The proud boys as they marched towards their target. They are right wing nationalists who believe the United States is being betrayed by internal enemies and an overbearing government. On the day, the proud boys were tight lipped. But weve seen thousands of hours of evidence of exactly what was going on that day. This is ethan nordean, one of the leaders of the proud boys, along with Us Army Veteran joseph biggs in the checked shirt and zach rehl on the left in the cap. Theyve been convicted for leading the capitol insurrection. Also convicted of Seditious Conspiracy is proud boys chairman enrique tarrio. He wasnt at the capitol that day, having been arrested on another charge two days previously. Much of the evidence came from this man, another leader, charles donohoe, who pled guilty and cooperated with the authorities. Taking our country back. But despite all the evidence shown in court, over 1,000 people have now been prosecuted, January The 6th is still very much contested territory in america. Returning to the scene over two years on, almost nothing is agreed by all sides. January the 6th has become emblematic of americas bitter political divide. What we saw is that over the weeks and months, the narrative got rewritten. History got rewritten. I think there were a lot of Unanswered Questions for the public and in terms of the story were going to tell ourselves about what january 6th meant, still very unsettled. When i remember what happened here on that day, i dont really recall it as a sort of separate event, more as another episode of Political Violence in what was an extremely politically violent year in American History that i witnessed and reported on. We already had extremist groups, we had paramilitary organizations, we had conspiracy theorists. And then thatjust accelerated in 2020 between the pandemic and the opposition to Government Shutdown orders and masking orders and vaccine orders, which led to actually armed assaults on state houses. Kind of like a mini version of what we saw on january 6th, but much smaller. But we saw that in lansing, michigan. We saw it in boise, idaho. We saw it in a number of different state capitals. In the spring of 2020, a wave of protests against Covid Lockdowns erupted, particularly in democrat controlled states. I went to one at the state house in lansing, michigan. The protesters accused the State Government of imposing lockdown restrictions that ignored constitutionally guaranteed rights. The atmosphere was revolutionary. All i can do is affect my local government, my State Government. Of course, support donald trump. I think its tyranny. Civil disobedience included getting haircuts, all the salons and barbers having been closed down. Its hard to look at this crowd and conclude this isnt exactly as President Trump wants it to be. And were reopening our country and its very exciting. Some of the impetus for the protests had come from donald trump. We built the greatest economy in the world and i want to get that back as soon as possible. I think we can start getting it back very, very quickly. He thought the democratic governors were keeping their economy shuttered to harm his re election prospects. Earlier friday, the president posted tweets saying, liberate virginia, michigan and minnesota, among the states where protesters have rallied against stay at home orders. These are people expressing their views. I see where they are and i see the way theyre working. They seem to be very responsible people to me. Many of what the president called the very responsible people protesting were carrying guns lots of them. How is it notjust intimidating to have people with weapons . I dont know why theres any intimidation. If the government listened to us, we wouldnt even be here. Wed be at home happy. Theyd be happy. I cant even get a haircut. If im looking for a job, they say this is an open economy, i go on with this to an employer, theyre going to say, youre a scruff. Some of the protests went further than haircuts. In april of 2020, several hundred people stormed the Michigan State house. Among the members of the Wolverine Watchmen militia group. Militias are quite common in america groups of armed citizens, some who see it as their role to stand up against an overbearing government. I met them and others outside, armed to the teeth. This is pete musico, co founder of the Wolverine Watchmen. You have to intimidate your government to keep them in check. If not, you look at japan or china, look at history when you take away weapons, government has a chance to run you over. Musico is now serving 12 years in prison for his part in a plot to kidnap the governor of michigan. So, well before January The 6th, statehouses across america were already being targeted by people sympathetic to donald trump, motivated by the thought that their rights, their constitution, their country was being stolen from them. Representing spirit of 1776, if you havent noticed. Real men are here. We know in those days forsupport, defend the constitution of the United States against foreign enemies and domestic. Let us remind those who have forgotten what that means. A supposedly stolen election was only the latest in a long list of grievances, and the authorities also had specific detailed intelligence that violent disorder was being planned at the us capitol forJanuary The 6th. Among the warnings was this situation report from the fbi� s field office in norfolk, virginia, saying there was the potential for violence in washington, dc in connection with the stop the steal protest on the 6th of january 2021. The warning quoted from an online discussion thread planning violence. There were also details of Transport Convoys and Assembly Points and maps of the Tunnel System around congress. Yet the authorities didnt act. They were unprepared and theres really not good reason for it. There were plenty of people, certainly outside the government, researchers who were monitoring the planning that was going on in extremist Social Media Circles and chat forums. Sometimes theres a lot of talk, but no real mobilization, but here you saw the logistics. By the time i got here onJanuary The 6th with the proud boys, it was clear something had gone badly wrong with the police operation. Not only had i not seen any Police Officers on the march up here, now it was clear the Capitol Hill Police force was panicking. As the proud boys marched past, police were scrambling to put on their riot gear. Meanwhile, at the capitol, low barriers and a tiny number of police just one lone officer on the senate steps. But when it came to the January 6th Committee, the Democratic Party controlled congressional investigation, the lack of Police Preparation and the clear failure of intelligence was barely mentioned. Why dont the democrats want to get to the truth . Why dont they want to answer the fundamental question, which is why wasnt there a better Security Posture on that day . The then chief of the Capitol Hill Police force says he did make a request for National Guard help three days before, but this was turned down by the House Sergeant at arms because of optics. His concern for the optics, i believe, goes back to pelosis decision, the statement that she referred to federal agents and National Guard on the streets of america as stormtroopers. And i think shejust didnt want the look of stormtroopers up on the hill. In the summer of 2020, the use of National Guard or riot police was controversial in america. Many on the left thought they were being used to shut down legitimate protest in the wake of the murder of george floyd. In a year when everything was political, donald trump wanted overwhelming force on the streets. Today, i have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. Meanwhile, democrats pushed back, criticizing the huge numbers of National Guard deployed to protect the lincoln memorial. Some said it looked more like an Army Of Occupation than policing a demonstration. At the end of may, protests and rioting came to a head in washington, dc. The fires were burning right up to the gates of the white house. To many americans, it felt that the country was on the brink of anarchy. The next day, lafayette park, in front of the white house, was cleared by the overwhelming force the president had been advocating. But by then, the crowd was entirely peaceful. Democrats blasted this as an overreaction ordered by trump, they said, so that he could stage a bizarre photo opportunity on the edge of the park. While i have Great Respect for our men and women in uniform, i dont think it was appropriate to have them on the steps of the lincoln memorial. I dont think it was appropriate for people to rough people up in Lafayette Square who were demonstrating peacefully so that the president could come through and do his staged event. An official inquiry later determined that the park service had been planning to clear the area well before anyone knew of the president s plans. But nonetheless, democrats objected strongly against the use of fences and military forces against protesters. Democratic politicians were saying, you know, these are just Peaceful Protesters, that these crackdowns were terrible. Trump got a lot of heat, particularly from the media and other elected officials, about what happened at Lafayette Square, some of which is completely legitimate criticism of what they did, but when you have a situation of a large group of people, very angry, very upset, it could devolve into some form of violence. You always have to consider that and i think the overcorrection we saw forjanuary 6th, when we talk aboutjanuary 6th, we have to understand, is coming out of that. Republicans say, therefore, that the democrat controlled January The 6th committee had very good reason to ignore the issue of the lack of Law Enforcement and fencing on January The 6th. And they did look at that, itjust didnt make it into the ultimate 850 page report. And, yes, theres criticism about the things that didnt make it into that report and i honestly think if they had more time, we probably would have seen more make it into that report. The problem with congress, the House Of Representatives, its a two year entity and they timed out. The Republican Party refused to participate in the committee, dismissing it as a political cover up and hatchet job. It has permanently damaged the house and divided this country. And lets be honest, it is a smoke screen for democrats to push their radical agenda. The room where the January 6th Hearings took place is now renamed after nancy pelosi. Decades ago, this was where the House Un American Activities Committee grilled those accused of communist subversion. The January 6th Committee met for the last time in december. Whats happened since, of course, is that the republicans now control the House Of Representatives and that means that they now control this furniture of congressional inquiry, and they get to deploy it with their own political aims in mind. Jimjordan is now the chair of the housejudiciary committee. Hes formed a new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. Some on the right feel that other violent protests following the murder of george floyd were treated differently, more leniently, while the authorities focused exclusively on the right. Over the course of our work in this committee, we expect to hearfrom Government Officials and experts like we have here today. We expect to hear from americans whove been targeted by their government. We expect to hear from people in the media and we expect to hearfrom the fbi agents who have come forward as whistle blowers. Jimjordan is one of the most vocal of President Trumps supporters. I met him two days after the 2020 election while the votes were still being counted. He was leading a small but vocal protest at the statehouse in harrisburg, pennsylvania, alleging the election was being stolen. When the president says theres been widespread fraud, he said on Election Night that. How do you explain the fact that 23,000 ballots show up and, shazam, theyre all for biden . How does that happen . Its statistically impossible. Itjust cant have happened. Things happen. Do you think do you think 23,000 ballots, one whole batch of ballots shows up and theres not one single vote for President Trump . One of the lawsuits is about 53 votes, isnt it . Well, i mean, iwant every legitimate ballot counted. I think every single american wants every legitimate ballot counted. What we dont want is illegitimate illegal votes, illegal ballots counted, because that undermines the integrity of our election system, plain and simple. Get out. Despite dozens of court cases, investigations by Election Officials and Donald Trumps own attorney general, no evidence has been found indicating any fraud or irregularities that would have changed the result in any state, still less of the president ial election as a whole. Nevertheless, jim jordan, like former President Trump, still thinks there are important Unanswered Questions about the election. 0nJanuary The 6th, i remember speaking to Peaceful Protesters who had a fundamental belief that the election had been stolen despite the absence of any evidence. I believe were in big trouble there. I do. I believe that this election has made a lot of people think, why bother . You know, if its going to be rigged or theres going to be results that dont come out to be true. Theres a reason that trump is so upset. I havent seen any hard evidence of any flat out deception or fraud, but theres a reason that man is so upset and it aint just because he didnt win the election. That belief was inspired by people like representative jim jordan. The difference now is that mrjordan occupies one of the most powerful positions in the House Of Representatives. Yes, representative jim jordan has this committee thats called the weaponization of the federal government. I do not applaud the the words hes using. I dont think its helpful to talk about something vague like the deep state or to say things like, were going to talk about the weaponization of the federal government. The federal government is a vast beast. If you want to talk about taming aspects of it that have overreached their authority, then you should be specific and you should be rigorous in how you investigate that, and i think setting the tone by calling it the weaponization of federal government is entirely political. Hes a politician, hes allowed to do that, but if your purpose. And i think there is serious reform needed in institutions like the fbi, certainly in some of our intelligence gathering institutions and the relationship between our Large Technology and Social Media Platforms and our intelligence Gathering Services at the domestic level. Ifear, though, that theres a real looking back quality to the weaponization commission. Its going to be settling scores rather than fixing problems. All this is indicative of an institution that the Political Writer yuval levin describes as no longer formative but performative. He argues that institutions like this have changed fundamentally. Theyre no longer moulds that shape the behavior and character of the people who work here. Instead, he says, theyve become platforms for those people to gain attention and of course, in america, raise money. We have many elected officials who Go To Congress not to legislate, not to practice oversight, not to do the job that people elected them and pay with our tax dollars for them to do, but to become celebrities. I mean, some of them seem to be auditioning for Cable News Networks every time they open their mouths at a committee hearing. Thats unfortunate, but theyre being rewarded for that behavior by voters, by more extreme edges on either side of the aisle in their party, and its going to take more centrist minded voters in elections saying no to that. The question that america is now having to grapple with is how much are these extreme divided opinions being driven by a Media Landscape that fosters outrage and upset and rewards performance politics . Chris stirewalt gave evidence to the January 6th Committee. He worked for fox news, but was fired after he correctly called the 2020 president ial election forjoe biden. 0ur poll in arizona was beautiful and it was doing just what we wanted it to do and it was cooking up just right. Fox viewers just didnt want to hear that donald trump had lost. In American Media today, across the spectrum, Audience Capture is a serious problem. When you have narrowcasting instead of broadcasting, and you are dependent on a small but highly Addicted Group of consumers, you cannot afford to offend those consumers. Thats certainly true at fox, but its true in a lot of places. Its one of the things that we have really struggled with in the past ten or 15 years in america is when our status quo blew up in media that we had enjoyed or endured, depending on how you want to look at it, for 60 or 70 years, when that went away, then the Model Forjournalism changed from giving people information to sharing opinions and feelings and emotional connection and belonging with people, because you need a tighter bunching, if you have fewer people, you need them to be more addicted, and that became the Business Model and we have seen lots of corrosive consequences. It turns out theres quite a bit of video you havent seen. And that and its this partisan media lens thats focused on January The 6th. Having taken control of the house, the new republican speaker, kevin mccarthy, released 41,000 hours of January The 6th Video Footage to the Fox News Anchor Tucker Carlson, whos now presenting an alternative narrative. The crowd was enormous. A small percentage of them were hooligans. They committed vandalism. Youve seen their pictures again and again. But the overwhelming majority werent they were peaceful. They were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers. We all have eyes and ears. And we witnessed january 6th, whether you were there or watching on tv, and you can say it was a peaceful protest, but were not stupid. We can see it for ourselves. And theres just nothing at all comparable to what this Weaponization Committee is looking at. They, they are suggesting that the Department Ofjustice weaponized the rule of law for political purposes, but if the Department Ofjustice had ignored january 6th, that would have been the real undercutting of the rule of law, because that would have just been ceding this kind of lawlessness to those who were engaged into it, in it as something thats 0k, and thats, thats what failing democracies do. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson. 0n the day that lawyers began their Closing Arguments in the trial of a number of proud boys leaders, fox news announced that Tucker Carlson was leaving the network, although there was considerable disquiet about his attempts to reframe the january 6th narrative. At the moment, its not clear if this was a factor in his departure and if fox news is going to change the tone of its coverage. More than 1,000 people have been tried and convicted for what happened here on January The 6th, now including some of the leaders of the proud boys. Theres now an active Criminal Investigation into Donald Trumps role that day, which will make this more contentious still the place where the Mob Stormed The Capitol is now bristling with new fences and barriers, but the institution itself is perhaps weaker than ever. Really on the centreline of this metal on rates and tracks, it is everywhere. The team uses magnetic ones wait by takeaway work. The arm of the fluff is cleaned of the tracks. The debris is also a fire hazard. The dusty as lines are the central line and the bakerloo line. Research is being done into the Health Impacts of the dust. Tfl says the levels of iron oxide are in Current Health limits and air quality on the tube is not harmful. Tfl says results from research will be known sometime this year and also wants to use new technologies to clean the tube� s air. At the moment, it says these Track Cleaners will help keep dust levels down. Ra i nfo rests ra i nforests have rainforests have been under attack for years, but in this country all is not lost on the fightback is happening and starting in cornwall. The mission of the charities over the next 30 years to triple the amount of rain forest back up to1 million acres. From the air near bodmin, the canopy of the Temperate Rainforest that used to cover 20 of the uk. Its almost vanished with less than 1 of the rare habitat left but now the plan is to reverse the decline and reap the rewards. Here are some of the rewards. Here are some of the 100,000 trees that they are planting for this new Temperate Rainforest. I think its magnificent and exactly what we need. We have had centuries of taking things away from the Natural Environment so some of the most special places like the most special places like the Temperate Rainforests have become incredibly rare and what we need to do is stop putting back what we have lost. And if nothing else it shows the uk is trying to do its environmental bit with what it has got. You aet a bit with what it has got. You get a lot bit with what it has got. You get a lot of bit with what it has got. You get a lot of carbon bit with what it has got. 7m, get a lot of carbon being sucked out the atmosphere into the environment and over the Demonstration Site we are out here we are looking at sequestering 5000 tonnes of c02 in this small location. Hello. The weather over the weekend varied quite a bit from day to day, sunnier moments, cloudier moments, but we still managed to reach 22 celsius in kew gardens, making it the warm spot. How about monday . Sunny spells in the forecast, scattered showers, too, but were focusing on the dry weather, and indeed, it will be a mostly dry day for many of us. Now, on the satellite picture, there is a line of cloud across the uk, that is a Weather Front, its been bringing rain. And early in the morning, it is going to be raining across east anglia, the south east and Central Southern England as this Weather Front gradually moves towards the east. But behind it, a large area of High Pressure is building in, and that means settled weather for many of us. So heres the forecast through the early hours. You can see where the cloud and the rain is. But even once the Weather Front clears away, still a few showers behind it. It will be on the nippy side across some parts of the country. Temperatures in glasgow and edinburgh around 4 celsius, but in the southeast, around 10 celsius. So early in the morning, there will be some cloud and rain in the southeast. Eventually that Weather Front clears away, and then its a case of sunny spells and scattered showers maybe in northern ireland, scotland, Northern England and further east as well. The temperatures pretty disappointing for this time in may, typically around about 13 14 celsius. And it will actually be quite chilly along the north sea coast, where well have a keen breeze out of the north northwest. High pressure very close by on tuesday. In fact, light winds expected across many western areas. Itll feel a little bit warmer. Further north, though, showers are expected across scotland, Northern England, certainly into yorkshire. Temperatures recovering somewhat, especially where the winds are lighter out towards the west, perhaps as high as 17 celsius in belfast and also in cardiff. And then that High Pressure is pretty much on top of us. Midweek, weve light winds, but i think variable amounts of cloud. Now, if we look at the air mass map, and thats the temperature of the atmosphere, you can see these yellow colours and actually a drift of warmer weather from the south. So, yes, temperatures will recover a little bit as we head towards the end of the week. In fact, thats reflected in the forecast here until friday. You can see were sort of generally in the high teens towards the end of the week. And from the weather icons, you can gather it is going to be a mostly dry week as well. Bye bye. Live from washington. This is bbc news. Turkeys president ial election remains too close to call with nearly 100 of the vote counted in a contest that could decide the countrys political future. The countrys split between these two men president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and challenger kemal kilicdaroglu. Both say they would accept a potential run off vote. Plus, why is the governor of florida visiting the state of iowa . For the likely president ial candidate, its about more than just the barbecue. Hello, im helena humphries
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