insurrectionists wearing tactical gear, holding zip ties. let's not forget the angry crowd, chanting to hang then vice president pence. as all of that unfolded on that bloody, violent and deadly day, other members of congress were hiding out in their offices throughout the capitol. among them, the young republican from wisconsin, named mike gallagher, the iraq war veteran had barricaded the door to his office, and on shielded his marine corps ceremonial sword, to arm himself, to defend his position should he needed to fight. as he waited, heaving went online to appeal to then president, his republican president to call off the mob. >> right now, i am sheltered in place, in my office, because we have protesters who have stormed the capital, clashing with capitol police, forcing their way to the statuary hall, the vice president of the united states was just rushed off the floor of the house by secret service? this is banana republic crap. mister president, you have got to stop this. you are the only person who can call this off. call it off. the election is over. call it off! this is bigger than you, bigger than any member of congress. it is about the united states of america, which is more important than any politician. call it off! it is over! >> it is over. powerful words from congressman gallagher. it is over. but if there is one single thing to take away on this first anniversary of the assault on the u.s. holds of government, it is the effort to upend american democracy, is not over. the insurrection is ongoing, it keeps rolling on. only one week later, one week after january the 6th, congressman gallagher voted against impeaching donald trump. and, in may of last, year he voted against forming a commission to investigate the insurrection he so eloquently tried to stop. so, appeals to the former president are grand icing, op-eds be damned. watch what republican lawmakers like mike gallagher do, and not what they say. because i do not want to give the impression that he is doing this alone, as they slowly, methodically drip, drip, drip their way into a permanent hold on what used to be a democratic form of government here in the u.s.. as one of the foremost experts on civil war told us on this program last night, this, what this nation is experiencing right now, this is what it looks like when democracy's failed, and get overturned in the 21st century, with extreme partisan division, and sporadic violence. all of, it spurred on by social media. and the partisan divide keeps growing wider. between march and september of last year, americans became less likely to say it was important to find and prosecute the january 6th insurrectionists, with all of the decline coming from republicans. it was against this backdrop today, that president joe biden, even as he acknowledged that this is about much, much more than certifying his own election against donald trump called out the former president for continuing to propagate the dangerous, big lie. >> here is the truth. former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interest as more important than america's interest. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can't accept that he lost. so at this moment, we must decide, what kind of nation are we going to be? will we be a nation that accepts political violence as the norm? are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan to overturn the legally expressed will of the people? will we be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth, or under the shadow of lies? we cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. the way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it. >> strong, necessary words from the president of the united states today. but in order to understand what's at stake going forward, we do need to be clear eyed about what happened one year ago, that they. that crowd attacking congress was being for the blood of lawmakers. california democrat and p2 manager congressman eric swalwell, told some of this story during last year's impeachment trial. >> as i heard that announcement on the floor, i saw the new house chaplain, on her fourth day of the job, walk to the front podium and unannounced, admits the chaos, she started to recite a prayer for peace. uncertain what will happen next, i sent a text message to my wife. i love you and the baby's. please hug them for me. >> earlier today, i spoke with congressman swalwell, alongside his wife, brittani. >> congressman swalwell, and brittany swalwell, thank you so much for joining us on this special show this evening. congressman, let me start with you. we heard you speaking about your text to brittani about your kids on that day, at the impeachment trial. what other things do you remember about that day? what was it like, having to text her in that way? >> mehdi, i started the morning on a run to the capital, i remember running and seeing the number of proud boys wearing body armor. and thinking, as iran by them, to kind of text my own face because, they were a big pack. and still not thinking they would actually violently attacked the capitol. and then, mehdi, in the session that day at noon, i appointed the tellers, asked the chaplain to offer a prayer. and just hours later, that same chaplain, as the mob descended on the chamber, abruptly went back to the podium or she gave the prayer, just hours ago, and started praying for us as we were in a duck and cover position, i was holding a gas mask. and to me, it felt a little bit like a last rites. that's when i sent a text message to my wife. at that point, i did not know if we were going to get out of there. >> awful. brittany, how did that day unfold for you? what went through your mind when you got those texts, saw the images of what was happening at your husband's place of work? >> of course, we are certainly no stranger to violence and threats. you know, the former president called my husband's name out on the news all of the time. so we are constantly receiving those death threats. i never once in my wildest dreams thought that american citizens, you know, us, could get into the capital and be so violent inside the capitol towards my husband and his colleagues. it was surreal, initially. and then my first instinct was to just, get in my car, get my kids from school, near the hill. i just wanted them home, safely with me. that was my first instinct. but of course, it was just shocking, and unbelievable. >> yes. even looking at the images now, it is still unbelievable. congressman, how do you feel one year later? do you feel safer at your workplace? how do you feel about the threat to the capital, as of today, one year after the insurrection? >> well, the building is much more secure. i don't know if that is a great thing, because now it is not as accessible. and i hate that. it is almost as if, the republicans have weaponized that as well. like, they were part of the team that brought the mob in, and they now criticize the fact that they have to have a fire department to put it out. they say that it is a security complex, they use that against us. but i do not think the temperature of the country has come down. and over the weekend, we received a number of death threats, but capitol police, the police chief said yesterday in testimony that they were 9500 threats last year to lawmakers. and, unless kevin mccarthy and the leaders of the republican party start to condemn violent rhetoric, you will see the republican party and its voters, continuing to choose violence over a vote. >> yes. and brittany, your three kids are still quite young. you and your husband have included them in this story of american democracy, for nearly their whole lives. we have some images on screen. he brought's two month old daughter to the 2019's swearing in of the new congress, so she could be present as a record number of women took office, and nancy pelosi took the speaker's gavel. what do you want your kids to know about january the 6th, 2021? what lessons do you hope they draw as they grow up, to what is happening in this country? >> the initial lesson, personally is how brave their father was on that day. first and foremost. and also, to know that he is a public servant, who sacrifices a lot for the sake of democracy. and i think they will see that, looking back in history books, at the different ways that it is shown. so they will learn that their father was very, very brave that they. >> thank you to brittany swalwell their. still to come, i will continue my conversation with congressman swalwell, about whether his party can save american democracy. plus, later on this show, we see four of the biggest republican lies on monday in which angry trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol, do not go away. not go away. lth. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ boost® high protein also ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? 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is this going to be a new and improved joe biden, for 2022, taking the fight to trump, in the gop, or is him just getting emotional? we need more of that? >> yes, that's how we want him to. lead for the first year, i think he cautiously tried to bring the country together. not wanting to talk too much about the former president, but the republicans are interested in doing that. the ramping up their violent rhetoric. it reminded me of one of my favorite movies going up, bad boys, with will smith martin lawrence. martin lawrence was a very cautious driver, but in the final scene of the movie, more lawrence escapes after driving pretty fast and pretty wildly. will smith looks at him and says, that's how i want you to drive. from now on, that's how you drive. that's how a debate speech. that's how i want you to lead as our president. lead like that. >> we've had many analogies, for biden on the show, i think that's the first one with martin lawrence. congressman, you're the fifth congressional democrat that i've interviewed in this new year, i'd like to ask you would ask the rest of them, is this the year democrats, as a whole, not just in the house, but the party, with the president passes voting rights legislation? is it not shameful that your party got nothing signed in 2021? the year of the insurrection, the year your party controlled -- it is shameful >> but we have a second act, in this x second section of congress. this is it this is it for democracy, the republicans have shown us who they are. they choose violence over voting. if they win in the midterms, i promise you, they will never again allow a peaceful transition of power. not of people who are in charge right, now not the base of the party -- there are violent a unless we make sure that we tear down the barriers to the ballot lots, so anybody eligible can vote, votes, that's where we're headed. >> congressman, one last question. it's a year on, many of your republican colleagues continue to downplay what happened. saying, democrats are politicizing one six -- ron desantis, today. >> you're going to see the d.c., new york, media this -- is their christmas. they are going to take this and milk this for anything that they could, to try and smear anyone who ever supported donald trump. >> how do you respond to that? >> mehdi, i officer sicknick and didn't get a christmas with his family, because of what donald trump's mob did. it's an ugly comparison. republicans, democrats across the country are disgusted by what happened. except, republican leaders continue to stow lies about the election, and seek to divide us. unity will always be the best antidote to terrorism. even if it's just a few of them, as joe biden said today, it may just be enough of us who stand up and act on, behalf of all of us. that's where i'm at. >> congressman swalwell, thank you very much. thanks again to your wife. >> my pleasure. >> coming up, president biden's false full speech called out the lies that led to the january 6th. up next will call out the lies about the january 6th insurrection. stick around for that. that. with cll or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. imbruvica is not chemotherapy- it's the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, proven to help people live longer. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead to death. bleeding problems are common and may increase with blood thinners. serious infections with symptoms like fevers, chills, weakness or confusion and severe decrease in blood counts can happen. heart rhythm problems and heart failure may occur especially in people with increased risk of heart disease, infection, or past heart rhythm problems. new or worsening high blood pressure, new cancers, and tumor lysis that can result in kidney failure, irregular heartbeat, and seizure can occur. diarrhea commonly occurs. drink plenty of fluids. tell your doctor if you experience signs of bleeding, infection, heart problems, persistent diarrhea or any other side effects. 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two tourists crashed cops in an tempted region entrance. they sack offices, leave threatening messages, and smear feces on the walls when they visit a national landmark? the gop congressman, andrew clyde who, we just heard typically helped armed capitol police hell barricade -- that's him, in that photo, hiding from his tourists. still, donald trump took this line ran with it. describing the crowd as full of love. one of our enterprising producers combine those comments with footage of the january 6th crowd. >> there was such love at that rally, and they were peaceful people. they were great people. a crowd was unbelievable -- the love in the air, i've never seen anything like it. you have people with no guns, walked down and frankly, the doors were open, but there was a love fest between the capitol police and the people that walk down to the capitol. people who walked with no guns, no nothing, and they're tremendous in many cases. tremendous people. tremendous people. >> feel the love from those docile tourists. here are the results of that love. more than 130 police officers injured. they suffered concussions, fractures, burned, one suffered a mild heart attack. four officers who responded have died by suicide. line ember to, january 6th wasn't an insurrection. >> you know what that was, you also know what it wasn't. it was not an act of racism, it was not an insurrection. >> come on guys. buffalo a head guy was poised to take over the take over the u.s. government, are you kidding me? >> it was not an insurrection. this is the truth -- >> calling it an insurrection, it wasn't. >> okay, well, whose definition of insurrection do you want? there's miriam -- an actor instance revolting against of authority or government. sounds pretty for procreate. you don't even have to take the literal, dictionary definition. take the top -- right after the insurrection. >> this failed insurrection only underscores how crucial the task before us is. >> he's right. it was an insurrection. a failed insurrection. but, an attempt to undermine the democratic workings of government, with force. republicans understand that, before they pretended not to. line and three, it wasn't an armed insurrection. because, apparently, a lot of people heard enough guns. it was republican wisconsin senator with that line. march >> the fact of the matter is, this didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me. i mean armed, when you hear armed, don't you think firearms? >> okay. let's set aside the pie bombs that were laid outside of the headquarters in d.c., just blocks away from the capital. which we just learned were discovered while vice president was insider party headquarters. leave out the alabama trump supporter who was arrested outside of the capital with guns, and it exposes in his truck. you still have to contend with all the chemicals for a stun guns, baseball bats, hockey sticks, nine, zip ties, in flagpoles. yeah, flagpoles that the crack used as weapons. don't forget that other -- from overwhelm cops to attack them with. oh, and on guns, so for half a dozen people have been arrested farms charges in connection with the insurrection. there were a lot of weapons present that day, including guns. by the way, a member of the far-right oath keepers will prosecutors, that the group had stockpiled a bunch of guns at a nearby hotel. line and before, -- wow, okay fine. it was a violent crowd but it was by undercover fbi agents. >> i know, you're thinking, who believes that kind of math garbage. well, probably, a lot of viewers of tucker carlson, whose fox show was just a higher rated program on primetime cable. here's what he said, using his immense platform, last november. >> person two and person three were organizers of the riot. the government knows who they are, but the government has not charge them. why is that? you know why. they were almost certainly working for the fbi. so, fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th, according to government documents. >> it's nuts. it's completely made up. for his main source, tucker carlson cited a website run by a trump white house speech writer. former, because in 2018, he was fired for appearing on a panel with a white nationalist. that site assume that because fbi charging documents referred to an unindicted co's conspirators, who participated in the insurrection, they must be unindicted, because they work for the government. so, they must have stirred a protest on behalf of the government. that's not reporting, that's cracked pop conspiracy theories based on a series of domestic shuns. as one legal expert credit, quote, an undercover fbi informant or agent cannot be an unindicted coconspirator, period. so it is a crock pot theory. like, betty of the others. these one six lies and claims are outlandish, even laughable. but, we shouldn't laugh. because, every dangerous lie about the dangerous coup helps pave the way for the next one. still to come, the insurrection on january 6th caught many of us by surprise. to understand why trump's enablers seized upon the date, you have to go back to a different day, december the 14th. all explain why, on the other side of this break. side of this break ies. 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2021, was actually three weeks earlier. yes, december the 14th, 2020. because, that was the day, when the 435 members of the electoral college would gather in every state, and officially select the next president. and trump's campaign surrogates promised his faithful followers that with enough pressure, the electrical would deliver the victory. >> the reality is the electors do not vote in each state until december 14th. the state legislatures each have the opportunity to delegate where they want those electoral votes headed. >> we have a short timeframe, but again, december 14th is when the electoral college actually votes. >> december 14th. >> december 14th. >> when all 50 states chose their electors on december the 14th, joe biden still won. the trumpian prophesy's were wrong. the rest of the countryside of breath of relief. that was it. the election was really, finally over. whatever relief we may have felt, turned out to be premature. minutes after california's electoral vote put biden over the top on december the 14th, trump announced that attorney general, bill barr, who said he couldn't find any fraud, would be resigning. a few days later, former trump national security adviser, michael flynn, went on national tv and said, donald trump could use the military, to overturn the election. >> he could order the -- within the swing states, if you wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states, basically re-run an election. it's not unprecedented. people talk about martial law, like it's something that we've never done. >> the next day, in a contentious white house meeting, trump had to be talked out of appointing an election conspiracy theorist, flynn sydney, released a clock in power -- at that meeting, he also had to be dissuaded from -- to seize voting machines, in key elections states. but, trump does seem to have emerge from the meeting with a new plan. the following day, december 19th tweeted, statistically impossible to have lost a 2020 election. big promises in d.c. on january the 6th, be there, will be wild. >> having failed to influence the elective on some of the 14th, trump's team began to focus on the day those electoral votes were to be counted and certified by congress. a mere formality observed in every election since the passage of the electoral count act, in 1877. the white house tab john eastman, of pro trump -- to draft a legal strategy for flipping the election. his plan, fleshed out into bonkers memos, said that vice president, mike pence, could use his role in overseeing the january six electoral count, throat votes from key battleground states that biden won. trump could then claim victory, from remaining electoral votes. on december the 20th, the then president met with some of his biggest backers, to discuss this plan, including more brooks, marjorie taylor greene, and jim jordan. as all this was going on, trump supporters began organizing on social media to descend on washington d.c.. they were goaded on by sitting members of congress. in early january, as trump was calling -- and asking him to find 11,000 votes, republican senator, ted cruz, was among those ramping up the rhetoric. >> and we are proud to stand stronger with you, as we defend the united states of america. as we defend our constitution. as we defend our freedom. and, we will not go quietly into the night. >> by this, point donald trump has done in his neighbors in the gop had already tried a multiple wears to overturn the election that he had lost by more than 7 million votes. they did have many i've diaz are hopes left. but, they did have a horde of angry trump supporters descending upon d.c. on january the 6th. >> i just want to pin you down on what you're trying to do. are you trying to say that as of january 20th, the president trump will be president? >> well, that depends on what happens on wednesday. >> yes, senator hawley. we all know what happened that wednesday. joining me now, professor of law and political say lance, and one of the country's leading election experts, msnbc political contributor -- who's also a staff writer for the new yorker. as well as nicole home liu -- who focuses on conservative media. thank you all for joining us on this special show. rick, let me start with you. you've been loud and clear on the threat to american democracy for sometime. a year on from january the 6th, how bad is it? how worried are you about this happening again, or worse? >> i think it was about a year ago i wrote a piece called, i've never been more worried about american democracy. i'm just much more worried. due to the reaction. the reaction has been either silence, or acquiescence. as donald trump has continued to convince millions of people with the false claim of the 2020 election. putting in place mechanisms so that would be tried and failed to do in 2020, he would have a better chance of being able to do in 2024. >> yes, indeed. they have certainly fill those holes in their shoddy plan. jelani, it was an attack on democracy. we keep saying that. it was. the president said so today. in many ways, it was also an old-fashioned white riot, was it not? the amount of confederate imagery that was president in the pro trump crowd. including the rebel battle flag no one insurrectionist brought into the capitol that day. when we saw -- when we say, after looking at these pictures, we say this was unprecedented. actually, it was following a lot of american presidents, was it not? >> absolutely. whenever somebody says unprecedented, that means you have an exam in the history. when we are talking about -- looking at this, the first thing we thought about was the wilmington right of 1998. in which, a sitting man usable government was actually unseated, by mobs that also were aligned to that cause. the same thing that happened -- attempted to happen in new orleans, in which culminated in liberty place. full scale militia fighting, in an attempt to unseat an interracial government. so, there are instances where we've seen this behavior. not to mention, the fact that we've seen the suppression of black votes up until 1965, in the south. so, it's been this long theme of anti democratic behavior in america, we pretend that we didn't know anything about it. it was vital to understanding why january 6th happened. >> yeah, we can only hope that after january 6th some of us, many of us have been trying to educate ourselves about some of that history. we can only hope. nicole, you've been following conservative media. it's radicalization for many years. we talk about education and miseducation. did you ever imagine that conservative media would not only be able to create enough anger to cause an insurrection, but have the propaganda to create alternative realities about that insurrection, in the year since? >> well, certainly the development of propaganda has been part of what conservative media has been doing for decades. we have seen, if we look, back it is been growing in power, political power. steadily over the last couple decades. becoming more and more part of the republican party. i mean, was impossible to imagine right before the insurrection that something like this would happen? i think so. we had all of the pieces in place. what's more concerning, the propaganda effort that followed. we have all of those texts from people at fox news, who recognize in the moment that this was something horrific. and then worked over the next year to write a story about how, actually the people who were there, weren't perpetrators of the violence, but were victims of it. >> you're referring to sean hannity, laura ingraham, brian kilmeade, whose texas had been available by the one six committee. shock horror that they're not honor -- rick, mitch mcconnell said he's open to reforming the 1887 electoral count act, which outlines how congress certifies votes. which made january 6th, the trump team's -- mcconnell is distracting from broader voting rights -- the john lewis voting rights act. what is your take? is this worth doing solo? >> i think the point is, if democrats can pass the freedom to vote act, and to pass the john lewis voting rights act by making some changes to the filibuster, pleasing senators manchin. i don't think that the democrats are going to give up their chance to do that, if they actually had a realistic chance, in order to pass only the reforms to electoral colleges. if democrats can do that, i think this is a deal that they should take. the most important thing they should be on the agenda should be trying to make it harder to subvert the outcome of future elections. if democrats can get their own house together, they should take an opportunity, if there are willing republican partners on the other side. >> fair point. jelani, you're a black man, a muslim. when you consider how black criminals, and muslim terrorists are treated, both by legal system and the media. yet, the january six pipe bomber, who laid explosives in front of the rnc indian c headquarters, still walks, free we just learned today that when president elect harris was inside the dnc when the bomb was found. we still don't tug domestic terrorism of the far-right, white variety seriously, dewey? >> no we don't. i do want to correct, -- i have very many muslim friends and family members. but i am not personally. i have great respect for the fate. i think that the, fact of it is, if there's a differential -- we've seen this since the obama administration, where they pointed out that there was this rise of white nationalist terror. that was promptly squashed and jumped upon by the republicans in congress. so, the great cries of outrage would -- nowhere near the level of alarm that we've had -- islamic terror, but they were trying to make barometer say all the time. there's not any equivalence at all. >> it's just so depressing the double standards. i don't know how many times you can draw attention to it. i, as a muslim, keep drawing attention to. it kills. me i want to go back to steve bannon, and the alternative right-wing equals fear. stirring of the masses with lies in conspiracies. that's all saying, of journalism is the first draft of history -- if a journalism is, what is this right-wing version of journalism on one six the first draft of? how much of a danger to our democracy and our shared reality does right-wing media play, right now, in american politics? >> so, it's the first draft of the new laws cause. it's an alternative history of january 6th the, process of rewriting it was already before the day. if you listen to stephen's podcast, when you hear is that the real crime against democracy didn't happen on january six, that happened on november 3rd, when the election was stolen. that mythology has become so important to people on the right. it has become a methodology that republicans have embraced. a recent poll show that 52% of a propublica and say that would happen on january 6th was a defense of democracy, rather than an attack. this is going to continue to develop into this divergent history of that day. the question is, how much do people who are in republican begin to buy in? particularly white americans. are they willing to say, you know, it actually wasn't that bad, we need to move on, we need to heal and unite as a country. that's the path that more americans truce, then i think we are in a pretty bad space. >> we're in a pretty bad space, and what's worrying is -- i want to look for signs of optimism but i'm not seeing them. i appreciate all three of you coming on the show, tonight, to give us important perspectives. rick, jelani, nicole, appreciate your time. up next, as the world watched the deadly assault on the u.s. capitol, it seem like it might be a turning point. the republicans might finally say enough and stand up to donald trump. in the media aftermath, many of them didn't. but would it gop leaders saying now, when you're later. find out after the break. congressman mike gallagher was in the only republican to forcefully condemn on the day itself, only to shamefully reverse himself as time passed. some of the highest ranking republicans in the country have done the exact same thing. we caught them at it. roll the tape. >> today was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. thanks to the swift efforts of the u.s. capitol police, federal state and local law enforcement, the violence was quelled. the capital is secured and the peoples work continues. >> i know the media wants to distract from the biden administration -- by focusing on one day in january's. they want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million americans. >> the mob was fed lies. they were provoked by the president, and other powerful people. after careful consideration, i made the decision to oppose that house democrats slanted an unbalanced proposal for another commission to sully the events of 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