Day Eight - The January 6th Hearings (Originally Aired on Thursday, July 21, 2022)

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

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In the eighth hearing, the last of its planned summertime hearings, the committee focuses on the more than 3 hours in between Trump’s January 6th speech where he encouraged rioters to march on the Capitol to when he tweeted for those rioters to go home. This hearing originally aired on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

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0:00.0	Hey gang, it's Read. This is a special presentation of the eighth public hearing from the House Select
0:04.9	Committee on January 6, which originally aired on Thursday, July 21, 2022. We're re-broadcasting
0:11.9	this hearing because at the Lincoln Project, we know that it is imperative for the future of our
0:16.1	nation's democracy, that the findings of this committee are heard by as many Americans as possible,
0:21.4	whether it's by way of live television, watching an online stream, or in this case, by listening to
0:26.3	it as a podcast. And without further ado, here's the House Select Committee on January 6.
0:33.3	Good evening. Earlier this week, I received a positive COVID diagnosis. Per CDC guidelines,
0:41.3	I've received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. Thus far, I've been blessed to experience
0:49.2	very minimal symptoms. Because I'm still quarantined, I cannot participate in person with my colleagues.
0:57.8	I've asked our vice chair, Ms. Cheney, to provide over this evening's hearing, including maintaining
1:04.8	order in the room and swearing in our witnesses. Over the last month and a half, the Select Committee
1:12.6	has told a story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. He lied,
1:21.3	he bullied, he betrayed his oath. He tried to destroy our democratic institutions. He summoned
1:29.2	a mob to Washington. Afterward on January 6, when he knew that the assembled mob was heavily armed
1:37.6	and angry, he commanded the mob to go to the Capitol. And he emphatically commanded the heavily
1:44.7	armed mob to fight like hell. For the weeks between November and January 6, Donald Trump was
1:54.4	a force to be reckoned with. He shrugged off the factuality and legality corrects sober advice
2:01.2	of his knowledgeable and sensible advisors. Instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and
2:10.5	corruption, the cost to which democracy be damned. And then he stopped. For 187 minutes on January
2:21.3	6, this man of unbridled destructive energy could not be moved, not by his age, not by his allies,
2:29.8	not by the violent chance of rioters or the desperate pleas of those facing down the riot.
2:37.8	And more tellingly, Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family,
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