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Years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trumps many lies about the election tried to prevent the united states government from continuing, they tried to topple the incoming biden administration, prevent it from happening. president biden also staging a split screen moment of his own later today. he will award medals to defenders of the capitol, who held the line for democracy and for the capitol on january 6th, 2021. lets go right to manu raju on capitol hill. manu. i know youre loo...

0 good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. its january 6th. the anniversary of an insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy. today the white house and the nation commemorate the civilian and law enforcement heroes and the victims of that terrible day, even as the house chamber is no longer a literal battleground, it is now torn apart by political combat. a divide among republican factions creating a new crisis of government. on this date in 2021, lawmakers were wearing gas masks and ta...

Willingness to work across the aisle to say, why are we here? are we here to benefit the american people? or simply here to promote ourselves and feed our egos? and thats whats distressing about it, and i think its the shape of things to come and i think were in for a rough two years, and beyond that, hopefully the american people will see that we need to get back to the basics of governance. of integrity, of principle, and of treating each other with some dignity as fellow human beings. >> secr...

Believes deeply about institutions. you cant be an institutionalist and find any of this entertaining. the chaos is bad. i think thats his view here, despite the fact that politically, its probably advantageous for him. >> have we been here before? >> yeah, weve been here before for many years, i i mean, you have to go back 100 years. you just go back to 2011, when people tea party came to town, and threatened to raise the debt ceiling, to get concessions from president obama. that can have, you...

It is specific details that matter. and this one in particular is something that could move at least one previously considered immovable vote. so, that development, as i said, we are now just about a half an hour away from the house reconvening after six failed votes to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. republican disarray and division is a stark contrast to what was happening this afternoon in kentucky. this was sort of an incredible thing. this split screen here. president biden and the senate min...

President biden is really taking pains not to insert himself into this process whatsoever. yet, he was quite candid throughout the course of the day, speaking to reporters multiple times. on his own volition. calling it embarrassing. taking a wider lens view of things, in the sense of, this is undercutting the progress i think weve made over the past several months. and showing that the u.s. government can actually work. that we can actually deliver, and the people in foreign countries that are ...

Split screen could have been more important. >> thats quite a jv team. >> the jv team are the people that the "wall street journal" and other conservative outlets and fox news have been attacking. >> right. >> whos crazy enough to be speaker is the question the "wall street journal" asks today, and the jv team is actually on the house floor right now. >> absolutely. >> holding up everybody else. >> so lets go to capitol hill. jackie alemany is standing by. lets talk about what is going to happen...

0 encounters. not for five-day period, but for an entire fiscal year. under this administration with these policies, that 9,000 encounters is about a five-day period in the yuma sector today. you dont know what its like unless you see that happening. we are on a suboptimal path. it has to change. and to make a change it can be difficult. it can be short-term uncomfortable. but when you move to the correct path, all of a sudden things ease up and you can start having success. the direction here i...

Committees cant hire new staff. let alone start launching investigates or writing bills or passing bills. we dont even know who some of the chairs are going to be of the committees and meanwhile im told some of these new member offices, the staffers cant even login to their computers yet, of course, you have the new members who havent been sworn in yet, no members have been sworn in yet and these poor families have been dragged to washington. kids pulled out of school and theyre just sort of stu...

Live coverage. >> and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. thats the vote were watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as were seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the left side...