There is, as you know, major breaking news tonight

about the Republican Party and its leadership

from the former president of the United States

who was just smacked down by a judge in New York

to the historic chaos unfolding in the House

of Representatives where Kevin McCarthy

was just ousted as Speaker of the House.

And we are going to get to all of that this evening.

But to understand how we got here,

we need to go back exactly 1,000 days ago

to January 6th, 2021,

when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.

In the wake of that deadly attack,

minority leader Kevin McCarthy took to the House floor

and said this.

The president bears responsibility

for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.

He should have immediately denounced the mob

when he saw what was unfolding.

That moment was the closest Kevin McCarthy

ever came to pulling himself out from under the heel

of his party's hard right base.

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