Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. This week will be remembered

for a long time. The question is, how? Hope with me that today, Dr. King's example inspires

the many striving for better and enlightens the toxic few determined to be their worst. We

could not have a better reminder that you can't kill an idea with violence. Only a better

idea can prevail. Equality and justice as Dr. King taught us, they are the best ideas. Darkness

can only be removed by the light of truth, and love is the ultimate form of truth. But also,

that racial progress can enrage some in the majority, and that violence can be used as a refuge

for those coming from a place of animus and ignorance. And that democracy, even in America,

is a fragile, fragile thing. Last reality has the capital and this country in a state of

high anxiety. The inaugural committee lighting the field of flags on a deserted national mall

tonight, illuminating 56 pillars of light representing every state and territory. Some 200,000

U.S. flags standing tall, representing America's unable to attend the Biden inauguration due

to the pandemic, and now due to the disease of division. 25,000 National Guard members

must protect our democracy from ourselves. We can no longer boast peaceful transfer of power.

There is no peace. We must be suspicious of even the peace keepers. All are being vetted

by the FBI ahead of Wednesday to ensure that none will turn on their country and pose

an insider threat. We used to have to do that in Iraq, by the way. This is where we are

four years of Trump. The only place his demagoguery could take us. Chaos capped off by a capital

coup. You know, candidate Biden warned us we were in for a battle of the soul of our nation.

Even dramatic at the time. Now seems more prophetic. How do you restore a soul? How do you unify

those who see benefit and power in division? That alone would be a daunting, daunting task.

But that is just one of the problems on Biden's plate. Literally a sea of tsunamis thanks

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