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Capitol, and so i think this has been something that has loomed over biden s entire first year in office, because, yes, we talked about other legislative struggles, foreign policy issues, this has been something domestically he had to deal with. in your introduction, you talked about how he has a lot of convincing to do. there are a lot of people who view that day, the same way that the former president does, and not the way that the current president does. so i think that has been a struggle for the white house to breach that gap. that, glory, is so horrible. there are so many americans now that actually believe that horrible big lie. right. i mean, i m just looking at a poll here, 72% of americans believe that people involved in the attack were threatening democracy. but 71% of republicans believe that the election was illegitimate itself and see those people as people protecting democracy. i mean, so you know, there is two different americas right now. and if we all had hope, ....
Campaign for the big lie began. he spoke about it being a preemptive strike, even before the election, planting the seeds, laying the foundation for people to be distrustful of the integrity of our elections, and talking about the big lie as a continuous motion, more fluid than simply a guy night period of time when he was, in fact, defeated by the will of the people. that was so important. a lot of us thought he s giving that speech in atlanta next week about voting rights. will he lead into the idea that here they are in this place where voting rights are being fought for by the house in many ways hurdles being put in place in the senate, because of the filibuster and other mechanisms, and he leaned into that notion of talking about how this was a preemptive strike in the development of ways to claw back voting rights also presented the pretextual reason to have this big lie metastasize the way it did. i think it s a very important point he raised and one that should not be lost even ....
Had been planning for a while. a speech, they know what it calls for, the gravity of this and what it matters what he says. it is something that has been there since, of course, day one of his presidency, he was being sworn in, at the capitol, just a few weeks after this had all happened, the barriers were still up, very few people there, of course. really intense security that day because it was just a few weeks in the aftermath of this. they were still reconstructing the parts of the capitol that had been damaged. we were still hearing the firsthand accounts. i think that is why the white house decided this is the place that he should do it. and i think also as gloria said, this is a very special place to him. he relished the time he had in the senate, it is still one of his favorite times. he still said he considers himself to be in that chamber. i think that is a big fact near the scene setting of this. and showing people what happened. i think it is so symbolic to see the presiden ....
Injured. we all heard the police officers who were there that day testify to what happened. one officer called it, quote, a medieval battle and he was more afraid that day than he was fighting the war in iraq. they repeatedly asked since that day how dare anyone, anyone diminish, belittle or deny the hell they were put through. we saw with our own eyes rioters m men ous 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 ....
Get elected. and we have seen those republicans who didn t either have to retire or lose their elections and primaries. i want to point out earlier today, stephanie grisham, who was former press secretary, and worked with melania trump, she went, voluntarily, to cooperate with the january 6th committee yesterday. and she said something that i think you pointed out, she was not at the white house on january 6th. she was working remotely. she said something this morning on our air, she said maybe someone told her this, she said that that day trump was in the dining room, quote, gleefully watching on his tv as he often did, look at all of the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that s what i know. ....