In his first trip to Capitol Hill since the January 6th attack, former President Trump

today met behind closed doors with congressional Republicans. Republicans aim to use

the visit as a display of unity following Mr. Trump's

conviction in his New York hush money case last month.

We have great unity. We have great common sense. A lot of very smart people in this room and a lot of people that love

our country. Following the meetings and a busy day on Capitol Hill is John Bresnahan

co-founder of Punch Bowl News.

So Bres, this is a former president who helped to incite a violent insurrection.

Last time he was on Capitol Hill, many other Republican lawmakers he was meeting with today

were there that day running for safety.

How did they receive him today back on Capitol Hill?

Well, you know, it was interesting because there were two different meetings he met with

house Republicans in the morning and that was kind of a more of a raucous meeting and

then after there were some news stories about what happened, what he said there, he,

Trump seemed to take a more sober serious approach when he met with Senate Republicans

later in the day.

It was fascinating because you did have,

for instance, Senate minority leader,

Mitch McConnell, who was one of,

who fell out with Trump after the election in 2020.

He made the serious sin of saying that Biden and President Joe Biden

actually won the election.

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