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The House Select Committee continues to investigate the insurrection of January 6th.

The latest part they pieced together includes a scathing revelation that three Fox News host

reached out that day to the president's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to ask Trump to intervene.

These hosts, of course, portrayed themselves both before and after January 6th as ardent Trump supporters.

It highlights the role that journalists at all levels play in supporting or undermining our democracy.

That's something our next guest thinks a lot about.

Nicole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project with the New York Times.

The series of journalistic essays, poems, and fiction is now a book, The 1619 Project,

a new origin story.

She's also the night chair in race and journalism at Howard University.

Welcome, Nicole.

Thank you for having me. I want to jump into the essay that you had as part of the 1619 project

when that came out in the summer of 2019. And it starts out, my dad always flew an American flag in our

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