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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Live on @MSNBC: President-elect Biden speaks after yesterday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.

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President-elect Biden on the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol:

"Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."
Live now on @MSNBC: President-elect Biden's nominee for U.S. attorney general, fmr. U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland

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President-elect Biden:

"No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday, they would have been treated very, very differently than the mobs of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true and it is unacceptable."

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7 Jan
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Live on @MSNBC: President-elect Biden addresses the nation from Wilmington, Delaware, following the Electoral College vote formally confirming his election victory.

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