Jan. 2 — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), Fiona Hill, Barton Gellman

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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A year after the attack on the Capitol, chair of the January 6th Select Committee Rep. Bennie Thompson talks about what we have learned about President Trump’s attempt to overturn the election. Republican Congressman Peter Meijer talks about what it’s like to be a Republican who doesn’t support the former president. Fiona Hill and Bart Gellman discuss the anti-democratic forces at play.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, January 6th, one year later.
0:07.0	It was a violent effort to overturn a free and fair election.
0:10.0	The deadly siege on Congress as an angry pro-Trump mob storms the U.S. Capitol.
0:15.0	Behind the violence, former President Trump's big lie of a stolen election.
0:20.0	This is a fraud on the American public.
0:23.8	We were getting ready to win this election.
0:27.0	Frankly, we did win this election.
0:29.5	As he tried to reverse the results.
0:31.6	I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.
0:43.5	Supported by elected Republicans.
0:45.6	How would President Trump lose in an atmosphere like that?
0:49.1	Aided by allies.
0:50.7	All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.
0:54.3	Backed by unconstitutional legal strategies to declare President Trump reelected and accepted by millions.
1:01.6	How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?
1:05.2	This morning, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection,
1:09.9	I'll talk to Congressman Benny Thompson, chair of the January 6th insurrection. I'll talk to Congressman
1:10.8	Benny Thompson, chair of the January 6th committee, and to Peter Meyer, the rare elected House
1:15.7	Republican willing to admit publicly that Joe Biden won the election. We'll also look at how
1:20.4	the big lie had its start in the 2016 campaign. The only way we can lose, in my opinion,
1:26.6	I really mean this, Pennsylvania, is if
1:29.2	cheating goes on. That our democracy is in peril if only one side is willing to admit
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