Judy Woodruff:
Advance warnings of violence ignored, an unprepared Capitol Police force, a president who for three hours refused to tell the mob to disperse, and hundreds of personal threats against election officials across the country over the past nine months.
These are just some of the findings in a new three-part investigation by The Washington Post into the forces that led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Here to walk us through it is one of the more than two dozen reporters who worked on the project, The Post’s senior Washington correspondent, Philip Rucker.
Phil Rucker, welcome back to the “NewsHour.” Thank you so much for being here.
So, there has already been, as you know, so much reporting on January 6. There have been investigations. Why did The Post decide to do an additional deep accounting?