This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

We're entering a critical stage of our investigation. We've now taken the testimony of hundreds of witnesses with knowledge of the events of January 6th,

including more than a dozen former Trump White House staff.

The House Select Committee investigating the insurrection has been on the case for the better part of a year.

And just in the last week, we've learned that the White House call log show a mysterious

gap of seven hours on January 6th. And a federal judge issued a major ruling in a case related

to the committee's work in which he stated that President Trump likely committed a felony

in attempting to obstruct Congress.

The Select Committee itself has produced some stunning revelations already, but time is working against it. If the Republican Party gains control of the House in this year's midterm elections,

as they're predicted to do, they're almost sure to dismantle the effort and take any idea

of accountability off the table.

To get a sense of what all this means, I called on two colleagues.

Amy Davidson Sorkin, who writes regularly about politics,

and Jeannie Suk Gerson, who covers legal issues and is a professor of law at Harvard.

Jeannie, how would you describe the stakes of what the committee is trying to learn here?

And who's listening?

I think that history is listening, and the stakes really are to piece together a narrative

and to tell the true story of what happened.

And that is the purpose of this investigation.

But of course, we know that

there are criminal charges going on in criminal indictments. We know that there are potential

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