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I'm Dave Davies in For Terry Gross.

Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the January 6th assault on the US capital,

when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the building and fought with police.

If you watch the hearings of the Congressional Committee that investigated the attack,

you saw its members and witnesses present a compelling chronicle of Trump and his allies efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.

Over the past two weeks, the committee has issued its final report, more than 800 pages long,

and released thousands of pages of witness interview transcripts and other material.

Besides the recommendation that the Justice Department charged Trump with felony offenses,

the new material adds detail to the story told in the hearings.

There's new information about pressure brought to bear on a key witness,

Cassidy Hutchinson, for example, and Nuggets such as the fact that Trump at one point wanted to trademark the phrase rigged election.

To take stock of the committee's work and consider what lies ahead,

we turned to Luke Broadwater, who covers Congress for the New York Times.

He was at the Capitol when the assault occurred and has reported extensively on the investigation into Trump's efforts to reverse the results of the election.

He wrote the introduction to the addition of the January 6th report published by 12 books,

which includes reporting analysis and visuals from the New York Times.

Before Luke Broadwater joined the Times, he spent a decade at the Baltimore Sun,

where he was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and a George Polk Award for political reporting.

Luke Broadwater, welcome back to Fresh Air.

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