commemorating our emergency who died whether from complications through injuries or sadly through decide in the days and months after the violence. brian sicknick of new jersey. hallie leeben good of virginia. billy evans of massachusetts. jeffrey smith of illinois. and gun ther hasheeda of virginia. today and every day we remember them. we mourn their loss. we honor their limitless heroism in the face of the unthinkable. second, we also thank every single member of the capitol police, the d.c. metro police, and the national guard who kept us safe and prevented a violent riot from turning into something much worse. that afternoon our capitol police were outnumbered, unprepared, and largely left on their own. just watching on television the brutal beating of one of them by the mob, another being crushed between a door and a wall, just rips your heart apart, and you relive that day, and you remember how the capitol police suffered but persisted and helped preserve our democracy. when they held the line, our democracy survived and so not only do we thank them, but we commit to continue supporting them and fighting for them as they fought to defend this building. finally, the only way we'll truly move forward from january 6th is by speaking truth to power. we cannot avoid it. the truth about what happened that day. about what led to the violence. about what it means for our democracy moving forward. i say this because too many often depending on their allegiances seem desperate to sweep the memory of january 6th under the rug. too many are working to rewrite the history of what happened. to down play or excuse or even defend the mob. to excuse an insurrection of this very capitol. too many are hoping the american people will just look away and forget that that day ever took place. after all, they say, donald trump is no longer president. right? we can't. that can't happen. we can't let that happen. we have an obligation not to let that happen. because history shows us when you ignore or paint over this kind of violent action, it will recur often in worse form than it had originally. that's what history shows. we didn't look away after the attack on pearl harbor. we didn't look away after the attacks on 9/11. they may have been from foreign powers, but we still just because it was mesh americans who did this, we cannot look away after the attack of january 6th. what we must do instead is stare the truth however ugly in the face. the attack of january 6th didn't come out of the blue. it was not an act of god. it was not something that came from foreign soil. it wasn't even just some protest that got out of hand. no, no, no. january 6th was an attempt to reverse through violent means the outcome of a free and fair election. an insurrection. call it what it is. what it was. and it was fundamentally rooted in donald trump's big lie that the election of 2020 was illegitimate. in defense of the peaceful transfer of power. in deep offense to the notion of truth itself. anyone who thinks that the origins of this insurrection are going away should just have listened a few moments ago when donald trump did it again. lying and lying and lying about the election. a clear reminder that the threat he and his lie remain to our nation. alarmingly, alarmingly, many of his supporters quickly embraced the lie in the aftermath of the 2020 election. many of them truly believed and still believe that he won the election and the game was rigged. not a small number. large numbers of americans. if you look at the polls, tens of millions. it didn't matter there was no proof to any of these claims. donald trump kept saying it and saying it and saying it again. and he called his supporters to rally here in washington in a ditch effort to stay in power. we all know this. that's what happened. we can't forget it. it was donald trump's big lie that soaked our political landscape in kerosene. it was donald trump's rally on the mall that struck the match. and then came the fire. and pouring gasoline on that fire are many and one branch of our media who spread the big lie then and continue to spread the big lie even though they know it's false. and millions listening to these people, and believe it. here to is another terrible truth. the disease of the big lie continues to this day. the attacks on our democracy are ongoing. if not by the force of baseball bats and pipe bombs, then certainly through a quieter and much more organized effort to subvert democracy from the bottom up. just as the big lie inspired the attack of january 6th, the big lie continues like a disease across state legislatures throughout the country. we're seeing the most restrictive voter suppression effort since jim crow. since jim crow in 21 st century america. turn the clock way back. let's be clear. the new anti-voter laws are on the books today only because their author sited the big lie, the voter fraud and are trying to succeed where the insurrection failed. unless we confront the big lie and do our part to fortify and strengthen our democracy, the political violence of january 6th risks becoming not an aberration, but got forbid, the norm. and we've seen it, too, in the threats against election workers, teachers, school administrators, health care workers. we cannot put our heads in the sand. we cannot brush this over. and what does that mean for the senate? i think we have to talk about the realities here today, too. it means we must pass legislation effective legislation to defend our democracy, to protect the right to vote. we must pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the freedom to vote act so our country's destiny is determined by the voice of the people. and not by the violent whims of lies and even mob rule. we must also guard against the false hopes of solutions that don't deal with the problem. that try to cover it up or push it away because people don't want to deal with it. some say the answer lies in doing the bare minimum like reforming the electoral count act. that my friend the republican leader has floated in recent days. let me take this opportunity to make clear that that plan, the mcconnell plan, that's what it is. is unacceptable, unacceptably insufficient, and even offensive. some score keeping matters little if the game is rigged. and as we know too well, state legislatures are working day and night to undermine our democratic process from the get go by empowering partisans to poke potentially say what ballots count and which do not. what good is it to accurately count a result that's compromised from the start? senator mcconnell's plan to reform the electoral count act would do nothing more than codify the vice president's ceremonial role in counting of the electoral college votes. effectively guaranteeing that partisan state legislatures could overturn the elections without fear of recourse. look at what it does. look at what it does. it's a cynical idea. it's a -- an idea to divert attention from the real issue. because they don't want to confront the real issue. this cannot be. this should not be about one party versus another. voting rights has always been bipartisan, supported by bush. supported by reagan. passing this chamber with large votes from both sides of the aisle. that's what always used to happen until the republican party was taken over by donald trump. so it's not about one party versus another. it can't be. it's about one terrible lie against democracy itself. the kind of lie that if let stand, both verbally and in action, erodes our democracy. erodes our democracy. if the majority of people, there's already a substantial minority who don't believe our elections are legitimate. aided by donald trump and the right wing media. what if a majority of this country because of these pernicious actions start believing it? a majority of americans don't believe that elections are on the level? just ask yourself what will happen. i can't predict the details, but i can predict that it will diminish the greatness of this country in small and even large ways. so we cannot -- this should not be a partisan issue. it's about falsehood versus truth. in the history of this country, we have always disagreed on ideology, but never on facts. until recently and on such an important area. if lying about results of an election is acceptable. if instigating a mob against the government is permissible. if encouraging political violence becomes the norm, it will be open season on this grand democracy, this noble experiment, and everything will be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest clubs, the sharpest spears, the most effective lies. i do not believe that that is the ultimate destiny of our country. a mob may be strong, but the counter is stronger. the roots of democracy, the feelings of the american people and the affection and love that is grand noble experiment in democracy is stronger as long as we speak out. as long as we act. the wellspring of democracy is deep, and even in the most difficult of times, americans have rallied and risen to the occasion. since the early days of our republic, americans launched mightily movements, fought a bloody civil war and passed federal election law and voting rights laws to expand the promise of democracy until there were no more boundaries. we are called on by the millions who have lost their lives to defend this democracy. to defend it once again. i call on all americans, democrats, republicans, independents, to rise to the occasion and assure that the mob, the violence, the lies do not win the day. let the anniversary of january 6th forever serve as a reminder that the march two perfect our democracy is never over. that our democracy is a precious, sometimes fragile gift purchased by those who struggled before us. and that all of us now must do our part to keep the american vision going in the present and into the future. somehow in ways i can't predict, but i know are true, i am certain that god's mysterious hand will guide us and truth and right will prevail. i yield the floor. >> mr. president -- >> a good thuz morning to you. craig melvin here from new york city. it's a somber day for our country. we've been listening to democratic senate majority leader schumer there sharing his memory of january 6th, 2020. he asked how shall our country move forward? many of his colleagues are going to be following him and giving speeches on the floor of the upper chamber throughout the morning and afternoon. one year has passed since our very democracy, this great american experiment of ours, was pushed to the brink during the january 6th attack on our capitol. in the last two hours president biden spoke about the forces he says are endangering our democracy, and our country's very future. he laid much of his criticism at his predecessor's feet. >> you can't love your country only when you win. you can't obey the law only when it's convenient. you can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies. >> in a few moments i'll talk to democratic congressman collin allred from texas. he was in the house as the mob swarmed the building, not knowing if he'd survive, he texted his wife, i love you. in the wake of the attack on january 6th, there are sprawling investigations. in fact, take a look at these numbers from the house committee so far. they've interviewed more than 350 witnesses, received more than 35,000 pages of records, and they've received more than 250 substantive tips. let's get to our reporters on this thursday morning covering this historic moment. garrett haake is at the rotunda on capitol hill where a year ago today he was there as the doors were chained shut so no one could come in or out. peter alexander at his post there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. and i also want to bring in our justice correspondent, pete williams. garrett, we'll start with you there at the hill. again, right now we've got our eyes and ears on the senate democrats continuing to talk about what happened a year ago today. we just heard from the majority leader. what should we expect to hear on the hill today? what should we expect to see on the hill today? >> we'll see rounds of speeches on the senate floor from democratic lawmakers i expect will sound like what we heard from leader schumer on the last hour. on the house side we'll see a moment of silence starting in the noon hour. and then an opportunity for house members. the house is not in session this week, but for those who want to speak, we'll have a chance to speak this afternoon. a candle light vigil will end the day. we expect almost all of this to be entirely democratic affairs. the only republicans anywhere close to leadership that we think will be participating in any of this, likely to be liz cheney on the house republican side. kevin mccarthy is not here. mcconnell is not hear. they are at a funeral for a former senator from georgia. republicans have largely cast really all of the remembrances of this day as political. as the kind of things that democrats they say are using to advance their voting rights agenda. it's just another sign of the divide, the totally different ways that the parties have chosen to look at the same events they all experienced together from last january 6th. >> mr. alexander, we heard from the president. roughly two hours ago. and in what i believe was probably his most stinging rebuke of his predecessor, he did it without using his name. it was really quite the forceful rebuke. >> you're right. it was forceful. it was direct. and in many ways, it's what a lot of democrats were hoping president biden would have done sooner. it felt like there was a lot he had to say today. a stinging point by point indictment of his predecessor, a repudiation today. many of you heard his remarks earlier this morning, speaking about the former president, accusing him of imperilling our democracy, looking out for his own interests over the country's interests, saying among other things in effect that he was responsible for spinning a web of lies. what you may not have heard was a quick question and answer session with the president after he left the hall there, the site that a year ago was overrun by insurrectionists. the president was pressed by a reporter that whether his speech did more to divide than it does to heal. here's how he responded. >> no, look, the way you have to heal, you have to recognize. you can't pretend. this is serious stuff. and a lot of people understandably want to go, look, that was an -- you know, i just rather not face it. you've got to face it. that's what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it. and move on. >> and facing the truth was really central to the president's remarks today. going after the big lie that continues to persist among many republicans. certainly among former president trump. we've heard from the former president, no longer with the megaphone that is twitter, but in some of his statements today, again, in a series of comments attacking president biden, and also again reiterating his claim that the election was corrupt. >> all right. mr. williams, the fbi continues to intensely investigate what happened one year ago today. what more have we learned about their work? what more do we know about where the investigation is heading? >> yes. 705 people have been charged in federal court, and that number is clearly going to rise. and probably will go above 1,000 in the next couple months. because the fbi is now trying to identify at least 300 people that they've seen pictures and videos of, of inside the capitol and 250 of those, they say, are pictures and videos of people who during the riot were actually aggressively attacking law enforcement. so they've got those pictures and videos posted on the fbi website. they're asking for tips. they're using facial recognition software. they're using cell phone data that allows them to track people in their movements through the capitol. all of those things trying to identify those folks. so that's one thing. the next thing is in terms of what's going on in court. 170 of those 705 people have now pleaded guilty, but we're starting to -- we're going to see in the coming weeks, the beginning of trials. and so that may shed more light on what the government knows about what led up to the riot, and who may have been in charge of it. because one of the big questions, craig, is did somebody actually have a plan? was it widespread to attack the capitol, to actually enter the capitol? we know there was a broad conspiracy to come to washington and engage in violence. violence in the streets. violence against the perceived presence of ante fa, a lot of groups were saying among themselves in the months leading up to the attack. another big unanswered question is who planted the two pipe bombs at the head of the national committees the night before the riot? there's lots of work yet to be done in terms of charging and prosecutions. the attorney general just yesterday said that the justice department is committed to holding the way he put it was perpetrators accountable for criminal acts at the capitol, whether those people were present at the capitol or not. so clearly there's a lot of work left to be done. >> yeah. it's wild to think that whomever planted the pipe bombs are still out there. pete williams and peter alexander and garrett haake. a big thanks to all of you. for so many members of congress, the experience of january 6th was harrowing. they were there to do the people's work, certify an election, not fight for their lives. and the dallas morning news gives us this picture of democratic congressman collin allred's experience. quote, as a violent mob of president donald trump supporters pounded on the house chamber's doors after breaching security at the u.s. capitol, collin allred, a hulk of a man who once played in the nfl, took off his jacket and tie. i was prepared for whatever might come, he said. the second-term democrat then texted his wife who was at home with their 23 -month-old son, jordan. whatever happens, i love you, he wrote. she texted back, i love you, too. congressman allred joins me now. congressman, you and your colleagues, gas masks in hand, evacuated from the house floor as the glass of the barricaded doors was being shattered. what was going through your mind that day, and how are you doing one year later? >> thank you, craig. thank you for talking about this. at the time my wife was also eight months pregnant, and i didn't know if i was going to meet our second son. and i grew up without a father, and so being a father was extremely important to me. and that was what was going through my mind. but at the same time, i knew that of the people in the chamber, i might have been the best positioned, because of my past, because of -- i'm one of the younger members, to actually defend the chamber. and so i was preparing in my mind to have to do that. thank to the bravery, and i mean this. the incredible bravery of the capitol police, i didn't have to. i got to meet my son because of their actions. >> congressman, your republican colleagues in the house were put at risk as well. feared for their lives. we've seen the pictures of so many of them huddled with democrats, team blue and team red on the floor of the chamber. but yet, so many of them over the past year have really openly down played what happened. they've spent the better part of the last year gaslighting folks over what happened. to what do you attribute that, considering the shared experience that you had one year ago? >> i don't know what to say. i was in a secure room with everyone who was evacuated from the floor, including the republicans who were there, who were challenging the results. i saw in their eyes the shock and the horror, and i know that they knew that it was a dangerous insurrection, a line had been crossed. i heard them talking and whatever they're doing now, in terms of trying to down play what happened or saying that it didn't happen is a lie. they are lying to their constituents. they are lying maybe most importantly to themselves. i was in that room with them, craig. i know how they felt. and they were frightened. they were shocked. and they were worried about our country, too. this is a time for all of us, regardless of party, to come together as we have in the past when our country has been attacked. by external forces, and come together and try to heal and move forward. because the greatness of our country is an idea, and that idea is under attack right now. and by not admitting what happened on the sixth, by undermining it, by saying it wasn't an insurrection, they're also undermining the idea of this country. >> earlier in his speech, the president called efforts to undermine voting and the election itself. he called the efforts un-american. chuck schumer and senate democrats have drawn clear lines between the attack a year ago and the voting rights bill. your state has passed laws restricting voting rights. what's at stake if congress does not -- if congress doesn't pass a voting rights bill? >> well, the lie of the last election was stolen and the efforts to overturn the election will be turned into legislation and turned into action. so this next decade or decades to come in the united states may not have a free and fair election with the results actually reflecting the will of the american people. it's that simple. we are at risk. we really are. the way of voter suppression and as you know, i was a voting rights lawyer before i came to congress, that we've seen is the most severe since the days of jim crow. in sam ways it's worse because we've made so much progress since then. but we're without a supreme court that we had then that would step in. we now have to rely on legislation. we have to have federal legislation to try and protect the right to vote for all americans. this is a struggle that we've had really since the passage of the 15th amendment. the idea that some votes don't count as much as others. the idea that if you're in certain areas, your vote is probably inherently fraudulent. or that if you have to overcome certain things, you know, to be able to vote, that your vote shouldn't count the same as someone else's. that's not how it works in this country, but these laws will make it more difficult for americans to vote. in texas we have a long history of this, and it's going to get worse. we must pass federal legislation, and i hope that it can be bipartisan. and i want to talk to all the folks out there who don't see themselves reflected in this version of the republican party. whatever you call yourself, whether it's never trump or whatever it is, to join with us in not only accountability for january 6th, but to take the next step of protecting mesh democracy by helping us pass voting rights legislation. >> congressman collin allred, we'll have to leave it there. congressman, thank you so much for your time on this somber anniversary. thank you, sir. still ahead, a closer look at the intelligence failures ahead of january 6th. why didn't officials take warnings on social media more seriously? 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that's what the now -- daughter asked him on the leadup to january 6th. in a new interview with ken dlab yan, he describes how unprepared officials were, and how federal agencies, the fbi, the department of homeland security, did not seem very concerned about the looming threat. let's listen. >> there wasn't a lot of credible specific information. what there was was a lot of not credible, not specific information that should have prompted a response. >> harvin has talked twice with the house committee investigating january 6th. i want to bring in jeh johnson. secretary johnson ran homeland security under president obama. >> thank you for having me. >> here we are, one year later. do you think that the capitol is any safer now than it was this time last year? >> thanks for having me, first of all. i just have to take a step back. tow me one year later, the most remarkable image i'll never forget, whether it's one year or ten years is the confederate flag being paraded through the halls of congress. that's something that never occurred during the entire civil war. so when i was secretary of homeland security, we often would say in public statements, there is no specific credible threat leading up to an event. here if you believe all of the public reporting of what our government knew leading up to january 6th, there clearly was a specific credible threat to the january 6th event at the capitol. and craig, we know how to secure the united states capitol. we do this for inaugurations. we do this for the annual state of the union address by the president. we designated a national security special event, and protect the perimeter of the capitol grounds. the secret service, the capitol police, the metro police, the national guard know how to do this to the point where even a squirrel cannot get through the capitol grounds without surveillance. we know how to do this. somehow our government failed to appreciate the threat level around january 6th. when we get around to testimony, i'm sure you're going to see people do this and say it wasn't me, it was somebody else. but ultimately, somebody has got to own up to this, whether it's the person who was in the chair of secretary of homeland security at the time who has overall responsibility for those kinds of events, or somebody else. but very clearly, and i have the luxury of being a private citizen now, looking in from the outside, but i do have some perspective here. it does seem clear to me that from what we knew at the time, we failed to appreciate the significant threat level leading up to this. and the images you see right now on your show are reflective of that. >> vice president harris spoke to the american people a short time ago and talked about what she feels that we as a country have learned from january 6th, but she also made clear the motivation of some at the center of the attack, the motivation was not new. here's what she said. >> we cannot let our future be decided by those bent on silencing our voices overturning our votes, and pedaling lies and misinformation. by some radical faction that may be newly resurgent, but whose roots run old and deep. >> to your point, secretary, we cannot ignore the racism that is embedded in the ideology of some of the people who tried to overturn our government a year ago. what do we do with that? >> well, interestingly there are studies being done of the demographics of the 700 or so who have been charged with the insurrection, the participating in the insurrection on january 6th, and it's apparent that what motivated them was the so-called great replacement. the fear, somehow, that americans of color are replacing white americans, and if you look carefully at where these people actually came from, they didn't come from red states. most of the insurrectionists actually came from either blue states or red states trending blue. and if you drill down even further, you discover, and this is a study done by a professor at the university of chicago. if you drill down even further to the counties where they come from, they tend to come from counties that voted for joe biden, but demographically are trending away from white to counts of color and they clearly feel threatened by that. when the vice president mentioned race here as a factor, i believe she has it right. >> secretary jeh johnson, thank you for your same and insight this morning. >> thank you. coming up, children as young as 12 can now get the covid booster shot, but how much could it help our overwhelmed hospitals? 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according to the top republican on the january 6th committee, that depends on how we respond now. it will still take time before we know the full extent of what happened in the days leading up to and during the deadly insurrection. what is certain is the danger our nation faced despite any attempts to down play it. this morning one of the people leading the house investigation into what happened, wyoming republican congresswoman liz cheney had this message for anyone trying to do so. >> all of my colleagues, anyone who attempts to minimize what happens. anyone who denies the truth of what happened, they ought to be ashamed of themselves, and history is watching. and history will judge them. >> joining me now to put today and the past year in better perspective, presidential historian douglas brinkley, history professor at rice university and also with me michael steele. a big thanks to both of you. congresswoman cheney invoking history in her comments this morning. do you think she's right that history is going to judge those who minimize or even deny what happened a year ago? >> absolutely. she's right. liz cheney has become a true profile in courage. the john f. kennedy presidential library foundation every year gives an award. it should go to her. she reminds us of brave republicans in the past like abraham lincoln and john mccain. but we have film footage film f happened on january 6th, and we have proof. dwight eisenhower, and some trumpteers. i think this is like pearl harbor, it's like 9/11 tragedy, and we need to not be afraid to call it the trump insurrection, because all roads to what went wrong went to his ill behavior, his antidemocratic stance, he took, the big lie, after the presidential election tallies came in, and joe biden won by millions of votes. >> you have a lot of folks now, dozens of people, trying to use what happened at the capitol to win elections. political reporting saying at least 57 individuals that played a role in that day's events, attending the save america rally that proceeded the riots, they are now running for elected office. is that, michael, a continuation of what we have seen in recent years of the republican party's turn? or is this a new chapter entirely? >> i think it is much more of an expansion. in the past you had within the party structure individuals that tried to get control, they would work their way into primaries. i know it was a fight on my watch. the biggest thing that i had to battle was kristine o'donnell who had to declare that she was not a wuch. now we're pushing back on people saying that joe biden is ill legitimate and that it was not stolen. those individuals are running because they are people prepared to vote for them. so as much as we want to push this up against the individuals like trump and, you know, others who are engaged in this, it ultimately will rest on us. and this is the real story that history will tell. what did the american people do? how did they respond. did you elect that sob or did you push back against him. did you embrace authoritarianism or did you repel against it because it is antidemocratic. that is ultimately the test of history here. because these individuals have power. because we the people give it to them. we don't do that if we tell them this ain't us and you're not getting any closer to our constitution and institutions of governing. that's where you begin to see the change in the current. right now there is no accountability, there is no push back, craig. this is why you see the kind of momentum out there in the country because the people, in essence, are feeding it. >> there is a number of poles that came out in the past few days and weeks and it shows how sharply americans are divided over how they view the attack. despite the images and the pictures. 85% say it was a protest aimed at overturning a legitimate election. 56% say it was aimed at preventing a fraudulent election. with these kinds of division and the possibility that people that literally stormed capitol could start winning elections, what would that signal to you? >> it would signal the death of democracy. the birth of a native authoritarianism. and we have to push back now. the "new york times" said every day is january 6th. it is not just about voting in the united states. we have to make sure our elections are not sabotaged, or there is not subversion, or wildeyed gerrymandering going on behind our backs. now secretaries in different states are behind our back. there is death threats to officials. it is a democracy and a native authoritarianism. they did not connect the dots today, but they're going to promote the john lewis voting rights. that's the heart and soul of our democracy. that is a great export, and we're in dark, troubled times. >> thank you to both of you on this january 6th. we expect remarked from nancy pelosi in a few minutes. before i hand things over we want to remember the officer that's died in the days and weeks ahead -- after the attack. four other officers that responded to the attack died by suicide last year. jeffrey smith, a 12 year veteran and capitol police officer. howard rengood. officer hashida, and officer kyle defreytag had been there since november 2016. a ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. in adults also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. ozempic® helped me get back in my type 2 diabetes zone. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop ozempic® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking ozempic® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may increase low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? 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