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Matthews: "January 6, 2021 was one of the darkest days in our history."

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President's assistant Nicholas Luna said he thought the tweet would lead people to think he "had something to do with the events at the Capitol."

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Various Trump officials calling the attack unpatriotic, terrible, unAmerican.

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Effort to delay the counting continued. Giuliani called a number of senators and congressmen to get them to delay the count.

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Some members did. But the joint session did its job.

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Clips of Republicans condemning Trump. McConnell clip is first. (He had just voted to acquit Trump.) McCarthy also condemning Trump. Chip Roy (R-TX), too.

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Trump posted on Dan Scavino's twitter account that there would be an orderly transfer of power, but it wasn't from Trump, but from Jason Miller.

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Trump talked to McEntee, head of personnel (a Trump loyalist). No one knew if they should resign or stay to try to hold the country stable. Worried about who would replace them.

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(I still can't believe these people all enabled him for so freaking long.)

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Meadows told people Trump was in a "really dark place."

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Eugene Scalia told him to stop talking about stolen elections, and to work with Cabinet rather than the Giuliani team.

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This feels like a fitting time to remember that five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6, died

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html

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Steve Vladeck

This isn't anywhere near the most important point, but it's *fascinating* to me that neither Acting Secretary Miller nor Chairman Milley seemed to have raised any hackles about taking instructions from Vice President Pence — who's not *anywhere* in the chain of command...

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Pottinger said presidential transitions are always times of national vulnerability. But January 6 hurt national security by giving our enemies a narrative that the US is in decline and our system doesn't work.

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Allies, too, were concerned about the health of our democracy.

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Matthews thought Americans needed to hear Trump commit to an orderly transition of power. Her resignation statement told him this, hoping to put public pressure on him.

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Staff had speech prepared for January 7, but he wouldn't do it. Finally he agreed out of fear he'd be removed from office either by the 25th amendment or impeachment.

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Raw footage of January 7 speech: Still refuses to say the election is over. Ivanka is coaching him. (Damn he's like a naughty child, determined not to admit he did something bad.)

Still refused to say the election was over.

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Pottinger: This isn't the first time we've had a close election. OK to challenge in court, but once he lost, he had to conform to the law. Still fight? You are challenging the Constitution and the country.

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Uncomfortable with Pottinger calling this election close. It wasn't. 7 million popular majority; 306 to 232 Electoral College.

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House resolution asked Pence and the Cabinet to remove Trump under the 25th. McCarthy said what Trump did is indefensible.

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McCarthy says Trump told him he DID bear some responsibility for the attack.

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Luria calls out police to thank them for their support.

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Trump campaign officials were unhappy that he didn't speak about death of Brian Sicknick: "shitty not to have acknowledged the death." Say he doesn't want to fault the mob, because it is ultimately his fault for egging them on.

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Kinzinger: Trump refused to call off the attack. He alone could get through to his supporters, but he refused to honor his oath. Only once the tide turned that he engaged "in the political theater" of telling the mob to go home.

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"Donald Trump's conduct... was a supreme violation of his oath of office." Will recommend changes to laws and policies to guard against this happening again, and must because Trumpism hasn't gone away.

Kinzinger: "Laws mean nothing without public servants dedicated to the rule of law." People MUST demand character and truth from our lawmakers or lose our great experiment.

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Kaitlan Collins

"I don't want to say the election is over," Trump says in outtakes from his speech on Jan. 7. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results." Ivanka Trump, who is not seen but heard in the background, helps him make revisions in real time.

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Trump summoned a mob to the Capitol. Wanted to lead "an armed uprising." Not just about inaction, but about trying to violently overturn our democracy.

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A new version of "Stand back and stand by."

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Luria says it's personal. She spent 20 years in the Navy, guarding against danger from afar. But it was here at home on January 6. We cannot let Trump destroy our democracy.

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Thompson thanks witnesses who have come forward voluntarily. Investigation is going forward. Keep getting new information. Will reconvene in September and push for accountability.

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Cheney thanks witnesses and big shout out to Cassidy Hutchinson, all of whom are speaking up unlike old guys hiding behind executive privilege. Models for American women.

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Committee has built their story from REPUBLICANS who were loyal to Trump, not from Trump's political enemies.

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Cheney plays Bannon clip of October 31, 2020 saying that Trump was just going to say he'd won.

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Exactly what happened. Trump's plan to declare victory was premeditated. And he believed he could convince his voters to buy it, no matter how often he was told that was a lie.

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Trump knows that millions of Americans would stand up and defend our nation were it endangered. He is preying on them, turning their love of country against our Capitol and our Constitution. Has lied to them that our elections are under attack.

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THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG LIE. Cheney circulated a memo to her colleagues saying there was no evidence. White House staff did the same. But Trump just wanted to stay in office.

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Trump should never again be trusted with power.