tv The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC January 11, 2025 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
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for the ones who get it done. >> what we do is try to cut right to the bone of what we're seeing in washington that day. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. >> i'm really happy to have you here. >> glad you're with us. >> so gerhard marx was his name is a sculptor, a very famous sculptor, considered to be one of the greatest european sculptors of the whole 20th century. gerhard marx was german, though, and during the
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third reich, when he was making his art, the german government, the nazis, they decided that gerhard marx's art was degenerate. he wasn't jewish, but he was fired from his teaching job in germany after he tried to protect his jewish students from the nazis. after he protested against jewish faculty members being removed from their posts at the school where he taught. >> so he lost his job as well. >> the nazis didn't just fire him from teaching, they banned him from showing his work. >> they banned him from selling his work. >> they actually confiscated some of his sculptures and melted them down. >> they said they needed the metal to make weapons for the german army. so it was a little bit of a miracle that gerhard marcks survived world war two in germany. but he did. it's even more of a miracle that some of his sculptures survived world war two in germany, but they did. >> not long after the end of
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world war two, in 1949, one of his surviving sculptures actually came to the united states. >> there was a big, important international sculpture show in philadelphia in 1949, and gerhard marcks brought this statue to that show. it is seven feet tall. it's called maya. maja, and it's a it's considered to be a monumental work, but also representative of his style. it's exactly the kind of expressive, modernist, but very human thing that the nazis hated about gerhard marcks and his art. that said, philadelphia loved it. the big public art association in philly that had put on the sculpture show, they bought the sculpture from him, and for years it had pride of place that overlooked the big famous terrace at the philadelphia museum of art. a few years ago, they moved maya to a new and probably permanent
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home. she's still in philly, but the art association put her through a full conservation and renovation process, and they built a park for her. it opened in 2021 and it's called maya park, and she is the centerpiece of this public space in philly. it's right there in the benjamin franklin parkway. it's kind of a lovely spot. just before the election this year, somebody unexpectedly and without a permit, definitely without permission, put up a new sculpture right near maya in that same park. it was near to the gerhard marcks sculpture. it was behind her, in fact, actually, the way it was set up, it was kind of leering at her. and as you can see here it is a donald trump statue. somebody put up this donald trump statue in maya park in philly just before the election, and it is a statue of trump. but it is it is not like a statue honoring
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trump, at least not except in a very backhanded way. there's a plaque at the base of the trump statue that has a little bas relief of trump at the top. you see there with an american flag and it says in all caps, in honor of a lifetime of sexual assault. quote, i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. just kiss. i don't even wait. and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the you can do anything. president donald j. trump. that statue with that plaque on it went up in that philadelphia park just before the election. city workers pretty quickly took it down because it didn't have permission. it was there without a permit. around the same time, though, all the way across the country on the west coast in portland, oregon, there was another one. in this case, it was near a statue by a seattle based sculptor who's named norman taylor. this sculpture
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has been in portland, oregon on southwest sixth, southwest sixth avenue downtown since 1975. relatively famous local statue in portland. this is also a bronze statue. its name i will not try to pronounce for you. it's the norwegian word for female nude. i cannot pronounce it in norwegian, so i won't try. but this is a well known thing in portland, downtown portland, and about the same time that the kind of gross trump statue went up near to the maya statue in philly, that same trump statue with the same plaque went up here in portland as well. near that other statue of a nude woman. quote in honor of a lifetime of sexual assault. now, both these statues went up just before the election in philadelphia. as i mentioned, it was just city workers who took it down because there was no permit for it to be there. in portland. they took a different approach. somebody cut the statue's head off, and then a
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local pro-trump politician in portland took a hammer and chisel to the plaque with trump's quote on it and to the title about sexual assault. that's what happened in portland. then there was the one that went up at the donald j. trump state park in yorktown heights, new york, which is just about i think it's like 50 miles north of new york city. this was a different statue, but it went up around the same time as the two leering statues of trump with the quote about sexual assault. this one in the trump park. however, this was a different message. it was a big, giant plinth, like a big pillar. and then you see how there's like a teeny tiny little thing up on top, this huge pillar with a big plaque on it, and then a teeny, teeny teeny little thing sitting on the top of it is a tiny little mushroom. and this one again has an explanatory plaque. this one was titled the very large donald j. trump monument. it says that in all
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caps on top, and then below that it says, quote, this giant pillar pays tribute to president trump. as you can see, this is a very large monument, definitely the largest. despite this towering statue's impressive size, the president's former mistress, stormy daniels, knowingly slandered the president as having a, quote, smaller than average monument and claimed it isn't, quote, unusual monument similar to a mushroom. she further went on to describe her interaction with his monument as, quote, the least impressive i've ever had. the plot continues. the circumstances surrounding her statements have been verified by a new york state court of law. this towering monument stands in defiance of these false statements, so that we may all bear witness to the truth of this giant, very normal monument. and again, a teeny tiny little mushroom at the bottom of the plaque and at the top of the very large plinth. and of course, donald trump continues to deny ever having
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had a sexual encounter with stormy daniels. he is due to be sentenced this week, friday, after he was convicted of 34 felony charges relating to him falsifying business records to cover up the secret payment he made to her to try to stop her from speaking publicly about what she says was their sexual encounter. and all of its variously unpleasant, unsettling, or in some cases, pitiful details. so there's the leering trump in philly, there's the leering trump in portland, there's the teeny tiny mushroom in trump's state park in new york. then there was also this again just before the election went up around the same time. this time, this one was a giant tiki torch. it was put up in freedom plaza near the white house. the plaque with this one explained that it was essentially commemorating trump's praise for the white nationalists and neo-nazis who marched with tiki torches in charlottesville, virginia, saying things like jews will not
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replace us. somebody later destroyed the tiki torch statue in dc by smashing it to bits with a skateboard. not sure exactly what was going on there, but all of these works again, all of these works of art went up right before the election. and of all of them, the one that got the most attention was actually another one that went up in dc nearby to the tiki torch statue, but specifically it was on the national mall and it, you know, actually stayed up on the national mall for kind of a long time. it went up in late october. it stayed up right through the election. the people who made it apparently properly went through the formal process of getting a permit to have this thing put up and stood up on the national mall. so it was fully legal to be there. and it was there for a while. and this one on the national mall got the most attention, not only because of where it was right there, amid the monuments and everything on the mall in washington. but it also got attention because of what it
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was, the statue that went up on the national mall before the election was as funny and shocking as all the rest of them. but the one in the national mall was also a little unnerving in a different way, because the sculpture that went up in the national mall just before the election was made of bronze. it was a desk that had some normal desk stuff on top, all cast in bronze. it had a landline phone and post-it notes and file folders and maybe like a calculator or something else that size and shape, but then prominent pride of place on the top of the desk, there's a nameplate showing that this is a representation of a desk in the office of former speaker of the house nancy pelosi, and right next to the nameplate on top of the desk, cast in bronze, is a big bronze, larger than life version of the poop emoji plopped there right on top of the desk. and once again,
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there's a plaque. it says, quote. this memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the united states capitol on january 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election. president trump celebrates these heroes of january 6th as, quote, unbelievable patriots and warriors. this monument stands as a testament to their daring sacrifice and lasting legacy. their lasting legacy. a bronze turd left on the national mall for a few days around the election. seems about right. actually seems about perfect. and of course, this is funny. obviously, if you're like me and you have an eight year old sense of humor permanently for your whole life, literally anything involving a poop emoji or any reference to poop is always going to make you laugh. i will admit it, i am a complete,
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complete slave to poop humor. absolutely. but in addition to this being funny, i think i think the reason this one is equally funny and unnerving is because of the inherent juxtaposition, right? because this really is cast in bronze amid all the very serious stuff in the national mall. we've got the plaques marking the historic sites and the big, you know, marble memorials and the cast bronze sculptures that are part of these memorials. right? so to have a big version of the poop emoji in that context is funny, but it's also like a bad juxtaposition. it's repulsive. right. and that's obviously what this is. all this is all about. it's, you know, you go back to the plaque, what it says there about the hallowed halls of the capitol and people breaking in to loot and urinate and defecate inside those hallowed halls. that is, in fact, what happened on january 6th. and these are things that, like, should not go together, right? it's gross
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feels it feels like whatever the civic version is of sacrilegious. it's repulsive to think of the hallowed halls and then people doing that inside them. it's repulsive. and i think that's, that's sort of both how we're supposed to feel as citizens. i think it's how americans generally do feel about mixing the violence and politics. right. but when the when the two do get mixed together, it turns our it turns our stomach doesn't feel like something that's supposed to happen. we don't know whether to laugh at it or kind of point and run, but it feels wrong. here's another example. this is something that's on videotape. this is 2018, in south florida in in coral gables, florida. >> look at nancy pelosi right here. look at this piece of art right here. >> look at this piece of pelosi
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right here. it is halloween. you don't belong here you communist. get the out of here. get the out of here. wrong, wrong. you and your democrats. >> so this happened at an event for a democratic congressional candidate in 2018. speaker of the house, then speaker of the house nancy pelosi was there. the local republican party in miami-dade county called for a protest at the event. and this is what their protest looked like. the lit. >> what's up brother? open up. >> it's the proud boys in here. >> open up! it's the proud boys in here. two things to know
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about this. the first thing to know is that when that guy says, hey, it's the proud boys here. he's right. the guy who was apparently filming that piece of video, the guy who was credited with having filmed that piece of video is enrique tarrio, the national head of the proud boys pro-trump paramilitary group. enrique tarrio at the time lived in south florida. he now lives in federal prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison for what sedition is, which is trying to overthrow the us government. enrique enrique tarrio, his lawyer, today, just wrote to president elect trump, formally asking trump to pardon his client, enrique tarrio, whose family have been publicly counting down the days while trump is sworn in as president because they're convinced that enrique tarrio will be one of the january 6th felons who trump pardons on the day of his
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inauguration. so that's one thing to know about that video of what happened that day in coral gables. the guy shooting the video, the guy screaming at nancy pelosi, filming people pounding on the door to try to intimidate her, saying, the proud boys are there. that guy is now in prison for trying to overthrow the us government. but the other thing to know about that video is that the guy who he's actually filming, doing the pounding on the door, this guy right here in the red circle, he has just been named by donald trump as his choice to be the next us ambassador to the nation of panama. because apparently that is what our country is looking for in an ambassador. now, will you make yourself a physical menace for donald trump? now that that man who's now donald trump's ambassador pick after this happened in coral gables, he later defended his conduct there, saying he was
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just exercising his right to protest at the time it happened, though in 2018, republicans were quite embarrassed by this. the head of the miami-dade republican party apologized for being there, distanced himself from the proud boys. other republicans, including florida senator marco rubio, condemned the actions, said republicans should never do anything physically intimidating like this. well, now marco rubio is about to be nominated to be donald trump's secretary of state, where the guy pounding bloody murder on the door to try to scare nancy pelosi, and smiling up at enrique tarrio when he says it's the proud boys in here. that guy will be reporting to marco rubio as one of america's next us ambassadors. and the reason that's repellent, the reason that is it's sort of instinctually repulsive to us is because they're supposed to be a sharp line that keeps violent intimidation on one side of the
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line and politics on the other, and never the twain shall meet in a democratic country. those things are supposed to be separate, and so today, january 6th, the certification of the last presidential election happened in washington. and it just happened ministerially and ceremonially. ceremonially, like, it's like it's supposed to. and that contrast with what happened today versus what happened four years ago makes clear the profound difference between the two parties. right. had had democrats won the presidential election this year, the whole country openly expected and was preparing for republicans to go into violent, if not armed revolt, but because instead republicans won everyone expected. and in fact, we saw today that democrats would peacefully accept and participate in the transfer of power. and when a whole country
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expects guaranteed violence, if one side loses in an electoral contest, then the two political parties in that contest are no longer competing in democratic terms anymore. one of those parties is a small d and capital d democratic party. the other party is something else. so that is part of what we are contending with on this january 6th. how do we ever get our democracy back now? because we have, in effect, lost it? how do we ever get back to competition in democratic terms? which means specifically, how do we get the republican party and the trumpist right to no longer see physical force and armed conflict as the way they're going to get their way and hold power? one big step backwards from that as a goal will be trump's promised pardons of the people who committed violence in his name on january 6th, 2021. the ones who earned themselves that bronze statue of nancy
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pelosi's desk on the national mall that briefly memorialized the physically repulsive and scatological nature of their actions inside the capitol. i mean, the argument now appears to be in republican circles, not whether trump is going to issue pardons to people who took part in that attack on the capitol. but just how many pardons he's going to issue? will he pardon them all, or will he just pardon some of them that has led publications as diverse as the huffington post and the wall street journal editorial page, to try to front page, to try to resurface the details of the crimes for which some of these people were convicted, to try to make it seem even to trump, even to trumpist republicans. like maybe these convictions were sound and should stand. quote andrew, take pepper sprayed police officers defending the capitol on january 6th, 2021 and hit one with a metal whip. he is serving 74 months at a federal prison in beaumont, texas. christopher alberts carried a
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loaded nine millimeters pistol onto capitol grounds that day and hit police officers with a wooden pallet. he's serving an 84 month sentence at the federal prison in milan, michigan. stephen cappuccio held his cell phone in his mouth so he could beat an officer using both of his hands, including with the officer's own baton. he's doing 85 months at the federal prison in forrest city, arkansas. all three will be back on the streets if donald trump, the man who incited them, and some 2000 others to attack the capitol in the first place, follows through on his oft repeated pledge to pardon the january 6th insurrectionists of those serving a year or more in prison, a full 57% are there following a conviction in cases involving an assault on a police officer. in all, 83% serving a year or more were convicted of committing an act of violence, which means that, with few exceptions, the only people trump could release from prison with his pardons are those who
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attacked a police officer, possessed weapons or explosives, or were convicted of some other violent felony. are those going to be the ones he springs? here was the deeply conservative wall street journal editorial page today. it's titled trump's pardon promise for january 6th rioters. does it include the ex meth trafficker who brought a metal baton and swung it at police? quote. on december 20th, a prison sentence of 48 months was given to a 31 year old man named joshua lee atwood, who pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. he emptied a can of pepper spray at police, beat them with a pole, and pelted them with objects such as a metal scaffolding pipe. he yelled that the cops were pieces of scum. the prosecution's sentencing memo says his criminal history includes a pending felony case for an alleged 2023 stabbing on december 17th, meaning last
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month a 60 month sentence was given to michael bradley, age 50, who apparently went to the capitol on january 6th with his own metal baton in a hip holster. he swung it at police more than once. his list of priors includes a 2002 conviction for meth trafficking. also in december, a 24 year old man got nine months for having thrown an equipment container lid that beaned a cop, causing momentary loss of consciousness and a suspected concussion. a 41 year old man who wore body armor on january 6th pled guilty to scuffling with police, including trying to seize an officer's baton while shouting come out here, b word! other active cases include accusations of ramming the police line, punching cops and walloping riot shields with a baseball bat. the wall street journal editorial page continues, quote, this was the brutal reality of the capitol riot that many want to forget. pardoning such crimes would contradict mr. trump's support for law and order. oh, and it would send an awful message
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about his view of the acceptability of political violence done on his behalf. now, as i mentioned, this is the wall street journal's editorial page. deeply conservative. i would take issue there with their characterization of mr. trump's support for law and order. he has repeatedly praised the idea of violence in his name for every year that he has been in public life, and so i would take issue with that. that said that that last line i read there from the wall street journal is absolutely correct. quote. it would send an awful message about trump's view of the acceptability of political violence done on his behalf, the acceptability of political violence done for him in his name this january 6th. yes, we have got very blunt evidence of the profound difference between the democratic party offering democratic competition, win or lose, and the republican party's threat of violence to hold
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power. and yes, there is also the unnerving and occasionally unsettling fight to remember what actually happened, to be real about how disgusting it all was. while the trump movement and the republican party and the conservative media tries to say that the january 6th attack was really just a bunch of heroes who were so peaceful and loving, and they've just been wrongly persecuted for doing nothing wrong. the effort to remember and to stick to the truth of what happened there and not be gaslit and lied to that it was some sort of day of love and peace is unnerving and unsettling. and yes, occasionally hilarious. but there is also a very instrumental and practical question at hand. this january 6th, which is what happens to the future of political violence in our country in the very short term, in like the next year, if the people who committed violence on trump's behalf are
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sprung from prison by him and celebrated as vindicated heroes who did nothing wrong. starting two weeks from today, when trump takes office again, think about this in big picture terms. why does a leader who celebrates violence against his critics and his enemies want not just a government, not not just the state to do his bidding? he also wants his mob. he also wants his paramilitary groups, people who have proven themselves willing to commit violence on his behalf. why does he want the mob? why does he want his paramilitary groups? why does he want his violent ex-cons? he wants to set them all free at the start of his presidency, so they can do what for him? the idea that there is permeability between violence and politics that an incoming president might
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want a deniable, non-government, violent force that he can activate or direct to do his bidding, that what is supposed to be civic hallowed ground might be fouled by rioting and looting and people doing what they did in trump's name on january 6th that is supposed to repel us and disgust us indelibly. we are never supposed to acclimate to that. but the trump side has, and this artwork was temporary. and so now, this january 6th, what should we be prepared for next? with two weeks left before he's back in power, i know just who to ask power, i know just who to ask ne if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help you keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪♪)
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administration. >> donald trump wants a presidential cabinet full of loyalists. don't miss the weekend, saturday and sunday mornings at 8:00 on msnbc. >> the second inauguration of donald trump morning joe kicks off coverage. then, at 10 a.m, rachel maddow and team will bring you key moments of the day, followed by analysis from our primetime anchors as the new term begins monday, january 20th, beginning at six on msnbc. >> this is republican congressman andrew clyde. >> watching the tv footage of those who entered the capitol and walked through statuary hall showed people in an orderly fashion, staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures. >> you know, if you didn't know, the tv footage was a video from january the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit, a normal tourist visit, said republican congressman andrew clyde. >> is this you? republican congressman andrew clyde, is this you, the guy in the red circle holding up a piece of furniture to try to barricade
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the house floor while all those normal tourists were trying to break down that door on january 6th? if this is the way you react to every normal tourist visit to the capitol, remind me to never be a tourist near you. it looks dangerous. for what it's worth. congressman clyde has repeatedly said those remarks were taken out of context, but he has declined to answer questions about what the proper context might be. also consider his colleague, republican congresswoman nancy mace. >> it was a sad day for our nation. >> i was shocked, i was heartbroken, and i was off and angry by seeing this, this violent mob. >> how do we hold a president accountable that put all of our lives at risk? >> how do we hold a president accountable that puts all of our lives at risk? how it turns out, if your name is congresswoman nancy mace, you endorse that president to be president again after he did the thing that made you that you said made you so
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angry and afraid for your life. nancy mace was so committed to holding that guy accountable. she actually endorsed trump over nikki haley, who is not only from her home state of south carolina. haley actually is her constituent and lives in her district. you want one more? here's one more. >> this has been a truly tragic day for america. violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable. >> it is anti-american and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> it is anti-american. it must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. you see, you you see where this is going for now, right? right. >> i have concerns about the treatment of january 6th. hostages. >> they must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. i mean, they're hostages. we must free them. it is one thing to sugarcoat the facts of what happened on january 6th, 2021. it's another thing entirely to contradict your own personal,
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individual assessment of what happened that day, especially when it didn't happen all that long ago. it is a phenomenon that is funny and embarrassing, but it's not slowing down on its own. just because it's funny and embarrassing, it requires a pushback, some of which it's getting today from people like congresswoman zoe lofgren, a democrat who was one of the january 6th investigators in congress, congresswoman lofgren saying today, quote, i have no respect for donald trump, but i do have respect for the process and for american voters. he was elected president, and we will certify that election today. the funny thing is, some of these members, the day after january 6th, four years ago, they were condemning trump and decrying the violence. now it's as if it didn't happen. so it's sort of a lesson in propaganda, if you will. but ultimately, she says it will not succeed. and i have faith in america. joining us now is congresswoman zoe lofgren, a democrat from california. congresswoman lofgren, i'm really appreciative of your time tonight. thank you for being
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here. happy to be here. when you say it won't work, it will not succeed. i have faith in america. can you share with me the reason for that? that optimism? well, you can't undo history, rachel. as you know, one of the good things that our january 6th committee did was to document everything that we found and then to post it freely available. >> you can go to the government printing office website and all of the material is there. there's videos, there's radio traffic transcripts, etc. and so you can just click on the exhibits and see the riot. >> it's right there. >> and i would encourage people who post on x or read things. >> if you see some of these ridiculous things that republican members are saying, it was just a tourist visit. just take a 22nd clip of the
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riot from the government printing office website and let that be your reply, because in the end, what happened is what happened. luckily, and i'm so grateful to the capitol police, i've been touching base with members who were hurt on that day and their family members, just to let them know how much i appreciate what they did. they saved my life. they saved the democracy, and they are appreciated. and some of this nonsense that's being said by my colleagues, they know they're lying, doesn't undercut the heroism that they showed on that day and the significance of what they did. so and the truth will out. >> you say that they know they're lying. and you described it, i think, powerfully today as this being a lesson in propaganda. what do you think is the purpose of this propaganda effort? what do you think is the purpose of these lies? what is the end game for denying that
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january 6th happened the way that we know it did? well, it's what trump wants. >> number one, he knows. and remember the day after he issued really a video apology. we can't make that go away either, can we? he knew what happened and he apologized for it. but now, because he was wrong and he can never be wrong. right? we have to turn the facts upside down and make it seem as if it didn't happen. and unfortunately, some of my cult like colleagues are willing to accommodate him in that effort to try and clean up the mess that he did on that day, the violence that he encouraged. he summoned the mob knowing they were armed. he sent them down to the capitol to overturn the election, essentially a coup d'etat. the police officers stopped him and we came close. we came close. but democracy survived that day.
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and i will say, i don't like donald trump. i don't respect him. but he was reelected president. and so we did what our job was today, which was to count the electoral count votes and certify the obvious that he won. i'm sorry that that's what voters chose, but it's their decision, not the congress's decision. >> congresswoman zoe lofgren, democrat of california, a member of the january 6th investigation in congress. thanks for being here. i know a lot of demands on your time on this day. i really appreciate you being here with us. >> anytime. >> all right. much more to come >> all right. much more to come dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye: too much tear evaporation. for relief that's ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ remove contact lenses before using miebo.
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it's about 50 miles from the capital of that country. it's called soto cano. the united states has been at this base in honduras for decades. the largest u.s. military task force in central america operates out of this base. this is the base where u.s. presidents and vice presidents have have flown into and been received by honduran officials for more than 40 years. soto cano is a big part of america's military footprint in central america, but it is not technically an american base. the base belongs to honduras, and the u.s. just uses it under a long standing agreement with that country's government. well, just a few
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birthright citizenship is the idea that if you're born here, you're a citizen. it's something that isn't just a basic idea about who is an american. it's explicitly and indelibly in the constitution. but trump says he plans to just cancel that. day, one that is being met with the promise of a fight from one state's top law enforcement official, from the attorney general of connecticut, attorney general william tong, saying, quote, i would be the first to sue. it is beyond clear what the law states. joining us now is william tong, attorney general of the great state of connecticut. mr. attorney general, thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks, rachel. >> so what was it about this day? one pledge, this birthright citizenship pledge that trump is making that grabbed your attention? >> well, it's very personal for me and millions of americans, like millions of americans. my parents came here with nothing. my dad had $0.57 left in his pocket, to be exact, when he arrived in hartford,
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connecticut. they opened a chinese restaurant. and when i was born, they were not yet citizens. i was the first american born in my immediate family, and in one generation. i've gone from working with my parents in our hot chinese restaurant kitchen to being to being the attorney general of our state, and that was all made possible by the by the right of my birth, the right to be an american citizen, a right that it's given me an opportunity to have the education, the employment opportunities, the jobs that i've had that have given me the opportunity to run for office. it is the enduring promise of america. it's what it's what ronald reagan referred to as birthright citizenship. as a part of our essential character. and it's core to the american dream. >> trump seems to think that he can undo it with some sort of executive action, despite the fact that birthright citizenship is in the constitution. how do you expect this fight to unfold if he tries to do what he says
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he's going to try? >> well, i know my fellow attorneys general are committed to stopping him. we're going to be a firewall for the for immigt just on immigration, but also reproductive freedom for the environment against gun violence. we are going to use the law as a sword. and as my friend tish james says, also as a shield to protect our states. and the 14th amendment is very clear if you're a conservative, if you're an originalist, if you're a textualist, the 14th amendment means what it says that if you're born on american soil or under the jurisdiction of the united states of america, you're an american. period. and the supreme court confirmed that in wong kim ark, a celebrated supreme court case, you know, more than 125 years ago. >> there is an ugly and underappreciated history in this country of trying to strip people of their citizenship when they come under fire by one political faction or another. it has never succeeded before. i have a feeling we'll be seeing
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