January 6th Hearings Begin, With A Focus on the Proud Boys

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On Thursday, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol began presenting its findings in the first in a series of high profile public hearings. The panel showed videos of aides to former President Trump testifying that his claims of a stolen election were simply not true. Some used more colorful language.

The committee seeks to show that the mayhem at the Capitol was not spontaneous, but rather an orchestrated subversion of American democracy. And they say former President Trump was a key player.

The hearing also included video of the Proud Boys at the Capitol on the day of the attack. We speak to documentary filmmaker Nick Quested who shot some of that footage and testified before the committee on Thursday.

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0:00.0	This is my voice. It can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for
0:07.0	anyone. In NPR's black stories, black truths, you'll find a collection of NPR
0:13.2	episodes centered on the black experience. Search NPR black stories, black
0:18.9	truths, wherever you get podcasts. For nearly a year, the House Committee
0:24.5	investigating the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol has been working
0:29.6	behind closed doors. Thursday night, their work came into the light.
0:34.3	January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt as one
0:42.2	ride to put it shortly after January 6th to overthrow the government. The
0:48.7	violence was no accident. It represents Senate Trump's last stand, most
0:55.3	desperate chance to halt the transfer of power. Chairman Benny Thompson, in a
1:00.6	prime time hearing, the committee played previously unreleased recordings of
1:05.1	the violence and mayhem that day. One witness who testified was officer
1:09.7	Caroline Edwards of the Capitol Police. It was carnage, it was chaos. Edwards
1:18.8	who was injured in the attack told the committee it felt like a scene from a
1:22.6	war. It was something like I'd seen out of the movies. I couldn't believe my
1:29.3	eyes. There were officers on the ground. You know, they were bleeding. They were
1:38.2	throwing up. They were, you know, they had, I mean, I saw friends with blood all
1:43.8	over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. Prosecutors say the
1:50.0	investigation is the biggest probe in US history in terms of number of
1:54.4	defendants and the amount of evidence. Committee staffers have interviewed more
1:58.2	than a thousand witnesses and reviewed more than 100,000 documents. Yesterday
2:03.6	the committee played video clips from depositions with key members of President
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