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. >> reporter: john schmidt woke up early the day after the attack to craft a new lesson plan for hisn new york. >> just let the students share. they were really angry. social and emotional learning is just as important as learning about like the american revolution. >> reporter: for many teachers, the capitol chaos highlights the importance of an inclusive education. >> you can tell a story that leaves out the people of color. you then have a citizenry that doesn't see those people as included as americans. i think that a small piece of what we saw is due to those people's educational experiences. >> reporter: the u.s. history students discussed the definition of words like insurrection and what it means to be an ethical leader, a conversation that gave rolands hope. >> if anybody's going to overcome the divisions we see in our country right now, it's going to be them. i think this country's in very good hands. we just have to teach those hands how to -- how to do it. >> reporter: lessons in history for us all. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we w

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. >> reporter: john schmidt woke up early to crack a new lesson plan for his 11th grade history classthey were really angry. social and emotional learning is just as important as learning about the american revolution. >> reporter: for many teachers, the capitol chaos highlights the importance of an inclusive education. >> you tell a story that leaves out the people of color, you then have a citizenry that doesn't see those people as included as american. and i think a small piece of what we saw is due to those people's educational experience. >> reporter: his high school u.s. history students near salt lake city discuss words like insurrection and what it means to be an ethical leader. a conversation that gave him hope. >> if anybody's going to overcome the divisions we see in our country right now, it's going to be them. i think this country's in very good hands. we just have to teach those hands how to do it. >> reporter: lessons in history for us all. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >> there's a lot more news ahead on "the overnight news." "fam did you know that geico's whole 15 m

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biden what i will also say is that you know just the other day on the news me had steve schmidt who of course was john mccain's campaign manager in 2008 against obama and the co-founder of the lincoln project of republican sex that was against.

biden what i will also say is that you know just the other day on the news me had steve schmidt who of course was john mccain's campaign manager in 2008 against obama and the co-founder of the lincoln project a republican sect that was against donald trump and what he said was today as we had at least 12 senators who are going to reject the certification of joe biden was we were going to see today a split in the republican party those who maintain a sense of sanity and a sense of duty to the republic and those who are flirting with an idea autocracy and we saw that today it was very very interesting because right after soon to be former senate majority leader mitch mcconnell give a rather impassioned speech about what was happening we saw ted cruz kind of try to rip what his his chamber leader i just said and right after ted cruz spoke was when the chaos ensued and that's where we are you know just to recap if any are viewers just coming on to what's happening here in the program we're looking at the live pictures from outside the u.s. capitol building. where congress sits both the senate's the house

us, jason johnson, campaign veteran, journalist, professor in politics and steve schmidt, long-time strategist, he led johnmpaign. he has since left the party. lincoln project, set out to defeat trump and trumpism. steve, donald trump has vanished from sight, from twitter, out of sight, out of mind in all but maga nation. why then does he only seem to live on in the minds and hearts of the sniffling cowards? >> well, good evening, brian. look, let me just start with rand paul's comments. and this is somebody who ran talking about his fidelity to the constitution. his comments are a travesty there. even in the height of jim crow in the south when there was violence done against black americans, occasionally the perpetrators, white people, would be brought before a jury, and a trial would take place. more often than not, in most instances, that trial acquitted those white people regardless of the preponderance of their guilt. it didn't mean just because you knew in advance they would be acquitted that there shouldn't be a trial. because one day there was accountability, there was justice. it's not about winn

white house press secretary under president obama, and steve schmidt co-founder of the lincoln project and former adviser to george w. bush and johnbert, with all of these security concerns, with all of these covid concerns, why is it important to have an inauguration in person? >> well, stephanie, i think it's probably more important than it's been in quite some time. i think the world needs to see, as you talked about, the peaceful transfer of power. former presidents coming together, and watching the new president take the oath of office. but i think it becomes even more important after the events of the capitol, at the capitol, the past few weeks. the world needs to see the west side of the u.s. capitol and the swearing in of the new president. and replacing those pictures of chaos, and anarchy and terrorism that we saw on january the 6th. those pictures beamed throughout the world need to remind people of the stability and the democracy and the hopefulness of america. >> steve, it will be a smaller inauguration ceremony, but they're still having one in person and let's be honest, you know if president trump did this, he would

schmidts here, co-founder of the lincoln project. i'll let you get in on the news of the day in a minute. i want you to address what john heilemann is talking about, this toxic and now dangerous threat of political violence because of donald trump and his intention and his doing in full sight the radicalization of his base with a flurry of lies, a blizzard of lies, repeated in direct messages, texts, emails from him to them, and amplified on conservative media. what do we do? how do we get out of this? >> here are the things that have to come together for an autocratic movement to take root, and that is an autocratic movement and it has taken root on american soil. and john is right, it will take years, if not decades for us to be able to deal with it and defeat it. we are certainly not in a position where we can ever lose a national election again to the autocratic election to the autocratic side or it will be the last election. the second is the masses. this is a mass movement. and the people that we saw storming the capitol 100 years ago, they would have been wearing black shirts in italy, brown shirts in germany. th