Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Details Trump’s Ties to Violent Extremist Groups

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held another hearing Tuesday revealing more details about how former President Trump repeatedly tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election despite many aides and advisors counseling him to stop. Another key focus was on the right-wing extremist groups including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers that helped organize the insurrection in coordination with Trump and his advisors. We discuss the latest news from the Jan. 6 committee hearing and dive into the rise of violent extremist groups. Guests: Claudia Grisales, congressional reporter on NPR's Washington desk Kali Holloway, columnist, The Nation Lindsay Schubiner, director of Western States Center's Momentum Program A.C. Thompson, reporter, ProPublica and FRONTLINE correspondent. His investigation into the assault on the U.S. Capitol is featured in an updated version of the Frontline documentary "American Insurrection." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Yesterday at the January 6th House Committee hearing, one central thrust of the investigation was the presence of right-wing
0:54.7	extremist groups, groups that had been implicated in political violence across the country.
1:00.0	Today we're going to review the evidence the committee presented and then talk about the longer
1:03.7	arc of white nationalist violence. Long before J6 or even Charlottesville, there was the so-called
1:10.2	Battle of Berkeley,
1:11.4	and before that, white nationalists brought a bloody fight to the streets of Sacramento.
1:15.7	This mob violence has been driven by increasingly organized extremists
1:19.4	who ended up at the center of Donald Trump's rally
1:22.1	and the botched plan to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
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