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and finally, rusty bowers, a former republican speaker of the house in the state of arizona.urting your reputation. go -- reputation." [laughter] see, he's hiding behind you. he's able to do that, you know. [laughter] rusty, we may not agree on all things, but we agree on what this country is about. we agree that public service is is not about what you're willing to do to win, it's about what you're willing to lose over. what you're willing to lose over. rusty put his obligation to the constitution of this country ahead of everything when he refused intense political pressure to decertify the 2020 election results. his courage is probably the reason why he lost his primary last year. rusty, you're an example -- is a demonstration to every young man and woman thinking about entering politics about what integrity -- what integrity is all about. and i'm not exaggerating. thank you, thank you for your integrity and your honor. [applause] folks, my fellow americans, i want you to give one round of applause again for today's recipients of the presidential citizens medal. patriots w

thank you, thank you, thank you for what you have done. [ applause ] and finally, rusty bowers, a former republican speaker of the house in the state of arizona. when i met him today, i said, i hope i'm not hurting your reputation. [ laughter ] where are you, rusty? he's hiding behind you. he's able to do that. rusty, we may not agree on all things, but we agree on what this country's about though. we agree that public service is not without -- is not about what you are willing to do to win. it's about what you are willing to lose over, what you are willing to lose over. rusty put himself over the calls to decertify. he lost his primary last year. rusty, you're an example as a dmemonstration to every young mn and woman aberrantinout enterin politics. you're everything politics is all about. thank you, thank you, thank you for your integrity and drive. [ applause ] folks, my fellow americans, i want you to give one round of applause again to today's resip y -- recipients of the presidential citizens medal who performed exemplary deeds. on this day in 1941, president franklin roosevelt del

and thank you, thank you, thank you for what you've done. [ applause ] >> and finally rusty bowers. a former republican speaker of the house in the state of arizona, when i met him today, i said i hope i'm not hurting your reputation. where are you, rusty? he's hiding behind you, he's able to do that. rusty we may not agree on all things but we agree what this country is about, we agree that public service is not what you're willing to do to win, it is about what you're willing to lose over, what you're willing to lose over. rusty put his obligations to the constitution of this country ahead of everything. refused intense political pressure to decertify the 2020 election results. his courage is part of the reason why he has lost his primary last year. rusty, you're an example, a demonstration, to every young man and woman thinking about entering politics, about what integrity, what integrity is all about. i'm not exaggerating. thank you, thank you for your integrity. [ applause ] >> folks, my fellow americans, i want you to give round of applause again to the today's recipients of th

. >> reporter: in arizona, the republican speaker of the house, rusty bowers, is an artist by trade. last february, bowers was thrown into a real-life drama. >> the bill number was 2596. >> reporter: 2596, one of more than 100 bills submitted in arizona to tighten access to the ballot box. the measure would have scrapped early voting. all voting would be on election day only. >> 90% of my district votes early. >> reporter: and it would have mandated paper ballots. but most egregious to resty bowers was this. >> with no guidance criteria, the legislature, after the election, could dismiss the election. and i said, "welcome to fascism." >> hb-2596, elections -- >> i said, "i will give this the respect it deserves." i sent it to 12 committees so we would have a long vetting process. >> military affairs -- >> typical is one or two. if it was a controversial bill, you might send it to three. if it goes to four committees, then you're getting a message. >> judiciary. >> i assigned it to 12 committees. >> transportation. >> it was theatrical, and i admit it. >> reporter: it's no overstateme

and arizona's former house speaker rusty bowers, a republican, refused to decertify the state's election results. >> many times since, we've said what would have happened if? what would happen if i didn't do that? i think oh, my stars. >> reporter: as for the former president, who egged on the rioters that day... >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> reporter: ...he still insists he was in the right two years later. he is, however, facing several investigations and civil suits, including one filed just this week by the family of capitol police officer brian sick. argue sicknick's death was caused directly by trump's actions and they're seeking at least $10 million. norah. >> oda governor signed an executive order activating the national guard to help address an increase in migrants coming ashore in the florida keys. fleeing the economically hard-hit countries of cuba and haiti. cbs' manuel bojorquez reports tonight from the florida keys. >> reporter: they arrive on rafts or crowded boats taking on water. even cruise ships have had to rescue people at sea, all hoping for a reunio

local officials who resisted trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including republican rusty bowers, the former speaker of the arizona house. meanwhile on capitol hill, dozens of military veterans have now delivered letters to several house republicans, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence. andrew alex. thank you and abc news will bring you live coverage of today's events on capitol hill, beginning at 10 a.m. eastern, the better fight for speaker of the house stretched into 1/4 day. it's the longest battle to choose a house speaker since 18 59 the year before the civil war. republican leader kevin mccarthy is refusing to give up even after losing 11 rounds of voting. a group of far right holdouts has repeatedly rejected him, even though mccarthy has offered more concessions, agreeing to make it easier, for example for house members to oust him after he's elected, the house will return at noon. today but mccarthy is not setting a timeline for progress. so if this takes a little longer, and it doesn't meet your deadline, that's okay because it's not it's not how you

just to see the contrast between someone like rusty bowers and on the other hand the spectacle in thef representatives where you have people that lack that devotion to their oath having so much trouble getting the support of their own people. >> congressman adam schiff, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we will get back to the breaking news, kevin mccarthy now closing in on the speaker's gavel after swinging more than a dozen votes in this favor. the house is returning to special session later tonight. >>> we are going live to idaho for the latest on the quadruple murder investigation. right now, we are getting new information about the painstaking hunt that finally led to the suspect's capture. not that one. that's the one. at university of phoenix, you could earn your master's degree in less s than a year for under $11k. learn more at phoenix.edu. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy

they include jocelyn benson, the secretary of state of michigan, rusty bowers, who served as house speaker, and so that will be the split screen here. it fits into a broader narrative by this president, who has said that he wanted to run for office. he is in office if he runs for reelection, it will be core to that as well that he believes this moment is a fight for the soul of the nation. so i think you will see him try to keep the focus on january 6th. >> what you're seeing is an ovation on the floor for hakeem jeffries who are a has this united backing from his party. he has just voted for himself. by the way, i also want to point out that harry dunn and daniel hodges were also getting the civilian medals today. interestingly, two women from georgia, who suffered so terribly, the two volunteers who were election volunteers and without any blame to themselves where there wasn't any fraud became vilified by their entire community with all kinds of threats against them. so that list that the president is going to be going through today of civilian honors is their way, the white house way o

citizens metal to leaders who defended our democracy in the course of the secretary of state benson, rusty bowers, the republican from arizona, al schmitt who defended our democracy. all of this having simultaneously today on the anniversary, interestingly enough, of the death of teddy roosevelt who said at one point in time, patriotism is not the support of a president, it's the support of your country and it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth about the president or anyone else. all of this is converging at one time. and it actually is incredibly revealing to me where the republican party is today and where we are as a country. >> i think this question, then, might sound a little facetious, but i don't mean it that way, are you looking for, hoping for, thinking there could be an outbreak of patriotism if this continues to drag on? >> well, i'm glad you asked that because i'm always a hopeful or optimistic person in this and i always think the best comes out of the worst circumstances, listening to your lead in on damar hamlin. that was an awful circumstance, but it looks like what we're seeing

and finally, rusty bowers, a former republican speaker of the house in the state of arizona. when i met him today, i said i hope i'm not hurting your reputation. where are you, rusty? he's hiding behind you. he's able to do that. [ laughter ] rusty, we may not agree on all things, but we agree on what this country is about, though. we agree that public service is not about what you're willing to do to win. it's about what you're willing to lose over. what you're willing to lose over. rusty put his obligation to the constitution ahead of everything when he refused under intense political pressure to decertify the 2020 election results. his courage is probably the reason why he lost his primary last year. rusty, you're an example as a demonstration to every young man and woman thinking about entering politics about what integrity, what integrity is all about, and i'm not exaggerating. thank you, thank you for your integrity and your honor. [ applause ] so folks, my fellow americans, i want you to give one round of applause again today's recipients of the presidential citizens me

former arizona speaker of the house rusty bowers resisted efforts from fellow republicans to overturnion results. he lost his seat in the state house last august to a republican challenger. ruby freeman and her daughter shaye moss both worked as election workers in fulton county, georgia. they described in emotional testimony to the january 6th committee how they faced a barrage of harassment and threats after former president donald trump targeted them with false accusations of fraud. >> it's turned my life upside down. i don't want to go anywhere. i second-guess everything i do. it has affected my life in a major way. in every way. all because of lies, and me dog my job, the same thing i've been doing forever. geoff: the white house calling the honorees heroes and defenders of democracy who demonstrated courage in a national moment of peril. earlier in the day, congressional democrats held a moment of silence on the steps of the capitol. the event led by former speaker , of the house nancy pelosi and new democratic leader hakeem jeffries. mr. jeffries: we are gathered here to honor

people like arizona secretary of state, rusty bowers who refused to exchange his constitutional oathf office for a mafia style oath of donald trump and cowardly kingdom of fraud, deceit and depravity. we were saved by the astounding courage of people in law enforcement like sergeant donal and officers michael finnegan hodges and done. we were saved by political leaders like speaker nancy, pelosi, democratic caucus, chairman hakeem jeffries and republican conference chair liz cheney, who refused to back down in the face of violent insurrection. the heroes of this debacle insisted upon respecting and implementing the will of the people as expressed through our constitutional system. so i will stop there again multiple pages that he wants to share with all of you. but um, he wanted to make sure that you all know that his thoughts are with us as we gather today to fight for democracy and honor the memories of january six. thanks everyone . >> forgive me. i was talking to the king's uh, just still not used to it. um, so i was 24 years old when i was elected mayor, i was pretty impressed w

outside, i still thought there were moments that were surprising to me as i watched, like when rusty bowersas testifying about, i got really choked up about how the president had asked him to violate his oath that he taken before god, and that was something he could not do. i mean, that was really compelling. or when kathy hutchinson testified about how she walked into the office of mark meadows, the chief of staff, scenes of violence on tv screen and he was staring blankly down at his phone, because he already knew that the president didn't want to do anything. so those moments in the hearings were surprising to me. i thought very compelling. >> that's important. it was scripted, but it wasn't inauthentic. people, the witnesses were not scripted. they knew what the general questions are going to be. in some instances, video was going to be used. but the words that they chose where their own. it they just sort of knew what the topic was in advance. i did not want anyone to think scripted means fake narrative that was not authentic or not true. it was true but only as for the topics. >> i th

. >> former speaker of the arizona house of representatives, rusty bowers, a lifelong republican testifyingphone call where rudy giuliani pushed the fake electors plot. bowers refused to break his oath to his state and the country. joining us now, the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. we are capping off our week long discussion of his new book entitled "the bill of obligations, the ten habits of good citizens," also with us, presidential historian, and pulitzer prize winning author, doris kearns goodwin and richard, you write about country over party in the book saying that quote the obligation to put the country and american democracy before party and person is a thread that helps bind the fabric of the society and is an essentially element of patriotism. putting democracy and the country founded on it first is the only way to preserve and better yet improve a united states of america that for any and all of its shortcomings and flaws is still the most successful political experiment in human history and the one with the greatest potential. and doris, i'll let y

. >> and former arizona house speaker rusty bowers who defied donald trump's efforts to overturn hiseceived the presidential citizens medal. he joins us ahead to talk about that and the response he's seeing. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ooh, the chewy app. clumping litter. salmon paté? we have enough to splurge on catnip toys! i feel so accomplished. pet me please! great prices. happy pets. chewy. hello, world. or is it goodbye? you know, it seems like hope and trust are in short supply. [clap] now, as businesses we can blame and shame. or... [whistles] we can make a change. [clap] we can make work, work for our communities. create more equal opportunities. [clap] it's time for business to show its true worth. because it's not goodbye, world. it's hello, team earth. [clap] - fellow elites. now that we've made travel so ridiculously expensive, we can enjoy this hotel without all the filthy normals littering this place with their mindless frivolity. [laughter] [water splashes] - how'd you get here? - kayak! - hu

the threats to rusty bowers, both of them had sick kids in their homes being threatened and targetedll's death threat he got after he was removed from his congressional committees. they are not only tolerated, barbara, they seem to be rewarded with committee assignments by the very members who incite them and cheer them on. >> yeah, i don't know what it's going to take to get people to care. maybe it will take a magic death. we already had a number of tragic deaths on january 6th between officer sick in this case, a number of people who died, and yet that doesn't get their attention. i sometimes feel like it isn't that we're living in a post-truth world but a post-shame world. people know the truth and yet they are willing to look the other way when people committee these acts of violence based on lies. and at some point we really need to take back our commitment to the truth and not allow people to engage in violence based on what we know to be disinformation. >> kim, i wanted to make sure that we in the media weren't tying things together that the community of albuquerque didn't se

rusty bowers, brad raffensperger, all of the trump white house officials, was that by design?e room when it happened. they were the ones who had relevant information. our witnesses were almost exclusively trump supporters, were conservative republicans who, again, wanted him to win. they were the people with personal knowledge because they were in the white house, because they were state legislators who had gotten these pressured phone calls. that wasn't designed by us to put a bunch of republicans up there. they had the critical knowledge about what happened, the fact they were republican, i think, gave them more credibility or gave our evidence sort of more veracity because they were not doing it out of political motivation. >> they had none. >> they lost as a result of this. bill barr left office. mike pence told the truth on january 6th and that was to his own detriment and gave what they said a lot more credibility and our investigation more heft. >> it had tons of heft and you had members. u.s. attorneys and members of congress are two different species, right? is that f

it's across the country, rusty bowers departing, arizona house speaker, jocelyn benson, the michigan democrats versus republicans but about these folks who stood up for small-d democracy as, you know, then president trump and his allies were working to overturn it. i think that is what they want people to walk away thinking about is everyday americans can do whatever they can to make this a better country and to save it from folks who want us to live closer to autocracy. >> is there -- it appears also, eugene, that in a way, you know, there's been so much disinformation about january 6th. we can put the pictures up from that day again. in a way, as you highlight the heroes from that day and from that time, and then you look at the pictures and the video of what happened on that day, what you're looking at are pictures and videos of criminals, of people who stormed the capitol, who brought zip ties and a noose and trump signs, i hate to say it, inspired by donald trump, and were chanting to go after mike pence or speaker pelosi. they were committing crimes. and unfortunately in this t

bowers. [cheering and applauding] artist, rancher and fourth-generation arizonan, rusty hours were present atrizona for almost two decades. rising to become speaker of the house in a dire hour of our democracy, he put country before party by refusing attempts to decertify 2020 election and overturn the will of the people. he endured menacing protests including at his home and eventually lost an election because of his courageous actions. we the people honor rusty hours, public servant stated by deep and unbreakable oath for god, family and country. [applause] harry done. [applause] a champion college football lineman, harry done put his protective instincts to a higher purpose as u.s. capitol police officer. january 6, 2021, he rushed to protect injured fellow officers fighting back insurrection us. his powerful testimony describing violence and racism laid bare the backs of history. on behalf of officers battling lasting trauma is house and ease stigma around nation as a whole. for protecting the citizens democracy for taking healing, we honor capitol police private first class harry done. [