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- Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill promised a new July Fourth holiday tradition for her family.
- McCaskill said her family will watch a New York Times documentary on Jan. 6 "every 4th of July."
- The 40-minute long film syncs up violent attacks on police and attempts to assassinate lawmakers.
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In an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said she's going to make her family watch an intense and graphic New York Times documentary on the January 6 insurrection every Fourth of July.
"We're going to start a new family tradition in my family. On the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward, we're going to watch that video that The New York Times put together of January Sixth," McCaskill said.
-Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 2, 2021
The 40-minute documentary syncs up thousands of videos with maps and police audio from January 6 and shows just how close rioters came to reaching elected members of Congress.
McCaskill served in the Senate from 2007 to 2019 before she lost her seat to Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.
Hawley has been the subject of particular ire from colleagues in Congress over how he repeated former President Donald Trump's lies about the election being stolen, with fellow GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah reportedly exploding at him in private after the insurrection to say "You have caused this."
A frequent guest on MSNBC and a paid network contributor, McCaskill has occasionally generated backlash from progressives and fellow Democrats.
Shortly after the November 3 election, she used the outdated term "transsexuals" to describe transgender people, for which she later apologized and said it was a "hurtful term."
She has also sparred with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York over their visions for the Democratic Party. McCaskill once dismissed AOC as a "shiny new object" ahead of her arrival in Congress back in 2018.
During the Biden administration transition, McCaskill was reportedly considered for an ambassadorship somewhere in Western Europe, but no such position has yet to materialize.