and we will speak with ryan goodman and newsweek's william arn. >> there's so much we don't know about who the people were, who were there, about what the link is to nald trump, and to me, like understanding who these people were is key to our moving forward and improving and enhancing our democracy. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. today is the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection of january 6 when supporters of donald trump attacked the capitol in a bid to overturn the 2020 election. president joe biden and vice president kamala harris will address the nation today. white house press secretary jen psaki said biden will lay out "the singular responsibility president trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw." on wednesday, attorney general merrick garland vowed to continue investigating who -- the insurrection. he said so far 725 defendants have been arrested and charged. >> the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6 perpetrators at any level accountable under

joining me now is ryan goodman, professor at the nyu school of law.rofessor, you find this reporting to be really interesting and perhaps revealing. why? >> that's right. up until now we had no public sign that the department of justice was in fact investigating former president trump and this really is the first strong indication that they have in their cross hairs in a certain sense trump and his activities that they would be in fact asking these lower level individuals, foot soldier and the like, whether or not they would commit in writing and in plea agreements to seeing that they were there at the behest of trump or they thought the president wanted them there. that's very significant. it shows that they're really thinking about him in particular as the new york times reports. >> and the connection with trump wanting them there and the specific act is also important. that specific act would be to block the proceedings that were happening, yes? >> that's right. and it sounds very much like a convergence of the theory that the select committee is w

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