Chuck Schumer, the Senate's top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, and other legislative leaders sprang into action to try to seize control of the massive complex.
They called the secretary of defense and the acting attorney general and urged them to send help.
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They called the governors of neighboring Virginia and Maryland to send National Guard troops and other police.
Legislative leaders
And they got on the phone with Vice President Mike Pence to figure out how they could return to the Capitol that same night and finish certifying Joe Biden's election victory.
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Trump privately knew he had lost Publicly, Trump insisted he was being robbed of an election he had won.
After the Supreme Court turned down his election case, Trump was "livid," according to a Secret Service email obtained by the committee, an observation former Trump aides echoed in testimony.
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