Is the January 6 Committee Blowing It?

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The January 6 committee’s signal that it’s going to try to criminalize the very notion that the 2020 election was stollen suggests a temptation toward overreach. Will the committee’s members squander public goodwill? Also, an update on the war in Ukraine and thoughts on Cormac McCarthy’s life and work.

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0:00.0	Here's something good news folks and
0:02.8	a likes for the
0:04.7	best exciting keyword for
0:07.2	chapter surface.
0:27.3	Welcome to the commentary magazine
0:28.9	I'm John Plothortz, the editor of Commentary with me.
0:31.6	As always, executive editor,
0:32.9	a Greenwald Hype.
0:34.4	Hi, John.
0:35.2	Senior writer, Christine Rosenhykrstein.
0:37.3	Hi, John.
0:38.3	And associate editor, no, Ross Manhy Noah.
0:40.7	Hi, John.
0:42.7	Maybe we won't start with Ukraine today.
0:46.3	Maybe what we should do is talk about the first conviction
0:52.3	in the January 6 trials, because it's a very interesting case.
0:58.5	And it comes at the same time as some kind of filing or something
1:05.5	or other.
1:06.0	I can't quite get it straight what it is,
1:11.5	where the lawyers on the January 6 committee
1:16.6	are signaling.
1:17.9	We talked a little bit about this, about the case
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