Hi there, everyone. It's Fort Rock in New York. I don't have to tell any of you what today is.

It's the five-year anniversary of January 6th, and thus the anniversary of the second Trump era beginning.

On January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump summoned a mob of his supporters.

He'd fed them lies about an election in which he was soundly defeated. And then that mob stormed

the U.S. Capitol, threatening the lives of Donald Trump's number two, the vice president of the

United States, and members of Congress from both parties, Democrats

and Republicans. The insurrection led to multiple deaths and scores of injuries among the law

enforcement officials, men and women who protected the U.S. Capitol and the men and women inside

it that day. Where we are right now, this hour, today, everything we are witnessing in a second

Trump presidency may well be just downstream from everything we watched unfold on live TV that

day and everything we learned afterward. The editorial board of the New York Times puts it like this,

quote, that day was indeed a turning point, but not the one it first seemed to be. It was a

turning point toward a version of Trump who's even more lawless than the one who governed the

country in his first term. Because if the Republican Party could dust itself off, literally,

and then once again embrace a guy who incited a violent, deadly insurrection,

there, of course, would be no limits and no bottom to what else they'll accept from him,

tolerate from him, a race for him. So now, almost a year into his second Trump presidency comes

a public accounting at the facts of that day

and an indisputable record of Donald Trump's attempt to end the centuries-long tradition

of a peaceful transfer of power. It comes from the person who did more than anyone else,

really, the most in uncovering what happened, and the person who did the most to try to hold Donald Trump criminally accountable for what happened.

And that would be special counsel, Jack Smith. As we reported on this program, his nearly eight hours of testimony was released by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

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