before noah harris was killed in 2005 he and senator isakson exchanged letter and senator isakson noted how noah signed his letter idwic which stood for i do what i can. similarly senator isakson sought to get to yes on solutions instead of just focusing on problems or senate differences or people's differences, he always worked to do everything he could when someone needed help and his service to veterans will shine as an example for others, for us to emulate. we will remember senator isakson and the impact he had on our nation's veterans, and that will be remembered for generations. senator isakson served six years in the house and 14 years in the senate. he died december 19 at age 76, over two decades of service and certainly over two decades of service to america's veterans. mr. president, i want to extend my condolences to senator isakson's wife diane and his children julie, kevin, and john. please know that we are thinking of you all and are praying for you during this challenging and difficult time. may god bless that family, and may johnny isakson rest in peace. thank you, mr. p

. -- johnny isakson. i mourn this great loss with the rest of georgia and people all across our nation. and since his passing, i know i've joined many of you in reflecting on the countless memories and moments that we shared with johnny isakson. without a doubt, senator isakson cared deeply for georgia, and he cared deeply for our country. he was a patriot, a public servant, and there are members of my staff, i'm proud to say, who used to work for johnny. and they will tell you that he never hesitated to show up. i often talk in my other job about the ministry of presence. sometimes half a job is to show up. and he knew how to show up for people. whether it was paying a visit to an ill patient, ill parent of a staffer, or seeing a disabled veteran. senator isakson dedicated years of service to our beloved state, to our veterans, our families, and our children. and he always made it a point to join us at the ebenezer baptist church for the annual service and commemoration of martin luther king jr. i always

and, lord, we thank you for the legacies of former senators johnny isakson and harry reid. we pray in your great name, amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., january 3, 2022. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy baldwin, a senator from the state of wisconsin, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will be in period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up it ten minutes each. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding offi

the for former senator johnny isakson's funeral.or trying to exploit this anniversary to -- for partisan policy goals. ama: local members of congress that the date reflecting on the insurrection anniversary. the country is mors mor than we were a year ago. >> we can't erase what happened that day. we have to look at it as an opportunity to strengthen our democracy. it is time for enough of us, to come together for what is needed. ama: local leaders also sing today it is time for the republican colleagues to step up and speak out against the violence. >> anyone who was watching this should note there were hundreds, thousands of people came with the goal of inflicting violence. i don't understand how every american congressperson and senator doesn't condemn that. ama: bay area residents marks the anniversary. a rally was held this afternoon at civic center plaza in san francisco. speakers abled the siege is a deadly attack against all americans. for a look at january 6, one year later, look at our article on our app. dan: let's get yo

last month and whose memorial will be in his home state of florida on thursday this week senator isakson served two decades in between his time in the house and the senate. he is very well known in fact lake on capitol hill. a lot of senators will be attending his memorial this week the day of the january 6th -- it is hard to know exactly what capitol hill will be like at this point. that day on thursday, the house his, house representatives as opposed to the fan and they are not technically in fashion that day, or in fact all this week. but her house speaker nancy pelosi, the house has nevertheless planned a day of remembrance on thursday. including discussion with a historian about implications for the country and and store cool parallels to this kind of crisis. there will be i think for speeches in addition to the speech we are expecting from the president that morning from the white house. sort of capstone what they are planning is a prayer vigil,, a prayer or four members of congress in the early evening. now again, that is what is planned by the house, thursday competing event at t

the for former senator johnny isakson's funeral.anniversary to -- for partisan policy goals. ama: local members of congress that the date reflecting on the insurrection anniversary. the country is more more than we were a year ago. >> we can't erase what happened that day. we have to look at it as an opportunity to strengthen our democracy. it is time for enough of us, to come together for what is needed. ama: local leaders also sing today it is time for the republican colleagues to step up and speak out against the violence. >> anyone who was watching this should note there were hundreds, thousands of people came with the goal of inflicting violence. i don't understand how every american congressperson and senator doesn't condemn that. ama: bay area residents marks the anniversary. a rally was held this afternoon at civic center plaza in san francisco. speakers abled the siege is a deadly attack against all americans. for a look at january 6, one year later, look at our article on our app. dan: let's get you more details on the rai

johnny isakson is always the first example i come to. it is very often a shocking revelation to most people that good people can and often do serve in government for long periods, fight hard for what they believe in, and remain true themselves and their principles. and they don't have to sell their souls to do it. it's a great lesson really, end quote. mr. president, that was johnny, a good man, one of the best i've ever known, who came to washington to serve his state and his country and serve them faithfully throughout his life. my thoughts and prayers are with johnny's wife diane and with his children and grandchildren. mr. president, i also want to mention the loss of former senate democrat leader harry reid who also passed away this christmas and also extend my thoughts and prayers to his wife, landra, and his family. mr. president, the end of 2021 marks the end of a year of democrat governance, and the picture is sobering. if we were issuing a report card for 2021, i am afraid democrats would earn a d for dreadful or disaster or an

the gop lawmakers were in georgia for johnny isakson's funeral.itch mcconnell blasted democrats for trying to exploit this anniversary for partisan goals. in washington in the u.s. capitol, faith abu bay. >> today, and getting answers as he blasted his gop allies who are still not speaking out against the violence. >> i am disheartened there are so many republicans. they say that some people came there for judgment protests and there were some bystanders that got caught up. there were hundreds, thousands of people that came with the goal of inflicting violence. >> republicans are not condemning the insurrection because they fear trump supporters will vote them out of office. >> the south bay congresswoman was also any capital. she is on the committee investigating that day. >> we are trying to find out the entire story, what happened that day, the plot leading up to that day and also to see what administrative changes should be made to help prevent something like this from happening again. >> she says the committee has received more than 45,000 do

my good old friend and colleague, johnny isakson, his funeral is today. so 30 of the republican senators are in atlanta georgia for that purpose. and i just think that it's noteworthy that there was not a single republican in the united states in the building. >> i thought as i was watching that speech that there was a chance to do something right afterwards. which that the president was impeached for the second time in the first time in american history. he was the largest bipartisan vote of impeachment. and the largest vote for conviction but not the threshold. and what would the punishments that you could've dealt out had he could've been convicted in the senate was just barred from future office. i wonder if you think about that at all and how different things might look in america had republicans understood that that was their opportunity to sort of quote arise this wound. >> that could've been it. they could've just use that opportunity to get where it of trump. the used to message demand to get their supreme court justices installed, to get the tax

thursday is also the day of the funeral for former republican senator johnny isakson who died last month and whose memorial is going to be in his home in georgia. he served two decades between his time in the house and his time in the senate. he was very well-known and very well-liked on capitol hill. a lot of senators will presumably be planning to attend his memorial on thursday this week, the day of the january 6th anniversary. again, so for that anniversary, it is hard to know exactly what capitol hill is going to like and who is going to be around. that day on thursday, the house is -- the house of representatives, as opposed to the senate, they're not technically in session that day or in fact at all this week. but per house speaker nancy pelosi, the house has nevertheless planned a day of remembrance on thursday, including a discussion with a historian about the implications for the country and the historical parallels to this kind of crisis. there's going to be, i think, four speeches in addition to the speech we're expecting from the president that morning from the white house.

most are not coming back to the capitol on the senate side, johnny isakson at a late memorial service in georgia. so this will be mostly a democratic event, remembering what happened today when at that moment, that time, as i said, people came out and they were stunned. they were aghast. they were distraught about what happened. they were criticizing donald trump. a year later, that's just not the case for most republicans. >> the speaker, the most powerful women in politics, no offense to the vice president of the united states either, that for a long time has been the most powerful woman shares that with the vice president. we heard this morning from the president who came back to statutory hall, where we saw some of the violence go through right there. just an incredibly powerful speech from the president of the united states what is at stake one year later trying to shake people, who want to say, it was a bad day, let it go. the president saying, it was a hell lot more of that. >> there is so much to say about the words he used. about how remarkable it was to call, to need to call

many senators at the funeral of the late georgia senator johnny isakson, which is also today. in the house there is no excuse. leader mccarthy will not be in town, we have not heard anything from him yet. leader mcconnell released a statement and in that statement i'm paraphrasing, he said january 6th was a dark day for this country and did condemn it but went on to say democrats are politicizing it and tying his statement to what leader schumer is trying to do, perhaps change the senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation, leader schumer all week has been talking about the link between january 6th, the failure of democracy, and the suppression of voting that he says could be happening across the country and so there are some republicans who are sending out press releases saying it was a dark day, but a lot of others are ignoring it and then we have this section and the faction of the republican party who was downright dismissing it denying it and whitewashing it. there's two republicans in that category, matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene holding a press confe

not here, although many of them have a perfectly valid excuse, they're at the funeral for johnny isaksonng time senator from georgia, which was held today. you have different categories. you have the january 7th republicans, the folks still speaking today with the moral clarity that the larger party had on the 6th, mitt romney, liz cheney, adam kinzinger, that's about it. at the far end of the spectrum you have the matt gaetz/marjorie taylor greene crew who had a press conference today to make accusations of this being a false flag operation. then there's the broad middle of the republican party who are operating under the principle that if they just wait long enough, donald trump will go away and they won't have to come to grips with the responsibility for this attack. we've seen a lot of statements that do address january 6th and say things like, this kind of violence is deplorable, i condemn all political violence, some of them pivot to condemning the riots of last summer to kind of get something else in there to talk about. but there's almost no discussion of what started this, why t

mcconnell is go to johnny isakson's, former republican senator's funeral.republicans wanting to crack down on tech companies after marjorie taylor greene was kicked off of twitter. so they're setting their sights very high when it comes to reining in tech. this has been a problem for republicans. they set up their base for disappointment, as every party does when they go into the majority, so that's something republican leadership will have to contend with going forward. >> how about all the retirements among the democratic party? we hear maybe one, two a day, it seems. >> yeah, 25 house democrats are retiring, katy. everyone has their own reasons. some are old. some have been in congress for 20, 30 years. but there is a truism for all of them, no one wants to serve in a house minority with republicans in the majority if you're a democrat. and we can say that about nearly everybody. it's just a really bad harbinger. some of these seats will stay in democrats' hands, some democrats will have to fight for. but you combine all these factors, the fact that it's

of multi republicans plan to travel to atlanta to attend the funeral of the late senator, johnny isakson. trump loyalist and house members, marjorie taylor greene and matt gates, will weigh in with their own views of the january six with what they are calling the, quote, republican response. meanwhile, demands for accountability with regard to the capitol riot are growing louder and they're being increasingly directed to the biden justice department. as the new york times asked, quote, will the justice department move beyond charging the rioters themselves? today the attorney general, merrick garland tried to respond to the mounting pressure on his department. during his speech, garland gave something of an update on the ongoing criminal investigation into the ryan. and he noted that more than 700 people have been arrested and charged. he then vowed to pursue everyone who might have been involved in the insurrection. >> the justice department remains committed to holding all january six perpetrators at any level accountable under law. whether they were president that day or were otherwis

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leadership and even democratic senators are in georgia, as you mentioned, for the funeral of johnny isaksonl republican senator who passed away recently. so i want to be fair and make that point, but i hope that those who haven't spoken on the floor earlier this week and have a chance next week will at least come to the floor and express their feelings about what happened on january 6th. they owe it to history. >> is this about what happened on january 6th now in your mind or is this about everything that made january 6 happen? >> well, it's all of the above. it really goes down to some fundamental questions you've been asking on this program as to who we want to be as a nation, whether we accept violence ever as a part of the democratic process and whether we ought to be honest about what did happen on january 6 and who inspired it. it was donald trump. he called those folks to washington with the express desire to have them march on the capitol the day we were counting the votes in the electoral college. he knew exactly what he was doing and when he was doing it. he had it all timed out.

senate gop leaders as a number of senate republicans are heading to the funeral services of johnny isaksoners had a call yesterday which they urged their members to focus on the security failures on january 6th or to pivot and start attacking the biden administration. and it's that combination of dodging and deflection that really reflects the uncomfortable reality in the republican party right now, and they don't want to talk about the insurrection because that means having to acknowledge donald trump's role in inciting the violence. i want to read what kevin kramer, a north dakota republican told me. i think it's illuminating about the republican mindset right now. here's what he told me. he said obviously it's the first anniversary, it can't be ignored. i think it's fine to commemorate it and remember it and pledge to avoid it ever happening again but then he went on to add the republican party is successful with donald trump. he's good for us for the most part. and i think the republican party is good for donald trump. i don't think the two can function well apart from one another. tha

a huge chunk of senate republicans were at the funeral of johnny isakson who passed away and becausedistricts. i wasn't terribly disappointed. by the way, i wasn't dodging your question on the other issue. my point was to say to try to go on television and to think that your future position in a party is based on trying to define a singular word to describe an event. it does tell us something about how people are viewing this. and i think incorrectly. there's going to be a reckoning on january the 6th-type issues. it's not going to manifest itself in the midterms but in the 2024 race, the republican party will be asking for the responsibility of goeverning ths country and having the most awesome power in the land again. the commander in chief. the most awesome political power in the world, really, in the free world. and if we're not willing to call it like we saw it and ted cruz previously did. now he's trying redefine it. it does tell you something about the people who seek to lead this party. but i think they are making a bad bet. and it's not going to be a winning bet in 2024. >>

majority of that conference will be at the funeral for one of their own former georgia senator johnny isakson down in georgia. the divide overall speaks to, you know, what peter and monica were talking about, the ways in which the partisan viewpoints around january 6th have been completely calcified, locked in place. i could tell you that started immediately. i mean, we think about it happening in the days and weeks afterwards, but i was just going back through my notes from the 6th and found an interview i did with ron johnson, republican senator from wisconsin, who told me that night before the vote counting was even done that he said republicans, himself, donald trump took no responsibility for what had happened. so the rewriting of history around january 6 continued on the last january 6th, it continues through this one and i suspect it will continue through all the anniversaries to come of this day. >> we are less than a minute from the president taking the podium. eugene, karl rove wrote an op-ed in the "wall street journal" arguing that if the shoe were on the other foot and democrats

most republican senators were in georgia today honoring their long time olleague, the late johnny isakson, two moderates did release their own statements, alaska's lisa murkowski saying the mob was incited by mr. trump and she'll never forget the violence and desecration of that day. mitt romney saying the lessons of january 6th will be ignored at our peril shep >> kayla, thanks >>> attorney general merrick garland vowed to arrest and charge anybody responsible for the insurrection at any level, even if they didn't physically storm the capitol. so far, the justice department has arrested and charged more than 275 more than 75 accused of using deadly or dangerous weapons against police officers. not all of the rioters were hardened extremists or right wing militia members we saw blue collar, white collar, even the famous. there was an olympic champion swimmer who won gold for the united states on the world stage, klete keller wearing his jacket from the olympics as he broached the capitol rotunda, pleaded guilty to a felony and cooperating with federal investigation. there was the realtor

i know a lot of republicans are going to former senator johnny isakson's memorial service, but i would like to see republicans speaking from this podium as well. and that -- saying this can never happen again. and we cannot excuse it, whether it be mitch mcconnell or the leader republicans in the senate. you know that's not going to happen. but that's what i would have liked to have seen, the president of the united states speak, and then leading republicans speak saying, right on. we -- we agree with you. this can never happen again. >> we'll hear a lot from liz cheney, adam kinzinger, but not from the leadership of the republican party. momentarily the vice president of the united states and the president of the united states will be walking into statuary hall to make their presentations. very substantive detailed speeches, they have been working on this for quite a while. just moments ago there was an unusual shot. i want to show our viewers what was happening on pennsylvania avenue. u.s. capitol police, they lined up -- we don't have that video yet, we'll get that video, but now we

he is expected to be in atlanta for the funeral of johnny isakson, a close friend of his.everal members of the senate expected to attend that funeral today. host: just a short amount of time from now, around 9:00, in what is known as statuary hall, president biden expected to make remarks about the events of january 6. we will bring them to you live when the president speaks. until then, we will take your calls on this anniversary. connie in illinois, republican line, you are next. caller: good morning, pedro. i want to see how smart americans are. two or three weeks before the march to the capitol, donald trump asked for 300-some national guard to be dispensed for the fifth and the sixth at the capitol. nancy pelosi said that's not necessary. then in comes donald trump and says, we are marching to the capitol, peacefully, and let our voices be heard. did i ever hear that from martin luther king jr.? and there were fbi scattered into the crowd that went into the white house that was out on the steps. who does this belong to? nancy pelosi. host: how do you make that asserti

senator johnny isakson for many years, the president was a senator, should have more respect for whatne thing that gets to me about this voting reform the democrats want is identity. id. they are moving heaven and earth u do not have to show id when you front up to vote in future elections. >> they had one vote. it is based on that one vote. who we are as a nation. should show it to vote. and to change it. irrespective of party and that is something we should all agree is critically important when we are governing ourselves. stuart: we learned the president himself is going to capitol hill to the democrat caucus lunch. he's going to strong-arm the democrat senators to get rid of the filibuster. do you think he will succeed? >> i hope not. this is political theater to distract from what the real issues are. everybody feels less safe, you saw afghanistan. secondly shelves are empty and if you can find something to buy. those are the real issues but to talk about election integrity or voter suppression is simply a distraction and the fact a former senator would do what he's in doing to e

president, we passed major, major veterans legislation, with johnny isakson on one side and bernie sandersn the other side, coming together to build more facilities for veterans, to provide more choice for veterans. senator murray of washington and former senator alexander of tennessee came together with a major rewrite of education bills. and we did it with the filibuster in place. we had to come to an agreement. we had to get over 60 votes. and the bills were better because of that. for that reason, in april of 2017, when a republican president, a president i voted for, said we ought to think about abolishing the filibuster, 28 republicans signed a letter saying let's don't do that. they were joined by 32 democrats and by one independent who caucuses with the democrats. and if i might take the time to read the two short paragraphs to the majority leader, mcconnell, and democratic leader schumer, we are writing to urge you to support our evers to preserve -- efforts to preserve existing rules, practices, and traditions as they pertain to the right of members to engage in extended debate o