Investigating January 6th
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attempt to overturn the Presidential election, the congressional committee investigating January 6th is racing to finish its work before the looming midterm elections. Amy Davidson Sorkin and the legal scholar Jeannie Suk Gersen talk with David Remnick about the law and the politics of holding Trump accountable. But criminal conviction, they agree, does not equal accountability—and might only have inflammatory effects on a drastically divided nation. “There’ve been ideas thrown around about … conviction, [that] maybe we could just disqualify him from running again,” Davidson Sorkin says. “I strongly believe that that’s not the answer. This has to be accomplished by democratic means. And, ultimately, it has to be done on Election Day.”
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| 1:16.5 | We're entering a critical stage of our investigation. We've now taken the testimony of |
| 1:22.9 | hundreds of witnesses with knowledge of the events of January 6th, including more than a dozen former Trump |
| 1:30.6 | White House staff. The House Select Committee investigating the insurrection has been on the case |
| 1:35.6 | for the better part of a year. And just in the last week, we've learned that the White House call |
| 1:41.2 | log show a mysterious gap of seven hours on January 6th, and a federal |
| 1:47.3 | judge issued a major ruling in a case related to the committee's work in which he stated that |
| 1:52.3 | President Trump likely committed a felony in attempting to obstruct Congress. The select committee |
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