Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. Five years to the day, to the hour, really.

Hundreds of people were injured, more than 1,000 people arrested. Seven people lost their lives,

gone as a result of what the American people watched play out on live television.

As we've been covering, a literal and figurative assault on American democracy in our very way of life.

Before we go on, just so you're aware, this hour, we're expecting a vigil to get underway up on Capitol Hill.

It is designed to commemorate January 6, 2021, one of the

darkest days in our modern American history, one of the most destructive, but perhaps also one of the

most instructive as it relates to what we're all living through now and also watching with our own

eyes, our new world order. It was a lesson we all

learn the hard way in those final days of Donald Trump's first term as president, that he was

willing, that he was able and that he was excited about testing, the far reaches, the outer limits

of his own power as president. Now, five years later, he's taking that show on the road, absent

advisors who would rein him in. It's a veritable world tour of that in which our closest allies

are now girding themselves, coming to grips with the new reality of what America is,

that the phrase you can't do that for reasons of law and norms or morality or the world order or what they thought of as American patriotism,

that those don't mean anything anymore from the American leader,

an aspiring autocrat, hellbent,

on really understanding just how much he can get away with.

With that understanding, it feels almost quaint to tell you about this development.

The UN Human Rights Office today described the U.S. intervention in Venezuela as a, quote,

violation of international law.

It feels quaint because now it appears that the United States in the aftermath of what Secretary of State Marco Rubio describes as a mere, quote,

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