<div>Today, we reconstruct the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong. </div><div><br></div><div>Read more:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/trump-insurrection-capitol/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports">The four-hour insurrection</a>: How a mob of Trump supporters tried to disrupt American democracy. </div><div><br></div><div>Reporters Rebecca Tan, Marissa J. Lang, Rhonda Colvin, and photojournalist Bill O’Leary were all witnesses to the violence on Jan. 6. They share their <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trump-supporters-storm-capitol-dc/2021/01/06/58afc0b8-504b-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports">harrowing accounts of what it was like</a>, inside and outside of the Capitol.</div><div><br></div><div>Reporter Peter Hermann explains how <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police-capitol-riot/?arc404=true&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports">battered D.C. police made a stand</a> against the Capitol mob. </div><div><br></div><div>And reporter Carol D. Leonnig chronicles the experience of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports">outgoing Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund</a>, who told her that House and Senate security officials hamstrung his efforts to call in the National Guard.</div><div><br></div><div>Subscribe to The Washington Post: <a href="https://postreports.com/offer">https://postreports.com/offer</a></div>
