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Will not stand up to those people. you know, the great majority of republicans in congress, both in the senate and the house, know that joe biden, legitimately, won the presidency. they know that january 6th was an attempt at the violent overthrow of an electoral result but they are cowards. and that's not because, you know, just somehow, by some accident, we have a cowardly-republican party. it's the result of a 40-year degeneration of what that party is about. this is not the republican party of dwight eisenhower. it's not even the republican party of the reagan years. this is a party that i...

Upcoming elections. michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson says it is time to start preparing for the 2024 elections now. secretary bensen joins me now. thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you don. thanks for having me. >> for sure. you are issuing a dire warning about the upcoming election, so talk to me about the danger. what's the biggest threat? >> that we don't learn from what we endured and successfully overcame in 2020. that there's no accountability. that we take our eye off the ball, and allow those bad actors to continue to intensify their efforts to put pieces in place, t...

Lawmakers, fighting police officers, trying to stop the certification of the vote for joe biden. and then tonight at that same capitol, it seems like republicans are going to show us in no uncertain terms that they lack the guts to do what is right. they're going to kill that january 6th commission before it has even begun. live pictures now of the senate floor. the senate majority whip, dick durbin, says that the vote will happen tonight. but as it gets later and later, you got to wonder whether republicans are hoping to hide their cowardice under the cover of darkness. last night i asked a q...

Show, your allelegion fans, tha they make good memories this weekend. >> this is don lemon tonight. thanks for watching, everyone. we have breaking news to tell you about because we're going to take you live to the capitol right now. that's where the vote america has been waiting for -- is coming now at any moment. we'll get you live pictures there in just a bit. the vote on the commission. there it is. live pictures of the capitol. the vote on the commission tasked with telling the truth of what happened right there at the capitol on january 6th. >> reporter: apparently a dark cloud of amnesi...

But we have not, yet, held those bad actors accountable. the accountability that we have to have, if we are going to finally move forward from those efforts into a more healthier and robust democracy. until we have that accountability and more truth telling, we are not going to move forward. and we are just going to see an intensification of these bad actors doing things like they're doing in arizona with the quote/unquote fraudit. passing laws across the country to make it harder for people to vote in states all over the country. and removing authority of election administrators or replacing ...