How the aftermath of Jan. 6 still challenges the Capitol
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | And Lisa Desjardin and Liz Landers join us now. |
| 0:03.0 | Lisa, we'll start with you. |
| 0:05.0 | The U.S. Capitol is still living with the aftermath of January 6th. |
| 0:09.0 | What does this latest effort by Republicans to minimize what happened on that day? |
| 0:14.0 | What does that mean for lawmakers and for the Capitol police officers who protect them? |
| 0:18.0 | That's right. |
| 0:19.0 | The Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police of Washington, D.C., are really those caught |
| 0:23.6 | in this rhetorical crossfire. |
| 0:26.6 | A plaque honoring them and commemorating their fight to protect the Capitol on that day by law |
| 0:32.6 | was supposed to be installed on the west front of the Capitol. And for years, it has not gone up. |
| 0:39.1 | Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson, through a spokesperson to us, said that now it cannot go up. |
| 0:44.9 | Because of logistics, they say some 3,000 names would have to go on it. They haven't figured out |
| 0:49.7 | how to do that. And that may well be a real challenge. However, why has it taken years to even acknowledge |
| 0:55.8 | that there was a problem here? Why hasn't there been a real effort underway to get that plaque |
| 0:59.7 | up? I don't need to remind viewers that Capitol Police faced real hand-to-hand combat for many |
| 1:05.7 | of those hours on Capitol Hill. Some of them by themselves. National Guard backup did not come for a long time. |
| 1:12.4 | And now they also feel somewhat abandoned by some lawmakers here in the Capitol as well. |
| 1:18.6 | And Liz, as we saw, you covered that demonstration today. Tell us more about what unfolded and what |
| 1:23.4 | you saw. Yeah, Jeff, there were about 100 or 200 or so of these January 6 defendants, along with |
| 1:30.0 | their family members and their supporters who came to Washington today and kind of recreated |
| 1:35.4 | what had happened on January 6th. |
| 1:37.8 | They expressed gratitude to President Trump for pardoning them. |
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