![]() During a brief break in the January 6 Electoral College proceedings, he had caught a few televised snippets of Donald Trump’s speech at the Ellipse. With no access to a cellphone or television-neither was allowed in the Senate-McConnell had no idea what was happening, but he certainly had a guess. Suddenly, armed guards were racing to McConnell, hurriedly escorting him out of the room. “We’re asking that everyone remain in the chamber. “This is a security situation,” a security officer said into the microphone on the dais. A hum spread through the chamber as staff shut down the debate, whispering to senators that “protesters are in the building.” Mere moments before, Mike Pence’s Secret Service detail had subtly entered the room and beckoned the vice president away from the dais where he was overseeing proceedings, a rarity for agents who usually loitered outside the doors. The majority leader had been so engrossed in the Electoral College debate happening before him that he hadn’t realized anything was amiss-until pandemonium erupted. M itch McConnell froze when a Capitol Police officer rushed into the Senate chamber carrying a semiautomatic weapon.
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