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Seen from the white house, from the president of the united states, the fact he had to give this speech speaks volumes about the threats that are still out there right now. jamie, i want your reaction, mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader, two paragraphs, the first part saying the united states capitol was stormed by criminals who brutalized police officers and used force to try to stop congress from doing its job. this disgraceful scene was antithetical to the rule of law. in the second paragraph, he then said the democrats are simply trying to use all of this for political purposes. >...

To give some level of comfort to the notion that what happened that day won't just be in the rear-view mirror because it could repeat itself if you just leave it there. we have upcoming elections. we'll continue the democracy to have elections, we have to have that notion. we were talking about this, gloria, the idea of this would be an opportunity for many republicans to speak out about -- i mean, nothing that the president said, well, it's highly charged and opinion nated. there wasn't a lot of inaccuracy what he said about describing what we all saw happen that day with our own eyes in plai...

Easily manipulated and to be susceptible to some of the things that happened. the big lie has worked because there has been a willing amount of people to be that audience and be those minions. and so going after the people that have carried out directives, that's important because you want to serve as a deterrent to others so they don't commit those same crimes, thinking, you know what, let me consider or reconsider that person who followed orders before, they got in trouble, do i want to be that person? going after the master minds and the puppeteers is equally important because unless you go...

Deeply divided as republicans continue to push the big lie and fail to recognize what happened on that day just one year ago. let's begin this morning with cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. president biden essentially calling the former president a liar. >> fact checking him, dismantling his argument from the last year since he lost that election. this was his most forceful attack yet on his predecessor, calling him out from capitol hill, calling out the lies he's spread about the election since then, and standing in the same place where a year ago today this afternoon those...

And violent. some things worked, right, in the days leading up to january 6th and afterwards? courts, state election officials, recounts, some real, some fake, but they all found the same thing. the election was fair. do you see any hope in that? a year later, are we any better off as a country moving beyond, assessing, dealing with what was reveal and the threat we faced on january 6th a year ago? >> i have two things to say as you ask that question. one is we do need to do an assessment of where we are. we have to have hope. but every one of us, it's not just those of us that served in the c...