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Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast.
I'm Tamara Keith.
I cover the White House.
I'm Carrie Johnson.
I cover the Justice Department and NPR investigative correspondent Tom Driesbach is with us.
Hi Tom.
Hey guys.
We are recording this at 10 20 a.m.
on January 6th 2026.
Today on the show, we're looking back at the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol.
It was five years ago today that a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an effort to delay or flat out overturn the certification of the 2020 presidential election,
which Trump lost and Joe Biden won.
Tom,
you and your colleagues have been researching and documenting what happened that day and in the aftermath and talking to those who took part.
Briefly, if you can, remind us of how that day played out.
Yeah, it was a big day.
So as brief as I can, there's the political track of what was happening that day,
this pressure campaign by President Trump to.