And now for a moment of clarity.

The only people believing that garbage that the White House put up on its website today

are people in this revisionist history, MAGA, milieu.

And even they, honestly, I don't think believe it. Because how can you?

In so many respects, Brendan, we have come full circle. And, you know, today is a day where we kind of

reflect on a lot of things. And because all of us like 9-11 and like at other times in our nation's history

where something traumatic has happened, we remember where we were, what we were doing,

and remember watching those events unfold.

And so there is that part of this that is history for us.

And so it got me reflecting a little bit about history.

Our history professor here at the table is Simone.

And she's very quick to make those links to important periods in our nation's history as part of the progress or lack thereof that we're making.

And for me, that came, that circled completion was after the Civil War.

Yeah. Talk about it, Michael Steele. After the Civil War, what happened? We allowed the people

who moved against the government, who caused and fought in a way to keep slavery, yes, but even more so, to overturn the fundamental

foundations of this country. They built monuments to themselves. They started writing the history,

and they continue to lie to this day about what those events that were at the heart of the Civil War were about.

They are writing at this moment, still writing that history and lying to themselves, to your point,

and to the American people about what happened between 1860 and 1865.

And now today, five years after January 6th,

you have this president and those insurrectionists

lying to themselves and to the country

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