Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Sen. Klobuchar On Trump's Jan. 6 Comments During Town Hall
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I think anyone that questioned if he had somehow changed got their answers last night. He didn't backed down. He doubled down. He talked about police officer being a thug. He said he would, as you know, pardon a bunch of the insurrectionists and he called January 6 a beautiful day.
I was there, Anderson. It wasn't beautiful, and it certainly wasn't beautiful for the family of Officer Sicknick who died, or the several other officers who later died, or so many police officers who are injured.
Senator Blunt and I, as I note and tell the story in the book, were, as heads of the Rules Committee, were the ones at, you know, 4:00 in the morning that made that walk through the broken glass and by the spray painted pillars filled with vulgarities and racist things.
And we made that walk with those three pairs of pages holding the mahogany boxes with the last of the electoral ballots up to Wyoming and did our job. And two weeks later, standing under that blue sky.
And one of the reasons I did the book was the memory of the words of Amanda Gorman, youngest inaugural poet ever, 22 years old in her bright yellow coat, standing on that very platform for Joe Biden's inauguration, the very platform that the insurrectionists had tried to destroy.
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And saying those words, we must find light in the never ending shade. And that's what I think politics is about, looking for that light, getting things done, helping people.
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Well, I took it as he put those judges on, and he did it for a reason, and he knew what would happen. And to me, it's very clear the path between his decisions to who he was going to put on the bench, and that outcome which overturned over 50 years of precedent, which basically left our country with a patchwork of laws so that women in Texas have to take a bus to Illinois or Minnesota just to get their reproductive health care. It's an outrage, and he is responsible for it.
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I think one of the things I wanted to do in that chapter, because I wrote this book, because we've all been through a lot in America and it's important to not forget it. But we can't just lament the setbacks. We have to rejoice in the comebacks. And we have come back from COVID.
People are gathering together. But some of the things we learned is people lost their moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas and brothers and sisters, and they weren't even able to be there to hold their hands, to say goodbye.
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Kids who fell behind in school.
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My dad -- yes. My dad actually got COVID and survived it, but ultimately, perished from late onset Alzheimer's. But I remember standing outside of that window at the assisted living when he had it, thinking I was going to be the last time I saw him. But he somehow made it through and graduated from hospice three times, mountain climber that he was.
But I miss him very much. And I think we all went through such a hard time because you couldn't meet the people, you couldn't see your loved ones. And so I think it's important to not forget that as people struggle with mental illness now, as we see some of the long haul symptoms and also as our economy continues to build back.
A lot of this is behind us, but we have to understand. And then it's preparing for the next one, making sure we have updated equipment, making sure we continue to support science and the NIH and make much needed reforms to the Center for Disease Control.
All of those things are recommendations I make in the book. You know, I'm not trying to hawk it here, but I think it is -- there are things that we have to do to continue to make sure this never happens again.
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