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Some long-awaited January 6th Committee hearings in the House of Representatives started

last night, with Chairman Benny Thompson and Representative Liz Cheney giving their

opening statements, which acted as a bit of a table of contents, if you will.

They let us know that we can expect the hearings to explain a sophisticated seven-part plan

by Trump to steal the election over the course of six additional hearings this month.

In her opening statement, Cheney called out many of her Republican colleagues for seeking

pardons from Trump for their roles in attempting to overturn the election during his last days

in office, including Kevin McCarthy, who was, quote, scared.

Liz Cheney literally said, quote, scared.

The opening statements also established the events that led to the insurrection plan

in the first place, specifically the lack of acceptance by Trump that he had lost, even

after his own advisors, and Bill Barr, told him that his voter fraud theories were, quote,

bullshit, that was also the word used by Bill Barr, as did the only person who sort of

matters to him, a bonka.

After opening statements, the Committee played a harrowing video of never-before-seen footage

from January 6th, by one of the night's two live witnesses, documentary filmmaker Nick

Questead, who had been embedded with the proud boys at the time.

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