Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. We are watching that at any moment now the president of the United States, joe biden, and the Vice President , Kamala Harris, they are about to arrive here at the u. S. Capitol on this, the oneyear anniversary of one of america democracys darkest days, january 6th, 2021, when thousands of violent protrump rioters attacked the u. S. Capitol, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Election Results and stop the certification of President Bidens victory. Tragically five people died in the chaos. 140 Police Officers were hurt. All fueled by then President Trumps speech in front of the white house, just moments before the attack, where trump urged his supporters and im quoting him now to fight like hell. I remember that day well. I was live here, anchoring our coverage on cnn. Couldnt believe what i was seeing. Look at this. These protesters are inside statuary hall right now. You see the statues. This is a moment i never saw in my life. These individuals just rushed through security, they are inside statuary hall. This say legendary place where all of us who have covered capitol hill, it is hard to believe what were seeing right there, theyre just walking through. Where are Capitol Police . It is a strange it is an awful situation. What a difference a year makes today. Any moment now, President Biden and Vice President harris are about to address the nation and indeed the world from inside that very same National Statuary hall. A truly Historic Site at the u. S. Capitol. And the president has some convincing to do as a majority of republicans, yes, a majority of republicans still believe trumps big lie. My panelists here, were going to cover all of this, full disclosure, everyone on the set has been vaccinated, tested negative. Lets start with our chief White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. Set the scene for us, because the president is about to do something he has rarely done since becoming the president. Hes about to go after his predecessor. Yes, the white house says hes not going to shy away from that, and the role that former President Trump played in this day. President biden is on the way to the capitol right now. Hes going to speak. Youre also going to hear from Vice President harris in the remarks. This is a speech the president has been working on for several days now. The white house had basically cleared his schedule yesterday, so he could work on this, focus on it. I think they recognize what a moment it was. Because, remember, a year ago, President Biden was two weeks away from being sworn in, getting ready to deliver a speech on the economy, those remarks got delayed because, of course, they were also watching, like everyone else was, in disbelief what was happening on capitol hill that day. Hell be in the same hall where you saw rioters roam a year ago today. Hell say, quote, and so at this moment we must decide what kind of nation we are going to be. And are we going to be a nation that accepts Political Violence as a norm, are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan Election Officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people . Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth, but in the shadow of lies . We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. The way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it. And, wolf, i think one big question that a lot of people have is will he call out former President Trump by name in this speech. The white house hasnt said yet, they were still finalizing this yesterday, but jen psaki said it will be clear who biden is talking about. In a way, he doesnt have to say donald trump. I expect President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the capitol and the singular responsibility trump has for the chaos and carnage we saw and press back on the lies spread by the former president and the attempt to mislead. Were told the president is en route right now, kaitlan, leaving the white house, heading down pennsylvania avenue up to capitol hill. And as, you know, the press secretary jen psaki said, the president will cite, quote, the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw. Pretty striking line. We did not know jen psaki was going to say that yesterday in the briefing or it was going to be this clear. But i think the view of the white house is kind of you cant avoid trump when talking about this, you cant separate what happened that day and act like he wasnt part of it. And, of course, trump views all of this so differently, he canceled a press conference today, he remembers that day pretty fondly, thinking of the crowd there for his speech that he gave on the ellipse. That was the one when he talked about marching down to the capitol, and so i think this has been something that has loomed over bidens entire first year in office, because, yes, we talked about other legislative struggles, Foreign Policy issues, this has been something domestically he had to deal with. In your introduction, you talked about how he has a lot of convincing to do. There are a lot of people who view that day, the same way that the former president does, and not the way that the current president does. So i think that has been a struggle for the white house to breach that gap. That, glory, is so horrible. There are so Many Americans now that actually believe that horrible big lie. Right. I mean, im just looking at a poll here, 72 of americans believe that people involved in the attack were threatening democracy. But 71 of republicans believe that the election was illegitimate itself and see those people as people protecting democracy. I mean, so you know, there is two different americas right now. And if we all had hope, watching what we watched a year ago today, somehow the country would come together after this, republicans took to the floor and said enough is enough, i remember Lindsey Graham saying that. That didnt materialize. It never materialized. Instead, january 6th and the election, the socalled rigged election lie, became a lit us in t litmus test in this country, donald trump on one side, leading one side of it. Jamie, these are live pictures were showing our viewers where the president and Vice President will be speaking from inside historic statuary hall on capitol hill. I want to follow up on what gloria was reporting, according to the washington post, at least 163 republicans have embraced trumps false claims and are running for statewide positions that would give them authority in upcoming elections. They have embraced the lie. They have embraced Donald Trumps base. And thats how they think they can get through primaries and get elected. And we have seen those republicans who didnt either have to retire or lose their elections and primaries. I want to point out earlier today, stephanie grisham, who was former press secretary, and worked with melania trump, she went, voluntarily, to cooperate with the january 6th committee yesterday. And she said something that i think you pointed out, she was not at the white house on january 6th. She was working remotely. She said something this morning on our air, she said maybe someone told her this, she said that that day trump was in the dining room, quote, gleefully watching on his tv as he often did, look at all of the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. Thats what i know. We have never heard that before. Shes clearly not a firsthand witness. But thats her understanding. We see the president ial motorcade has arrived now at the u. S. Capitol. The president and the Vice President , they will be walking in to as i keep calling it statuary, the historic statuary hall. Laura coates, our legal analyst is with us as well. I thought the attorney general Merrick Garland yesterday delivered a very forceful, powerful speech, making it clear, yes, they may have already indicted and charged more than 700 people who participated in the insurrection, but thats just the beginning. Theyre going to go after everyone. And isnt that striking that the attorney general after hundreds of people have been arrested, have been charged, that thats the tip of the iceberg. I think his speech was pragmatic. As a prosecutor, you know, it is not as if every other crime in the world stopped in washington, d. C. Alone when january 6th happened. Theyre having to balance Violent Crimes against the violent things they saw at the capitol as well. They have this overwhelming amount of resources being devoted to this and theyre still not done, nor are they backing down from that very notion. Why . It is what we have all been talking about today. When President Biden first entered this race, he thought he was fighting for the soul of the nation. Little did he know he would be fighting for the soul of our democracy. And in that, thinking about the heart of it, voting, the idea of the integrity of our elections, the idea that people could expect as Merrick Garland spoke about a peaceful transition of power. A year ago at this very time, none of us thought that that would be something that was a fools errand to expect or a pipe dream. Sure you had former President Trump at that time, then President Trump, articulating this extraordinary big lie, which frankly was the final installment of a trilogy that involved two Supreme Court decisions, frankly, one Supreme Court decision at the time that made the Voting Rights act anemic. People already had doubts about the ability to challenge discriminatory laws, but they still believed the integrity of our elections. When the big lie came out and ma tass t metastasized, people questioned that as well. And now were seeing the president is going to get there and have to be as forceful if not more, frankly he has to be more forceful than his own attorney general to say, look, this was an atrocity, our democracy requires more. We see the president now with the Senate Majority leader, the House Speaker walking toward statuary hall. Praying that we never have another day like we had a year ago today. Do you hold former President Trump personally responsible . [ inaudible ] theyre walking toward statuary hall now. You heard the president say he hopes there will never be another day like that. What is his mindset going into this, i pray well never have a day like we had a year ago. Thats the sentiment people feel about the shock of that day and just also look at the setting of where the president is giving this speech. One year ago, this afternoon, that is where people, rioters, pro trump rioters, were roaming the hallways freely. Youve seen the videos that reporters took or people took, staffers took, we were there that day, while we were huddling in the offices, a lot of them, as they were walking through. Thats whats so symbolic about the speech. I heard jake tapper talking earlier about, it is not just important what the president says today, it is important what republicans say today. It is their supporters who are the ones who dont view that day and the view in the lens of a l. That is also symbolic. I want to hear from the Vice President of the United States. She will speak first and then the president. Im glad she is. Remember, she is the Vice President of the United States. It was a Vice President of the United States who gallows were built for to hang a year ago today. Mike pence. Mike pence. It was a Vice President of the United States that was the last line of ideological defense for the certification of the Electoral College count. It was a Vice President who refused to back down and feed into a big lie that his own president was speaking of. And it was a Vice President who stayed in the capitol for the duration of january 6th i believe, not leaving and returning to the floor to finish the job that was started. I think it is important to hear from somebody like Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, because we have come to expect and hear from a president. But she knows, she was an attorney general of california, she was a senate she is the now the head of the senate as well. It is important to hear from her, knowing what stands against and knowing the pivotal role that a Vice President once played. Dont forget, joe biden and Kamala Harris served here. Exactly. Statuary hall is something that im sure joe biden has walked in thousands of times to go see his colleagues. And i think the same for Kamala Harris. And so these were his old stomping grounds. You can only imagine somebody who served for 36 years in the United States senate, reveres the United States senate, still sees himself as someone, as a senator, and that is in fact to his detriment sometimes as president. But thats his identity. And so when those insurrectionists came in, and were destroying it, imagine how he felt. Not only as somebody who was going to be sworn in as president of the United States, but it was like coming into his house, where he had been for decades. And so to add to kaitlan, it is so important that they do this, right there, at the scene of the crime. Because this is the scene of the crime. And, jamie, you know, it is really startling is that so many of the Republican Leadership on that day and the days that followed immediately condemned trump but since then, they have gone silent. Remember, Kevin Mccarthy, remember Mitch Mcconnell, remember Lindsey Graham, they all stood up and said exactly what had happened, and called out donald trump. And then 48 hours later, a few days later, everybody caved. And just went back, fell in line, Kevin Mccarthy went running to maralago to make up with trump. I want to just go back to something laura coates said about Merrick Garland. There were two phrases he used, some people in the analysis did not think that Merrick Garland was Strong Enough yesterday. I think Merrick Garland was speaking the way Merrick Garland speaks. Thats his tone. There are a couple of phrases that he used that stood out to me. He said, as long as it takes, whatever it takes, and then he said at whatever level. I think that was not by accident. One more line, he said perpetrators that he would deal with perpetrators who may not have been at the capitol. Right. Thats a hint. It is suggesting hes going after bigger fish right now. And just be patient, it is going to happen. Lets see how long it takes. Hes really going after them. He made that clear yesterday. Jim sciutto is watching all of this unfold. I remember your coverage a yore ago today, it was really powerful, jim. What goes through your mind as we await the Vice President of the United States and the president of the United States to address the people of the u. S. And indeed the people of the world . I think the point here is that it is not just a political threat. It is a Security Threat. Im going to quote from christopher rays testimony before congress a couple of months ago in september where he described how what you saw january 6th as part of a broader threat to this country, violent extremists radicalized by personalized grievances, antiauthority sentiment to conspiracy theories. The fbi views what we saw january 6th as the principle domestic Security Threat right now. Even more so than international terrorism. So when folks look at this and they might say, well, this is a political argument, this is only something democrats say, the fact is the fbi looks at this as a domestic terrorism threat, a sign of how you have violent extremist groups in this country willing to commit violence to pursue political ends and driven by the kinds of things we hear from the former president , co