Chelsea Clinton Describes Her Mother's Reaction to the Capitol Siege

Appearing on the Drew Barrymore Show today, Chelsea Clinton described calling her mother while the siege of the U.S. Capitol was taking place.

"She had just come back from her walk," Clinton says in the clip (above). "She hadn't seen what happened, Drew. I said 'Mom, you have to turn on the television.' And there was just silence. There was just silence. And then so much sadness, and also so much anger that this was happening. When we then spoke again later last night, we had this real sense of 'we have to hold people accountable.' Because we do. We have to hold the insurrectionists, the terrorists, the mob who overwhelmed our Capitol — we have to hold those individuals accountable, and we have to hold the president accountable, who incited them, egged them on, and while it's good that Twitter and Facebook and Instagram have locked his account, it's insufficient, to put it mildly. We have to stop not only the amplification but the injection of hate and instability and violence that he has personified over the last years."

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