environment. that s fine, yeah, they are both important in their own way. in different ways, some important for tomorrow, less than yesterday. i don t even know what i mean by that. have a great weekend, chris. you too, alex. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. this january 6th rioter, the one in the queue shirt at the front of the pack here, his name is douglas austin johnson. he has now famous for having chased capitol police officer, eugene goodman, up the stairs in the capital. he actually did not even know what building he was invading on january 6th. this is me touching the white house. bring the white house! that s what we do! touching the white house, very close but still a few blocks down pennsylvania avenue, mr. johnson. anyway, despite not knowing where he was, johnson didn t know why he was there, wherever there was. this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you k
this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you know, i wanted to stop this depends on all that. pence was supposed to be the hero to save the day, and he didn t. and when this writer was asked what got him there in the first place, he said quite clearly, trump s posts. trump posted make sure your their, january 6th. douglas austin johnson cited donald trump specifically has a reason that he went to the capitol that day, and he is not alone in that. more than 1000 people, 1000 people have been arrested for their roles in the january 6th riot so far. the nonprofit group, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, also known as crew, that group comb through all of the public google filings related to january 6th defendants. they found at least 174 of those defendants said that, in one way or another, that they were answering donald trump s calls when they travel to washington and joined the
and i ve kept it off. golo is real, our customers are real, and our success stories are real. it was inspired by the why not give it a try? ancient roman pantheon, the classical domed building in central roma. and it was supposed to be eight times bigger. that dome and the massive opening in the center of it was so gigantic that clouds would have formed inside the space there. and it wasn t just that one piece of imposing architecture. the goal was trying to get do away with existing buildings and have a whole city teaming with marble buildings, an ode to the roman empire. at the time these plans were being drawn up in the 1930s, the leader of another country was focused on architecture as well. this building you see right here, with its 216 arches, was deduct designed is an homage to the ancient coliseum. it was just one part of a
district full of buildings and structures that were supposed to bring back the splendor of the roman empire and bring it into modern life. now there is nothing wrong with classical or neoclassical architecture, or architecture that is inspired by it. in fact, that building, the one with all the arches, is now the world headquarters for effendi, so that is a compliment, decidedly. but it is worth noting that the leading autocrats of the 20th century, they had a kind of fetish with neoclassical architecture. they wanted everything to be built in a way that would harken back to the glory days of the greek and roman empires. all of the buildings and waters models i just showed you, they were works commissioned either by hitler or mussolini. and so given that history, it is no wonder that it raised a lot of eyebrows in 2020 when then president donald trump signed an executive order enshrining at classical architecture as the preferred style for federal projects. given his anti-democratic