Did The J6ers Win?

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago today, supporters of President Trump, emboldened by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol. Now, with Trump back in the Oval Office, it feels like the January 6th insurrectionists got everything they could have wanted – but did they? On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of the rioters. But dozens of those pardoned went on to commit more crimes – and others are furious that they haven’t received restitution for so-called “malicious prosecution.” Many of the groups that helped foment what happened five years ago have never regained the strength they had back then. And in his second term, Trump has disappointed many of the people who backed his insurrection – including some of those willing to go to prison for him. To talk more about January 6th and where the far-right is now, we spoke to Will Sommer, a senior reporter for the Bulwark who focuses on the far right and conservative media. And in headlines, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth escalates his beef with Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz drops his re-election bid after weeks of mounting scrutiny over his handling of the state’s welfare fraud scandal, and the CDC announces an alarming overhaul to its childhood vaccine schedule.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, January 6th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Water Day, the show that is not very excited to see our foreign policy apparently decided by South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
0:14.1	Here he is on Air Force One on Sunday with President Donald Trump getting very excited about a new potential target of military action.
0:22.6	You just wait for Cuba. Cuba is a communist dictatorship that's killed priested nuns.
0:27.6	They've preyed on their own people.
0:30.6	Their days are numbered.
0:32.6	We're going to wake up one day.
0:33.6	I hope in 26.
0:35.6	In our backyard, we're going to have allies in these countries, doing
0:40.1	business with America, not narco-terrorist dictators, killing Americans. This is a big frigging day.
0:47.3	And everybody in the world is thinking differently than they were just a few days ago because of
0:52.9	what you did.
0:59.3	He also had Trump sign a Make Iran Great Again hat for him, a photo of which he posted on Monday,
1:01.9	because everything's coming up, Lindsay.
1:18.7	On today's show, Secretary of War Pete Hickseth escalates his seditious beef with astronaut and known badass Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.
1:23.9	And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues giving up on controlling and preventing diseases.
1:28.3	But let's start with this day, five years ago, when supporters of President Trump emboldened by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol.
1:33.1	Here are some footage of the insurrection released by the House Select Committee investigating
1:36.7	January 6th back in 2022.
1:42.4	Hold the Lord! Hold the Lord! Hold the Lord! Hold the Lord! I was living in D.C. at the time, not far from the Capitol building. I will never forget the scenes from that day and from the weeks that followed. The National Guard sleeping in the Capitol complex, the National Mall surrounded by barricades and barbed wire. There was a pizza place nearby that provided free food
2:01.0	to members of the National Guard station there, and so parts of Capitol Hill smelled like pizza
2:04.9	all the time for months. And five years after all of that, after the horrifying violence and
2:11.1	the deaths of multiple people, after the images that made so many of us feel like the world had,
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