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Institutions, corporate institutions that what were facing is weaponized. they should have and could have deplatformed her much sooner. they were flooding the zone with s-h-you-know-what. this is a slow-moving coup. they want to model themselves after hungary. it is a back-sliding democracy. god forbid, if ever person in the role doesnt rise up to the moment, thats what were going have in 2023. >> we all laugh because the

Msnbc political analyst and colullist michelle goldman and jill winebank. great to see you all. a congressman is hitting back at critics saying democrats want this investigation to help them at the ballot box. democracy almost died. i dont want january 6 to help democrats. i want it to save democracy. i want it to be a wake-up call across the political spectrum that theres a movement happening and we are at peril. how do democrats and few republican allies effectively tell the story of january 6...

All around the world. it is thursday, january 6th. im john berman with brianna keilar. we are live this morning from capitol hill for our special coverage of the january 6th anniversary. one year ago today, the world watched madness and destruction descend on the steps of the capitol right behind us. democracy was under siege, and it unfolded before our eyes. we watched an attempted insurrection. the mob incited by the former president approximate his allies. the weaponized attempt to overturn t...

>> let me tell you this, the truth of the matter is we have to be honest about the history of the filibuster. the filibuster has been the single barrier that has been weaponized in the senate to stop civil rights legislation. this isnt new. were back at this moment again and lets not -- lets also remember that the filibuster has been -- there have been exceptions of how to put the filibuster aside including how the republicans used it to make sure that they got trump judges in. so it is not unco...

Berman. it was one year ago we said that the world was watching madness and destruction descending on the steps of this capitol. democracy under siege. all of it unfolding before our eyes. we were watching an attempted insurrection, the mob incited by the former president and his alabama lies, weaponized, a weaponized attempt to overturn the 2020 election in favor of donald trump, but it failed. >> yeah. inside the capitol, even more harrowing scenes. sickening attacks on dozens of officers. one...

Importance of bipartisan support in this area. but youve demonstrated whats bipartisan legislation looks like an agriculture and youve done that repeating me repeatedly. >> yes, look, i think bipartisanship is good. you remember from your days on the hill, things have changed, lawrence. theyve changed a lot. the filibuster has been weaponized. one person has veto power over the entire senate. thats not with the forefathers had in mind. so i do think that going back to the days where minority rig...

>> he as an individual a little too little too late. done damage to the truth and the cause of justice. he really has. yeah, like you said, welcome to the team. i say welcome to the team, too, i guess we will take him. because he does have a voice. this is madness though, this overreach, overregulation. overreaction, its a shame that its become a red and blue issue. i dont know who decided that this was going to be one that was going to be politicized and weaponized, science, a virus? a virus th...

And, yes. but, you know, okay. that is what it is. and moving forward i think what we all need to move forward on is allowing people to hear truth and science when it comes to this virus. and the realization there are more viruses on earth than there are stars on the sky. we are never going to eradicate this earth of viruses. and this certainly, as i said say, has become something to control the people and im just really happy that more and more people are understanding that. >> jesse: do you wo...

Listening to parents. this is not a political issue for them. its really not. they were trying to make it into one and trying to republicans invented crt and weaponized it. you are talking about parents who saw what happened in the immigration system when their kids were on lock down learning remotely from their living rooms and bedrooms. parents were not impressed by that. when they tried to take back the power and pull the shade back down and keep them out of the process, that is when there wa...

Important sliver of reform. as we saw in the 2020 elections it could potentially be weaponized. but the feelings are still incrediby raw right now and the fear is raw, too. it is hard for me to see a path through politically through the senate. >> the republicans want this because everything that has been done and said in the spirit of the big lie is as bad as democrats say it is. why take this on if you are not aware of the danger? >> i wouldnt go so far as to say that i think there is a sliver...