President Joe Biden will reference the Jan. 6th Capitol riot and will call it 'the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War' when he speaks to Congress Wednesday night
* President Joe Biden will invoke the Jan. 6th attacks
* He will speak in the House chamber occupied by rioters that day * Also will say he inherited an economic crisis along with the pandemic
* Says he 'inherited a nation in crisis'
* 200 lawmakers will be in the audience amid the pandemic
* Biden will tout his own efforts to accelerate vaccine distribution
* 'We’re vaccinating the nation.
We’re creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. We’re delivering real results people can see and feel in their own lives' President Joe Biden will mention the January 6th Capitol riot in his speech to Congress during prime time tonight – while saying he assumed his office in a time of 'crisis.
Advance excerpts of Biden's speech to lawmakers – in a more socially distant Capitol than usual amid the pandemic – will explicitly reference the MAGA riot on the day Congress met to count the electoral votes.
He will call it 'the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.'
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