not just with other democrats, you were all together with your republican colleagues. what has it been like now, republicans who spoke out last year against the insurrection, they have gone silent in the last six months. how can we possibly last six months. how can we possibly move forward when your own colleagues who were there hiding out with you whitewashed that devastating experience? well, you re absolutely right. up in the gallery, i want to note that we were also there with members of the press and we were told through a series of announcements from the floor from capitol police, i later learned to prepare to sit down, lie down, get your gas masks out from under your seats. i had no idea there were gas masks under our seats. you re right. we were hustled out. republicans and democrats, to a safe space. i remember being told as i was running through the tunnels, take your pin off. the pin we should be proud of, take it off because those who stormed the capitol won t care
0 it s impossible to deny that. as president biden will discuss this morning january 6th represents an ongoing threat to our democracy. in the year since nearly 20 states have passed laws to restrict voting and in many republican circles trump s big lie about the 2020 election still goes unchallenged. bottom line, january 6 has become a stark testament to the fractured nation we ve become and warning sign for what is coming next. with us throughout the hour, nbc s monica alba, she covers the white house, garrett haake on capitol hill, ellison barber outside the capitol, katie benner covers the justice department for the new york times , phil rucker senior washington correspondent for the washington post, eugene daniels co-author of the politico playbook and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. monica, let s start with the president. how is he going to approach this one? he s going to mark, of course, the solemn anniversary, steph, but instead
me as a very distant cousin but with hair. the latest billionaire space joyride, for instance, but the pro insurrectionist rally at the capitol won t be one of those things. the far right pro insurrectionist crowd was small and was seemingly outnumbered by police, journalists and counter protestors. traditionally protests in defense of prisoners, in this case those jailed for their role in the january 6th terrorism. traditionally the number of protesters exceeds the number of pris nors. here the ratio was reversed. on average there was not even one concerned citizen per imprisoned insurrectionist. the rally itself was relatively short and peaceful. four people were arrested mainly for weapons violations. meanwhile, at the capitol building they swarmed, or should i say trickled around. lawmakers will be looking at actual governing. if you want to get a accepts of
if you want people to have your investment dollars in your state, capitol won t flow to a hostile environment. you have to keep it as open and free market as you can and in oklahoma we believe they are doing that. thank you for doing being with us. they focus on texas money, but there s more to freedom than that. we will cover that tonight. my next guest says one state is hot, cheap and right and it is not florida which topped travis list. which state? that s next. new car!