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You know, in the end, with apologies to our librarian and to doris and john, the words that keep coming to me are from a president in a movie. michael douglas. forgive me, please, john. doris, are you going to be all right? when in that beautiful speech he said, america isn t easy, america is advanced citizenship. you got to want it badly. thank you, all, for wanting it badly. because it will take every one of us nationwide to eagerly, faithfully, thankfully participate in this historic course in advanced citizenship for ourselves and for our children. lucky me to pass this way with you. god bless you. [ applause ] ....
You know, in the end with apologies to our librarian and to doris and john, the words that keep coming to me are from a president in a movie, michael douglas. forgive me, please, john. doris, you going to be all right? when in that beautiful speech he said america isn t easy. america is advanced citizenship. you got to want it badly. thank you all for wanting it badly because it will take everyone of us nationwide to eagerly, faithfully, thankfully participate in this historic course in advanced citizenship for ourselves and for our children. lucky me to pass this way with you. god bless you. thank you. thank you, madeleine dean. ....
And in that movie the person says america isn t easy. it is advanced citizenship. we re in a moment of advanced citizenship, and it is in our hands whether democracy will hold. it is up to every single one of us. congresswoman dean, thank you so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. i want to bring into the conversation congressman adam schiff, a democrat from california and a member of the house committee investigating the capitol riot. congressman, everyone watched the riot a year ago with our own eyes. your committee is set to start a more public phase soon. how soon is that going to happen? i think it will happen in a matter of weeks. we wanted to tell the story from beginning to end. we want to tell it in a coherent and clear way. we want to push back on this effort to revisit, revise history, to continue the big lie, but we also want to make sure that people are held accountable and that we legislate in a way that protects ....
0 it s impossible to deny that. as president biden will discuss this morning january 6th represents an ongoing threat to our democracy. in the year since nearly 20 states have passed laws to restrict voting and in many republican circles trump s big lie about the 2020 election still goes unchallenged. bottom line, january 6 has become a stark testament to the fractured nation we ve become and warning sign for what is coming next. with us throughout the hour, nbc s monica alba, she covers the white house, garrett haake on capitol hill, ellison barber outside the capitol, katie benner covers the justice department for the new york times , phil rucker senior washington correspondent for the washington post, eugene daniels co-author of the politico playbook and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. monica, let s start with the president. how is he going to approach this one? he s going to mark, of course, the solemn anniversary, steph, but instead ....
0 american. it s not just words like democracy and liberty. more than that is because an idea embedded in the constitution of the united states, the idea that everyone in america no matter how powerful is supposed to play by the same rules. and every american election is an opportunity to show that, to show what it means. unlike in many other countries our winners don t assume absolute power to do whatever they may want. our losers understand that their rights are preserved. they accept defeat. we ve all been there and lived to fight another day. so on january 6th, a year ago, i was desperate to be in the house gallery. i wanted to be there to see the ceremony that would mark the continuation of the sacred tradition. i was optimistic. at 11:21 i pulled out my little twitter machine and i wrote today is a celebration of democracy, the people have voted. the only power we have as representatives and senators under the constitution we swore to defend is to count the ballots, and we wi ....