I want to hear Mike Pence say “I’m sorry”

Everyone makes mistakes. [View in browser]( [Image]( January 12, 2021 [A photo illustration shows a red bar with images of Ji Xinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. In the background is an image of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.]( Everyone makes mistakes. From the small (forgetting the eggs on the counter) to the large (backing the president's lies about election rigging), nobody is infallible. What matters, as we teach children from a young age, is what you do afterwards. Some Republicans in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol last week have condemned the violence. Others have called on the president to resign. What we've yet to have, though, is a mass apology from many of the party leaders for helping drag the country to the brink. Not from senators who voted to acquit President Donald Trump last year. Not from the House Republicans who rejected President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win. And not from Vice President Mike Pence, who after years of sticking by Trump was at the Capitol during the attack the president incited. "There’s been no real mea culpa, let alone atonement for their party’s willingness to accept, defend, and spread Trump’s self-serving lies," Brown writes. "Until that time, there can be no actual healing and recovery, only empty pablum." Read the full analysis at the top of your Tuesday [MSNBC Daily.]( UNDERSTANDING THE NEWS [Alternate text] Top perspectives and analysis from our MSNBC columnists [Alternate text] [A photo illustration shows three progressively larger images of President Donald Trump's head, each with a Facebook logo over his mouth.]( Emily Atkin [One of Trump's most significant failures is a massive win for the climate movement]( The fossil fuel divestment movement was a success in 2020. It will need to go even harder in 2021. 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