Bill Barr Calls B.S. on Trump
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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The hearings have started for the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The televised hearings have already circled in on a major, and possibly criminal theme: Donald Trump would not accept that he lost the election and was willing to listen to any theory or allegation—no matter how little evidence there was to support it—that would let him stay in office. Why are former Trump officials finally willing speak out against the former president?
Guest: Jeremy Stahl, Slate senior editor.
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| 0:37.1 | It's been a long time since a broadcast from Capitol Hill was required viewing for anyone. |
| 0:42.9 | But speaking for myself, the ongoing hearings by the House Select Committee on January 6th |
| 0:49.1 | have become must-watch TV. I found myself glued to the livestream of the latest hearing |
| 0:55.2 | on Monday. All these characters, these people who can lay out in very clear and precise and really |
| 1:06.9 | compelling detail, basically the plot to try to overturn the last election by President Donald Trump. |
| 1:14.9 | Jeremy Stahl is a senior editor for Slate and he's been watching the January 6th hearings as well. |
| 1:20.4 | They've definitely made these hearings much more entertaining, interesting, compelling, and |
| 1:26.6 | tighter, shorter for mass consumption. You know, there were two previous Trump impeachments and |
| 1:33.7 | those hearings were completely different. These hearings are designed to be a show. In addition to |
| 1:39.6 | characters, we've got testimony that's being packaged to accentuate quotable lines, gossip, |
| 1:45.9 | cursing. People are cursing y'all on C-SPAN. Can you even handle it? There's, you know, |
| 1:51.5 | bombshells like that that are new, that are actual information that are helpful for people to |
| 1:57.3 | understand what happened that day. And then there's lots of just filling in the details of things |
| 2:04.1 | that we already do. But these hearings are not merely a show. And the members of the House Select |
| 2:10.8 | Committee and their staff are trying to do more than reminds you how serious January 6th was. |
| 2:16.8 | They're showing who was involved and how. They're showing Donald Trump was given this amount |
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