do you think of it more as a protest that was trying to overturn a legitimate election. you see 53% saying that or a protest to prevent a fraudulent election, you see 29% who chose that. there are some who were undecided or unsure about this. that s why the numbers don t add up to 100. what s striking about this is the massive partisan gap in how people answered this question. when you asked this of democrats, you see it here 85 to 8 saying they were trying to overturn the election. you ask this of republicans, and you see a majority, 56% who say this was a protest trying to prevent a fraudulent election. even more stark partisan gap on the question of what to do going forward. you talk about the house committee investigating january 6th here, how do you think about it? is it important for the future of our democracy. 53% choosing that. 42% saying it s basically a waste of time, and again, the partisan gap on this is just one world here, one world there, nearly 90% of democrats say it
committee, nearly 80% of republicans say it is a waste of time. interestingly, there is one area where both parties do converge, and that is when you ask people this question here, how worried are you about the future of america s democracy? you see overwhelmingly people are saying they are worried, they re very worried or somewhat worried about it. that cuts across party lines. democrats more than 80%, republicans more than 80%. independents more than 80%. they all say, stephanie, they are worried about democracy. i think when you dig a little deeper and ask why they re worried about democracy, obviously some very different concerns there depending on which party you re talking about. and the more days that pass, people aren t thinking about this, but it s a serious threat. chris, there s a new report from the atlanta council that found that domestic extremism became more local after the riot. is the threat just as bad now but it s less in your face? well, so what we saw on januar
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had courage on january 6th or the 7th to resign, but a year later they see how the republican party has come to embrace the insurrection in many ways, at least in terms of trying to down play it. yamiche, last night former trump official peter navarro talked to my colleague ari melber, and he did not exactly deny attempting a coup. attorney general merrick garland is speaking later today. what does your reporting tell you about where the doj is here? i mean, a lot of people are frustrated. if people are basically saying, yep, it was a coup attempt and they don t get in trouble, that certainly seems like the coup worked. based on my reporting and in conversations with white house officials who have been very clear that they want to be independent of the doj s investigation, the sense is that the doj is taking this very seriously, that attorney general merrick garland, that he sees january 6th as a scene on american democracy, that he sees it as one of the most serious
threats to the preservation of our democracy. i understand from reading articles, talking to folks that merrick garland is going to come out and be very strong about sort of taking this very seriously. i also think that it s in some ways the doj is being smart about the idea that they re not going to show their cards. they seem to be going after this aggressively. they seem to of course having indicted steve bannon and possibly eyeing others, but in some ways you also have a political arm of this in president biden and in the white house that are being very clear that they don t want to be seen as meddling in the doj, which is of course what their predecessors did. we all remember former president trump essentially using the doj like his personal attorney, and they really want to have this separation. all right, we are going to keep an eye on this. we ll be watching merrick garland speak later today at 2:30 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. thank you all. coming up, you ve seen hig