
Public Defender
Special | 49m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
A DC-based public defender and her Jan. 6 defendants take on America’s epidemic of division.
At a critical juncture in our nation’s history, Public Defender, an award-winning documentary film, examines the fault lines of American democracy through the lens of Heather Shaner, a seasoned and fiercely compassionate public defender in Washington, DC.
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Public Defender
Special | 49m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
At a critical juncture in our nation’s history, Public Defender, an award-winning documentary film, examines the fault lines of American democracy through the lens of Heather Shaner, a seasoned and fiercely compassionate public defender in Washington, DC.
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[Humming] - This has been an enormous undertaking, and it's not over yet.
There are more than 950 arrests and nearly 500-- - My poor granddaughter.
When we drive around the city, it's like Oh, I had a murder case here.
I had a murder case here.
Oh, I had a murder case here.
Everything around here has a story.
Oh, this is T Street.
This is where I got mugged.
Two guys hit me with something really hard, put 12 stitches in my head, knocked me out and stole my pocketbook.
When I went back to work and I was in court, I remember this public defender coming up to me and saying, “Are you gonna continue to defend people after that?” And I said, what kind of a hypocrite would I be if I didn't?
[pensive music] [phone ringing] Hey, Tom, you cannot believe the amount of discovery they just... dumped on us.
So I have like a thousand hours of stuff to look at.
They're taking pictures of what they're doing, creating evidence against themselves.
[angry crowd chanting] It astounds me how scary mob mentality is.
It just throws me back to World War II in the Nazis.
Oh, God... gets me upset every time.
[pensive music] The January 6th cases were coming in fast and furious, I told the federal defender that I would take as many of the cases as they needed me to take.
If there were 2,500 people who went in, there's 2,500 stories.
I can't judge until I know this story.
Once you decide to accept cases, your job is to stand between the overwhelming power of the United States of America and a single individual.
[intense music swell] - Hello everybody.
It's your boy Liberty Dragon, breathing fire to the the New World Order, ah!
Be in D.C.
very soon in the heart of the swamp.
Sheesh!
[ominous and mischievous music] - Freedom!
- Yeah!
Hold the line!
We're Patriots.
We like fireworks anyways, right?
- Another Tennessee resident has been arrested for his alleged role in the riots at the U.S.
Capitol.
We got Liberty Dragon and his ankle monitor in here in studio to tell his story.
- That's the happiest mugshot I've ever seen.
- That is a pleasant mugshot.
- Got a clear conscience.
What can I say?
I got a clear conscience.
Alright, I guess we about to enter Congress.
We ain't playing.
Look at all these people!
New World Order, you can't have our country!
[crowd chanting “Stop The Steal”] I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of these corrupt politicians selling our country out.
I'm done.
The entire time that I was in the building, there was not even an ounce of vandalism.
There was no fighting the police The real coup was the stolen election.
That was the real coup.
I'm not a domestic terrorist for all the people slandering, libeling and mislabeling my name.
Check me out on my social medias, Liberty Dragon.
Have an exuberant evening.
Ching!
Ching.
[Laugh] Excuse me, queen Empress overlords.
May I ask your opinion on a red hair dye?
It's supposed to be patriotic, so you know what I'm saying?
Because I'm Liberty Dragon out here breathing fire to the New World Order.
So, you know.
Y'all been having a good day so far?
- Can't complain.
It's nice weather today.
- Okay.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
If y'all want to check out what I'm doing, my Instagram is “Not Liberty Dragon.” - Jack is... a unique individual.
To come to Washington in support of Trump and not even be registered to vote.
That seems a little nuts to me.
[gentle pensive music] - I don't trust the government.
There's been too much abuse of power for me to just go along with what they say.
People on both sides, they see what they want and they don't see what they don't want.
January 6th was an amazing day.
I've never seen so many people in one place.
It was crazy.
And then the next day I figured, found out it was more violent than what I thought.
So, uh, yeah... maybe it wasn't as amazing after that.
- Now I have just a few more boxes to go through.
These are all Jack.
Jack, Jack, Jack... The older I get, the more I think prisons should be torn down, and very few people should go to jail.
[pensive and somber music] Over 40 some years, my ambition was to create justice.
People who don't inspect coal mines and the coal mines collapse, I think they should go to jail.
People who pollute water, I think they should go to jail.
I think sedition and conspiracy to overturn an election, I think those are very, very serious crimes.
Leaders who promote disinformation and violence, that to me is scary, really scary.
This is Annie's stuff.
In all of the text messages, it was pretty obvious that she intentionally went in there to “stop the steal.” Annie was working with the Republicans.
She had access to like Hannity and Eric Trump.
She really thought she was doing a good thing.
[pensive music] - I thought going there, I could be a part of history, but I didn't realize it would be the wrong side.
[crowd fighting police] I told my son that Mommy got in trouble and mommy shouldn't have been there that day.
This was the most traumatizing moment when the flash bomb went off.
I think it really captures the essence of what a dire, um... situation it really truly was.
I'm just amazed with how close democracy came to being compromised that day.
[fast intense music] During the election, I was trying to find something to throw myself into something that mattered.
All of the right-leaning networks and the people that I was surrounding myself with, including my own family, were filling my head with rhetoric that if a Democrat was elected, there would be no place in this country for my child as a white male.
My name is Annie Howell.
I'm helping the Trump campaign up in Lackawanna County.
Anything shady, anything fraudulent, anything suspicious that occurred on election day, tell me your story, tell me what happened.
We were so convinced that there was significant voter fraud.
The Democratic Party were all traitors to the country, and we were the heroes.
We need to build a case and make sure that they don't silence our vote.
If we let them take this election away now, we're never gonna get it back.
I was scared.
I was, I was really, really scared.
- No more democracy, no more dissent, permanent obedience.
- It was like I should go get a bunch of assault rifles board up my house and just stand here and wait for the war to start.
Life as I knew it was over.
[music intensifies] - Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done-- - After the January 6th insurrection, I was living in fear, knowing what I did.
I was willing to ruin my life, risk my life, risk my freedom, because I thought that they were undermining our democracy... and to find out that that was really just somebody's imagination... It angers me.
[somber music] This is mostly just my son stuff Some of my unfinished artwork is in here.
This is my first sketch of JFK.
I lost my apartment.
My landlord's response to me asking why was, “Well, you've been making some bad decisions lately.” I've lost countless friends, family.
I haven't had any contact, nor do they want to speak with me.
The thing that's bothered me the most is the way that this has affected my child.
My son's father and I don't have the best relationship.
And so he's done everything to use this against me in any capacity.
[somber violin music] Going through it with Heather yesterday, like she was reading the statement of facts.
“Annie Howell walked over to the Capitol to stop the voting” I guess it was humbling to have to listen to it and just say-- - Accept blame.
- Yes, I did that.
Yes, that's true.
Meanwhile, uh... I am a criminal and can't see my child now.
[Laugh] - Well, that's the things I like about you.
- Yeah.
[phone ringing] - Please leave a name and phone number.
Thank you.
- Hi, Robbie.
It's mommy.
Call me back.
[somber piano music] [somber piano music] I am not afraid of being in jail.
I'm afraid of not being with my son.
I would be very angry at myself missing my son's life because the reason would be so stupid.
- The job of every good defense attorney is to accept the reality of your client no matter how uninformed they were.
I'm looking for where they went in, where they broke a window, where they kicked a door.
Let's see what effort it takes to move these.
[grunting] Well, my clients who picked them up and threw 'em, they said it didn't take a lot of effort.
- Can I ask you guys a question?
- Yeah.
Sure.
- What is more important, jail or healing the country?
- I don't think we can heal without putting people in jail because they should be in jail.
- It's an assault on American character and integrity, and they need to be held to account.
[pensive music] [crowds cheering] - Not in a million years thought I would ever defend any of them.
[fighting police] but I have represented people charged with horrendous crimes.
I don't have to approve of the crime, but I do have to let them know whether they have any defense.
[chanting “We want Trump”] [shouting] And even though there were horrible people in that crowd... there were also people who believed all this misinformation.
This manipulation was intentional and it's awful.
[phone ringing] Hey, Jack, are you just waking up now?
- [inaudible] - You took your cat?
- [inaudible] - He follows you as you run?
- [inaudible] - You'll bring that picture when you-- we'll put that in the sentencing pleadings.
[Laugh] We had an immediate connect because I have blue hair and he has blue hair.
- Well, the first thing I thought was, oh man, she worked for El Chapo's mistress before.
Man, I'm in good hands.
- Calm.
yourself down, okay?
- Okay.
I'm trying.
- The judges have made it very clear that the January 6th defendants they're not being sentenced for their political opinions.
- Yeah.
- I would just like him to be a little cynical about how he got this information and what made him come to Washington.
I wanna know if you even bought that book I told you to read.
- Honestly, I haven't read anything.
- Yeah, I know.
- [Laugh] [rapping] My name is Jack and I don't even need a Jill, oh I got all the life like I got my soul still.
[silence] [phone ringing] - Hello?
- W Mom.
It's your boy, um, your favorite son.
But yeah, so I just want to call you know, just, uh, say, you know, thanks for having me.
You know, that was, pretty nice of you.
You know.
My whole family's kind of broken apart and people don't really talk to each other that much.
I don't have that much of a community.
When I got kicked off of social media, I lost a lot of my friends.
I really don't have that many people I talk to.
Hey, y'all, it's your boy Liberty Dragon.
It's my birthday, you know I'm turned up.
You already know we vibing out here.
Hey, y'all, it's your boy Liberty Dragon.
Is your boy getting spied on?
I know that may sound like crazy but I mean, as y'all know, I do have an ankle monitor on y'all.
All of these slings and arrows that you took for us, and we appreciate every single bit of it.
- I believe he has long-term internet addiction.
- ...going to take our country back.
Hello.
Hello.
My fiery friends-- - And I said, Jack, stay away from social media.
He couldn't.
- Hello.
Hello.
My fiery friends and fellow patriots.
It's your boy Liberty Dragon.
Let me see if my live stream got any views.
Wow.
One new view.
Oh, going places.
[somber and foreboding music] [phone ringing] - Call from Jack Griffith.
- Hey... I am just reading over your sentencing memorandum.
Did you pick out your clothes to wear in court?
- I did.
I got-- I have a nice suit that I'm going to wear.
- And no bling, right?
[Laugh] - No bling.
- And your mother called me.
- Oh yeah.
What'd she say?
- She's concerned... and she said to tell you, she's definitely coming.
She's got her ticket.
- I'm happy my mom's gonna be there.
I don't usually have that much of an opportunity to see my mom so... - Well then that'll be good.
You can have a reunion anyway, right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Bye-Bye, honey.
- Thanks.
Bye.
- Bye.
He's scared to death.
[Laugh] [ominous music] There's a wound that continues to fester.
A lot of the judges are really seeking justice for the United States of America.
It would be courageous to treat people with understanding and mercy rather than say, I'm gonna slam dunk you.
[pensive piano music] Education is much more useful than locking people up and throwing away the key.
I give books to my clients.
It's not my job to evangelize them... but for those who are interested in looking at their motivations, I have been able to expand my role.
[whimsical music] - January 6th defendants, they're not only being asked to admit their guilt, but their white privilege as well.
My lawyer has given me names of books and movies to help me see what life is like for others in our country.
People of all colors should feel as safe as I do to walk down the street.
[Scoff] You heard that right.
Ms.
Morgan-Lloyd was forced to deliver that Soviet style confession at the behest of her attorney... a DC public defender named Heather Shaner.
She's also representing several other January 6th defendants who she's also attempting to indoctrinate.
- Hi Heather.
Hi Amy.
How you doing?
I love hearing your voice.
Your book reports... I think that's really meaningful to the judge.
- The January 6th defendants that I spoke to said that if they have a public defender they said their public defenders hate them.
- It's scary.
- It is.
[Laugh] - Is there anything I can do to make you less scared?
- Not really.
[Laugh] - I've done this for 40 years and I've never had ever been challenged.
But you know, there's always a first time.
[pensive music] - Miss Howell.
Do you feel that you understand what you're doing here today and the consequences of this plea?
- I do.
[melodic piano music] - How did you feel?
Did you feel it went well?
- I think so.
- Did you understand how friendly and unintimidated you were with the judge?
- Yeah.
I mean, that's how I was able to go from like a zero to a hero in the Trump campaign in three months.
[Laugh] - It's a Pennsylvania personality.
- I have the same thing.
- [Laugh] - When we go to sentencing, we'll practice... You heard the judge go over the statement of facts as to what happened on January 6th.
- Okay.
- What has been the vector of change in Annie Howell-- - Okay.
- From the woman who drove to Washington on January 6th, to the woman who entered a guilty plea?
Keep all of that in mind.
- How do I go from being so radical to un-radical?
There was a culture shock for me.
[uplifting music] After I was arrested, I stopped watching all news and did a lot of self-reflection.
I found a way through art to use it as like a form of therapy.
I consumed more knowledge in this last year than I have in my entire life.
Heather's been the first person since January 6th that has trusted me.
She really wanted to know who I was.
Not who is this insurrectionist, but who is Annie?
- Well, thank you sweetheart.
It's beautiful.
- [inaudible] - You have to come to D.C.
and sign it.
- Yeah.
[Laugh] - When did I tell you-- When are we gonna do the pre-sentence interview?
- [inaudible] - Oh good, 'cause I don't remember either.
Okay, I'll go look in the calendar.
[cat purring] - I think he knows I'm leaving.
[tense music] Got just about everything.
[Deep breath] - [Humming] Wait till Jack sees how big I am.
Hello.
- Hey.
Hey.
How you doing?
It's so good to see you.
Ching!
Hey.
- What does “ching” mean?
- You know what, that's my catch phrase.
It's the sound of my teeth shining when I smile.
Ching!
[Laugh] The judge definitely is going into the courtroom to be like, “We're gonna banish him 'cause he deserves it.” I'm sure that's what she's thinking.
- Just, you know, tell her the truth.
You say, “I'd like you to know a little about who I am... “and what made me... “the impulsive man who went into the Capitol on January 6th.
“I made those videos and I said provocative things... “Not because I wanted to see an insurrection... “but because I thought I would get a couple of followers.” - I just made a mistake, not a danger to society.
So that's the best thing I can do, is just speak from my heart, like you said.
That's all.
And I think that will be enough.
- I hope so.
[tense music] - Take this off for now.
Alright.
- Mom, you got everything?
- Yes.
- It's hot in here.
Or maybe that's just a warmth of our friendship.
Ching!
- Well, who is Jack, your honor?
Is he a political seditionist or is he a young man who is essentially an entertainer?
- [Deep breathing] - He is not a political activist.
- Are you nervous?
Mom?
- Yes, I'm nervous Jack.
- I beg the court to sentence Mr.
Griffith to a period of probation with restitution... and community service.
[tense music] All right.
Good luck.
- Thank you.
I appreciate it.
- Is my lipstick smeared?
- No, it's beautiful.
I can hold your bag for you.
- You can see the Capitol from here.
- Oh yeah?
- It's beautiful, right?
- It is beautiful.
Not trying to be funny, but it's beautiful inside too.
- Okay, let's go honey.
- Alright.
I'm a little bit nervous.
- Me too.
I can't believe after all these years, I still get nervous.
- No matter what happens, just know I appreciate everything that you've done so much, so much.
It's showtime.
Woo!
Hey!
[pensive music] - I like that you cried.
- Yeah, I was tearing up.
I mean, I really was like crying when she said, “I'm going to give you probation.” I was like, oh my God.
- You cried before that.
- Yeah, a little bit before but that's when it really, I was like [sniffles].
- Now do you know who was lawfully elected?
- Joe Biden.
- And was it a stolen election?
- No.
[foreboding music] - The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will be in order.
[Gavel] - The very ground of our liberties is the freedom of elections.
You will see evidence of what motivated this violence, including directly from those who participated in this attack.
[pensive music] - Hi, Ms.
Howell.
- Hi, Ms.
Howell.
How are you today?
- Hi, can everyone hear me?
- Yes, we can hear you.
- This is a transcribed interview of Ms.
Annie Howell conducted by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack.
- I talked to Heather.
I said, what can I do to help?
Like, can I talk to the government please, because I might have information.
- And what do you think could be done differently to prevent another January 6th from happening?
- Be wary of where you're getting your information from.
Just because the President of the United States says something is fake, doesn't mean that it is.
- Okay.
What made you believe that the election had been stolen?
- The every day rhetoric, just things being drilled inside our heads over and over and over again.
You hear a lie a hundred times, you're gonna start to believe it.
- What led to that change?
- Learning how to think for myself... and determine what was real and what was not based on facts instead of what other people said.
- Are you remorseful here today?
- Am I remorseful?
- Yes.
- Absolutely... Yeah, it's one of the biggest regrets of my life.
When people saw my cooperation with like the January 6th Committee, people on the Right looked at me as a traitor while people on the Left still looked at me as an insurrectionist.
I just want to be Annie [laugh].
You know, I just wanna be Annie.
[gentle music] 16 times.
16... that they put me on the front page of the paper.
I was above the war in Ukraine.
My life is ruined here-- - Listen, I don't care what they say in the newspaper, Annie.
- Right.
I shouldn't have read it, but you know, it's like-- - No, it's difficult not to.
The government's sentencing memo... is asking for 60 days incarceration.
Do you know how many of my clients received a period of incarceration?
- How many?
- None.
All the work you've done since January 6th says something to the judge.
I want you to bring yourself back to calm.
- I can't sleep at night... I just wanna hold my baby boy.
That's all.
- So tell me what you're gonna do tomorrow morning.
- Uh, I am not gonna drink coffee.
[Nervous laugh] - All right.
You laugh.
Try to laugh.
Okay?
- I'll try.
- Okay.
This will pass.
[somber music] - I want to show this to the judge.
- This is criminal matter 21-217 United States of America versus Annie Howell.
[somber violin music] Before one of my clients goes to jail, before one of them has their liberty taken away from them.
I wanna see the bastards who organized this-- I want them incarcerated.
- I mean, the whole thing is a rigged deal-- - The crap and the lies and the violence that has been permitted to be preached brought us to this point.
- USA, USA, USA!
- You see the spirit from the hostages and that's what they are, is hostages.
- Donald Trump's support among Republicans has only strengthened and that his rewriting of the history of January 6th has taken hold.
- There are people who say, "Oh, it's over."
But it's never over because history is a continuum.
[foreboding music] - Sheesh.
Oh, wow.
I got a large file [laugh].
Oh boy.
Is this me?
Oh, yo.
There, that's me!
Hey!
Yo.
Hey, shout out to your boy.
Ching!
Damn.
Make no mistake about it.
The election was stolen, but... that wasn't appropriate, what happened on J6.
that wasn't appropriate, what happened on J6.
I'm extreme in beliefs, but not extreme in actions.
And that's okay.
What makes somebody an extremist is... their willingness to hurt somebody over their beliefs... You know what I'm saying?
That's the line.
That's the line right there.
You know what I'm saying?
[energetic guitar music] [energetic guitar music] - It's MAGA forever.
Let's go.
Let's get into this, y'all.
We have Heather, this is Liberty Dragon's lawyer.
Live and direct, y'all.
Are you a Trump supporter?
- I support him going to jail for what he's done.
- [Laugh] - Yup.
I do.
I absolute-- And I think he has a right to an attorney.
On January 6th, the people who lived in Washington D.C.
were scared to death.
- They were scared of-- - Jack was not one of the bad actors, but there were plenty of people walking around with bats and MAGA hats-- - Are you serious?
- Threatening people-- Yes.
Oh, I am very serious-- - I never seen this.
I heard about the despicable, racist BLM and Antifa.
I've seen them beat people up.
I've never seen-- - No.
Not in D.C.-- - Hold on Heather.
Heather.
I've never seen an awesome Christian patriot beating anybody up in the street.
Real quick.
We got Christi, my producer, is on the line... What do you think about the interview so far?
How's it going?
- Uh, I would be more worried about the BLM and Antifa that's burning down cities.
Liberty needs to set up a GoFundMe for a new attorney.
And I'm sorry, you asked for my opinion and I'm just saying what it is.
- Can you respond to that?
[tense music] [Sigh] - You know, this conversation is not educational... - It's just-- - Absolutely.
Agreed.
- It's... entertainment and that's fine.
- Oh my goodness.
It's free speech and I do as I please, lady-- - And I represented him because-- - Are you an attorney-- are you an attorney that believes in the Constitution?
- Hey yo.
Hey.
She did a good job for me, Christi... You know, she repped hard for your boy.
Even though my lawyer may disagree with me you know, politically she, you know, showed me like a genuine love.
I got a lot of love for Heather.
So y'all show a little bit of respect.
- He's a patriot.
She does not like Trump.
Right?
Yet she... Yet she represented Liberty Dragon.
We don't have to agree politically, but it's good to have conversations.
Hey Heather, let me ask you, would you be... is there any chance you'd be willing to come back on the show?
- Only if Liberty's on.
[uplifting piano melody] - Yeah, some of them were brutal.
That's why I had to say something.
- Yeah, I don't care.
Thank you for standing up for me.
Yeah, of course.
You know, I'm no L man, so-- - [Laugh] - I appreciate you for coming on.
You know?
- Pay that restitution son.
- Oh, I will.
I sure will-- - I get letters from the government telling me, “this one hasn't paid yet,” “that one hasn't paid yet.” - Oh, okay.
I'm gonna get on it.
I just got a brand new job too-- - Set yourself up a retirement account, a savings account, and a restitution account.
- [Laugh] Alright.
[pensive music] - I think he still thinks it's a game.
I wish he had changed his opinion, accepted new ideas.
But only he can do that.
I had kind of hoped when I went to law school... that I would be able to make meaningful change.
But you can't.
And maybe the Torah says, “If you save one life, you've saved the world...” But you can only make change one life at a time.
So there's a lot of work to be done.
[pensive music] - I am not gonna say I wish it never happened to me... because I'm a better person today than I was on January 6th.
Life sucks right now... but it can be turned into a positive thing in the long run.
- Annie feels very betrayed by Trump and the Trump people.
She was ready to change and grow and she did.
- You see me hear me?
- I see-- I heart you.
- [Laugh] - Are you in the library?
- Yeah [Laugh].
- Oh, that's a good place.
I still have a lot of January 6th cases.
Some of the people that they're arresting were inside for one minute.
- That was me.
- Were you only inside one minute?
- Yes.
- Well, you got in trouble because of all the texts that you uh-- - I know.
- So you're done?
- I'm done.
It was not fun, Heather [laugh].
- Oh, I bet.
- Yeah.
It's uh... I mean, it's taught me a lot of things I think that I needed to learn.
It taught me patience and it taught me humility.
I also took up reading.
I read The Personal Librarian-- I forget.
Oh, I think that's what it's called-- - Oh, my sister just gave that to me.
- JP Morgan's librarian-- - Yeah.
- It's all about racism.
And she-- - That's too funny.
- She had to hide being-- - I'm reading that right now.
- I just read it in jail in a day [laugh].
- Really?
- Yeah.
- There is one counselor for the entire jail.
For the entire jail.
- How many people are in there?
- 1,100.
- Are you gonna become an advocate for the people who are incarcerated?
- Honestly, I'm compelled to.
Why are these inmates being kept in solitary confinement?
Why are they not being given amenities such as GED programs or work release?
- You're so smart.
- [Laugh] Thank you.
- You are.
You're very well spoken and very smart.
- Thank you.
- Even if you only have a little bit of time, you should go back to school.
Just work on yourself right now and then on your son, because that's the only thing that matters.
[uplifting violin music] [Knocking on door] - Hello!
Good morning.
- Hi.
Can I say ohayo?
- [Laugh] - Ohayo.
These are all my work boxes, work boxes, work boxes and junk boxes, junk boxes, junk boxes.
I had all these letters.
- Oh my god, this is a lot.
This is Oregon.
“I read about you in the post.” This one is from Dallas, Texas.
I've gotten letters from my clients... “I'm doing my reading and the word “that keeps repeating in my head... “Humanity.” “I need to see people's humanity better than I have.” [uplifting violin music] [uplifting violin music] We're seeing leaders who don't care about their citizens and only care about themselves.
And political violence and people feeling disenfranchised.
Martin Luther King was killed and Bobby Kennedy... When you see something wrong you have to acknowledge that it's wrong and work to change it.
A lot of people have put this behind them and they don't want to think about January 6th or that it could ever happen again.
But if they are individuals who want to come back to tear down our government and should there be, God forbid, another day like January 6th, then hit 'em with water cannons and as they run arrest every one of them because they have done something wrong.
As Americans we haven't learned.
But our people in Congress, they better learn.
But our people in Congress, they better learn.
[uplifting piano melody] - I love your hair.
- Thank you, sweetheart.
- I love it girl.
I love it.
- This imbecilic thing.
Look.
A blind person can be badly injured over this stupid thing.
- I have to call these people and tell ‘em-- - Yeah, thank you.
- Where their bike is.
- Thank you for your advocacy on that.
I appreciate it.
- You know what a “nudnik” is?
- No.
- It's somebody who bothers everybody to get things done.
- [Laugh] That's awesome.
I love that.
- Yeah.
Well it's necessary because people are very badly behaved, right?
- Yeah, that's right.
- No, just get the bike.
Thank you.
Bye.
They said they've activated the GPS and they'll come.
- Oh good.
- Always be an activist!
- That's right.
- Yeah!
- That's right.
- Yeah!
[intense and pensive music] - This is January 6th.
These are the hostages.
Approximately 1,500 for a pardon.
♪ Aren't we all trying to find truth?
♪ The left, right, the red and the blue ♪ Something connects me to you ♪ And I can see ♪ That you and I will not agree ♪ On every path we should choose ♪ Something connects you and me
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