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Its my argument to you all of you have to worry about the gop crisis what its your party or not. Why . With of to know if this party is going to try to return to the likeness of lincoln or continue to court forces that are many akin to the man that killed him. Because thats what these extremists and conspiracy cultists are about an mouse and violence. For a party that is consumed with division, with defining us versus them, welsh heres your chance. Us are those who live under the laws and intolerance of one another. This is them. Do you see them . Do you see what they did . This is the only them to worry about in american society. So as we watch a party in search for its soul, the answer is cloudy because we already know what the man who many of them feel loyalty to, the former president , wants to become of these people and from them. Hes on trial for his incessant incitement for the angry to take action, to fight for the election to be overturned. Before anybody trying to make it about something else, remember this remember what you are seeing. We have never seen anything like it. It is the worst, period. And they are our worst, period. Too many have hidden from the truth about trumps intentions for too long. January 6th was the price of that. The same people who are silent about january 6th and why it happened are now also quiet as a Qanon Kook Rises in their ranks. Think about that. Tonight we stop, and we must remember january 6th and the disaster let loose on our democracy. One of the heroes of that day is about to be honored on our watch. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. Hes going to be lying in state, lying in a position of honor tonight at the u. S. Capitol. He valiantly fought an armed trump mob nearly four weeks ago. His family arrives soon with his remains. Why is this the first Commemoration Tonight Of January 6th . Back in 1988 we had two Capitol Officers that died trying to stop a gunman. Everybody was on board then, everybody talked about it and why its significant was so great. Not now. Why didnt the death of this officer cause the outrage in the gop ranks of so many others . We on this show will not allow the Capitol Attack to be forgotten. I will carry the ceremony for you tonight. Every time theres a moment there, well go to it so we can share it and remember it. Now, one of the strongest voices in the House Republican caucus tonight is making a stand. And well have him on the show to talk about his party and what is going on and what this night should mean for all of us. Were exactly one week out from the trial of the accused inciter of the insurrection. Our first lock at the arguments from the both sides. President trump is singularly responsible for the violence and destruction, personally responsible. As for the nine House Impeachment Managers and their 80page brief. Incitement of trump, they argue, that went on before january 6th by baselessly claiming the election was stolen from him. The response . Take a look at this his people cant even spell united, let alone make the case this president was anything to do with properly leading the United States of america. Oh, just a typo. No, not on something of this magnitude you make a mistake on page one. And they didnt just do it once. They did it twice. Theres another mistake page nine. Maybe its freudian they cant even spell united because the word bear not resemblance to anything the former president was about. Heres their argument theres no basis to say the claim on which trumps claims were wrong. Really . The lawsuits, the members of the states that are republicans and democrats, congress certifying the vote theres no basis for saying that hes wrong . Remember, its not just about him and his mouth. Its the reality of who and what remains. A party that is acting more like a game. Gang. Many, too many being more careful about how they speak about a qanon kook in their ranks than trump in the primary. Listen to senator lindsey graham. Are these postings accurate . I want to hear from her. Before i judge what to do about her, i want to know what the facts are. He knows the facts. She literally walks around with a Camera Taping herself spewing vile, and he knows it. This is the same guy that said trump was hell bound. Remember that in didnt seem to show any hesitancy about him. Why about her . Trump wasnt even talking about drinking baby blood. He cant just act, ignoring the reality of half of everything in congress. Doesnt work. So we have to pay attention. Democrats earn a spot. They are forced to decide, do we return to sanity or do what is right on their own . One of the most influential voices is senator joe manchin of West Virginia . What does he think of this moment we share tonight . Of what is right coming out of tonight . And what would be the way forward to get people the help they need . The senator joins us now. Sir, welcome back to primetime. Good evening, chris. How are you . Why do you think its important to have the remains of Officer Sicknick and for it to be something all elected officials recognize . Its a day we must never forget, and its a day the officers family will never forget or recover from. Hell always be lost to them. Its such a sad scenario, but when someone basically gives their life defending our democracy, or capitol, and defending each one of us who were in there, the government. We were the government that day trying to do our job, do what were taxed to do. Heres a man who stood there and gave his life. Its important we pay respects and never forget him or his family. Who do you make sense of the fact that republicans and democrats were equal that day . You were all being hunted, and in fear of what was to come. Yet on the basis of party, if youre a democrat you talk about what happened on the 6th and who did it and what it should mean. On the right, the silence is eerie. Im very hopeful youve got to be optimistic and hopeful the good people in the grand old party will take back their party. Ive always gotten along god with everybody and tried to have good dialogue and differents and try to work through our differences. It was always a good input. But right now theyre muzzled. They dont know whats going to be lurking ahead, if theyre going to be primaried, if somethings going to come after them imfeel sorry for a lo of my friends caught in this situation. Theres a lot of good people and they just need to speak up. The worst thing that can happen is you can get defeated and that is not a big price to pay for your integrity and soul. Yet here you are now, the at democrats have to figure out the way forward. Ideally it would be nice if both sides could make deals and have progress, be quick bum this isnt going to be as fast for the democrats as people seem to suggest if they go it alone. Whats the chance you can get a significant number of republicans to sign on to a Relief Package now . Chris, ive always believed i really thought that this was wrong for us the go down this path but i respect the president s decision. He said, joe, weve done this before. Back in 2013 trying to pass the Affordable Care act. Eight, nine months we dealt in good faith, and at the end of the day no one was there for us. So i respect and appreciate that. I still think theres republicans that will come to a responsible, reasonable agreement. I was very, very encouraged that the first meeting he had with any congress, any members from senate or congress was ten of my republican colleagues for over two hours in the white house two nights ago. That was tremendous. I can tell you they were so appreciative. Just what a breath of fresh air to see some civility and respect that that office really has. And its ive got good hope. I really do. We have to ive said this, mr. President , i want you to know and aye told my side of the aisle were going to do this in a bipartisan way. Chuck schumer said on the floor this will be done in a bipartisan way. I can assure you that. Were not going bust a filibuster. Were not going to bust the burden rule that protects the filibuster. Were going work with each other, like it or not. Remind people what the bird rule is and why reconciliation wouldnt be all onesided. The bird rule keep you in the mid of the road. You cant go too far left, too far right. Its a budget reconciliation. Cedric richmond told me last night, biden senior official, told me, no, no, no, doesnt apply. This is not about the budget. This is all emergency spending. None of that applies to reconciliation would be fine. Is it not that simple . Not on our side. I dont know about their side. I dont know what rules they operate and work under. Our side there will be call to the chair. The parliamentarian will be called to rule. Does this go through the bird rule . The bird rule basically says it has to be within the budgetary means. People try to expand that, im sure, but then the chair will be called on, the procedural, the parliamentarian. Shell make a ruling based on the rules. They can challenge that and then there will be a vote on that. How many votes do you need to beat the parliamentarian . 51. So its a simple majority. Trying to protect the rules of simple majority. I know were early in this process butu being defined by it. But for joe manchin. We respect joe manchin. Is joe manchin not to speak of yourself in the third person, but are you on an island here, or do you feel youre speaking for other democrats in the senate . That are not comfortable with things going on. There are others. There really is. Maybe theyre not my tenyear Voting Record puts me where i am, and i think im the most centrist person in Congress Voting not middle. Ive always said, if i can go home to my beautiful state of virginia, if i can explain it i can vote if it makes sense, it makes sense, if it doesnt, it doesnt. I always tried to operate under those rules and ill continue to. I told my friend in the democrat caucus, i said, im not going to proceed unless we do it in a bipartisan way. Theres no reason for us the president of the United States knows my position on this. I respect him. I consider him my friend. I want him to succeed and do extremely well, and i think he will. He has the demeanor for it. And he has definitely the knowledge and experience for us to come together and work together. As much as humanly possible. If anybody can bring us together, its joe biden. Hes the right person, right time, right place. So you probably noticed, especially for me, im not going after what happened with you and the Vice President down there that was a mistake. That was just a mistake. Heres why im not even going there. I want this process to be the best it can be and give it best chance on both sides to happen fast before it gets ugly. I know this isnt over. You are welcome hear to discuss where this winds up and why, and what it means for you and the rest of the country voting. You have that opportunity. Chris, i appreciate it. Theres a lot of rules and structures we have to work within, and you have to respect that. And with that, im sure theyll be pushing their limits because everybody has pentup aspirations. I understand that. But i am going to defend the seat to my dear friend, the late robert c. Bird. He gave his life. I explained it this way i said, hey, joe, why do you think we have two senators for rhode island and california . Why would we have a government like that . Why would we have a part of the congress for no matter how big, how small, same representation . No difference in the filibuster, the minority has input. No difference in the bird rule they named after me . So we can protect it so people cant go around it and destroy it. Im going defend robert c. Birds legacy and the senate. Youre going to have head winds coming your way. Well see how it plays out. Be well, senator. Thank you, my friend, thank you chris. We are on watch. We have been watching in the control room. Were starting to see the authorities come, the officials are coming. Theyre getting ready for something we havent seen since 1988, okay . That was when you had two capitol Police Officers lost in the line of duty trying to stop a gunman from entering the capitol. Since then this was january 6th. This wasnt a oneoff, wasnt a rogue person, wasnt a lone wolf. This was a group, a mob that came to attack our democracy, and it is shocking, the silence about this. This is the first time we have had a commemoration tonight. Why . Why isnt the talk that knitted us back together . Well take every moment of this. Youll see what happens tonight so that we can remember january 6th. Why we want to be in a better play. Also tonight, we have news about the covid vaccine. Okay . Theres been a big piece of news about how you can get the vaccine. And the big piece of news come out of the uk about concerns about what the vaccine actually protects against. But pharmacies are going to be huge. Why . Were all comfortable going to the drugstore. We trust the pharmacist. In fact, most people trust the pharmacist more than the doctor. But like Everything Else in the pandemic, it hasnt been simple. The pharmacies and their role. Were lucky tonight. We have the Chief Medical Officer of one of the chief players. Walgreens. Played a big role, about to play a bigger role. What are the realities . What are the challenges . Next. 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He was protecting Men And Women who were being hunted who now almost deny the existence of that day, but more importantly, its significance. But we wont. We have to remember what happened. We all know the adage, if you dont learn from history you are doomed to repeat it. January 6th was not another protest go wrong. It was orchestrated and indicated by a lot of ugly language to do exactly what they did. They didnt attack a store front. They attacked the sacred space of our democracy with an intention to stop the election process, to stop the certification, to stop our democracy. And those forces are alive and well, and now online with all new Feeding Sources because they have been put into the political dialogue by our former president. And theyre radicalizing online at a rate we have not seen before, just ask the Men And Women In Charge of keeping us safe. So tonight well remember. Were going wait, see if the president shows up, who comes. The commemoration, the solemnity of the situation, the pain, the significance. Because thats how he learn. And look at accountability. For the Men And Women who renman in power. Who were there that day. How they speak, and how they dont matters. Now, what else matters . What this administration is going to get us to a better place. Its all about the vaccine. Now we have variants versus vaccine. Were going to take on both parts. Heres big news that came out today beginning next week, the federal government is going to ship vaccines directly to thousands of Retail Pharmacies all across the country to begin phase 2, okay . Walgreens, cvs, rite aid. The big chain names. White house officials caution its going to take time before every major store can get it. Cvs, theyre going to get about 250,000 doses next thursday to vaccinate across 11 states. Its not that much. Walgreens expects around 170 doses to distribute around 13 jurisdictions. So how soon will this make a difference . And what is the role of the pharmacy in this . Why is this the best way . Lets get answers from walgreens Chief Medical Officer, dr. Kevin van. Good to see you, sir. Chris, good to be on the show, thank you. Can wall greens and oh big chains hand this will mandate from the federal government to start moving into phase two . What does this mean for you . You know, its important, chris, to know that we dont start from scratch here. We have been building the vaccine prom for the last ten years and weve got infrastructure. This is a big deal. We started with phase one. That was the longterm care facility, and now well be receiving vaccine directly from the federal government, and then the idea is that well take that vaccine and well go into vulnerable communities that really need it most. The pharmacies found their way into the federal government because this is an opportunity for you to get into revenue streams. What is the reality for wall greens and why youre involved . That is inaccurate. This is not a commercial play. We were collaborating with the federal government around testing and, they knew if they collaborated with us, worked tonight on the Vaccine Program we would be able to be successful buzz of our footprint. Our instinct was we wanted to lean immediately into our stores. Instead, the federal government, ows said, look, 40 of the pandemic deaths occur in the longterm care facilities and thats where we need to start. So quite honestly, that for us was a steeper mountain, but we talked about and it decided it was the right thing to do. Not the easy thing to do, but the right thing to do and thats why we started there. Instead of doing it in the stores where we have the infrastructure and you know how to do it you went into the longterm care facilities. Wound up being two interesting things. What did you find versus what you were told of the reality in those places . Lets start there. What did you find . Yeah, well, look, when we went after when we went into these longterm care facilities we had to estimate how much vaccine we would need. The idea was we wanted to have more vaccine. The worsecase scenario would be we didnt have enough to vaccinate. So we knew we had more than necessary. When we got there, what we learned was the occupancy of the facilities is much less than we thought, and not only the vaccine hesitancy, particularly among the employees was high. Just yesterday the cdc reported it was as high as 60 . So very quickly we found we had excess vaccine. We did two things there. Number one, we pushed vaccine to the next eligible clinic. And then we let the states know, we dont control the vaccine. They do. And we said to them, do you want us to vaccinate based on your eligibility, or do you want to vaccine back . Chris, if you ask any state youll find that is in fact the truth. When we talk to the governor of utah he said, we have to go there. He said im coming with the National Guard and you can give to it me. Was that the nature of the relationship, were you trying to horde vaccine . Thats the last thing. Like i said, we found ourselves in the situation where we had more vaccine than we needed. The last thing we would ever do is hold it. Immediately what we did was get in touch with the states to make sure we were compliant with their wishes. Walgreens does not determine who gets vaccinated. Were the last mile of this. Were the ones who actually distribute and administer it, but only based on state eligibility. Something interesting happened today there was a report off ohio that there was a problem with storage, a mishandling because of the Temperature Sensitivities and that you guys are putting it out there that this happened. Thats an unusual degree of transparency. So i want to exploit it. How difficult is it to handle this cold chain, and how likely are problems . Let me pick up on that point about transparency, chris. From transparency comes trust, and that is one of the most important things we can build as we work our way through this program. So transparency means that you have to call balls and strikes. In this particular situation and im learning more about it it would seem our systems failed. Were trying to figure out what happened there so that we can protect it from happening again in the future. Importantly, none of the patients who received vaccine were injured, and we quickly got in touch with the manufacturers, and learned we have to revaccinate those people. But again, its important to realize, this is a tricky process. This cold chain takes a lot of i mean, literally it takes cryogenic gloves. These things will happen. We have to be transparent and fix them. I have been hearing about a lot of things happening. What was shocking is you guys didnt deny it. Were coming off the phase where everything was a lie, everything was denied. At least i didnt have to chase you down about it. If you can fix it, great. It will be instructive for other people handling it. In terms of what you learned about how complicated this is when we look around theres always different rates. No one can seem to get the supply. It seems like state by state theres always a different story. What did you learn . Well, the importance thing here is that we actually do learn through the process and that we give the feedback so we can fix it. One of the decisions that was made early was to allow all of the states and jurisdictions to have autonomy over how they wanted to determine eligibility. Well, you know, instead of having one stakeholder for wall greens, now we have 56. Now we have to work with 66 different stakeholders to make sure that were doing the right thing. Now, thats not 66 times for difficult. Thats some power of it. I get it. What i would say here is simplicity will equal speed. Were trying to simplify. I appreciate you being transparent. You have a platform to make the case of what youre seeing that works and what needs to work better its going to be vaccines versus variants. Dr. Kevin ban, good luck at wall greens and thank you for being straight with us. All right, be well. All right, this is the moment tonight, and we have to live it together. We see that we have had the vehicle drive up. And the family is coming with the remains. The officer was cremated so theyre bringing the remains to be any way position of being memorialized for his sacrifice. You see officer assembled on their bicycles. Again, we havent lived a moment like this since 1988 when two officers were loss in the line of duty trying to stop a gunman from entering the capitol. Nothing of this magnitude. But this was no lone wolf. Thats why youre seeing it being treated we solemnity it deserves. Theres several different phases and i want you to see each one of them. Lets just listen and watch for a few moments. While we wait for the officer to gather the remains and the family and make their procession up into the capitol, lets bring in Charles Ramsey and David Gregory to reflect on why were doing this and why it matters. Chief and commissioner, youve held so many positions in law enforcement. You know the force down here well. Why does this matter so much tonight, and why does it demand this kind of attention . Well, its part of the healing. It means an awful lot to the family of Officer Sicknick, but it also means a lot to the Men And Women of the u. S. Capitol police and across the country. For an officer to lose their life in the line of duty, there is nothing thats more traumatic to a Police Agency than that. And of course january 6th was something that all of us need to remember. And not forget. And this officer died protecting the lives of our country, of our members of our congress. And he should be paid this kind of tribute. David, i can never i cant remember another time that Something Like this happened and there was such quiet on half the political aisle, let alone when you add the fact that many of them were being protected by officers like sicknick that day. And yet this is the first time weave commemorated the occasion. Theres very little talk of what was wrong and what was learned from it. First i can think being treated this way. You . Well, i think theres certainly agreement of the solemnity of the night, of the occasion, and the sadness and the horror of the day. I think where it quickly devolves and descends is whos to blame, whats to blame, how the political duties, kind of overtake it in a way that can cheapen these moments. As the commissioner just said, its a reminder theres so much scrutiny of officers. Thats also appropriate. Whats also appropriate so to celebrate Police Officers, doing their job, protecting institutions like our United States capitol. And in this case, Officer Sicknick losing his life. In defense of the lawmakers and the cradle of our democracy, Something Like anything weve seen since 1812. You just saw the officers arm in arm with the sicknick family and now you see the officer carrying the remains of officer Brian Sicknick, lost in the line of duty at the u. S. Capitol on january 6th. You see that this is a very elaborate ceremony. You see that this is a very elaborate ceremony. There are so many officers there. The family was at the top of the stairs of the capitol, arm in arm with other members of the Capitol Police as Brian Sicknicks remains were moved from the hearst and walked up. A flag folded behind. Now you see the detail coming out to escort him in where he will be revered and remembered as a fallen hero in the line of duty protecting not just the cradle of our democracy that would be more than enough, but lets bring in congressman adam kinzinger, republican illinois veteran. Always good to see you, congressman. You too. Ordinarily when were commemorating and memorializing people who die in the service of the this country, i talk to you about your own service. You play a different role now. You were being protected by this Capitol Policeman, and i tell you, i have to apologize. I didnt hear you tell the story of your experience that day until recently. I should have thought to ask you about it. And it is really frightening, brother. I am sorry that you had to get to the point where you felt you had to arm yourself and think, this may be it. After the events ended, what changes in you in terms of what you Carry Forward about that day . Yeah, i mean, it was a day that there was so much confusion, obviously, but a day when you look back and the dust settles, you just wonder how you got here. You look at the mess of the capitol, the anger and the pure evil that was being yelled, that was being shouted at these officers, you know . I recently talked to one of the offices there and he basically relaid the story to me. He happens top a metro pd. They pushed like 800 of them here. They protected democracy as well. He talked about masses of humanity fighting each other, that it was medieval. Hand to hand combat. Nobody went to work that day thinking it would end up like that. Democracy can change. I think its important tosh to say democracy held. And its a wakeup call to just how fragile it could be. Its interesting. While youre speaking congressman i just want you to know what were seeing. We saw the congressional leadership enter. I saw pelosi, mccarthy, the speaker of the house and Minority Leader i saw sunny hoyer, another senior democratic member of ranks. Senator schumer. And now here come the remains. Lets honor this with quiet as they present Officer Sicknick in the capitol. All right, the shots going to come back of whats happening inside and when it does, well bring it to you. Congressman, were watching the solemnity of this and the leadership coming together to remember what was, and yet the reality outside these walls is a complete division. Ive never seen on occasion like this almost denied by half of the political membership, where they dont want to talk about january 6th, we should move on. Who really knows what it was . It gets complicated with impeachment. Its not complicated. Theres nothing complicated about whats happening in the party. The shocking part is that youre among such a small number willing to take risk. I dont understand why this is so risky for to you stand up and say, hey, im a republican. The party of lincoln, not john wilkes booth. Qanon is not for us. The people there we have to deny them loudly. Were not about them. Why is this a challenge for you . I think weve forgotten the art of leadership or how to lead. Leadership isnt always figuring out who the polls say and doing whatever we need to do get elected. Its sometimes leading out in dark moments, calling out things like qanon or saying the idea of election being stolen is false. Its not real. Its difficult to say that because youre going to have to take some immediate blowback, but this lesson from this, which is a painful and tragic and costly lesson is, if you continue the not tell people the truth, they eventually believe totally off the wall things and will find themselves being motivated to go into as an example, the United States capitol. An officer is murdered. Close to 100 officers injured. And destroy the place and try to say its the equivalent of what happened last summer or anything like that. It is so incumbent on leaders to call out these dark divisive conspiracies and just look with a sober eye and say, how did we get here and how do we get out of here . We have to do that. Did you ever think it would be as a member of congress where youd have to pull your side arm and think about defending your life about people coming to kill you for what you represent . I never would have imagined having to do it here. And there was a period of about a half hour where, you know, i thought the whole place had been breached and you know that i was going to have do that. Thankfully the officers fought, some to the end a their life. Two, you know, took their own lives in the aftermath. But defended democracy and fought this mob and did so honorably. Because democracy is not just worth defending for them. They found it worth Brian Sicknick found it worthy to give his life for. And we have people that are scared to sit around and give their career for the same cause. Im not sitting here saying everybody has to be a hero at all times, but something basic like doing the right thing or telling your constituents the truth should be the really basic part of a job. I have been going light on the language on the war within the party. I call it an identity crisis. I cant believe theres a dispute. Lindsey graham on the senate side, they were tougher about donald trump in the primary than theyre being about an open qanon supporter. And youre putting together your own effort now to kind of reestablish principles. We hear theres a meeting with mccarthy and maybe other people to talk about her fate. I mean, what do you think happens in the party with her and in general . Were in a split screen with the capitol and it seems to be an occasion your party cant get away from fast enough. I dont know what the future holds in terms of this. Im going to tell the truth. The Republican Party can be worth defending. We have to remember where we came from. We have to remember where we came from and remember how the lead and be honest. We need a Healthy Democratic Party and Republican Party. But where were at now, this isnt just about winning the next election, because honestly if we continue down this path theres not going to be a next election because the whole thing is going to implode. Its a wakeup call for some. I hope there are some being quiet and will stand up soon. Its about painting a optimistic notion. Vision. The base voter love their country and believe donald trump was the person to lead the country, we all need to step back. Look at what happened in the capitol. Look at the lies that were told hold an our principles. Wu we deserve better. If you tell the truth, its easy. You dont have to track your lies. You are not a big mouth. Youre not a loud guy. Youre not about histrionics. The only time ive seen you wide eyed was after you escaped and went unscathed and went back to do your work, which was so brave a little reckless so soon after the incursion, to see so many people stand up and say, i support the lie, i support the big lie. I dont want to certify the election. Thats when i saw you get loud and proud about what was going on around you. How did you understand it then in the immediate aftermath of what you had to survive . I was shocked. To go down there and see people automatically already say they know for a fact now this was antifa and to try to sweep this under the rug and still vote to decertify the election results. Results the lie about the stolen election was one thing, but not learning this lesson after january 6th is whats compelled me to speak out Even Stronger because its like, look i mean, again, Brian Sicknick, this hero gave his life for democracy. We have to be willing to at least make ourselves politically uncomfortable to tell people the truth at least. You think theres a chance the Party Decides not to be about progress and do an obama move . That happened last time. In the middle of a pandemic. You think theres any chance . Am i going to be overly hopeful . I dont know. Loyal opposition, thats a good thing. You can oppose stuff. Being loyal to your country or any loyalty to a party is what we need to give back to and this democracy is frustrated to some people but it will function and work again. Just hearing in my ears, the president left the motorcade from the capitol, hes coming to the capitol. We are waiting for his arrival. Well show it when he comes. It is important for him to be there tonight and it is important for you to stand up to think whats right. But, is there pressure within your own family of what you are doing right now . My immediate family is great. There are some cousins of my fathers that sent a certified letter said that i was in the devils arms and a whole bunch of stuff and they double downed with another certified letter reaffirming their believes. This is the kind of thing i laugh about it. It is indicative of whats happening in a lot of families, people describing qanon or taking politics higher than any bond of families. Thats what we got to get away. This is a human moment tonight, Brian Sicknick gave his life to defend democracy. I hope we take a moment to realize whether it is somebody in the military or First Responder or whoever stood up to defend your right. We have to see humanity. I think we lost to see humanity on the other side. This is the kind of stuff that you defended the country from abroad and i was able to report on with the protection of Men And Women like you abroad. I have never seen anything like this in the mainstream in america. My concern is listening to the people at the intel agency that i know you have better access. Theyre worried that these extreme groups entering the bloodstream and radicalizing like never before online. This is not a oneoff incident in terms of whats opened up here. I am a little worried about that, too. Part of that we have not been pushing back early enough and openly enough. So i do worry about whats happening. I think that the more the people stand up and say something. Look if you are buying into this idea that government is run by pedophiles and sworn to satan. Lets think logically about this. The best way to uninfection is sunlight and openness and honesty and optimism. I think we need more of that and respecting each other. It is not going to magically happen tomorrow. If we can start to move that ship that way, we have a lot to be proud in this country and optimistic about. 100 . Boy, we should have gotten a little bit more of a wake up call than we have. We known each other for a while, i respect you standing up for what you believe is right when it is not popular. I got to say that it is shocking to me. Adam, be safe, i am assuming the holidays will be at your house this year. You and the family welcome over at my house, bring a helmet. All right, brother. God bless and be well. Little bit of levity so we are not crying all the time. This is so sad what we have been living through. Nobody is doing this to us, we are doing it to ourselves. We see it all around us. The pandemic and we are making ourselves sick. We are fighting over what we can do to protect ourselves. Making people so angry out of selfinterest and it is so obvious and it cant be called out and defend it on the basis party. It leads on whats on this split screen now, not since the world of 1812 had any fashion. It was done by our own people. I am sure Confederate Flag s an materials that have no business in the house. These were americans that did this. They did it as a battle cry against their own. Now we have half our political spectrum is quiet about it. We should move on. It hurts unity if you dwell on this. I never disagree in something said in politics more. How do we heal if we dont acknowledge what was wrong and why it was wrong and who did it . I cant believe that the same Men And Women who were being hunted tu hunted, turned around and wanted to forget. Thats why tonight matters. Brian sicknick was one man who touched many. He put his life on the line for many he did not know. We cant agree its got to be remember at a low point and we have to come to a better place. Thats why it is so important that hes lying in a position of reve reverence. I know occasions like this there is a temptation to say Leave Politics out of it. It is all about politics. Now just say nice things, no. It is time for truth. If you are going to walk into this room, represent the same when you leave it. Fight for the same thing that you think is represented in the room. Thats leadership. Thats what we need. There is our president. We need him very much tonight to be at this event and lead our intentions and not under a vail of his not being there and not liking it and being forced and agreeing the bad side of the situation. It has to be clear again. Not the policies but the principles. We have to be about us and them, us being patriots and them being traitors and people who tried to destroy us. This is a hard time to come into a position of leadership but hopefully all the experience that joe biden has lived personally and professionally,a make for the right man for the right moment because we are desperate for leadership. Here is a president first time in the 1980s that we have Capitol Officers being commemorated this way that they lose their lives. 1998, i think i said 1988 earlier, i am sorry if i did. I was wrong. Look, here we are now and we have never seen anything like this before. This was not a lone wolf or one deranged person with bad intentions. This was a mob that came. Lets watch. If you are just joining us now on cnn tonight with don lemon. Brian sicknick the capitol Police Officer who lost his life protecting our capitol. He has been presented to be memorialized and remembered in state, in the u. S. Capitol. We have not seen anything like this since 1998. Officer