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intelligence, not a whole lot everybody is looking a the feds, the dhs, they have got to get it right. i have a topic on this, who has got to get it right next time? largely the state and locals with lots of support by dhs and fbi. next time at the capitol we are going to have a physical security. i am talking about intelligence, looking a the threat moving forward. can we be explicit about what that threat is moving forward, and how we communicate? you know, the forces that came to the capitol on that day were described by congressman raskin as the outer two rings were all the supporters of donald trump who came to the capitol, went into it, participated in the insurrection. but also the extremist groups who were more organized. and you see that in the different charges. some of those members have been charged with conspiracies. how do local law enforcement
that played out and then we saw the congress get reconvened and we saw members of the house walk back in and we saw matt gaetz stand up and say that, already on the floor, that night, got up and started spreading misinformation about what the nature of the riot at the capitol was and about whether there might be antifa or black lives matter protesters in the group, and all that stuff started happening immediately and then 140-some of them voted to overturn the election results. in the immediate aftermath, the same night that this happened, right? so, play it out today. they come back to the capitol to pay homage to the fallen and to the fallen officers of the capitol police force and to those who still work for them and protect them every day. they re going get asked questions by garrett and others, you re here for this memorial for 1/6, you re here for this memorial to commemorate the insurrection, and yet you continue to say that joe biden is not the legitimate president of the uni
mcconnell are accusing democrats of politicizing the anniversary of the insurrection and not the disgraced expresident who spent months trying to whitewash the insurrection and defend the insurrectionists themselves. what a difference a year makes. here s what some of those very same people said last year when it happened. trump and i, we ve had a hell of a journey. i hate it to end this way. my god, i hate it. from my point of view, he has been a consequential president. but today, first thing you will see. all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. if this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. we showed you the sound bytes, not to prove they are all liars. we showed it to set up this from
terms of criminal law and in terms of what donald trump was thinking, intending, what others around him wanted to happen. and one of the difficulties that i think the department of justice is going to have by focusing narrowly on january 6th is there s enough daylight between donald trump s speech on the ellipse and the actual invasion of the capitol that it becomes hard, from a criminal standpoint, to charge someone like donald trump or others who spoke at the ellipse or who clearly did incite the insurrection, but it s hard to charge them based on what happened on january 6th alone with obstructing the counting of the vote, which is a federal crime. but if you broaden it out to the larger coup, and i think this is where congressman raskin stopped, if you broaden it out to what transpired in the months