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The next election and one after that and members of congress today invade against that. president biden gave a fierce, intense speech today, in which he said the capitol attack a year ago was a dagger at the throat of democracy. it was also a bit of a collective shudder across the country late today when politico.com was first to report at the time an operable, viable pipe bomb was found just outside democratic headquarters on january 6 last year, vice-president elect kamala harris was inside the building when they found the bomb there. that is something we did not know before today. so in way...

Then democracy is an absurdity, it can't work. and what are we seeing right now but the minority who lost the election is claiming it wasn't loss, having state legislatures now with the possibility to overturn the will of the people, having partisan people counting the votes instead of the nonpartisan volunteers. i think if lincoln were here now he would say if that's true, democracy is absurdity, so we go to voting rights, have to protect it, the fight, i think is the most important fight in my life. when i was involved in a young girl on the march on washington when i sat and listened to lyn...

Voting, that was met with violence. even now, since january 6, the threats on the violent threats on officials in our country, for federal judges has gone up three-fold, for members of congress, threats gone up two-fold. for independent election officials, reuters documents hundreds and hundreds of violent threats. take a guy like al shmidt republican from pennsylvania who dared to say the election was just and fair, threatened, his children, threatened to murderer them, so we have to understand we are actually a unique, amazing country, but we see across the planet from europe to south americ...

From now on the second anniversary of the january 6 attack that we cannot have now? what sort of progress do you think we can make as a country? in the year ahead, given what has happened to us in the year behind. >> let me first just really push the point that if we just see this as an isolated incident, one day we mark every year and forget this is a stream of our nation's history, where violence forces seeking to stop democracy with authoritarian events have been a long part of our country's history. in fact, every step we've tried to take forward has been met with violence. remember, we ta...

South deified him, only wish senator sumner could have been further hurt, that the job could have been finished. that was also the reaction in america. that was 1856, and of course by 1861, america was formally divided into two warring factions and started killing each other in ernest by the hundreds of thousands. tonight, there was a prayer vigil on the steps of the u.s. capitol, prayer vigil for both senators and members of the house, this is what that looked like. dozens of senators and members of the house gave floor speeches today about the attack and the need to preserve our democracy in...