Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by David French, Steve Hayes,

and Jonah Goldberg. We are going to start with the January 6th hearings that have kicked off

this week. We'll also talk about political violence, the threat of it, the rhetoric around it,

as a person was arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh's home and charged with attempted murder.

And last, we'll talk about the primaries that happened this week a lot to say from California,

at least. And then of course we'll end with not worth your time, but I'll leave you in suspense on that one.

Let's dive right in. Steve, you were basically live tweeting the hearing last night. Why don't you

give us a recap of what we missed? It was, I thought it was pretty sleepy to start,

but Benny Thompson made what can probably most terribly be described as a plotting case about what

the committee was going to be doing over the next few weeks, then turned the microphone over to

Liz Cheney, when things I think got a lot more interesting. She led people in a combination of

sort of very dispassionative, impassive, narrative, interspersed with video from depositions,

from interviews, sometimes from news outlets, making the case that this was not just an isolated

one day spasm of violence, but in fact part of a much longer plan. And she laid it out as a

plan from Donald Trump, starting with Donald Trump, with Donald Trump at the center of the plan

to keep him in office illegally. I thought it was very effective. What's really interesting,

if you look back and obviously Republicans in the House, Republicans on Capitol Hill, generally

professional Republicans, the conservative anger, attainment, environment. They don't want to talk

about the substance of this. So they've been busy coming up with reasons that nobody else should

talk about the substance of this. This is all news. This is reporting that there was the former

president of ABC News had a hand in producing this, so then it was going to be all Hollywood and Flash.

And all of their pre-buttals basically fell flat. It wasn't terribly flashy. It was pretty

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