Name: Dan Rather Explains How President Trump Incited a Coup
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-Earlier tonight, I got to talk to my first guest

He's a multiple Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist

and "The New York Times" best-selling author

Here is my conversation with the one and only Dan Rather.

Dan, thank you so much for being here tonight.

It's a privilege and an honor to be with you. Thank you.

was going to be how things went in Georgia

but then this afternoon, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

And we're talking a few hours before this will air,

of what happened today and where things stand now

During the evening, I expect they will continue

and frequently overworked word but an apt word in this case.

This is an absolutely unprecedented situation

for our country and one -- and a very serious situation.

Basically what happened was that, increasingly, it appeared

that the two Democratic candidates were winning

and had won the Senate runoff races in Georgia.

This would, of course, mean that the Democrats

would have effective control of the Senate

So, that news didn't really get solidified

until the wee hours of early this morning.

in front of the White House, a pro-Trump rally.

The President -- I use the word "incited" it.

Incited the crowd to march down to the Capitol

That was to be the other big headline of the day.

The big headline of the day was expected to be Democrats

and the combined Congressional power in the country

Even as Vice President Pence was presiding in the chamber

and the final certification of the Biden victory

then this crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol.

You can describe it as "protesters," if you like.

I, myself, think they were certainly rioters.

They stormed actually into the room where --

the chamber, where the deliberation was happening.

There was no law and there was no order for a while.

Now finally the law-enforcement officers, first of all,

Secondly, they sort of solidified their own response.

of what I call the rioters were put outside the Capitol.

It's a little hard to say what the situation is at this moment,

We have never seen this in our country before --

which even the courts have certified in their own way.

That's a definition of a coup, and I do think

this could be described as a case of domestic violence.

Not everybody in this crowd of people were violent today.

But there certainly were outright rioters

who were taking part in domestic violence,

and the overall scene was one of a coup attempt.

It has failed. That's pretty much where we are.

-Do you think there will be charges against these people?

-Well, let's be very clear. There should be

because if you break windows in the U.S. Capitol

of elected representatives of the country,

frankly, I have my doubts as time goes along.

But there is a movement to try to identify those people

who were actually breaking windows and occupying offices

But the real important question of the moment, Jimmy,

and I think this will play out over the next few days,

is what is to be done about the president of the United States?

Make no mistake -- there are talks in the Capitol

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