Hey everybody it's Joe Trippi and welcome

Trippy show this week a bombshell in the house investigation of January 6 shocking but surprising I don't think so to talk about it

we welcome Hunter Walker author of the newsletter The Uprising and its work has been featured

in Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, elsewhere, and his article. The headline

this, I just want to read it to you, January 6th,

protest organizers say they participated in dozens of planning meetings with

members of Congress and White House staff. This has obviously been explosive getting a lot of attention and I think the allegations of members of Congress and White House staff being involved in January 6th planning.

I think we all thought that was true, but this is a significant article, I think,

a piece of real journalism that is making it clear.

There's more here than we know.

So Hunter, welcome.

Thanks so much for having me, Joe.

Listen, I mean, for those who haven't read it,

and by the way, we'll put the link to the article in our show notes.

But for those who have not read it yet, could you, do you walk us through what we know, given your reporting on this?

So a key fact that I learned is that two people who were involved in the planning of what I'm broadly terming January 6th protests and that includes the

demonstrations designed to challenge the election that took place in the lead up to that day

around the country as well as the main rally on the

ellipse that featured President Trump himself and two people who helped

organize these things are now in communication with the House January 6th Select Committee and they are

detailing some pretty explosive allegations that they also shared with me in a

series of extensive conversations over the past few weeks.

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