Two months ago, the American people elected Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States of America. Thank you for that very generous applause.

It's okay.

There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.

You see?

And there you go. That was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pointing out

Republicans' history of election denialism ahead of today's anniversary of the January 6th attack

on the Capitol. Hours from now, Congress is set to certify Donald Trump's win ahead of his inauguration in a few weeks.

The transfer of power to Trump is shaping up to be peaceful, unlike the January 6th he denied President Biden four years ago.

So good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. With us, we have the co-host of our fourth hour,

Jonathan Lemire. Congratulations. President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations,

Richard Haas. He's the author of the weekly newsletter, Home and Away, available in Substact,

a lot to talk to you about today here and abroad.

Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

Historian John Meacham is with us.

And the new host of way too early, Allie Vitale, congratulations.

Great first show.

We are so happy to have you on the team.

Joe, let's start off on this January 6th. Do you want to go there? Four years ago was quite a different day than today. Yeah, yeah, I do. And I'd love to,

you know, we saw the opening shot. T.J., can we get the shot of the Capitol? Just an absolute

blizzard that is going to be setting in over Washington today,

expecting anywhere from 10 inches to a foot of snow there.

And so I just think for a blizzard of words regarding Shea's rebellion and the French and Indian War,

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