From The January 6 Tapes with celebrated legal analyst Preet Bharara
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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This excerpt from Pushkin's new audiobook, The January 6 Tapes, features lawyer and legal analyst Preet Bharara's thoughtful breakdown of the January 6 Select Committee Hearings. The only compilation of the actual hearings, this audiobook is filled with the riveting testimonies that will define history. Go buy yourself a copy at pushkin.fm, Audible, Apple Books, Spotify or anywhere audiobooks are sold.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello Pushkin listeners. I'm Pete Barara, former US Attorney and host of the podcast Stay Tuned. |
| 0:17.0 | The January 6th hearings provided some of the most stunning moments in American history. |
| 0:22.0 | When Pushkin came to me with the idea of an audiobook capturing all 20 hours, |
| 0:26.0 | I was honored to write the forward. You're about to hear an excerpt of that forward now. |
| 0:31.0 | The January 6th tapes is the only audiobook that captures the actual recordings of all nine hearings |
| 0:38.0 | from the opening gavel to the subpoena vote. It's critical that the testimony be heard and preserved. |
| 0:45.0 | Nothing less than the future of our democracy is at stake. |
| 0:49.0 | You can buy the January 6th tapes now at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks, audible, Spotify, or wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 0:59.0 | And you can listen to Stay Tuned, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:06.0 | On January 6th, 2021, the date on which the election of Joseph Robinette Biden was to be certified by the US Congress, |
| 1:16.0 | a mob of angry Americans marched to the US Capitol and rioted. |
| 1:23.0 | They breached the barriers. They overcame the Capitol police. |
| 1:27.0 | They broke into the house and sent it chambers. They destroyed property. They attacked officers. |
| 1:33.0 | And they looked for the congressional leadership. Inside, they wanted Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:40.0 | Where are you Nancy? We're looking for you. Outside, they erected a gallows and chanted Hang Mike Pence. |
| 1:52.0 | And they managed to stop for a time at least, the certification of the election for Joe Biden. |
| 2:01.0 | Though the mob was violent, some said later it was nothing more than a tourist visit. Though the mob was violent, Donald Trump, |
| 2:10.0 | who for hours did nothing to turn them back, despite the pleas of his family and staff, later said he loved them. |
| 2:21.0 | The violence of that day, like some other events in our history, has come to be known simply by the happenstance of the date, January 6th. |
| 2:31.0 | But the story of January 6th is not confined to that single and singular day. |
| 2:38.0 | Where were the seeds of insurrection's own? What happened over the weeks and months prior that prompted such an unprecedented attack on the seat of our government? |
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