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Hey, good morning, playbookers, and Rugu Minovalon. It's Thursday.

Today's show a preview of the first night of the January 6 hearings.

It's our Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

At 8 p.m. Eastern tonight, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack

plans to start unveiling the most complete and visceral dissection to date of the mob of

Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the results

of a Democratic election. Drawing on months of interviews and thousands of documents, the committee

has thus far kept most of its findings close to its vest.

So we expect a lot of new information and some of the most terrifying video from that day

that hasn't been shown to the public yet.

As one committee aide told reporters in a background call on Wednesday, they see their job

as showing, quote, that the violence of January 6 was the result of a coordinated

multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power

from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Here's the plan. Chair Benny Thompson and Vice Chair Liz

Cheney are going to run the hearings, beginning with opening statements. From there,

they'll present the findings from the committee, outlining the themes of the future hearings, beginning with opening statements. From there, they'll present the findings

from the committee, outlining the themes of the future hearings, and questioning two witnesses.

Committee aides are staying coy on the actual structure of the hearings, but told reporters

there will be a multimedia component with unseen video and audio that the committee has obtained.

The biggest challenge for the committee is connecting the dots their investigators

have spent months gathering, helping to make the case to the American people, that our

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