of their lungs and tell us all to get back on the sidewalk. When i was walking to a state of the Union Address across the street from the capitol, five Capitol Hill Police started screaming at me, telling me i had to clear the area. And yet, yesterday we saw some of these same Capitol Hill Police officers who by the way, i never complained when they were tough. I want them to be tough. I want them to protect the peoples house. Yesterday we see them patting terrorists on the back. We see them taking selfies. With people who were committing an insurrection against the United States of america. Politely opening the door for terrorists who had scrawled on the door murder the media, who had broken through this glass. Letting them just walk through. Letting these Trump Supporters walk through freely and politely opening doors. To the insurrectionists. And then letting the terrorists walk out of the same capitol they had laid siege to and threatened the lives of members of the house and members of the senate who they said they were coming to get including mike pence. There has to be an investigation. How many of these capitol hill cops are members of Donald Trumps cult . How many . It is a cult. How many allowed this to happen . And i do want to know where the hell were the d. C. Police . Where the hell how did this happen . This hasnt happened since the war of 1812 when the british stormed washington, d. C. Its obvious, this was coming. Yeah. Donald trump promised this day was coming. He was he and his golf caddy dan scavino were putting out videos saying it was going to be wild, january 6th was going to be wild. We were warned that january 6th was going to be a dangerous day. Not just in social media, not just in the media, but in our lives. People would come up to me and ask what do you think is going to happen on january the 6th . Well, what happened was the Capitol Hill Police werent ready, the d. C. Police werent ready, the National Guard wasnt ready. Nobody was ready or was it okay because they are white . I just have to ask. Oh, my god, oh, please. Please. Because i dont think this would have happened with black lives matters protesters. Let me tell you something. We dont have to even go there. If these insurrectionists were black, they would have been shot in the face. And my god, if these insurrectionists were muslim they would have been sniped from the top of buildings. So i want to know from the Capitol Hill Police, what is it, is it just white people or is it donald Trump Supporters . Why do you scream at people for walking across the street three blocks away from the capitol . Why are you not as bad asses is around the capitol, but then Trump Supporters come in and you open the doors for them you open the doors for them. And let them breach the peoples house. What is wrong with you . I also want to know are we a nation of laws . Are we a nation of one man . Donald j. Trump called for the insurrection against the United States of america. He called for it. Rudy giuliani called for combat justice. Just an hour or two before this happened. Donald trump jr. Said we are coming for you. Thats insurrection against the United States of america and if donald trump jr. , Rudy Giuliani, and donald trump are not arrested today for insurrection and taken to jail and booked and if the Capitol Hill Police do not go through every video and look at the face of every person that invaded our capitol and if they are not arrested and brought to justice today then we are no longer a nation of laws and we only tell people they can do this again. And guess what . This is what i have been saying about oregon, about portland for months. For months. If you put out a curfew, if you have laws, you either follow them or anarchy follows and you encourage more anarchy. Its that simple. Lets bring in the retired four star armys admiral stavridis. Admiral stavridis, i want to start with you and then bring in David Ignatius. Was yesterday an insurrection against the United States of america . Of course it was. Anybody who turned on the television and watched it saw that and the supporters were bringing the trump flags. For me the saddest moment was trying to take down the flag of the United States and trying to put it a trump sign. This is a 9 11 moment, in sense well remember what we were doing, what we were doing and when we turned on the television and watched the events yesterday. It was searing in my view. I for one will never look at a maga hat again without thinking of this day. And if you are a decent american, put away your maga hat. Put away your trump flag. Remember what those symbols were used for on this day. Ill tell you, joe, what it reminds me of and i dont mean to be melodramatic and thats 9 11. Bush gathered the admirals and the generals of the military and he said, remember this. Remember this day. The buildings still smelled like cordite, like i suspect the capitol today smells like tear gas. We need to remember this day so that we can understand what happened and yes, we need a serious National Level investigation into what has happened specifically in the failure to protect the peoples house. But even more importantly, we need to get at the root causes here and ensure that we dont fulfill de tocquevilles promise about democracy. Its a world institution, but the tragedy comes if you elect the government you deserve. I think its time to recognize this is not the government of the people of the United States of america. Put away as they maga hats, put away those trump flags. Lets get a new president in place. Lets sail on. David ignatius, you warned this was going to happen in your last column. You said, yeah, trumps going away but were not out of the woods yet. And my god, those words became way too prescient yesterday and i agree with the admiral. We had another 9 11 event. Unfortunately the attack against the capitol was from within. It was shocking for everyone to watch it. I distinguish between two strands of this. First, for months, donald trump has been inciting against our system. Hes been threatening that he wouldnt abide by the Election Results after the election. He defied the courts, he defied every objective attempt to establish that joe biden won. And then theres a second more immediate tactical question, how was the security of the capitol breached . Everybody who was involved in the planning for this, joe, knew that the likely course was that these insurgents i wont call them protesters anymore, would march from the ellipse to the capitol and might try to storm the capitol. When i asked my sources involved in the planning what are you going to do thats the responsibility of the Capitol Police. There will be 500 to 600 of them. Theyll expand the perimeter and will keep the people out. They radically underestimated the numbers. The top number of people was about 20,000 and it probably all told there were more like 40,000 gathered in the demonstrations on wednesday. The Capitol Police simply did not defend that barricade. They let people walk through. We have all seen the pictures. And then just a series of things happened. The these people had planned very carefully how they were going to operate, where theyd enter, how theyd move. They fancy themselves as modern day freedom fighters. You can see the smug look on their faces in the photographs that were captured, so that needs to be investigated really carefully. I want to make one point which is that the planners who are trying to prevent what happened and failed had an overriding mission which was a good one, which was to try to avoid this being militarized. We do not want Tiananmen Square images to persist. We have 60 Million People who voted for donald trump and many feel that this process is fraudulent. The last thing we needed was that kind of confrontation. As timid as this reaction look, the net effect of what happened yesterday was to devalue this movement. Its lost a lot of support, they popped their own balloon. Their actions disgusted a lot of americans who might have been sympathetic before. So i think thats beneficial and really beneficial which our uniformed military needs to fight foreign wars, not be involved in domestic disagreements, was not brought in. I think that really matters. You can be sure have the right Law Enforcement right. Why dont we have the right Law Enforcement there and why werent as prepared for the black lives matter protesters . Quite frankly, the insurrectionists and terrorists were definitely handled with care. It was pathetic. Were arrests made . Did anybody get arrested for what happened . Is anybody in custody, does anybody know, will arrests be made for these crimes that were committed as we watched live on television the desecration of our democracy . You know, trumps twitter was locked. His facebook was locked. So the Tech Companies are better late than never. I mean, seriously. Youre so damn late its not even funny. You locked his account, great. Finally, you get it, jack. Facebook, willie, owns this. Twitter owns this. You own it. Mitch mcconnell owns it. Josh hawley, more than anybody else at the kansas city newspaper, other than donald trump, he has blood on his hands this morning. Ted cruz has blood on his hands. They all have encouraged this through the years, willie. This is where it was going to end up, post charlottesville. We were coming straight this direction and look at that. Look at josh hawley. You know hes so proud. So proud that he would be able to do something that no terrorist organization has been able to do. No foreign power has been able to do since the war of 1812. Invade the peoples house. Lay waste to the peoples house, commit insurrection, sedition, treason against the United States of america. Josh josh, i went to Southern State schools. No, put the picture of josh back up there. I went to Southern State schools, josh, maybe im just stupid, but is that what they really taught you at stanford, how to commit treason, how to encourage insurrection against the United States of america . How to have blood on that fist of yours, josh . This is you, bu