what do you do about a congresswoman openly rooting for a, quote, national divorce? as the u.s. hits new case records and omicron surges, randy weingarden on whether american schools are ready to handle open that criterion. what we learned about climate change in 2021, the year that is now ending with winter wildfires in colorado and near 70-degree weather in alaska. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this morning the associated press published an expansive and very well reported story on the attack on our democracy. the headline slow-motion insurrection: how the republican party seizes election power. reporting from the ap is reprinted in newspapers across the country. this article appeared in a slew of major publications including the atlanta journal-constitution in georgia, the star tribune in minnesota, the houston chronicle in texas, the tampa
often approaching a new year gives us time to reflect on how we could have done things differently. perhaps that s why the houston chronicle is reporting that former president donald trump said if he could do it all over again, he would do more to ensure that national guard troops were deployed on january 6th to prevent the storming of the capitol. he made these comments during a public event with bill o reilly which we should note drew a much smaller crowd than expected. trump went on to say, quote, i would have insisted they have proper protection. he also claimed the day before the riot he recommended that 10,000 troops be deployed at the capitol. but we all know that didn t happen. trump, true to form, also said there was, quote, love in that crowd at the ellipse, referring to the stop the steal rioters.