it through enforcement, professor american history at yale university, and steven levitskiy is a professor of history at harvard university. two days before judge michael luttig got a phone call that may have changed the course of history for this nation. then, a capitol police officer who risked his life on january six is hoping to serve his country to different way, this time as an elected official. plus i will talk to california colorado secretary of state janet griswold on the heels of the decision to see whether trump is eligible to be on the stage primary ballot. another hour of velshi starts right now. good morning, it s saturday december the six. i m ali velshi. it s been three years since that mob attacked the united states capitol as part of donald trump s desperate attempt to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election. that attack lasted only a few hours, but the long shadow of the violent insurrection continues to loom large over american dem
insurrectionists broke into the capitol with a mission to stop democracy in its tracks, americas elected lawmakers, members of the house and the senate, were inside. they came out, physically unscathed that day, thanks, in part, to the law enforcement heroes who defended the capitol. the capital police and other nearby police departments ran into the danger that day. they faced violence and hatred and chaos. they lost colleagues. and after the insurrection, those officers returned to the halls of congress, forced to revisit those horrifying memories. you came to know several of those officers in their stories. when they testified before the house january 6th committee, recalling the worst of what they endured that day. one of those officers was sergeant harry dunn. he delivered powerful testimony about his experience. allowing the nation to see the insurrection through his eyes. i sat down on a bench in the rotunda with a friend of mine, he was also a black capitol