How The Insurrection Was Even Worse Than We Knew

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few days, we've gotten a clearer picture of how the Jan.6 attack on the Capitol went down, and the more we learn, the worse it seems to get.

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, January 11th.
0:14.8	Before we look too closely at the possibility of impeaching Donald Trump for a second time. Before we go forward,
0:23.1	we should really keep looking back because details are still emerging about just how bad the
0:30.3	Capitol riot was. Now, if you've been watching TV news this weekend, maybe you saw the video on
0:36.2	CNN of a guy in the crowd on the Capitol steps
0:39.4	beating a D.C. police officer with what? An American flag while rioters around him saying what?
0:48.3	The national anthem. Maybe you saw where at one point rioters tore down an American flag outside the Capitol and
0:57.0	replaced it with a Trump flag. Yes, there is a Trump flag in case you didn't know.
1:02.8	Maybe you saw the photo of the guy inside the Capitol waving a really big Confederate flag.
1:08.9	So much about flags. These people love flags. Oh, and they love shirts, I guess.
1:13.4	Maybe you saw the image of the rioter wearing a camp Auschwitz shirt with the slogan,
1:19.8	work brings freedom. The words that Jews being brought to that concentration camp would see as they
1:26.6	arrived.
1:35.1	BuzzFeed reports on black Capitol Police officers being subjected to multiple incidents of being called the N-word multiple times, and one black Capitol police officer who describes
1:41.4	having to try to fend off rioters with hand-to-hand combat as some of
1:45.9	them hurled Blue Lives Matter flags at them. Historian Jill Lippoor, writing in the New Yorker this
1:54.5	weekend, says maybe a better term to describe it all than storming the capital would be race riot.
2:06.6	Maybe you saw the video of a lone Capitol police officer who happened to be black, now being described as a hero, letting rioters inside the Capitol chase him as he chose his path strategically
2:15.6	to draw them away from where members of the Senate were
2:18.9	and toward a different room where he had backups waiting.
2:23.9	The Washington Post today reports on a moment inside the Capitol as the breach was taking place.
2:29.2	It says three senior GOP aides piled furniture against the door and tried to move stealthily, worried that
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