Jan. 6th hearing: Will the committee's message break through to the American people?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Congress's January 6th select committee is broadcasting its hearings directly to Americans.
But with partisan gaps widening, and fewer people saying Trump is responsible for the attack on Congress, can the hearings break through with the American people?
Lisa Desjardins, Steven Levitsky and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi. The Congressional Select Committee investigating |
| 0:21.1 | the January 6th attack on the Capitol has held the first two of several live public hearings. |
| 0:28.3 | The committee is laying out the facts it has discovered after a massive 10-month-long |
| 0:32.7 | investigation into Donald Trump's efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential |
| 0:38.8 | election. |
| 0:40.5 | In the first hearing last week, committee chair Representative Benny Thompson laid out |
| 0:45.5 | this stark fact. January 6th, 2021, marks the first time in United States history that |
| 0:53.3 | Americans themselves tried violently to stop the transfer of power. A tradition that |
| 1:00.2 | until that day had stood for 220 years. |
| 1:05.8 | January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt as one ride to put it |
| 1:14.2 | shortly after January 6th to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident. |
| 1:21.8 | It represents Trump's last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power. |
| 1:29.5 | The committee is unveiling more new information, including information about the extent of |
| 1:35.1 | the violence that day. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards testified to the committee |
| 1:40.7 | last week. |
| 1:42.1 | What I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I'd seen out of the movies. I couldn't |
| 1:49.6 | believe my eyes. There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing |
| 1:56.7 | up. I mean, I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's |
| 2:02.1 | blood. |
| 2:03.1 | However, do not be misled by testimony given in the past tense. |
| 2:10.8 | Chair Benny Thompson says the committee recognizes, as should the American people, that the |
| 2:16.9 | past is not past. There is a present and future threat to American democracy to this nation. |
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