How To Prevent Another Jan. 6
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's been two years since the January 6th riot at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Over 900 people have been criminally charged, but political violence continues to be a threat. Well, here at How To!, we are not content to just marinate in fear and blame so we're dedicating two episodes to see how we can prevent more tragedies like January 6. In our first episode, we bring on Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focuses on the intersection of democracy and security. She explains how the US has gotten to this point, how we should productively grapple with January 6, and why we're not as close to the brink of civil war as it may seem. Next week, we'll hear from Curtis Toler, a former Chicago gang member who is now a violence interrupter.
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| 0:30.5 | Once violence gets going, it really can take on a life of its own. People can start committing |
| 0:35.1 | violence because violence was committed against them or their group, and it kind of spirals. We're not there yet. And I think that gives me a lot |
| 0:42.3 | of hope. If we really concertedly agreed that we didn't want our country to descend into that |
| 0:49.1 | kind of a situation, we have the ability to change it right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley. It's been two years since the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol here in D.C., and a lot has happened. |
| 1:05.0 | Over 900 people have been criminally charged, and about half have pleaded guilty to one or more charges so far. |
| 1:12.6 | But we know that the threat of political violence remains dangerously high. |
| 1:17.7 | The number of recorded threats against members of Congress has jumped more than tenfold compared to 2016, |
| 1:23.2 | coming in at the rate of about 26 per day. |
| 1:26.9 | This fall, a man was arrested for assaulting Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer in their home. |
| 1:32.3 | And in June, another man was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house |
| 1:37.3 | with a pistol, a knife, and zip ties. |
| 1:40.3 | It's tempting to dismiss these incidents as isolated, awful acts, but they reflect a broader |
| 1:47.1 | trend. |
| 1:48.6 | The American public's support for political violence is now nearing levels seen in Northern |
| 1:53.7 | Ireland at the height of the troubles there. |
| 1:57.3 | Well, here at How To, we are not content to just marinate in fear and blame. |
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