Jan. 6 House Committee Details Trump’s Links to Insurrection

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Jan. 6 House Committee is wrapping up its summer hearings this week with testimony from two former Trump staffers who both resigned the day of the insurrection: Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary. The focus of recent hearings has been to detail former President Donald Trump’s role in inciting the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol and his repeated attempts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. We’ll talk about the latest revelations from the committee hearing, what could happen next and the political implications of the hearings so far. Guests: Shanlon Wu, criminal defense attorney and CNN legal analyst, former federal prosecutor who also served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. Grace Panetta, Senior Politics reporter, Business Insider. Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones - San Francisco-based national magazine specializing in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.8	The January 6th committee that's been holding hearings all summer completed its first set of hearings last night in primetime. The latest focused on Donald Trump's behavior in the 187 minutes after he finished giving his rally speech,
1:38.3	and when he finally released a video telling rioters that he loved them, but that they had to go home.
1:43.3	As Mike Pence's Secret Service staff called their families to say goodbye in case they didn't make it out,
1:48.9	Trump mostly watched Fox News, according to testimony, at the hearings.
1:53.1	But as the committee takes a month-long break to review new evidence,
1:56.9	what has it accomplished and what can we expect to happen next?
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2:10.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:13.2	The most crucial context for Donald Trump's behavior on January 6th is that he was trying to hold on to power after he lost the election to Joe Biden.
2:21.7	People around him, as previous January 6th committee hearings have shown, told him he'd lost, and the flurry of lawsuits they tossed at the system had failed, mostly laughed at a court.
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