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The 2020 presidential election was in some ways the exposed tip of an iceberg. Written By: Michael Hamad, Hartford Courant | 9:37 am, Jan. 12, 2021 × Rioters enter the Senate Chamber on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. Two men photographed carrying zip-ties in the U.S. Capitol were charged Sunday in a federal court in the District of Columbia. (Win McNamee / Getty Images / TNS) HARTFORD, Conn. — As the shock of watching swarms of terrorists ransack the nation’s Capitol began to wear off, the questions started coming: Why weren’t there enough police on duty? What was Donald Trump’...

HARTFORD, Conn. — As the shock of watching swarms of terrorists ransack the nation’s Capitol began to wear off, the questions started coming: Why weren’t there enough police on duty? What was Donald Trump’s role in inciting the violence? What immediate steps are needed to safeguard the Republic? Less apparent, perhaps, but no less significant was a deeper question: How did we arrive at a ...

How did we arrive at a moment where thousands of Americans felt justified in attacking the temple of American democracy?

By lying about president obama. everybody else including hope hicks, michael cohen, paul manafort, all admit they lie, and finally we say -- orrin hatch is a good man, but finally we say, wow, forget about values. if there's evidence that the law was broken maybe the family values party will sit up and say, we ought to take notice. what happened before? i don't know. >> this is what is so disappointing about what orrin hatch said. i remember long ago being a young reporter on capitol hill and seeing the likes of john chaffee and john warner and seeing the likes of hatch and kennedy get togethe...

Those differences. there had been a track record resolution on different issues and bipartisanship up to that point. there wasn't a question they wouldn't resolve it. also i was part of the centrist coalition that was revised township the late john chaffee. a group of us, 30 senators equally divided came together to demonstrate we could draft a bipartisan budget which we did, chafs balanced budget, to show and prove bipartisanship was alive and well and this would not sidetrack us or derail the legislative process even though we were in the midst of a shutdown. >> senator olympia snowe, thanks...