“To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this scared place, democracy was attacked — simply attacked. The will of the people was under assault.”
— President Biden marking the solemn anniversary of the January 6th attack
“A crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers. Dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them.”
— President Biden on 1/6 anniversary
Biden on 1/6: "For the first time in our history, the president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed, they failed."
President Biden says former President Trump’s “bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution.”
“He can’t accept he lost … He lost.”
“He’s not just a former president, he’s a defeated former president.”
— President Biden on Trump on 1/6 anniversary.
“Governors, senators, House of Representatives. Somehow, those results are accurate. On the same ballot, was the presidential race flawed?”
— President Biden hits at Trump and Republican lawmakers who deny the results of the election.
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Australian PM Scott Morrison says Djokovic needs to prove he has a genuine medical exemption from the COVID vaccine mandate when he enters the country or "he'll be on the next plane home."
As a reminder, here's the Australian Open's statement:
"This has been a pretty insane and fairly dystopian experience."
— @JoshNBCNews, reporting live from his stuck car on I-95 in Virginia, where cars and semis and all vehicles have been planted in ice on the highway for 10+ hours (no food, no water, frozen temps)
Read @JoshNBCNews' thread for more context on the icy I-95 scare:
FOX & Friends' Rachel Campos-Duffy on Rep. @AOC dining in Florida last week: "When I saw this I thought first of all this is a great endorsement of [Gov.] Ron DeSantis and of Florida's policies."
Later: "I think this is a person who needs to be in therapy and not in Congress."
FOX & Friends' Rachel Campos-Duffy continues her concern-trolling about Rep. @AOC seen dining in Florida:
"She should go back to her district. Her district is dirty. It's crime-ridden. There's no economic prosperity because of the policies she supports."
FOX & Friends' Brian Kilmeade on Rep. @AOC calling out frustrated Republicans who want to date her:
"Imagine if Ted Cruz just said 'all you female Democrats that are criticizing me, you just want to date me.' There would be such outrage, he would have to have an apology ..."
Ghislaine Maxwell, closest associate of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found GUILTY on five of six counts of conspiracy and abuse of a minor.
Maxwell faces up to 70 years in prison.
A reminder of the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell — she was found guilty on all except Count 2:
CNN's @kaitlancollins: "It sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did the science."
@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky: "It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate."
.@CDCDirector Dr. Walensky on why CDC didn't recommend a negative rapid test after isolation:
"We actually don't know how our rapid tests perform and how well they predict whether you're transmissible during the end of disease. The FDA has not authorized them for that use..."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, last night with @chrislhayes, seems to say the new CDC guidance will help "maintain the structure of society," which will be negatively impacted by the quick spread of Omicron.