Hello and welcome to an emergency trumpcast I'm Virginia Heffernan I don't really

understand what oh the humanity meant when that all know now, white

humanity, the inhumanity. As we all know now,

white nationalist terrorists who answer to Donald Trump in red hats and carrying

Confederate and Trump flags and at least one massive noose stormed the US

capital today murdered a woman broke broke windows, fired guns, issued threats, overwhelmed the police

and desecrated the very seat of our government in the name of giving Trump a

thousand-year Reich. If there were ever any question that Trump's supporters just wanted an honest examination

of the election results of November, as Senator Ted Cruz and others had claimed,

we now know this is bullshit. They wanted insurrection and

to seize the capital and plant a terrorist flag. Again, that flag is a

Confederate flag and even a noose was installed outside the capital.

There's no question this is a white supremacist act by a terrorist militia.

Like so many Americans I felt my brain shatter watching the videos and my

throat ran dry so I should probably shut up and just listen. I could think of

no better person to listen to than Professor

Joanne Freeman, a historian at Yale and the author of The Field of Blood,

Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.

Welcome to Trumpcast, Professor Freeman.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks very much for being here on a day that

right in front of us, something is happening

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