Before Everyone Forgets, Here’s What Mitch McConnell Actually Said About Jan. 6

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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House Democrats got 35 Republicans to vote for a commission to study the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Now, the bill is working through the Senate, where Mitch McConnell is working against it.

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, May 20th.
0:14.0	You've probably been hearing in the news today that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is now blocking formation of a bipartisan commission
0:23.1	to study the causes of and events during the January 6th Capitol Riot and Insurrection.
0:29.9	The news today is full of all kinds of theories about why McConnell is blocking it,
0:34.9	keeping his party from looking bad or hurting them in next year's
0:38.4	midterm elections, things like that. But here's another theory. Mitch McConnell doesn't need
0:43.9	an investigation because he already knows what happened. American citizens attacked their own
0:51.0	government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of domestic business
0:58.2	they did not like. Remember that from McConnell's speech at Trump's impeachment trial in February?
1:04.2	He called it terrorism in that clip. Did you hear that? He already says that. He also used the
1:09.4	word murder and called it anti-police.
1:13.6	Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor.
1:21.6	They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President.
1:33.2	So maybe Mitch McConnell doesn't need the January 6th Commission
1:37.1	because he already knows what happened.
1:40.2	He also seems to know why those terrorists did what they did.
1:45.0	They did this because they'd been fed wild, falsehoods, by the most powerful man on earth.
1:57.0	Because he was angry, he lost an election. Because he was angry. he lost an election.
2:03.4	Because he was angry, he lost an election.
2:05.8	The most powerful man on earth.
2:08.3	The most powerful man on earth?
2:12.5	You mean the president of the United States was responsible for this?
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