WE'RE BACK WITH CONGRESSWOMAN JACKIE SPEIER.

YOU YOURSELF IN THAT DAY IN 1978 WERE SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES.

I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THAT FEELING MUST HAVE BEEN TO GO

THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE AGAIN WITH THE FEAR FOR YOUR OWN LIFE.

DO YOU SEE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE BEHAVIOR OF THOSE CULT MEMBERS

OF JIM JONES AND THESE SUPPORTERS OF THE FORMER

PRESIDENT WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL?

DO YOU SEE ANY PARALLEL IN THEIR DEVOTION OR THEIR IRRATIONALITY?

>> YOU KNOW, STEPHEN, I WROTE A BOOK TWO YEARS AGO, AND WENT ON

A BOOK TOUR.

AND AT EVERY SINGLE SPEECH, THE VERY FIRST QUESTION OR THE

SECOND QUESTION WAS THAT, "ARE THERE PARALLELS BETWEEN DONALD

TRUMP AND JIM JONES?" AND THE FIRST TIME I WAS ASKED

THE QUESTION, I KIND OF RECOILED FROM IT, BECAUSE I THOUGHT, NO,

THIS-- THIS-- YOU KNOW, THIS REALLY CAN'T BE THAT KIND OF A

COMPARISON.

YOU KNOW, JIM JONES TOOK 900 OF HIS CONGREGATION TO THEIR

DEATHS.

AND, YET, WHEN YOU RECOGNIZE WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6,

PRESIDENT TRUMP TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS TO GO TO THE CAPITOL

AND FIGHT, AND THAT WE WILL NOT TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY WITH

WEAKNESS.

AND SO THEY STORMED THE CAPITOL AND BROKE IN.

AND IF THEY HAD GUNS, IMAGINE THE DESTRUCTION, IMAGINE THE

DEATHS, IMAGINE THE MAYHEM.

AS IT TURNED OUT, YOU KNOW, THEY USED PIPES AND FIRE

EXTINGUISHERS TO KILL A POLICE OFFICER AND INJURE MANY MORE.

AND IT'S-- IT'S REALLY INDESCRIBABLE WHEN YOU REALIZE

THAT OUR COUNTRY CAME THAT CLOSE TO LOSING THE DEMOCRACY.

THIS INSURRECTION ALMOST SUCCEEDED.

>> Stephen: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAY,■ç "WELL, H

DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAY DO THIS EXACTLY," MUCH IN THE SAME WAY

THAT CHARLIE MANSON DIDN'T ACTUALLY COMMIT THE MURDERS.

HIS CULT MEMBERS DID.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE LIKE NIKI HALEY WHO THINK WE NEED TO,

"GIVE THE MAN A BREAK AND MOVE ON."

>> "GIVE THE MAN A BREAK."

TELL THAT TO THE WIDOW OF THE POLICE OFFICER WHO DIED.

TELL THAT TO THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, STAFF MEMBERS, WHO WERE

SHIVERING IN CLOSET THROUGHOUT THE CAPITOL.

THIS WAS AN ACT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO INCITE

AN INSURRECTION.

AND TO SOMEHOW JUST, YOU KNOW, BRUSH IT AWAY AS IF IT'S NOT

SIGNIFICANT.

REMEMBER, THE REPUBLICANS FOR, I DON'T KNOW, THREE YEARS, BEAT UP

HILLARY CLINTON BECAUSE OF BENGHAZI.

AND YET, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO FORGET THAT WE ALMOST LOST

DEMOCRACY TWO WEEKS AFTER THE FACT?

>> Stephen: WELL, CONGRESSWOMAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH

FOR BEING HERE.

STAY SAFE, PLEASE.

CONGRESSWOMAN JACKIE SPEIER, EVERYBODY!

WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.