The mob the President directed to the Capitol were shouting "Hang Mike Pence" and "Where's Nancy?" In other words, they were targeting the next two officials in the presidential line of succession.
Officials were calling anyone who could help as they feared for their lives.
At the point this mob entered the building the Senate was not sealed. Had the mob in this video turned right instead of left at one point they would have breached the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346911809274478594?s=20
Absolutely astonishing detail here: what got the FBI SWAT teams to Congress? Not the Capitol Police. It was a call from a private lawyer who used to work at DOJ, who in turn was responding to a call from a friend on McConnell's staff in the building.
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