Oh, he says much worse in a new book. And the authors are here to talk about it. Im Jonathan Capehart. This is the sunday show. This sunday it is full steam ahead at the capitol, where in less than 48 hours lawmakers will gavel in for first scheduled hearing of the January 6th select committee. Capitol hill and metropolitan Police Officers are expected to give their personal accounts of that harrowing day. But the time and place of the hearing is about all we know. Since plans to create a more bipartisan committee crumbled this week. Now, republicans are threatening to run their own investigation after Speaker Pelosi vetoed Kevin Mccarthys, quote, ridiculous appointments of trump sycophants Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the slate. It is my responsibility as Speaker Of The House to make sure we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. Joining me now is mississippi congressman benny thompson, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee And Lea
accepts political violence as a norm? are we going to be a nation where we allow election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people? are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but in 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. starting later this hour, more than a dozen democratic senators will speak about the anniversary on the senate floor. at noon/9:00 pacific, house speaker nancy pelosi will lead a moment of silence, then speak on the house floor. this afternoon, a number of house democrats will give testimonials on what they experienced that day, and this evening there will be a prayer vigil on the stems of the capitol. with me to start off our coverage is capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell and car roll author of i aonly can fix it, donald trump s final year bootry swann, national correspondent for politico an andy glaud
hi there, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york as we begin our special coverage, insurrection in america, on the one year anniversary of the insurrection astack on the united states capitol. one year from what we saw on air right here a year ago. insurrectionists swarm the halls of capitol, the senate chamber, even the offices of our congressional leaders. with the police officers who were trying to hold the line outside the capitol completely overwhelmed. many of them coming under violent assault in what s been described ads medieval hand-to-hand combat. at least five officers would lose their lives after confronting the trump mob that day. the first minutes of our broadcast on january 6th 2021 marked the end of that 187-minute period of inaction by the expresident, donald trump, who was described this morning by his former white house press secretary stephanie grisham as gleefully watching on tv ignoring calls to end the violence refusing all along to act. it wasn t until
building. we have to warn you. this is upsetting. okay. i don t know who s watching. we got hit by a hurricane. i m at work in mayfield. and we are trapped. please, y all, give us some help. we re at the candle factory in mayfield. please. please. in arkansas, at least one person is dead. five seriously injured after the apparent tornado hit a nursing home. early reports say two people died and multiple injured at the amazon center in edwardsville, illinois after a 100-foot portion of the wall collapsed. we will stay with the story. a lot going on. i want to get to stephanie stanton who has been covering this. stephanie, good morning. this is a fast breaking story. we are learning about the damage and as sun starts to come up and what that damage looks like. there is still danger of more storms. reporter: good morning, ali. we are monitoring what is happening over in the several states in the midwest. from here in florida, i grew up in the chicagoland area. i m familiar
potentially go a long way toward answering one of the biggest outstanding questions about january 6th. what, if any, are the links between the white house and the groups that propagated the horrific violence on the 6th that ultimately led to the deaths of seven, 150 injured and maimed police officers and countless others suffering ptsd. william todd wilson pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy on wednesday. he s one of the 11 members of the extremist group the oath keepers. he is the third member of that group to plead guilty and to agree to cooperate with prosecutors. he was among the oath keepers seen on the 6th on video moving in military formation among the mob that stormed the u.s. capitol. in court records william wilson describes what happened after the capitol was breached like this. at approximately 5:00 p.m., wilson, rhodes and others left the capitol grounds and walked together to the phoenix hotel. at the phoenix hotel, rhodes gathered wilson and other co-conspir