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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Can “Alternative Facts” Survive the January 6th Investigation?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the immediate aftermath of January 6th, politicians from both parties vilified the mob’s assault. But Republicans scuttled plans for an independent commission to investigate the riot, and the select committee organized by House Democrats has been repeatedly attacked by Republicans. Still, this week, on the first day of hearings, several officers who attempted to defend the building and members of Congress inside painted a vivid, agonizing picture of what took place. Susan B. Glasser, a New Yorker staff writer, joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the hearings and how some prominent conservatives are beginning to defy Trump on vaccination and on a bipartisan infrastructure deal.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about

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politics. It's Thursday, July 29th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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On January 6th, the world watched in horror as a mob descended on the U.S. Capitol.

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In the immediate aftermath, politicians from both parties vilified the assault.

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But predictably, in the months since, the attack on the Capitol has become fiercely politicized.

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Plans by Democrats to organize an independent commission to investigate the riot were scuttled

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by Republicans.

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And when House Democrats convened a bipartisan select committee to hear testimony about the

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insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempted to populate it with Republicans

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who had rejected the 2020 election results.

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