Jan. 6 Anniversary: Claims, Criticism, and Contrasts (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: It's the 5th anniversary of the January 6th attack here on Capitol Hill. I'm standing in Statuary Hall right now where the president's supporters came through that day as a mob of them stormed the Capitol over his false election claims and I should note this comes on a day that the president was speaking to House Republicans and criticizing the Democratic lawmakers who investigated him. He also put up a website at the White House today, basically whitewashing the events of that day and claiming that he acted decisively blaming the Capitol Hill police officers for what they had fired here on Capitol Hill. And also going after his then Vice President Mike Pence. Despite the president's claims that he acted decisively, you can actually see text messages from that day between his own family members and his own staffers inside the West Wing urging him to do more. And sooner this also comes as the people, the president pardoned at least some of them who were convicted for their actions on that day were here in Washington on this 5th anniversary.