It's the Brian Lera show Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Happy January 8th, 2024.

Did you do anything to commemorate January 6th over the weekend? Maybe binge watch CNN or MSNBC, or watch former Capitol Police

Officer Harry Don launched his run for Congress from the district where he lives in

Maryland after becoming a little famous for his January 6th

committee testimony about fending off rioters while being called racist names for

his efforts. For his part, former President Trump marked the anniversary with a campaign stop in

Iowa don't know if you paid attention to that over the weekend the Iowa

Caucus is there of course just one week from today.

And for those of you who are inclined to not pay attention

to Trump saying outrageous things anymore,

because that's just what he does. Don't give him any attention.

He does keep going further in ways that more and more

I'm seeing professional Trump watchers,

political analysts, people like that, find very concerning for what a second

Trump term might be like.

So for example, he used to say some version of that the people who rioted at the Capitol were wrong to do so, but that

he didn't ask them to.

But now he doesn't acknowledge the crimes they've been convicted of at all.

He calls them hostages of Joe Biden.

Listen to Trump from Saturday.

What they've done and they ought to, you know what they ought to do? They ought to

release the J6 hostages. They've suffered a

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