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ill be joined today by people who are in the nations capital on that fateful day. including washington d.c. mayor, mario bowser. and former capitol police sergeant casino gonell. and because of the violent uprising on january 6th, the insurrection, president biden says 2024 election is about deciding whether democracy is still americas sacred cause. and the dire threat of another trump presidency. were going to dig into his comments and donald trumps response. plus, the supreme court w...

Happening. >> symone, you are exactly right. thank you for having me here today. im happy to thread that needle, and the introduction use it of all the evidence and testimony of the january 6th committee put other for the american people. we now see the fruits of. the problem is, the risk of our democracy falling did not end on january 6th. and thats because donald trump it is still perpetuating this decline. hes still going about all of this. him and his allies. so that report you just mentione...

You could hear a pin drop and they were listening to him. they are proudf their president. he encourages them. he gives them courage, and he is really a symbol for the world. i say its a david vs. goliath, but he is what is standing between democracy falling, and i think it is inspirational for the entire world. >> yeah, he has tremendous support in that country. and i think even people who maybe at the beginning of the conflict didnt know how he would respond and even those who didnt vote for h...

Say the options to disrupt the vote. this points so clearly at premeditation to do exactly what transpired on january 6th. i read your series and came away checking off how many things were successful. they succeeded in delaying the vote. and but for your revelation that pence remained in the building, they might have pulled off the eastman coup plot. >> nicolle, this country came harrowingly close to coup, to democracy falling, in effect. what you just laid out, all the actions by johnniesman a...

Lot of americans because we dont have those parallels. one of things that was compelling was that you wrote that in 2020, our democracy did hold the line. the military, the courts, the vice president of the united states, refused to go along with trumps attempted coup. is that to you a sign of the resilience of our democracy or a sign of the fragility of our democracy, that these how close we came to democracy falling? >> i think its a bit of both. but actually you did miss out there, although y...

Vice president of the united states, refused to go along with trumps attempted coup, is that u.s. sign of the resilience of our democracy or a sign of the fragility of the democracy, that thats how close we came to democracy falling? >> well, i think its a bit of both. but you did miss out, or you actually talked about in your overview, what happened on capitol hill in congress, because what we saw however was certainly member of the public and party not live up to the constitution or to their c...

Through that, which gave the presidency greater powers. in a way that is a parallel with what happened on january 6, when president trump was trying to pervert the constitution to keep himself in power. there are many similarities like this. and of course its really jarring when you think about the united states starting to resemble anything like post-soviet russia. >> this is why the book was such a good read, because these things come to mind for you immediately. they dont come to lined for a ...

0 mask. so a little bit longer. hanging in there means those who dont really want to get vaccinated, are more likely not to get vaccinated. an overwhelming majority. people looking out for each other. and i think because they see it is working. >> well we will see, your >> thanks, chris. that is "all in" for tonight. "the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi. good evening, ali. >> chris, we have not crossed paths in the last year and a half, so we caught up a little bit. >> nothing l...

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