Nancy Pelosi

I just spoke with Vice President Pence, and he was going to see because Mitch wants to do it in the Capitol. But we're being told it could take days to clean it up and make sure there are no hitting, no bombs or anything up here.

She is concerned about the welfare and the safety of the people she is responsible for. She is concerned about the Vice President's welfare, and she is laser focused on the job that they need to get done, which is reconvening to complete…

I worry about you being in that Capitol Building.

I think it's important for it to happen today.

We are still not safe enough for us to go back that they're even still trying to penetrate the building and it's not a safe thing.

If this were the Pentagon or the White House, there would be instantly, there would be the manpower necessary to restore where we saw what happened.

Much of it at the instigation of the President of the United States.

If we can't get this job done by tonight, God knows what the consequences are.

Just pretend for a moment it was The Pentagon or the White House or some other entity that was under siege.

Insurrection. That's a crime and he is guilty of it.

We have got to finish the proceedings or else they will have a compete victory.

If he comes, I am going to punch him out. That's what I'm going to do. We're waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I am going to punch him out and I'm going to go to jail and I'm going to be happy.

You're in the game, this is it, you know, and we have to be ready in a timely fashion and the more quickly we can have the votes, the more quickly we can designate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, President and Vice President of the United…

It could take time to clean up the poo-poo that they're making all over the--literally and figuratively--in the Capitol.

We're trying to figure out how we can get this job done today.

Personal safety is--it just transcends everything.

It's just horrendous. And all at the instigation of the President of the United States.

There has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the President of the United States.

We have got to finish the proceedings, or else they're going to have a complete victory.

Two and a half years ago, the 9/11 Commission took giant steps to do just that.

We would do everything in our power to protect the American people, to fight terrorism.

This is a democracy issue. It`s a freedom issue. There are extreme MAGA Republicans are gathered to unveil their latest bill to criminalize women`s health in all 50 states.

We have every intention every single day to do everything in our power. We haven`t decided to win. And that`s what we will do.

Republicans should be very, very, very scared this morning about their prospects.

You would think there would be an adult in the Republican room that would say, 'Just calm down, see what the facts are.'