If you care about the economy, you should care about Jan. 6
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For days now, we’ve been talking about something that happened 17 months ago, the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Congressional hearings into the events of that day started last week. The details can feel removed from the day-to-day economic struggles of the average American, but they are crucial.
The Jan. 6 committee wants Americans to “understand that not only what happened was bad, it’s ongoing. This is still a threat to the country, is still a threat to democracy. And that if you do care about the economy, you need to make sure that we have a functioning government to confront those problems in the future too,” said Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter at Politico.
On the show today, we’re talking about the aftermath of Jan. 6, what may come after the hearings and why this is important for the stability of our democracy and our economy.
Later, we’ll discuss the rising tide of white nationalism and extremism after the arrests of dozens of people who police say were plotting to attack an LGBTQ pride event in Idaho. Also, crypto winter is here! Are the layoffs at Coinbase the first of many?
Plus, listeners weigh in on the housing market and Taco Bell ditching dine-in service. Then, we end the show with a fatherly answer to the “Make Me Smart” question.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Kyle Cheney’s Twitter feed
- “Jan. 6 panel makes case election fraud claims were Trump vs. ‘Team Normal’” from Politico
- FBI assisting investigation of Patriot Front, an alleged white nationalist group accused of planning riot at Idaho Pride event from CBS News
- “CDC Rescinds Order Requiring Negative Pre-Departure COVID-19 Test Prior to Flight to the US“
- “Title 42 and its Impact on Migrant Families” from Kaiser Family Foundation
- “Coinbase says it will cut 18 percent of its work force.” from The New York Times
Join us tomorrow for Whaddya Wanna Know Wednesday. If you’ve got a question you’d like our hosts to answer, send it our way. We’re at [email protected] and (508) 827-6278 or (508) U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am Kimberly Adams. Welcome to Make Me Smart. Where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Kyle Rozdal. It's Tuesday, one topic in the news, especially in the news today. |
| 0:18.4 | Are the hearings of the January 6th Committee on Capitol Hill? We've been talking about it |
| 0:23.4 | for a while, but we're going to talk about a little more today because this is, |
| 0:27.6 | for my money, the story. It is the story for the next, I don't even know how long. Anyway, that's |
| 0:34.7 | what we're going to do today. Yeah, and we're going to talk about this with someone who's been |
| 0:39.0 | focusing on the aftermath of January 6th, not just these hearings, but he's been following all the |
| 0:44.0 | court cases as they've been working their way through the system, the developments on the Hill |
| 0:48.3 | and everywhere else. My buddy, Kyle Cheney, who's a senior legal affairs reporter at Politico, |
| 0:53.5 | we go way back to the State House News Service in Boston. Kyle, welcome to the show. Great to be |
| 0:58.8 | here. Thank you both for having me. So as somebody who has been following the sort of nuances and every |
| 1:07.0 | single legal filing, every single court case, like all the way through this process, I imagine there |
| 1:12.2 | wasn't, there hasn't been much new for you to hearings in, but what has struck you so far about |
| 1:18.6 | these hearings? Actually, you'd be surprised that the broad arc of the story, what we know, |
| 1:25.6 | has not changed all that much. I mean, Donald Trump was impeached in February 2021, and the story |
| 1:31.2 | that led to his impeachment has been largely unchanged, but they've filled in so many of the details |
| 1:37.2 | about what was happening inside the West Wing, what was happening behind the scenes of the justice |
| 1:42.1 | department, that it tells a much more vivid and much more a nerving story than even what we learned |
| 1:48.4 | during impeachment. So what the committee did in the first two hearings that I thought was fairly |
| 1:52.7 | effective was they put, they took video depositions with a lot of these witnesses. These are people |
| 1:59.0 | in Donald Trump's inner circle involved in all of the key moments of his attempt to subvert the |
| 2:04.2 | election, and you saw them in their own words saying what happened, that it was not a flattering |
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