fact biden has completely and totally failed. it went on from there but your thoughts on what we re hearing so far. well, on this day exactly a year ago i heard a speech that some believe incited others to act and then i knew listening to biden s speech it was inciting or going to incite donald trump to respond. here is the good news, trace. this country is not going to be united because of some speech made by a president or former president. it will only be united when the people are sick and tired of the conflict. contrast is fine. conflict, it will be a bottom up unification, not be because of some speech made at mar-a-lago or statuary hall. dana: the editorial board headline. what we need to do one year after the january 6 capitol riots. what threatens america is to scrape the barrel of politics.
about this in the weeks and months ahead again and again? i think we ll hear about it for a long time. i think the january 6th committee is going to continue to do a number of hearings. i have liz cheney on tonight and we ll talk about that. they ll do prime time hearings to try to get specifics out in the public. they are going to have an interim report in the summer and frankly democrats no that come november they are looking going to lose control of the house. if that happens the january 6 committee will come to an end. that s their deadline. dana: we have chad pergram as well. our amazing capitol hill reporter there that day and chad, one of the things you wrote about and i think we started the show talking about is there are so many questions about what happened in the lead-up to january 6th and on that day we still don t have answers to which seems quite implausible at this point. for example, why didn t the intelligence get to the capitol
some 500 capitol police officers short of what they should be and the question is if something like this were to happen again, how do you fill that gap? they have a quick reaction force now. they have better intelligence. that s something that is key. but as you say they are about 450 members short in the police force there and he said at the senate hearing yesterday that it would take 2 to 3 years to get up to speed. training has been slowed down due to the pandemic and why one recommendation, something he has talked about is bringing in security contractors on a temporary basis. the u.s. capitol police union fought back against it. we don t know if it will happen. overall the capitol does seem to have a better battle plan in place. but the one thing that is the intangible here, this is still a department that is reeling psychologically, physically, those wounds are deep on capitol hill. we saw even last april this had
sinema and manchin not willing to bust the filibuster. we have trey gowdy joining our coverage. let s go to david spunt live at the justice department to set us up. as of this exact moment the committee looking into the assault on the capitol one year ago today the committee has issued around 50 subpoenas. most honored those but expect many more. there is also a handful of people that have voluntarily agreed to provide information to the committee. the highest profile name at this point that has agreed to voluntarily give some of that information right there former donald trump press secretary stephanie grisham. she was on capitol hill last night and had direct access to the president and agreed to cooperate without a subpoena. grisham said walking out last night she fully cooperated when leaving the building last night. several big names have been subpoenaed and ignored them. including steve bannon who
television that day and seemed in her words happy that people were fighting for him. i think there is hugely political speech but it was as aggressive as we ve seen president biden since taking office. trace: you say aggressive. i wonder if your sense was he was trying to convey anger, was he trying to be resolute. he said the word truth many, many times. he said lies over and over again and as you correctly said in the going into this speech that he would talk about president trump, not only did he talk about the former president, it was the arc of his speech. and so i m wondering if you think there will be some pushback by republicans throughout the day against this considering that kamala harris equated this with the attack on pearl harbor and 9/11. some of the linkages will be attacked by republicans but to be honest there are a lot of republicans on capitol hill who feel that day was horrific. and if you were in that capitol