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Joy Reid leads The ReidOut with newly-released video evidence--which we warn you is disturbing--from the Capitol insurrection. Rep. Madeleine Dean joins to explain the next steps in the Jan. 6 select committee probe, and gives her sharp critique of House and Senate Republicans. Then, researcher Robert Jones explains the fanatical undercurrents that helped fuel the Capitol insurrection saying, "The root of all of this--Make America Great Again, QAnon--is this fundamental belief that America was designed and given by God to White European Christians as their own private promise land." Next, we turn to the parents trying to ban Ruby Bridges' memoir, telling her iconic story of integration as a six-year-old Black girl facing a White, racist mob. Historian Timothy Snyder has uncovered how this type of backlash against acknowledging America's racial past echoes sinister "memories laws" enacted in authoritarian countries that ultimately undermine all citizens. Plus--we end with a Moment of Joy: Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde becoming the first African-American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. All this and more in this Friday edition of The ReidOut with Joy Reid.