human. january six was an investigation of monumental moment. in american history. where we had a harm armed mob stormed the capitol. it was obviously a moment of great weight. but it put out a focus i think that s what the republicans lack here. when i ve watched any of the footage of any of the testimony has been an unmoored discussion on all sorts of right-wing, fox news propaganda. essentially, it s a way of getting thompson airtime on fox news by airing all sorts of grievances all over the place. and really there s no focus, and there is really no meat there. i m old enough to remember the meat commercials. there s no ultimate meat to the bones to any of these allegations. it s easy to talk about all sorts of conspiracies and use a lot of big words, and then get
investigation of monumental moment. in american history. where we had a harm armed mob stormed the capitol. it was obviously a moment of great weight. but it put out a focus i think that s what the republicans lack here. when i ve watched any of the footage of any of the testimony has been an unmoored discussion on all sorts of right-wing, fox news propaganda. essentially, it s a way of getting thompson airtime on fox news by airing all sorts of grievances all over the place. and really there s no focus, and there is really no meat there. i m old enough to remember the meat commercials. there s no ultimate meat to the bones to any of these allegations. it s easy to talk about all sorts of conspiracies and use a lot of big words, and then get the witnesses to say the same thing. but ultimately wears the evidence, i think that s weber look waiting. for we have a lot more to discuss. after the, break we are going to tackle conspiracy pressures in the gop umbrella.
of donald trump. the day before a mob stormed the capitol, maggie haberman writing in the times reports quote pence s chief of staff mark short had a message for pence s lead secret service agent. the president was going to turn publicly against the vice president and there could be a security risk to mr. pence because of it. the only time mr. short flagged a security concern during his tenure as mr. pence s top aide. the warning shows the concern at the highest levels of government about the danger that mr. trump s anticipated actions and words might lead to violence on january 6th. joining us now, new york times congressional reporter luke broadwater, a colleague of the aforementioned maggie haberman. luke, tell us about this blarg piece of breaking news in your paper. say more about it. we just barely grazed the surface. an incredible story. maggie haberman has a book coming out. she disclosed this is
officers. they are in the process, the final stages, they say, of getting new intelligence director, but as you see kind of people preparing to leave and people preparing to go in the security, january 6th did not happen simply because capitol police made mistakes. the things that i heard people saying that day in this crowd, the rage that we saw as people busted through these bicycle racks and then attacked law enforcement to get up those steps, security changes alone it doesn t fix that. stephanie? i want to bring into the conversation congresswoman madeleine dean, a democrat from pennsylvania who hid in the gallery when the mob stormed the capitol. i don t imagine what this day is like for you both personally and professionally, but are we forgetting that on that day when you were under threat you went back to the capitol with your republican colleagues, with your fellow democratic colleagues and you voted to certify the
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