'BradCast' 1/6/2021: (MAGA Mob storms US Capitol; Democrats win Senate; Guest: Philly Inquirer's Will Bunch)

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 2:25 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The 'first draft of history' is still being written as we go to air. First, both Democrats Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have reportedly won their U.S. Senate runoff contests in Georgia against incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively, giving Democrats control of the Senate majority. After weeks of Donald Trump's false, incendiary claims that the election was stolen from him, his MAGA Mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, shutting down a joint session of Congress just as Republican lawmakers began their challenges to the ceremonial Electoral College affirmation of Joe Biden's decisive victory in the November election. Both chambers of Congress were evacuated and top leaders ushered to safety as the Trump-supporting, anti-American rioters violently breached the building's defenses, pushing into both Senate and House chambers as well as lawmakers' offices. One insurrectionist was reportedly shot and killed. Questions remain as to why Capitol police were unprepared for this perfectly predictable attempted coup. But it was not the only example of the Republican Party's steady degradation of our Constitutional representative republic. In Pennsylvania on Tuesday, GOP members of the Pennsylvania Senate block the swearing-in of a duly elected Democratic lawmaker, and used their gerrymandered majority to remove Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman from his state constitutional role as President of the state Senate. The great national columnist WILL BUNCH of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News explains the extraordinary events in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the even more extraordinary events in D.C. on Wednesday, where it all comes from, and what it all means going forward. Finally, President-elect Joe Biden delivers calming words to a nation in crisis, while the current disgraced president returns to his bunker amid the American Carnage he has wrought..."