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In The Thick

ITT Sound Off: A Failure of American Democracy

In The Thick

Futuro Media

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4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King, deputy inequality editor at BuzzFeed News, talk about the first public hearing on the January 6 attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol. They also get into the Congressional hearing in response to gun violence and the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde last month. And, they discuss the media coverage of a migrant caravan traveling to the U.S. through Mexico, and the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the DACA program.

ITT Staff Picks:

  • In this piece for The Boston Globe, columnist Renée Graham analyzes whether the public will actually pay attention to the Jan. 6 hearings, despite their clear importance for American democracy.

  • “Our security is a constitutional value, one that outweighs absolutist gun-rights claims by NRA lobbyists, or Oath Keepers, and other insurrectionist groups who hold their access to weapons dear for use in an imagined anti-tyranny quest,” writes law professor Thomas P. Crocker in this piece for The Atlantic.

  • On the 10-year anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, recipients are reflecting on the program’s limitations and an uncertain future, writes journalist Jeff Brumley in this piece for Baptist News.

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0:00.0

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Thank you.

0:34.8

From Futuro Media and PRx, it's in the thick.

0:38.1

I'm Julio Caluarela.

0:39.5

And I'm Jamila King and this is ITT Sound off.

0:43.4

Yes, co-host Jamila King.

0:46.1

Back in action.

0:47.4

Always good to have you.

0:48.2

Great to meet you.

0:49.2

So let's get to it with our first topic, which is the January 6 attempted coup at the

0:56.1

U.S. Capitol.

0:57.8

So on Thursday night in primetime television, the House Committee investigating the Capitol

1:03.8

attack held the first public hearing on former President Donald Trump's role in inciting

1:09.5

the Capitol attack and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

1:14.8

It was the first of six plan hearings to share evidence the House Committee has been

1:20.3

gathering since July of 2021.

1:24.8

And in their opening statements, Committee Chairman Benny Thompson, who's a Democrat from

1:29.6

Mississippi, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, who's a Republican representative from Wyoming,

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