Hey, what's up Playbookers? I'm Rugu Muna Vollen. It's Thursday, the one-year anniversary of January 6th.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

January 6 is quite simply about Donald Trump, for those who always despised him,

feel betrayed by him, or fear his return to power. Today is about remembering,

never forgetting,

his lowest point as president. The day he incited a mob to attack Congress, while it affirmed

Joe Biden's clear victory, the final desperate move and applaud to overthrow an American presidential

election. For those who love him, tolerate him, or crave his return to the White House,

today is a media

stunt, a contrived anniversary of an insignificant event boosted by Democrats and the press

to punish Republicans and cynically advance Biden's legislative priorities.

Americans often have a shared understanding about big traumatic national events.

That's not the case with January 6th, which is why the cliché about our politics feeling

like a civil war has more and more resonance.

This morning's Playbook newsletter has a roundup of the January 6 coverage out there to help

you understand the day, but there's one story that I want a flag from Politico's Carl Cheney

that explores the most crucial 187 minutes on that day.

That was the period of time between the initial breach of the Capitol,

and when Trump finally told his supporters to leave.

Taking readers through the timeline with some detail,

Cheney explores the remaining mysteries of that day and how the January 6th committee may answer them.

Axios reported last night that a bipartisan group of eight senators met on Zoom to discuss

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