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democracy. today maybe it is battling gun crime in the city. but every single day, there are challenges out there and we re not in the business of failing. there you go. the truth and the facts about what happened on that day one year ago. let s bring in our chief political correspondent and co-anchor of cnn s state of the union, dana bash, and senior law enforcement analyst, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. thank you both. good evening to you. i m sure you both agree, heroes, all of them who saved our democracy and lives a year ago today. it really hit me when i saw how close rioters were to a complete break of the capitol. those officers risked their lives defending our democracy. somehow the threat to our democracy, the big lie, has only gotten worse from that day, a year ago. absolutely. first of all, that was extraordinary. i m so glad you did it and you were absolutely right. those are two heroes. i was on the hill today. i covered the hill for two ....
you know, each and every day we re out here and, you know, we come to work just like we did on that day. we came to work. we re always ready for whatever happens. why would you do it all over again? it s what we do. i m glad that you finally spoke out, and i think, you know, the one-year anniversary is the perfect time for you to talk about it. what do you want people to know after a year, commander kyle? i want them to know that the metropolitan police, we come to work every single day. every single day whatever the challenge is, we meet it. you know, on january 6th, it was to save democracy. you know, today maybe it s battling gun crime in the city. but every single day, there s challenges out there, and we re not in the business of failing. and there you go. the truth and the facts about what happened on that day one year ago. let s bring in our chief political correspondent and co-anchor of cnn s state of the union, dana bash, and former fbi deputy dir ....
confined to an immigration hotel in melbourne after running into trouble with his visa for the australian open. let s turn to the united states, exactly one year on from the storming of congress, president biden has condemned his predecessor, donald trump, for the role he played that day. the democrats have held several events marking the anniversary of the january sixth riot, including a minute s silence in the us house of representative . here s president biden speaking from inside the capitol building. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country s interest, than america s interest. vice president kamala harris also spoke about the consequences of that day. here s the vice president. what they were assaulting were the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of americans h ....
the blame for the capitol attack squarely on trump. we saw with our own eyes rioters menace these halls, threatening the life of the speaker of the house, literally erecting gallows to hang the vice president of the united states of america. what did we not see? we didn t see a former president who had just rallied the mob to attack sitting in the private dining room off the oval office in the white house watching it all on television. and doing nothing. for hours. as police were assaulted, lives at risk, the nation s capitol under siege. he values power over principle because he sees his own interest as more important than his country s interest, than america s interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can t accept he lost, the former president s supporters are trying to rewrite history. they want you to see election day as the day of insurrection. and the riot that took place here on january 6th as a true e ....
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