JAMES ROSEN (SINCLAIR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT): Pro-Trump protesters, their ranks likely augmented by far-left infiltrators, started clashing with Capitol Police before 2 p.m. Eastern. D.C. police said the rioters used chemical sprays against the officers to breach the historic building.
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But the protesters did inflict some damage, roaming the hallowed halls seemingly at will, with even the office suite of Speaker Pelosi compromised.
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As terrified spectators watched from the House Gallery, Capitol Police drew their firearms close to the House floor. On the Senate side, protesters ran wild on the floor. One young man brazenly occupied the same chair Vice President Pence had an hour earlier when he presided over the Republicans’ truncated challenge to the certification of the Electoral College vote. Lawmakers in both chambers were evacuated.
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In Wilmington, President-elect Biden called the violence at the Capitol “a God-awful display. An assault on the rule of law. Chaos unlike anything we've seen in modern times.”
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PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN: It borders on sedition. I call on President Trump to go on national television now, to fulfill his oath, and defend the Constitution, and demand an end to this siege.
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ROSEN: Minutes later at the White House, President Trump released a video that repeated his baseless claim the election was stolen from him, before imploring his supporters to stay peaceful and, quote, “go home.”
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We love you. You're very special. But we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace.
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ROSEN: On social media, images surfaced showing that at least some of the protesters who breached the Capitol were previously photographed earlier this year taking part in BLM and antifa actions as far away as Arizona, the very state whose Electoral College votes were being challenged when the chaos erupted.