One year later, has Biden’s DOJ brought enough justice?
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
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Summary
Where things stand one year after the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol? How much has Biden’s administration done to understand what led to the events of that day? And how far has it gone to prevent another major attack on our democracy?
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| 0:00.0 | On Thursday morning, the one-year anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol |
| 0:05.8 | by a pro-Trump mob trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, just one year |
| 0:11.3 | since that date, President Biden addressed the nation. |
| 0:15.6 | A president had not just lost an election. |
| 0:20.8 | He tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol. |
| 0:28.7 | But they failed. |
| 0:30.5 | They failed. |
| 0:31.5 | And this day, every member is going to make sure that such attack never, never happens |
| 0:37.6 | again. |
| 0:40.0 | But exactly how much is the Biden administration doing to ensure that it never does? |
| 0:46.7 | Democrats have criticized Biden's Justice Department led by Attorney General Merrick |
| 0:50.2 | Garland for not going far enough to hold those responsible for the Capitol attacks accountable. |
| 0:55.9 | Biden, meanwhile, in his speech Thursday, directly attacked former President Trump for his |
| 1:00.9 | role in the events of that day. |
| 1:03.0 | The former President of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies |
| 1:10.5 | about the 2020 election. |
| 1:13.7 | He's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important |
| 1:21.8 | than his country's interest than America's interest, and because his bruised ego matters |
| 1:28.3 | more to him than our democracy or our constitution. |
| 1:35.0 | So where do things stand a year later? |
| 1:37.0 | How much has Biden's administration done to understand what led to the attacks and to prevent |
| 1:41.8 | a major threat to our democracy from happening again? |
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