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WATCH LIVE: Senate Republicans continue challenge to Electoral College votes after count resumes
- Published_at:2021-01-07
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:PBS NewsHour
- tags: U.S. Capitol Capitol attack Pro-trump mob U.S. Capitol Attack Donald Trump Pro-Trump terrorism Pro-Trump extremism domestic terrorism U.S. Capitol siege riot protests politics Electoral College vote Congress holds joint session electoral college votes joint session confirmation congress congress session on votes electoral college congress pbs pbs newshour pbs newshour congress confirmation electoral college vote pbs Trump presidency Senate Republicans
- description: Congress reconvened Wednesday after a violent pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol, interrupting a joint session to count the Electoral College votes in President-elect Joe Biden's win. WATCH ONGOING SPECIAL COVERAGE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKy84YmL-sU “As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy, for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this Capitol, the elected representatives of the people of the United States have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the United States,” Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the Senate, told the lawmakers who had earlier been evacuated with gas masks. Counting electoral votes is a necessary and usually routine step in the presidential election process but one that some Republicans intended to challenge this year by objecting to results in specific states. Trump supporters, including members of the extremist group The Proud Boys, also traveled to the nation's capital to protest Biden's win, echoing the president's false and unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. After Trump addressed protesters on the national mall, they marched to the Capitol and charged the halls of the building, forcing evacuations of lawmakers, Congressional staff and journalists covering the proceedings. Police arrested 13 people and one woman was shot and killed in the violence. Once the area was cleared by law enforcement officials, proceedings resumed, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell telling members the Senate will not be intimidated and kept out of its chamber by “thugs, mobs or threats.” “The United States and the United States Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today,” he said. “They tried to disrupt our democracy, they failed.” Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe
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