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Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Duhigg. So we took the first couple of weeks of 2021 off because

we figured, you know, what's going to happen?

It's going to be a kind of slow time.

Pro-Trump riders have stormed the Capitol building.

We're in, we're in, we're in, we're in.

A person has been shot.

Congress has been unlawfully blocked from carrying out its constitutional duty to certify the

results of the November election.

Washington, D.C., as you know, is still sifting through the wreckage of earlier this month.

President Trump has been impeached for a second time, political fights are dominating the

agenda,

and all of that's a pretty tough situation for an incoming president and new lawmakers.

The beginning of a new Congress is usually this time of hope, especially for first-time

legislators who come to Washington, E.C., brimming with ideas and a sense of idealism.

It is my great honor to preside of this sacred ritual of renewal as we gather under the dome

of this temple of democracy to begin the 117th Congress.

But today, the nation is divided, really divided. And our politics have become not just

difficult, but dangerous. That, however, is not stopping one freshman lawmaker. All right,

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