former president due to his role in january 6th. which could impact other states, making similar efforts, including maine, which will be talking about later in the program. you know that details of that day as well as anyone. what are your thoughts on this case? i think there are multiple aspects to the case. clearly, trump did engage an insurrection. this entire thing was a multifaceted effort to overturn the constitution. and, in the, and using violence. but that is a separate question, in some ways, then what the court has to consider. the 14th amendment is clear. that officers of the united states and clearly the presidency is one of those, cannot be held by insurrectionists. what is unsaid, and which congress has never dealt with, is who makes that judgment and
events of january 6th. happy new year, first of all, congresswoman. and thank you for joining us tonight on the three year anniversary of january 6th. although shot time has passed, we are still hearing about new details and new arrests and the man at the center of it all former president donald trump seems poised to win his first nominating contest of 2024 cycle, and just over a week. what are your thoughts about all of this tonight? well, reverend, i ve thought a lot today about the events of four years ago. i ve been reaching out to some of the police officers who were injured defending me, as well as the constitution. and contemplating that trump, who the committee found organized this entire effort to overturn the constitution, summoned the mob and hoped that
into the iowa caucus as he campaigns and i will on the third anniversary of january 6th. while in the state, he has had some memorable speeches, including one on friday where he told iowans to, quote, get over it, and quote, after a deadly school shooting in perry, iowa. and today, he had this today. the civil war was so fascinating, so horrible, so horrible. bucks are fascinating. i don t know, i m so attracted to it. so many mistakes were made. this is something that could have been negotiated. for oldest people to die, and they thought viciously. and i think abraham lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn t even abraham lincoln was. just negotiate the civil war. what s your reaction to what
proud of the successes of the trump administration. what s in the best interest of the country would be to pardon him so that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him. and why have ever supported any type of lawlessness or anything like that. it was not an insurrection. these are people that were there to attend a rally and then they were there to protest. it evolved, and it evolved into a riot. with republican politicians going to great lengths to minimize what happened on january 6th, it 2021, is not surprising many gop voters who have shifted as well. a new washington post university of maryland poll found republicans are now less likely to believe participants in this election insurrection or violence then the war in 2021. they re also more reluctant to hold president trump
events of january 6th for two years. but even beyond washington, the right-wing forces trump has emboldened our hostile as ever to social progress. that hostility on display this week in the forest resignation of harvard president claudine gay and in part by hid fund manager blackmon, who i pick it this week as head of national action network. the president of historically black morehouse college joins me later to discuss the impact of gay s alistair and we ll at mains for black educators everywhere. but we begin tonight with a lasting impacts of january 6th. joining me now, congresswoman zoe lofgren. a democrat of california. she served on the house select committee investigating the