My first reaction after the committee was over was part of me that just thought about

cutting it loose and throwing it all the way and going into something completely different.

I'm going to sell my house. I'm going to buy like a shack in the woods somewhere.

I'm going to get a nine to five data entry job where I

don't have to think and I don't have to feel. And it's just enough to sustain me because I can't

take this anymore. I put in my time. I can't be a part of this solution. I stuck it out through a

really traumatic experience. For Candice Phoenix, the role as an investigative team lead for the January 6th committee

tapped into her many strengths and skills, but it also drained her.

In this episode of January 6th, an American story, we are going to focus on the unique

work and unique voice of Candice Phoenix.

She has a different view of the final January 6th report.

I dealt with a lot of guilt and insecurity and fear that I wasn't doing well enough for all the people who were counting on us to get this right.

Because I do think there was an aspect here of racism and white supremacy that people

really struggle to center when it comes to January 6th.

Candice and her team, the Purple Team, pushed hard for a different version of the report,

one that would go far beyond President Trump's culpability for January 6.

Instead, the committee's majority won the day about what version of history was being told.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's go back to the beginning of the January 6th committee when Candice and her team dug up testimony, facts, and history, waiting deep into the origins of America.

An America that many white citizens deny and one that black citizens

cannot avoid. The Purple Team laid out how it was far more than President Trump that

fomented January 6th. In very specific detail, the Purple Team built a case showing how the rise

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