As the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the senator accompanied the two men on their trip to the U.S. Capitol.

Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the chief of the inaugural transition, acknowledged the difficulty of overseeing the handoff of power to President Trump in the site where his followers sought to overthrow election results.

The new US President Donald Trump was in a car with his predecessor Joe Biden on the way from the White House to the Capitol building.