A constitutional crisis would mean that that dance has come to a place where it can no longer be resolved through process.

And what happens in governments when process can no longer resolve conflict, violence, almost always?

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverz.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsy Politics.

Hello everyone. First, thank you so much for your responses to our summer series so far.

We are glad these conversations are connecting with you. We're so appreciative of all the people

who participated in them. We're excited to share the third episode of that series with you. We

were going to do that today. But there have been two January six hearings over the last two weeks.

We ask you to make time to watch these hearings and you are watching them. And we really appreciate

that. So we want to show up with you. Sarah is still in Europe enjoying the July break that we

all traditionally take. So Elise is here with me, fresh off parental leave. Hi Elise.

Hi. Is that what everyone wants to come back from parental leave and talk about, you know,

the threat to democracy and insurrections and potential coups? I think that's just the

traditional reentry. It's a light and breezy professional path that you've chosen for yourself, Elise.

Well, we ask on social media what questions you have about the January six hearings at this point

and you responded. So really, this is like Beth Elise and all of you sit down to do a bit of a

mailbag episode. So that's what we're going to do today. We're going to go through some of these

questions, especially the most frequently asked questions. Many of them do not have satisfying

answers, but we will do our best to tackle them.

Okay, so Beth, when people shared their many questions about January six, they fell into some pretty

clean categories. So we are going to tackle those categories and get into some specifics.

But before we jump in to kind of those categories of questions, let's take a minute and just

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