Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters return to Capitol on 5th anniversary of insurrection
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It has been five years since a mob of President Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to disrupt the certification of the presidential election that he lost. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, a much smaller but ardent crowd of his supporters returned to the site of the 2021 insurrection, marking the 1st January 6th since then, with Trump back in the White House, |
| 0:21.4 | and most of those involved now fully pardoned for their actions on that day. |
| 0:25.8 | White House correspondent Liz Lander spent the day covering the demonstration marking this milestone. |
| 0:33.9 | Hundreds of people reenacted parts of a day that ended in violence and bloodshed. |
| 0:39.2 | Truth matters to this group. |
| 0:41.6 | Followed by the prosecution and then pardoning of more than 1,500 participants. |
| 0:46.8 | Officially, this was a memorial event for Ashley Babbitt. |
| 0:49.5 | The Air Force veteran shot dead while trying to enter through a broken window in the Capitol and for |
| 0:55.7 | others who were lost that day or in the weeks after, including a police officer. |
| 1:00.9 | Babbitt's mother, Mickey Whithoof, spoke to the crowd. |
| 1:04.9 | So glad that people are not losing sight of the importance of that day. It's a day Congress let us down and continues to let us down. |
| 1:14.6 | Just after 1 p.m., exactly five years after President Trump concluded his remarks at the ellipse, |
| 1:20.6 | telling protesters to fight like hell, the crowd set off for the Capitol. |
| 1:25.6 | Among those taking part in the day's events was Enrique Tario, the former leader of the crowd set off for the Capitol. Among those taking part in the day's events was Enrique Tario, |
| 1:29.7 | the former leader of the crowd boys, |
| 1:31.5 | sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges. |
| 1:37.1 | Would you do January 6th over again? |
| 1:40.4 | I know you weren't here in D.C. that day, |
| 1:42.4 | but you were considered one of the masterminds of what happened. Would you do it again? I would definitely do everything I did again. I know you weren't here in DC that day, but you were considered one of the masterminds of what happened. Would you do it again? I would definitely do everything I did again because I'm not guilty of that crime. Again, I'm sitting here, pardoned. If I wanted, if I told you, yes, I'm, I did it. You know, I wouldn't face it repercussions, but I'd be lying to you. You were found guilty, though, by a jury of your peers, right? |
| 2:01.0 | Well, they're not a jury of my peers. |
| 2:02.6 | I mean, they had bias, right? |
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