broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
Much author coming out which i ve heard a lot of very excellent things about kind of the big issues of our time. by and just to. we called after the ivory tower falls. how college broke the american dream and blew up our politics. and how to fixamer falls. it s ican m released next tuesday. will, congratulations on the book. thank you for joining us tonight. bo yeah. thanks for the kind words. i appreciate it, chris. that is all in on this tuesday night. msnbc prime starts right now. good evening. chris all in i remember everyday i think of it everyday. can t forget those words, so memorable. thank you so much.etse have ads great rest of your nig. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news to get to tonight. g the washington post just out with this brand new reporting, justice department investigating trump s actions in january 6 criminal probe. we will get details from carol len ig, one of the reporters who
Very strategic about when he pops his head up. his path to the white house f he has one and i argue he does not, do exactly what he s been doing. what do you think that aide meant by that? what is mike pence doing right now? and does he have a chance of being the 2024 republican nominee? i feel like i have more of a chance of being the gop presidential nominee than mike pence? i mean, the field is open. you might as well. as it goes with pence, yeah. he does have a chance. but the tension here for him in particular is how does he address this? another thing that happened today is they released the title and the cover of his book coming out november 15th. it s about the oath of office. so help me god. it hints at this. and the publisher apparently is counting on him to actually talk about january 6th. yet he himself is not. again today you referred to as, quote, that tragic day.