and judged by that standard, our democracy is more vulnerable today than it was three years ago. three years ago we would be now two days from january 6th. and two days after those events, republican leaders were repudiating donald trump. kevin mccarthy was talking about his culpability. and you had mitch mcconnell around that time talking about there being remedies, prosecution for someone who engages in this kind of thing. here we are three years later, the republican party is trying to completely reinvent those days and what took place. they have embraced him closer than ever. he is worse than ever. they're describing both the president and republican leaders, like stefanik, those who were arrested on that day as hostages, as political prisoners. well, two days after the actual event, they were not describing those who beat officers and gouged them and bear sprayed