Jan. 6 committee releases transcripts from 19 additional witnesses

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

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New witness transcripts have been released from the January 6th select committee, including one from Donald Trump’s own son. Then, officials are calling it the largest Russian missile strike since the war began. Plus, some signs of relief are on the horizon for tens of thousands of Southwest passengers who have been stuck in the airline’s meltdown for now eight days. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Quote, just give me five dead voters.
0:06.7	Relief starts right now.
0:09.7	New witness transcripts released from the January 6th Committee included one from Donald
0:13.6	Trump's own son and an unusual request from one sitting GOP Senator.
0:19.6	Then officials are calling it the largest Russian missile strike since the war began.
0:24.6	Trainants say it could have been so much worse.
0:27.9	Plus, some signs of relief on the horizon for tens of thousands of southwest passengers
0:32.4	who have been stuck in the airlines meltdown for now eight days.
0:38.1	Welcome to Relief.
0:41.6	I'm Phil Mattingley in for Jake Tapper and we begin with our politics lead, a new insight
0:46.3	into the January 6th investigation.
0:48.4	The Committee today released more testimony transcripts from 19 witnesses, including
0:53.5	Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., Trump attorney Christina Bob, former Trump advisor,
0:57.8	Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Trump White House advisor, Stephen Miller, and former press
1:01.9	White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
1:04.4	There's one key theme that sticks out in many of these transcripts and that's the role
1:08.8	of Mark Meadows.
1:09.8	He of course was Trump's chief of staff on January 6th and was the closest person in the
1:15.0	closest proximity to the president throughout that day.
1:18.0	A multiple witnesses recounting texting Meadows during the insurrection, desperately asking
1:23.2	him to persuade Trump to condemn the violence.
1:26.1	Christina and Sarah Murray is with us now and Sarah, you've been pouring over Donald Trump
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