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Though a lot of us who were here and if you weren t here and watched it, you know what happened that day, is talking ant what motivated it and this idea of how these people referred to themselves as patriots and president biden saying they re not and what drove former president trump to do what he did, he didn t want to deal with an election loss, saying he not only put power over principle, saying he sees his own interest as more important than the country s interest. and i just want we talk about what it was like on that day and i was rereading some of my notes from that day, calls that i have to sources were frantic that day. white house aides who were in the west wing that day were deeply shaken by his reaction, not just by what happened on capitol hill, some of them having worked on the hill before, been in washington for a while, they were so shaken by how trump responded to it because he genuinely was not viewing it through the same lens everyone i m sorry did. and a lot of pe ....
Crime. because this is the scene of the crime. and, jamie, you know, it is really startling is that so many of the republican leadership on that day and the days that followed immediately condemned trump but since then, they have gone silent. remember, kevin mccarthy, remember mitch mcconnell, remember lindsey graham, they all stood up and said exactly what had happened, and called out donald trump. and then 48 hours later, a few days later, everybody caved. and just went back, fell in line, kevin mccarthy went running to mar-a-lago to make up with trump. i want to just go back to something laura coates said about merrick garland. there were two phrases he used, some people in the analysis did not think that merrick garland was strong enough yesterday. ....
Another day like that. what is his mindset going into this, i pray we ll never have a day like we had a year ago. that s the sentiment people feel about the shock of that day and just also look at the setting of where the president is giving this speech. one year ago, this afternoon, that is where people, rioters, pro trump rioters, were roaming the hallways freely. you ve seen the videos that reporters took or people took, staffers took, we were there that day, while we were huddling in the offices, a lot of them, as they were walking through. that s what s so symbolic about the speech. i heard jake tapper talking earlier about, it is not just important what the president says today, it is important what republicans say today. it is their supporters who are the ones who don t view that day and the view in the lens of a l. that is also symbolic. i want to hear from the vice president of the united states. she will speak first and then the president. i m glad she is. ....
Violent things they saw at the capitol as well. they have this overwhelming amount of resources being devoted to this and they re still not done, nor are they backing down from that very notion. why? it is what we have all been talking about today. when president biden first entered this race, he thought he was fighting for the soul of the nation. little did he know he would be fighting for the soul of our democracy. and in that, thinking about the heart of it, voting, the idea of the integrity of our elections, the idea that people could expect as merrick garland spoke about a peaceful transition of power. a year ago at this very time, none of us thought that that would be something that was a fool s errand to expect or a pipe dream. sure you had former president trump at that time, then president trump, articulating this extraordinary big lie, which frankly was the final installment of a trilogy that involved two supreme court decisions, frankly, one supreme court decision at the tim ....
Like everyone else was, in disbelief what was happening on capitol hill that day. he ll be in the same hall where you saw rioters roam a year ago today. he ll say, quote, and so at this moment we must decide what kind of nation we are going to be. and are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm, are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan 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. and, wolf, i think one big question that a lot of people have is will he call out former president trump by name in this speech. the white house hasn t said yet, they were still finalizing this yesterday, but jen psaki said it will be clear who biden is talking about. in a way, he doesn t have to say donald trump. i expect president bi ....