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She brought it up, because of the unique resonance of that violence, that famous back to violence, having happened inside the capitol. that happened inside congress. the way the violence happened inside congress, on january 6th. we have had a lot of violence, in this country, a lot of political violence. but, inside the congress, inside the capitol? that resonates in a different way, in this country. just watch this. watch what goodwin says. >> -- i think the chilling thing about 1850s, when i think about the attack on senator sumner, anti slavery says -- the south carolinian congressman. it h...

Galvanizes the country, starts turning history into what ultimately and slavery. because, it's so horrifying. and, but, also, on earth to, also here in america, the pro slavery guy gets treated as such a hero, they literally bought a new canes. and then send them to him, to replace the one that he shattered on the scale of that senator. the pieces of the broken came that he used to beat senator sumner, was treated like a religious relic. people wore pieces of it. , as talismans. the newspapers in the south, deal fired him, for nearly murdering the senator that day, they openly wished that sena...

Congressman came into the chamber, looking for him. two of them were to keep any observers from being able to help out or interfering. the other one, without warning, just artist smashing senator summer over the head with the heavy, metal end of his cain. it was to south carolina congressman, and one virginia congressman. one of the to south carolina congressman, who actually wilted the cane, he kept up that beating for so long, so relentlessly, again, with this friend stopping people from intervening -- he used a weapon against unarmed senator, to the point where he very nearly beat the senat...

<p>&quot;I suppose that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it.&quot;</p>

Paul Gosar was censured for a video depicting a colleague’s murder but physical assaults were a feature of the pre-civil war era