#1499 Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie (January 6th Insurrection Hearings)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Air Date 6/25/2022
Today we take a look at some of the takeaways from the hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection. Most notably: they knew, they knew, they knew, they knew from the very beginning that their fraud claims were nonsense and they pushed ahead anyway.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Jan. 6 Insurrection Understanding The Big Picture Part 1 - Fresh Air - Air Date 6-9-22
New York Times Congressional reporter Luke Broadwater says the effort to overturn the 2020 election results was a "sprawling and diffuse" one that involved local governments as well as White House insiders.
Ch. 2: January 6th Goes Primetime Part 1 - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 6-10-22
Brad is joined by guest co-host Dr. Leah Payne. They begin by discussing the first primetime hearing of the J6 Select Committee. They then focus on Tucker Carlson's response to hearings.
Ch. 3: Special coverage of House J6 Hearing, Day 3 Part 1 - The BradCast - Air Date 6-16-22
HEATHER DIGBY offers important insights into today's hearing
Ch. 4: The Jan. 6 Insurrection Understanding The Big Picture Part 2 - Fresh Air - Air Date 6-9-22
Ch. 5: January 6th Goes Primetime Part 2 - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 6-10-22
Ch. 6: Special coverage of House J6 Hearing, Day 3 Part 2 - The BradCast - Air Date 6-16-22
Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson is joined by Margot Williams, research editor for The Intercept, and Michael Loadenthal, founder and executive director of the Prosecution Project.
These retired Generals fought to defend Democracy abroad, now they are warning that America's Democracy needs to be defended from threats inside the country.
Six Republican members of Congress who supported Donald Trump's lies sought broad presidential pardons for their involvement in the campaign to discredit the election results
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Republican Speaker of the Arizona House "Rusty" Bowers described how he was pushed by Trump, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani to call the Arizona Legislature back into session to investigate claimed illegal votes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at some of the takeaways from the hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection. |
| 0:13.3 | Most notably, they knew. |
| 0:15.6 | They knew, they knew, they knew from the very beginning that their fraud claims were nonsense, |
| 0:22.5 | and they pushed ahead anyway. |
| 0:24.7 | The hopes today are from Fresh Air, Straight White American Jesus, The Bradcast, The Intercept, |
| 0:31.0 | and the Tom Hartman program with an additional members only clip from Democracy Now. |
| 0:41.3 | The story of the Capitol is not an isolated event. |
| 0:46.9 | It's the most dramatic, most documented, and most visible, and physically threatening |
| 0:50.9 | part of the larger story. |
| 0:52.7 | But it's just one part. |
| 0:54.2 | So how do you see the insurrection as fitting into the larger month-long story and the attempt |
| 1:01.8 | to overthrow the results of the election? |
| 1:05.7 | Well it's the culmination of everything that came before it. |
| 1:10.4 | And basically the Trump campaign had run out of options at that point. |
| 1:15.6 | At first they had tried to keep the former president in power through the courts. |
| 1:21.3 | You know, right away on election night Donald Trump announces that he won the election, |
| 1:26.0 | and despite what the votes say. |
| 1:28.9 | And so they try lawsuit after lawsuit to try to keep him in power. |
| 1:34.3 | And that's the legitimate way to do it, right? |
| 1:36.1 | I mean, these lawsuits were very dubious and they were bogus, but that is the proper remedy |
| 1:42.6 | to try to contest an electionist to go to the courts. |
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