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Capitol Police member caught on camera taking selfies with insurrectionists

President Donald Trump's supporters seized the U.S. Capitol, stealing shields and batons and began breaking the windows and began shooting into the House chamber while scared U.S. Representatives and Senators hid under their chairs, some with gas masks on.

Meanwhile, at least one Capitol Police officer was taking selfies with those breaking into the building.

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CNN's Gloria Borger shames Ivanka Trump for lauding 'domestic terrorists' as 'American patriots'

With a shaking voice, CNN's longtime politics reporter Gloria Borger said that after spending decades reporting from the Capitol it felt like her home was being attacked on Wednesday.

She blasted first daughter Ivanka Trump for sending out a recently deleted tweet calling the insurrectionists "American patriots."

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Stunned Republican says attack on US Capitol like something he saw in Iraq: 'The election is over!'

Wisconsin Republican Rep Mike Gallagher joined other members on CNN denouncing the siege on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday while they were voting to accept Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

Gallagher said that he hasn't seen anything like what happened today since he was fighting in Iraq. He went on to demand that President Donald Trump tell his supporters "to stop it."

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Pelosi requests National Guard protection -- but awaits Trump's DOD approval

President Donald Trump's supporters on Wednesday broke down three barriers to breach the U.S. Capitol complex, climbed up the building, broke through a line of police, and made their way into the Congressional chamber.

It is clear from videos that the Capitol Police have been overwhelmed by the thousands of Trump supporters and are unable to handle the situation. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser had already asked for the National Guard to help with security for the protests. So when the Capitol was stormed, it prompted many to ask where the Guard was.

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'The rule of a mob': Chris Wallace condemns DC protest after Trump incites violence

Fox News host Chris Wallace suggested on Wednesday that President Donald Trump had incited a "mob" after the president encouraged an election protest in Washington, D.C. that devolved into violence.

"What we're really talking about and what we're seeing today is the rule of the mob vs. the rule of law and the Constitution," Wallace said. "You have the president for an hour filling a crowd with misstatements, with facts that have been absolutely shredded in state courts, in federal courts, by Trump judges, by a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, by Trump's own attorney general."

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Trump winds up DC protesters: 'If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday publicly called for Vice President Mike Pence to do the "right thing" by refusing to officially accept President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

At a "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, D.C., Trump egged on thousands of supporters who were demanding that the 2020 election be overturned.

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'We have never seen anything like this': Chris Wallace unloads on GOP for Electoral College challenge

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Wednesday blasted a plan by some Republican lawmakers to vote to object to the results of the 2020 election.

During an appearance on Fox News, Wallace explained why the Republican plan is more offensive than when Democrats objected to then-President George W. Bush's re-election in 2005.

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Fox News host claims Blacks were 'captured' and blames 'African-American culture' after Georgia runoffs

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Wednesday reacted to potential Republican losses in the Georgia runoff races by blaming Black people who she said had been "captured" by Democrats.

The morning after the Tuesday runoffs, Fox News host Sandra Smith spoke to Campos-Duffy about the results.

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Angry Republicans blame Trump for their party's Georgia implosion

Republicans are on track to lose both Georgia Senate runoff elections -- and many are saying that President Donald Trump is to blame.

With Rev. Raphael Warnock projected to win and fellow Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff in a strong position to pull off a victory, GOP strategists fumed to Politico that Trump sabotaged their chances of holding the Senate with his constant attacks on Georgia's Republican governor and secretary of state.

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'There are consequences to chaos': Ex-GOP lawmaker burns Trump for costing his party the Senate

Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) on Wednesday unloaded on President Donald Trump for likely costing his own party the Senate with his rants about a "rigged" election.

During an appearance on CNN, Dent explained how Trump probably depressed turnout among his own supporters by claiming that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulently stolen from him in Georgia.

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'He's beyond embarrassment': Trump knows it's over -- but he loves the attention from election challenges

President Donald Trump has come to terms with his election loss, according to sources, but he's still fighting to overturn the results because he likes the attention.

The president has confided to one person that he was "just disappointed we lost," but he's come to accept his loss in recent weeks and has been discussing with staff his plans to move to Mar-A-Lago after Joe Biden's inauguration -- even as he rages against baseless election fraud and pressures Republicans to undo the results, reported Politico.

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Ossoff campaign: 'We fully expect he will have won' when all votes are counted

The Georgia Senate runoff wasn't a blowout for Democrats, but it appeared that Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff could eke out a win.

While the race looked better for Rev. Warnock, Ossoff thinks that he will prevail over Perdue when all votes come in.

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