has become more and more clear just how damaged we as a country are. the insurrection exposed both the deepening fault lines in our population and cracks in the very structure of our democracy. it opened a wound many of us want to heal from but find ourselves quite honestly unable to. a sentiment president joe biden reiterated thursday on the anniversary of the attack. the way you have to heal is recognize the extent of the wound. you can t pretend. this is serious stuff. we got to face it. that is what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it. and move on. president biden is right here. how can we heal when our cries for justice and accountability have largely gone unanswered, when the people and the party that stood to benefit from overturning the election results refused to even acknowledge the realities of what happened on that day? when after a year of investigation no one has been held accountable outside of some of the foot soldiers in trump s mob. a nat
about yesterday s one-year so member rags about the january 6th insurrection was the absence of every republican with the exception of two members of the cheney family. as the capitol police officers who protected the u.s. capitol and the members who were hunted inside it that day marked the sad an versary, the gop took a decidedly different path. and one year after the insurrection, it has become blasphemy for any republican to describe the january 6th attack for what it is, a terror attack intended to stop democracy in its tracks by halting the electoral college vote count. case in point, senator ted cruz, who led the charge in objecting to the election results on january 6th but got himself in trouble this week for stating a few inconvenient truths during a senate hearing on wednesday. watch. we are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrat
covid response team and state governors and the president acknowledged that the administration has not done enough to make covid tests available. we re going to have a lot more on all of that tonight. also, we re going to have a few bits of good news for the white house as this year winds down. plus, we even have some news from outer space. yeah, outer space. but we begin tonight with the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol and what is shaping up to be a very busy start to the new year for the congressional committee that is actually carrying it out. now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio. leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 20
call between his white house covid response team and state governors and the president acknowledged that the administration has not done enough to make covid tests available. we re going to have a lot more on all of that tonight. also, we re going to have a few bits of good news for the white house as this year winds down. plus, we even have some news from outer space. yeah, outer space. but we begin tonight with the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol and what is shaping up to be a very busy start to the new year for the congressional committee that is actually carrying it out. now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio. leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved
now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow ts members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio.anbl leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and, in fact, keep president trump in power. now, we also learned just before christmas that the committee had subpoenaed the bank records of at least one trump campaign official.soma the bank subpoena was actually b revealed in a desperate christmas eve lawsuit filed by donald trump s spokesman trying to block the committee from getting his financial records. that lawsuit also revealed that trump s spokesman has been cooperating with the investigation, handing over in 1,700 pages of documents and testifying for four hours.ge but the committee says it