Inside the White House Situation Room as Jan. 6 riots unfolded | The Current

Former White House staffer George Stephanopoulos takes The Current inside the Situation Room beneath the Oval Office — the nerve centre where U.S. presidents have overseen crises from the Kennedy assassination to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Stephanopoulos says that on Jan. 6, 2021, the crisis facing the White House was one ‘inspired by [Donald Trump], the president of the United States himself.’

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