Tonight on the readout.

The votes for President of the United States are as follows.

Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 312 votes.

Kamala D. Harris, Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes.

When one side of the state of California, they certify the electoral vote, as is their duty, and quietly leave the stage.

When the other side loses, they do something completely different, like this infamous scene from four years ago today.

I'm joined tonight by January 6th Select Committee Chair, Benny Thompson,

and retired Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. Also tonight, it's one of the last remaining

mysteries of January 6th. Who planted the pipe bombs? The FBI is now stepping up its effort

to find that domestic terrorist.

But we begin tonight with January 6th, today's date, which used to hold an unremarkable place

on the political calendar. The ceremonial day when every four years, Congress certifies the foregoing presidential

election. Certification day remained unremarkable for 245 years, a mere formality that

barely anyone noticed until 2021. When Donald Trump, having been tossed out of the presidency

by 81 million voters following

a failed first term that included a million COVID deaths and a recession, refused to accept

being fired by the American people, and instead, embarrassed by having lost to Joe Biden,

lied to his enraged and disappointed supporters, telling

them he hadn't lost at all, that the election had been stolen from him and from them by

various phantoms, illegal immigrant voters, black and brown voters in swing state big cities,

diabolical Democrats, the deep state, the voting machines themselves, and maybe

even the ghost of Hugo Chavez. And with that big lie, Trump summoned his most ardent supporters

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