Mike Pence was pulled from the House Chamber floor as, and police dispersed tear gas to push back protesters, telling members of Congress inside the House chamber to put on gas masks.
Several senators tweeted they were sheltering in their offices while security evacuated much of the building.The protests interrupted Congress as Republican lawmakers mounted their first official challenge to the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election win, objecting to state results from Arizona as they took up Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the election results in an extraordinary joint session of Congress.One protester made it onto the House Chamber dais and yelled “Trump won that election.”Republicans had just mounted their first.