I have such a clear memory of what I was doing five years ago this week.

Joe Biden was about to take office, but Donald Trump had not yet accepted the results.

On the day that Congress was scheduled to certify the election, Trump was still convinced

he could pull victory from the jaws of defeat. He gave a speech, announcing as much.

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this,

we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down. We're going to walk down anyone you want, but I think right here we're going to walk down to the Capitol.

You remember what happened next, because like me, you were probably staring at a screen, slack-jawed, watching.

Hundreds of Maga true believers stomped through the streets and spilled into the Senate chamber.

In the years since January 6th, 2021, more than a thousand people

were prosecuted for what took place that day. Then Donald Trump returned to office.

What's happened since has been a funny two-step.

Most of the rioters have gotten released, and the administration has started asking them

who to hold accountable.

You would think that one of the benefits of sort of erasing all of this and shutting down this investigation would have been sort of moving on.

But that does not seem to be what the Trump administration is intent on doing here.

Ryan Riley is a reporter at NBC News. He has been chronicling the fallout of January 6th since January 6th itself.

I mean, a year ago, how many of the people involved with January 6th were in prison?

We're talking about in the, I think it was in the, you know, at that point in the hundreds.

A year later, how many people are in prison?

Well, for January 6 crimes themselves, no one. It's a little bit

stunning when you just sit with a number of pardons. Like Trump pardoned almost all of the 1,200 or so

convicted rioters, and it's just a few from the far right extremist groups who got commutations instead.

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