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welcome to politicsnation. tonight's lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week's unprecedented fbi search of donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the governmen...

explained how trump and his aids spread lies the election was stolen even though they knew they were false and delivered a message to those who still support trump. >> in our country we don't swear an oath to an individual or political party. we take our oath to defend the united states constitution. that oath must mean something. tonight, i say this to my republican colleagues, you are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone. your dishonor will remain. >> the committee heard from capitol police officer edwards who was knocked unconscious by rioter...

What you saw last night? >> i was extraordinary. i think perhaps even more carefully and powerfully delivered than i think some of us expected including me. we were a little bit skeptical about the ability to really demonstrate and show something new. what we really saw in the first hearing was the very thorough attempt and the clear intention to demonstrate through a variety of uses of hearings, of video footage, that what happened on january 6 wasn't a sort of singular event, it was very carefully planned and orchestrated. we have seen the very steps that will be told about how we got to the...

>> it really was a wake-up call for the intelligence community and the silos that existed that they weren't talking together like they should. >> reporter: it also reveals a significant lack of training for capitol police to deal with a threat like january 6th. as it became clear rioters would breach the capitol complex it took too long for other law enforcement agencies to gear up and respond. >> this was a moment for us, a singular event, and i say it's similar to what we saw on 9/11 where we had this attack on our soil. >> reporter: but while the report reveals a lot about what went wrong o...

Credibility of what we were all seeing on the internet? this was a moment for us, a singular event. i say it's similar to what we saw 9/11 where we had this attack on our soil, foreign terrorists that attacked our soil. it really was a wake-up call for the intelligence community and silos that existed that they weren't talking together like they should. and we realized that foreign terrorism just doesn't occur in foreign countries. it can happen in our homeland. and that's what happened on january 6th. >> it's hard to imagine a 9/11 report of any kind limited in scope or not that didn't refer ...