Watch the CBSNLA Town Hall - 'January 6: One Year Later' Thursday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Hosts Tom Wait and Amy Johnson speak with local members of Congress, as well as other locals about the events that unfolded that day
“Well, of course it’s hard to believe that 12 months has passed, and I guess that’s because for those of us on The Hill and maybe for many people around the country, it’s still very present, what happened,” Representative Karen Bass of Los Angeles, who was holed up in her office until the middle of that night, said.
Burbank Congressman Adam Schiff was on the House floor when rioters breached the building. He said he received chilling warnings from his GOP colleagues that he might be targeted by protestors because of his high-profile roll in President Trump’s first impeachment proceedings. Though there was bipartisan condemnation of President Trump’s behavior at the time of the insurrection, some in the GOP have now shied away from criticizing the former president, but not everyone.“We all thought, when we’re watching this, ‘Where’s the president? Why isn’t he coming out right now, please stop that.’ We’re seeing the texts from Ivanka and Donald Jr. saying, ‘Meadows, get in there. He’s got to say something.