"The president caused this protest to occur. He's the only one who can make it stop": Chris Christie
Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called on President Donald Trump to ask protesters to leave the Capitol grounds on ABC News Live.
"It’s pretty simple," he said. "The President caused this protest to occur. He's the only one who can make it stop."
"What the vice president just said is not good enough, what the president said is not good enough," Christie added. "The President has to come out and tell his supporters to leave the Capitol grounds, and to allow the Congress to do their business peacefully. Anything short of that is an abrogation of his responsibility."
Christie noted that both Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. had previously spoken to the crowd.
"I don't know that they anticipated this was going to be the result," he said. "But it doesn't matter whether they did or they didn’t. This is the result of their words."