Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are attempting to “normalize violence” with the newly formed subcommittee to reinvestigate events surrounding the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Host Alicia Menendez said, “This idea that the real question about what happened on January 6 is a, quote, security failure. I think that is already an attempt to whitewash and reframe this. But then also when he says it’s time to finish the job, is the job he’s referring to investigating the investigators? Or is the job he’s referring to the violent coup?”

Swalwell said, “The job is to continue what Donald Trump started on January 6, which was to overthrow government to get rid of the rules we all play by so that he can compl

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