Breaking news on a breakdown in the infrastructure lane, John Berman here in for Anderson, weeks

of talks aimed at getting a bipartisan deal on infrastructure have ended.

President Biden pulled the plug on negotiations with a GOP group led by West Virginia Senator

Shelley Moore Capito.

The focus now shifts to another group led by West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, because

it's not just country roads after all.

Alive report shortly.

First though, a different kind of legislative dysfunction.

This one in the face of an ongoing threat to democracy.

It has to do with not seeing the true nature of its first violent chapter, which is one

thing, and refusing to even look, which is another.

And when the full history of the January 6th insurrection is written, the words of the

man who incited it from the highest office of the land for a week after week right through

the moment it began will figure prominently into the account.

How could they not?

Well, here's how.

Well through today's Senate report on the attack, and you will find plenty of new and frankly

damning details, security failures, unheated intelligence, miscommunication, inadequate police

training.

And sure, at the two Senate committees that wrote it, do a good job of laying out the

mechanics of what went wrong and why, honored around the day itself, but make no mistake.

These things are important to know, but it's by no means all there is to know.

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