From the rioters who breached the Capitol building to the lawmakers trapped inside, from Trump-world turncoats, to the now president-elect himself, many who joined or were caught up in the riot are still living with fallout from the January 6 of four years ago.

The disturbing incident unfolded in front of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial just before 5:30 p.m. – at the same time Trump, 78, was arriving at the Capitol Building.

Vice President Kamala Harris confirms Donald Trump's 2024 election win, four years after the Capitol attack. Lawmakers reflect on the threat to democracy.

WASHINGTON — Tennessee Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen and two former police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Wednesday condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pardon those charged in connection with the insurrection.

In some ways, it’s like the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, that shook the foundations of American democracy, never happened. “It’s been erased,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “Winners write history and Trump won.

People that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now," Trump stated during a press conference on Wednesday

We must never forget January 6 and ensure that such an attack on our democracy is never allowed to happen again,” U.S. Rep. Adam Smith said on X.

Congress formally certified the reelection of former President Donald Trump on Monday. It was a routine procedural moment, a striking contrast to the violent insurrection of Jan. 6 four years ago. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports.

As President-elect Donald Trump was visiting the U.S. Capitol, police responded to an incident nearby in which a man attempted to set a car on fire. According to the United States Capitol Police, police were alerted to a man trying to set a car on fire near the Grant Memorial on Wednesday.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges after Jan. 6, said “it was a very, very dark time.” Some lawmakers, she said, “do want to really put that behind us.”