| | | | | |  | | By Carla Marinucci, Jeremy B. White, Graph Massara and Mackenzie Hawkins | THE BUZZ — CHAOS IN THE NATION'S CAPITOL: For the first time in American history, there was no peaceful transfer of power in the wake of a presidential election. For the first time since 9/11, the U.S. capital came under attack. And for the first time since the 1800s, the Confederate flag was carried inside it. THE DAY IN TWO IMAGES: California Democratic Rep. Lou Correa taking cover … | 
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images | ... AND A RIOTER inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. | 
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images | THE FULL STORY, via POLITICO staff: "Protesters breached the Capitol, entering the Senate chamber and streaming through Statuary Hall. They broke windows and one man sat in the very seat Pence had been sitting in just a few minutes before, while another was in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. … At one point, gunfire was heard inside the Capitol as Capitol police officers barricaded the doors to the House chamber, guns drawn and blocking rioters from entering. … Tear gas was deployed in the rotunda and an improvised explosive device was found on the Capitol grounds." HOW IT UNFOLDED: Christine Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's daughter, said she watched the unfolding events on live television, and "caught my breath" as rioters breached the U.S. Capitol doors and literally broke their way into the House chamber — eventually making it to her mother's office. "I was terrified that a place that I know as a sanctuary of democracy has been desecrated,'' she said. Vice President Mike Pence, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and the speaker were among those ushered quickly to safety. "This was domestic terrorism,'' she said, adding that Wednesday's developments demand investigations into how violent hordes appeared to so easily enter the Capitol and threaten elected members of government without facing any meaningful police or law enforcement pushback for hours. But Nancy Pelosi — whose San Francisco home was also vandalized last week — resolved that Wednesday's unrest wouldn't stop the business of government, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning, oversaw the count of electoral votes to officially confirm the election results. "To those who strove to deter us from our responsibility, you have failed. To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this, our temple of democracy, American democracy, justice will be done,'' she said, addressing Congress Wednesday night. THERE WAS ANGER: Former state Senate Pro Tem John Burton was among the California Democrats who raged Wednesday at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, his former colleague in the California state Legislature. Citing the Bakersfield Republican's key role in loyally backing Trump's suggestions of election fraud, Burton sent McCarthy an angry text: "'Whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.' You're not the same guy I knew in Sacramento.'' McCarthy, on CBS, said: "What is unfolding is unacceptable and un-American. This has got to stop,'' adding that "whoever created it has got to be held accountable for it." HOW OTHER CALIFORNIANS REACTED to Wednesday's siege of the nation's capital: — Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned what he called an "outright assault to our democracy," Jeremy writes. CALLS FOR TRUMP'S OUSTER — California Reps. Barbara Lee, Sara Jacobs, Alan Lowenthal, Mark Takano, Doris Matsui, Jackie Speier, Ted Lieu, Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, Nanette Barragán, Jared Huffman, Anna Eshoo, Eric Swalwell, Jerry McNerney and Mike Thompson all called for either impeaching Trump again, invoking the 25th Amendment or otherwise removing the president from office. — Speier: "This domestic terrorist group that was incited by the president of the United States cannot be tolerated." — Huffman: "I never could have imagined I would be riding out a violent coup attempt led by a president. This is terrorism, and Donald Trump is responsible." — Newly reelected Rep. David Valadao, who unlike some Republicans refused to reject the Electoral College vote: "The behavior of these 'protesters' on the Capitol Complex is absolutely abhorrent. This is un-American. I denounce this behavior to the fullest extent. We are so much better than this." — BUT THEN THERE WAS was state Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), who appeared unwilling to accept that the rioters were Trump supporters, as LA Times' John Myer reported . "Patriots don't act like this !!! This was Antifa," she tweeted (and later deleted). Grove had previously refused to accept Trump's loss, tweeting on Nov. 8 that she "still believe[s] @realDonaldTrump will be President [for] the next 4 years." The GOP leader later tried to undo the damage with another tweet, saying that the violence in Washington was the "way Antifa behaves" and called the mob's actions "unacceptable and unAmerican." | 
Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators gather outside the California Capitol building in Sacramento Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. | AP Photo/Adam Beam | PROTESTS HIT THE WEST COAST — In Los Angeles, "a crowd of about 200 gathered near Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, waving American flags and chanting, 'Do your job'" as officers tried to control the crowd,'' the LA Times staff reported. And there were clashes in downtown Sacramento as several hundred gathered outside the Capitol, the Sac Bee's Rosalio Ahumada, Sam Stanton and Jason Pohl reported. STRONG REBUKE BY SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS: Twitter, Facebook lock Trump's accounts in confrontation over Capitol breach posts, by POLITICO's Cristiano Lima. — "San Diego Woman Shot Dead, 6 Hospitalized, as Trump Mob Swarms Capitol,'' via The Daily Beast's Blake Montgomery, Pilar Melendez and William Bredderman: "Local San Diego news outlet KUSI named the woman as Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego resident who is said to have served 14 years in the military. … Babbitt supported the violent pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, according to her Twitter account." FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, via the LA Times' Sarah D. Wire: "I'm in a roomful of people 'panicked that I might inadvertently give away their location'" BUENOS DÍAS, good Thursday morning. Buried in the chaos of Wednesday: Newsom unveiled a plan to offer economic relief and eviction prevention to struggling Californians (more below); he also released California's first-ever Master Plan for Aging. Our sympathies to the staffers who worked on these utterly overshadowed rollouts. QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice. Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country." — Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. TWEET OF THE DAY: Maxine Waters @RepMaxineWaters: "Yes! We must investigate the security breach at the Capitol today. I warned our Caucus and had an hour long conversation with the Chief of Police 4days ago. He assured me the terrorists would not be allowed on the plaza & Capitol secured. What the hell?" BONUS TOTD: @TwitterSafety: "As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy..This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked." WHERE'S GAVIN? Nothing official announced. | | | | GET THE BIG PRE-INAUGURATION SCOOPS IN TRANSITION PLAYBOOK: Inauguration Day is quickly approaching. Is the Biden administration ready? Transition Playbook brings you inside the transition and newly forming administration, tracking the latest from Biden world and the transition of power. Written for political insiders, this scoop-filled newsletter breaks big news and analyzes the appointments, people and emerging power centers of the new administration. Track the transition and the first 100 days of the incoming Biden administration. Subscribe today. | | | | | |  | TOP TALKERS | | ANOTHER MEMBER SICKENED — Rep. Michelle Steel tests positive for coronavirus, by POLITICO's Jeremy B. White. SKIPPING THE LINE — " L.A. officials allowed dozens without medical credentials to get COVID-19 vaccine early," by the LA Times' Laura J. Nelson, Maya Lau and Joel Rubin: "At one South L.A. vaccination site, a Times reporter watched as about 100 people were admitted for immunizations without showing proof that they worked in the healthcare industry. One woman said she received the vaccine at Hansen Dam Recreation Area in Pacoima even after telling workers she was not a healthcare employee." MEDICAID TO BLAME? — "California's Covid Woes," via the WSJ editorial board: "California has the fewest hospital beds per capita of any state save Oregon and Washington, yet it has many more low-income patients with chronic illnesses. Blame California's Medicaid program, which manages to be both too large and miserly." — " The End of the Golden Age of Silicon Valley Cafeterias," by Bloomberg's Priya Anand: "In the early days of the pandemic, many companies pledged to keep paying their cafeteria workers, but the tech industry is now embracing remote work as a more permanent phenomenon. Cafeterias probably won't disappear entirely, but they'll likely need fewer people on staff and might not serve up three meals a day plus constant snacks." | | CORONAVIRUS UPDATES | | — "California orders hospitals to take transfer patients amid Covid surge," via the Guardian: "The public health order issued on Tuesday night could result in patients being shipped to northern California from southern California and the agricultural San Joaquin Valley, where 14 counties were immediately ordered to delay non-essential "and non-life threatening" surgeries in order to provide beds. The order, which will last at least three weeks, also applies to any county where ICU capacity to treat Covid-19 patients is bottoming out." — " Thousands of L.A. healthcare workers sickened by coronavirus, worsening crisis in hospitals," by the LA Times Soumya Karlamangla: "More than 2,200 people who work at hospitals in L.A. County tested positive for the virus in December alone, constituting roughly a third of all hospital infections reported during the pandemic. Whereas in previous months nursing homes and outpatient clinics suffered the most illnesses, besieged hospitals and their beleaguered workers have been hit hardest by the winter surge." SF EXCEPTION — "With ICU availability still dropping across the Bay Area, San Francisco is bucking the trend," by KTVU's Debora Villalon. SLOW START — "California's vaccination efforts are off to a slow start. Here's why ," by the SF Chronicle's Catherine Ho: "Vaccine supply, which gets allocated by the federal government to states, has been sporadic and often not finalized until the last minute — making it difficult for local health departments to plan when and where to administer the doses. Complicating matters, some health care workers, who along with nursing home residents are in the first group eligible for vaccinations, are declining the vaccine at rates of up to 50% in some Southern California counties and health systems." CHRISTMAS COSTUME — "San Jose Kaiser COVID outbreak grows to 60 cases," by the Mercury News' Julia Prodis Sulek. — "'I'm the Only One Doing It': The Cal Law Student Tracking COVID-19 Cases at Santa Rita Jail," by KQED's Lakshmi Sarah. | | THE TRUMP ERA | | BARABAK'S TAKE — "Trump spoke of 'American carnage,' then made it his reality,'' by the LA Times' Mark Z. Barabak: "Among those aiding and abetting the president, as he has with a consistently blind eye, was the leader of Republicans in the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. … Along with three other California House members — Ken Calvert of Corona, Doug LaMalfa of Richvale and Tom McClintock of Elk Grove — McCarthy signed onto a specious lawsuit aimed at overturning the results in four key states won by Biden." — A BREAKDOWN of which California Republicans voted to overturn Arizona's electoral slate, via CalMatters' Emily Hoeven. | | TRANSITION TIME | | THE LOCAL ANGLE — "What a Democratic Senate means for California: $2,000 payments, budget relief likely," by the SF Chronicle's Joe Garofoli: Democratic control probably won't bring California progressives their fondest hopes, like Medicare for All and forgiveness of all student debt — that is unlikely to happen with an even split in the Senate and several moderates like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin included in the Democratic ranks." — Biden to tap Merrick Garland for attorney general , by POLITICO's Tyler Pager, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney. | | CAMPAIGN MODE | | PROP 22 IMPACT — "Column: In wake of Prop. 22, Albertsons is converting its home delivery to gig work," by the LA Times' Michael Hiltzik: "Albertsons says the transition is national in scope and has nothing to do with California's Proposition 22. But make no mistake. Proposition 22, which passed in November with a $206-million war chest from ride-hailing and delivery companies, made this change almost inevitable in California." | | GAVINLAND | | — "S.F., Oakland and other large districts say Newsom's cash incentive to reopen schools falls short," by the SF Chronicle's Jill Tucker: "The districts, including Oakland and San Francisco, called on the governor to amend his Safe Schools for All proposal, with specific health and safety measures needed to reopen and a requirement that schools reopen when those measures are met. They also asked for a commitment that all districts would receive funding even if they don't meet the deadline to reopen." SKELTON'S TAKE — "The next few weeks are crucial for Newsom as he faces a GOP-led recall effort ," by the LA Times' George Skelton: "Timely vaccinations could mean life or death for Gov. Gavin Newsom politically. Getting kids back to school soon also is essential for Newsom's political health. Reopening restaurants and other small businesses — those that have survived the pandemic, anyway — is likewise a must for the governor." | | CALIFORNIA AND THE CAPITOL CORRIDOR | | RENT RELIEF, AID COMING? — Newsom proposes $600 cash grants for millions of workers with low incomes, by POLITICO's Jeremy B. White: Newsom's blueprint would extend the eviction halt for Californians who can cover at least 25 percent of their rent, and it would channel $2.6 billion of newly available federal stimulus money toward renter assistance. It would also send $600 to Californians who received earned income tax credits in 2020...Undocumented immigrants would be able to access relief if they paid taxes in 2020 and are eligible for tax credits in 2021. — " Race, gender would factor in promotions for California state workers under proposed law," by the Sac Bee's Wes Venteicher: "The legislation — introduced just two months after California voters rejected an initiative that would have repealed the state's ban on affirmative action — aims to give women and minority candidates a better shot at navigating a civil service system that the bill's sponsor, Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, described as overly complex and often biased." — "BART's new cars spending more time in shop than old ones — problems with software and flat wheels," by the SF Chronicle's Phil Matier. — "Fact check: Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones casts doubt on COVID stats in Facebook post," by the Sac Bee's Michael McGough and Hannah Wiley. | | SILICON VALLEYLAND | | — "Facebook Forced Its Employees To Stop Discussing Trump's Coup Attempt," by Buzzfeed's Ryan Mac: Employees "spoke out on an internal message board, with some calling for Trump's removal from the platform. In less than an hour, Facebook moved to silence them." NEURALINK'S NEXT MOVE — "S.F.-based Elon Musk company may put roots down in Austin," by the SF Business Times' Kathryn Hardison: "If the position is filled, this would mark the fourth of Elon Musk's companies to put roots down in Texas." — " Three tech predictions for 2021 from San Francisco, the industry's troubled epicenter," by the SF Chronicle's Owen Thomas. | | HOLLYWOODLAND | | — "SAG-AFTRA 'extremely disappointed' that the Grammys crashed its awards date," by the LA Times' Glenn Whipp. — " Disney confirms 2021 opening date for Marvel's Avengers Campus," by the OC Register's Brady MacDonald. | | CANNABIS COUNTRY | | — "LA Blasts Pot Cos.' 'Whack-A-Mole' Social Equity Litigation," via Law360: "The city of Los Angeles has told a federal judge that a trio of would be cannabis companies challenging the municipality's social equity policy should not be allowed to keep churning out new arguments on why the rules purportedly violate the U. S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause." | | MIXTAPE | | — "Delta Air Lines to connect aircraft with Viasat-powered in-flight Internet," by the San Diego Union-Tribune's Mike Freeman. RENTS DOWN — " These charts show just how extreme the rent declines in San Francisco were in 2020," by the SF Chronicle's Kellie Hwang. HOME PRICES UP — "Forecast: San Diego home prices to rise 8.3% in '21. Most in nation," by the San Diego Union-Tribune's Phillip Molnar. | | | | A NEW YEAR MEANS A NEW HUDDLE IS HERE: Huddle, our daily congressional must-read, has a new author! Olivia Beavers took the reins this week, and she has the latest news and whispers from the Speakers' Lobby. 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