though it s the number one thunderbolt, i can t see them making a referral that doesn t include donald trump. garrett, let me talk about the hundreds of police officers who defended the capitol during the insurrection. they received congress highest honor, the congressional gold medal. talk about the significance of the gold medals. reporter: it s a reminder of the gratitude that everyone in the capitol community, reporters and myself included, have towards these officers from the capitol police and the d.c. metropolitan police who responded on that day and were able to secure the capitol before the night was over and let congress continue with their work. this ceremony was voted on back in june of last year. it takes about this long to mint the medals and prepare the ceremony. it was a bipartisan vote, but not every house republican did vote in favor of the ceremony. a very emotional day here today. speaker pelosi captured some of
states, who has been accused, not charged but accused in the january 6 testimony of trying to break the law in order to hold on to office when he was not re-elected is kind of confessing here because he is saying it s justifiable, in his post, if you believe there s election fraud to violate the constitution. i want to take a moment of personal privilege. i want to fact check what the former president wrote on truth social. my interview with the national intelligence directioner. mr. trump is falsely claiming she views the mar-a-lago documents investigation is a joke. i know you can t talk about the investigation into mar-a-lago. if somebody in the intelligence community took home documents, classified documents, and then resisted turning them back, what
the reagan national defense forum. ashley? that s right. you put what trump said about that in context. i think it s key for all of us. i am old enough to remember covering the tea party movement, which was a republican movement where you would go down and these would be republican candidates, republican voters who were all carrying around a pocket constitution that they wanted to show to you, because they believed it was so important. i am old enough to remember when republicans, many refusing to outright condemn trump, were furious with former president obama for using executive actions, which they could disagree, is within one s authority as a president. they began calling him king obama for daring to use an executive action on something like immigration. these same people would be
more democratic. in this runoff, even with this compressed time period, it has become more democratic. we are modelling it plus 13. you have seen a five-point bump for democrats, even though it s a smaller number of people voting early. what about the youth vote? there had been some concern among democrats and some lops from republicans that young people are not turning out as they might have. when we look at the work both candidates need to do, even though the walker campaign has a steeper hill to climb, democrats, senator warnock s campaign are looking at today and counting on the youth vote to make up for some of the numbers that have been slightly behind in the early vote. robert gibbs, when you look at this today, what are you hearing from georgia? what do you think is happening? it s notable that the two part leaders, president biden and donald trump, were not physically there. they were remotely doing calls and doing a remote rally, but neither of them, because of
donald trump. donald trump picked him out of a host of other republicans. i think the question that i have going forward, we look at turnout, are the republican voters that we saw voting for brian kemp and for brad raffensperger, who skipped the senate race or ended up voting for raphael warnock, do they show up? to me, that s the difference between herschel walker possibly pulling off an upset or him losing. do you think democrats would find it surprising and troubling that there have been so few people in the fulton county stronghold that vaughan was at? the pattern is that democrats, by and large, are early voters. either in person, like you see in georgia, or by mail. republicans wait to the last second to vote. not only am i interested in, how is the turnout in places like fulton, i m really interested to see, what do the precincts look