tonight, january 6th, a year later, a nation still divided. president biden takes on the big lie. >> bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can't accept he lost. >> where is the so-called shaw man now. >> he was invited there by the president. >> what rises to a criminal referral. >> and a family's personal pain, tore apart after a son tips off authorities about his father at the insurrection. >> my father brought up if anybody turns me in, you know

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day one year ago today. while the physical wounds healed and the capitol restored the indellible memories of the insurrection along with the partisan division in the country still run deep. >> one year ago today in this sacred place democracy was attacked. >> in the seat of american democracy -- >> -- the will of the people is under assault. >> -- an echo, memory, anniversary of an insurrection. >> go back to that day, what do you see? rioters, rampaging, for the first time in this capitol a confederate flag that symbolizes cause to destroy america, a mob, breaking windows, kicking indoors, breaching the capitol, a crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers. our democracy held, we the people endured, we the people

prevailed. >> one year after those shocking images of rioters breaching the capitol and trying to overturn the presidential election, today, a far different scene, no fences, no chaos. >> the house will be in order. >> in the house, lawmakers, nearly all democrats gathered in remembrance of the attack. >> as we acknowledge the horror of that day we honor the heroism of so many. >> one year ago lawmakers huddled in the balcony as rioters tried to their way inside and republican from texas was there at the house door of the chamber. >> what was on your mind. >> i had an opportunity to go eyeball to eyeball with this young man who said you're from texas you should be with us, i said i can't support what you're doing we're conducting business in this sacred chamber and you're interrupting

criminal mischief you're unamerican. shouldn't be doing this. this was a colossal law enforcement failure and could have all been prevented. we can never are it happen again in our nation. it's a black eye on america. >> one republican who did show up liz cheney, behind her, her father who voted to impeach president trump for insigcitinge rioters -- >> she's been further shunned as one of two g.o.p. representatives on the house committee investigating january 6th. her father a stlworth conserve sattive backing her up. >> why do you think it's essential that we learn exactly what happened. >> in order to fix it we have to

know what occurred. >> congressman bennie thompson chairs the investigation and says the righters were no accident, the result of a coordinated effort. >> you have wealthy individual who's have crib idontributed toe coming to washington on january 6th to the stop the steal rally, chartering busses and other transportation cost, we found organizations like oath keepers, proud boys, who have come to provide security for the rally. >> this is not a spontaneous event? >> that's right. that's right. >> so far, we have issued over 5,000 subpoenas and search warrants. >> authorities have already arrested and charged more than 700 people in connection with the righters at least 62 charges are alleged or self-described members of far-right groups like the oath keepers and the proud

boys. jacob chansley known as qanon shaman has become one of the most recognizable faces of january 6th he's serving 41 months in prison for carry ag flag pole as a spear and left a threatening note on the u.s. chamber. >> only matter of time justice is coming. >> but his mother said her son is not the criminal he is made out to be. >> he went there to see president trump. they went to support our ability to exercise free speech. as far as going down to the capitol, he was invited there, people were invite there'd by president trump.

>> authorities say jacob chansley was among the first 30 people to enter the capitol and used a bull horn to rile up the log. >> your son apologized for his behavior and took responsibility for the criminality that took place that day. do you think he regrets what happened that day. >> he regrets with every fiber of his being going into the capitol that day, because if he had known that that's where he would end up then he would not have done it. >> i want to move on with my life and put this in my past. >> felipe marquez was arrested and sentenced to home confinement, recently told our affiliate wplg that he regrets that day. >> i feel really terrible about it at this point, i feel like the internet never forgives but i hope for forgiveness. >> president trump called the

rioters here oez, martyrs and patriots. >> that's disingenuous u is to the brave men and women who have put their lives on the line defending this great democracy of ours. >> remarkably in his speech joe biden forcefuly calling out his predecessor in everything but name. >> for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob greets the capitol, but they failed. they failed. >> biden accusing donald trump of choosing himself over his country. >> his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can't accept he lost. >> trump was supposed to give a news conference today from mar-a-lago in florida but cancelled earlier this week instead continued pushing a slew

of false election claims that helped fuel the capitol insurrection telling his supporters never forget the crime of the 2020 election. never give up. >> he's not just the former president, he's a defeated former president. >> the house committee now weighing whether to make criminal dear fehral to -- criminal deferral to the justice department. >> if you as commander-in-chief with your own eyes see an institution of government being attacked and for 187 minutes you do nothing? >> what's the threshold for criminal referral? when does it rise to a crime? >> unfortunately it's a high bar. whether or not the case can be made that that's criminal, it's unamerican. >> do you think your commander-in-chief did enough that day to stop the violence? >> i have no comment. all i do know is donald trump spoke 90 minutes and never said

let's go to the capitol and commit violence he didn't do it at all, there was no such thing. >> one year later so many still picking up the pieces of that harrowing day hoping for some kind of justice even as the investigation continues. >> i did not seek this fight in this capitol one year ago today, but i will not shrink from it either. i will stand in this breach, i will defend this nation, i will not allow anyone to place a dagger at democracy. >> earlier i spoke to our correspondent jonathan carl, cover the white house and authenticator of "betray alloy "the final act of the trump show" thank you for joining us. >> thank you juju. >> president biden said donald trump can't accept his lost

what's your take on how january 6th is remembered today. >> i think what biden is doing is importantly focused on not just the riot or just the attack on the capitol building itself, not on the trump supporters who stormed the place but on the fundamental issue on what was motivating them and bigger effort to overturn the election. so he spent considerable time focused on the lies that donald trump and his supporters have been saying really since the election last year claiming widespread fraud, it's not true and biden forcefully dismantled it and kind of needling trump, calling him not just a former president but a defeated former president, yes, trump lost by 7 million votes in the popular vote and decisively in college and lost in a slew of lawsuits and other efforts to try to overturn the election.

>> a very symbolic moment with the cheney what does it say. >> i thought it was powerful symbolically and really told the story of the republican party. the cheney, particularly dick cheney one of the most prominent figures, the chief 6 staff, defensive secretary, vice president, he's been a fixture in republican politics for half a century and for him and his daughter to be the only republicans present, and i spoke to him right before he stepped on the floor and he told me flatly that he is deeply disappointed in the leadership of the republican party today, specifically about how they've handled january 6th. >> what a moment. let's talk for a moment about the text messages that are coming to light from the house investigation fox news host hannity texting

former chief of staff mark meadows on the day leading up to january 6th why it that so important. >> it goes to trump's state of minute the fact his most fervent supporters and we're learning donald trump jr. pleading with chief of staff mark meadows to get control of the president and warning about the dangers what he was doing, saying and how he was acting. goes to what i report about extensively in my book, members of the cabinet were looking at the 25th amendment to remove him from office because he was mentally unfit. >> john carl your body of work speaks for itself thank you so much for your insights. >> thank you, juju. >> up next, inside our divided nation. one fractured family tore apart by a family's actions january 6th. and the son who turnedhim in.

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when the first righterer is scheduled to go on trial next month it will be the first time in more than a year that his family will be together in the same place. like many political extremism has fractured the family. >> in a suburb outside dallas, texas, a family torn apart, a 19-year-old song estranged. >> he's getting involved with a lot of different bad people in a lot of bad communities. >> a father in jail, awaiting trial, after taking part in the

riot at the capitol. >> did january 6th tear your family apart? >> it has temporarily fractured us. >> that fracture partly caused by jackson who went to the fbi with concerned about his father in the days leading up to the insurrection. >> he's like, i just have to do this. if something's really to happen i don't want this on my shoulders is the only one that actually sees what he's doing right now. >> then on january 6th, jackson says his worst fears were confirmed. >> i went home to check up on everyone and everyone's sitting around the tv and my mom looks at me and is like, your dad's there. and hearing my father was there, it was absolutely disgusting and it really lost all respect for him in that moment. >> nicole raffitt acknowledges her husband is member of three percenters considered to be anti government extremists.

according to documents when he returned from washington started making threatening statements to his children. >> my father said if anyone turns me in, you know what happens to traders, traders get shot. >> i have 20 years of telling guy you can't say stuff like that. >> jackson had recordings he taped of his father. days later with the family watching the fbi watched the 49-year-old at home. >> when i woke up my first thought was nukes were falling from the sky because that's what the flash bangs sounded like, they pointed guns at us there there was a battering ram. >> i saw him in the back of the state marshall car, and that's the last time i saw him. after everything came public i packed up my things, like, i just can't be here. >> it's been so difficult the void that has been left by jackson and guy. >> the family says this past year has been an emotional roller coaster. >> i work six minutes away from

my house and i cry for six minutes to work. and i pull myself together and i get back in my car, cry all the way home and i get out and i make dinner. >> so you give yourself 12 minutes a day. >> yep. that is really all that is available. >> jackson says he feels responsible for the rip between him and the rest of his family. >> i know a lot of people tell me it's not your fault your father is an adult but doesn't take away from my guilt. >> do you guys blame him. >> i don't believe he should have gone to the capitol but he did. i don't believe jackson should have turned my dad in but he did. >> he was charged with five counts including allegedly carrying a semi-automatic weapon and tampering. raffitt pleaded not guilty but could face decades in prison if

convict convicted. he told his daughters i feel i'll be exonerated. it's not hard to prove i didn't do anything. the family is trying to take the difficult steps to reconnect. >> i have anger but i love him. i'm angry because he took away my last years growing up with my dad. and you know, that's really hard. >> are you ready to move on? >> yeah i'm ready to move on. i'm ready to heal. >> i have an end game in sight and that is just for us to be the party of five again. and i will not stop until that happens. i don't care what path we're going to have to take, how much healing and therapy we're going to have to have, i am not going to a loy ideology to to allow ideology to fracture my family this way. >> our thanks to them. up next, a final thought, looking back on january 6th. asr dishwasher doesn't get everything clean.

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finally tonight our nation remains bitterly divided. but one year ago today democracy

held. ♪ god bless america ♪ ♪ >> and tonight, members of congress gathered for a vigil on the steps of the capitol to thank the heroes of that day. lieutenant hopkins described the brave men and women of law enforcement saying we fought back, we were vastly outnumbers outnumbersed and we won. ♪ my home ♪ ♪ sweet home ♪ ♪ >> that's "nightline" tonight. watch all our full episodes on hulu. see you right back here same time tomorrow.