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i'll be joined today by people who are in the nation's capital on that fateful day. including washington d.c. mayor, mario bowser. and former capitol police sergeant casino gonell. and because of the violent uprising on january 6th, the insurrection, president biden says 2024 election is about deciding whether democracy is still americas sacred cause. and the dire threat of another trump presidency. we're going to dig into his comments and donald trump's response. plus, the supreme court will weigh in on whether donald trump can be barred from colorado's primary ballot. it is the lat...

Happening. >> symone, you are exactly right. thank you for having me here today. i'm happy to thread that needle, and the introduction use it of all the evidence and testimony of the january 6th committee put other for the american people. we now see the fruits of. the problem is, the risk of our democracy falling did not end on january 6th. and that's because donald trump it is still perpetuating this decline. he's still going about all of this. him and his allies. so that report you just mentioned talks about how the allies that donald trump head in congress think jim jordan, his right-hand ...

You could hear a pin drop and they were listening to him. they are proudf their president. he encourages them. he gives them courage, and he is really a symbol for the world. i say it's a david vs. goliath, but he is what is standing between democracy falling, and i think it is inspirational for the entire world. >> yeah, he has tremendous support in that country. and i think even people who maybe at the beginning of the conflict didn't know how he would respond and even those who didn't vote for him or support him i think now universally in that country there's just a steely determination we ...

Say the options to disrupt the vote. this points so clearly at premeditation to do exactly what transpired on january 6th. i read your series and came away checking off how many things were successful. they succeeded in delaying the vote. and but for your revelation that pence remained in the building, they might have pulled off the eastman coup plot. >> nicolle, this country came harrowingly close to coup, to democracy falling, in effect. what you just laid out, all the actions by johnniesman and others in the days and hours leading up to january 6 show how premeditated it was and how close i...

Lot of americans because we don't have those parallels. one of things that was compelling was that you wrote that in 2020, our democracy did hold the line. the military, the courts, the vice president of the united states, refused to go along with trump's attempted coup. is that to you a sign of the resilience of our democracy or a sign of the fragility of our democracy, that these how close we came to democracy falling? >> i think it's a bit of both. but actually you did miss out there, although you actually talked about it in your overview, what happened on capitol hill in congress. because ...