As senators fled on Jan. 6, an irate Sen.

Wildwood Crest - As senators fled on Jan. 6, an irate Sen. Lindsey Graham shouted at the senate sergeant-at-arms: “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them.”
The Capitol was under siege — and the president did nothing. For 187 minutes, Trump resisted entreaties to intervene. Even as the violence at the Capitol intensified, even after Vice President Mike Pence, his family and hundreds of Congress members and their staffers hid to protect themselves, even after the first two people died and scores of others were assaulted, Trump declined for more than three hours to intervene.