5 years later, the fight over how Jan. 6 is remembered continues
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | In the five years since January 6th, there has been a widespread fight over the story of that day. |
| 0:06.4 | Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin was inside the U.S. Capitol and witnessed the storming firsthand. |
| 0:12.8 | She has this look at the half-decade battle over the narrative. |
| 0:18.1 | In the crowd storming the Capitol on January 6th, an unlikely character, an Idaho grandmother, |
| 0:23.6 | has become one of the most well-known. |
| 0:26.6 | I was hoping we stormed the Capitol. |
| 0:29.6 | That's the voice of Pam Hemphill. |
| 0:31.6 | You can see her insecurity camera photos of the crowd and inside the Capitol. |
| 0:35.6 | Prosecutors said she egged on rioters. |
| 0:38.6 | You just come in. Just days earlier, Hemp Hill posted on Facebook about the rally, |
| 0:44.4 | the fight for America is real. In a photo, she posed with a gun and the caption, |
| 0:49.4 | On My Way to Washington, January 6th. Now she sees all that as part of a lie. |
| 0:56.1 | The brainwashing that happens to you that the Democrats want to turn this into a communist nation. |
| 1:02.0 | They would always say the same thing. Pam, don't listen to Democrats, whatever you do, |
| 1:06.4 | they'll lie to you about everything. So you start believing all that. I got pulled into all the propaganda. |
| 1:11.4 | But five years out, the battle still rages about January 6th, with recent comments like these from |
| 1:19.2 | some on the right. Most people in America are still buying the lie that like, oh, January 6th was a |
| 1:26.4 | terrible thing. Trump supporters did some bad stuff. No. |
| 1:31.5 | You remember what we were told about January 6th, January 6th, that it was an insurrection, |
| 1:38.8 | the worst attack ever on our sacred democracy. And last January 6th, Georgia Republican Congressman Mike Collins said, |
| 1:47.3 | thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C. to take a self-guided, albeit |
| 1:52.6 | unauthorized tour of the U.S. Capitol building. |
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