Lawfare Archive: The New January 6 Reports
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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From January 6, 2025: On today’s podcast, Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds is joined by Quinta Jurecic, a Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News, to discuss a long-awaited report on Jan. 6 from the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, as well as a new report from House Republicans focusing on the pipe bombs planted outside the Democratic and Republican National Committees as part of the violence that day. They explore what the reports do—and do not—cover, how they fit in with other investigative work on the insurrection, and what the overall landscape of accountability looks like on the precipice of President Trump’s return to office.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Marissa Wong, |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Marissa Wong, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare |
| 0:13.0 | for April 18, 2006. |
| 0:17.0 | On April 14th, the Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to vacate the convictions of 12th January 6th Capitol rioters, who are also known members of the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys. |
| 0:28.6 | On the first day of his second term, President Trump issued full pardons to the majority of January 6th defendants, but granted 14 individuals commutations, |
| 0:38.9 | meaning their sentences were not dismissed, |
| 0:40.9 | but reduced to time served. |
| 0:42.5 | If granted, the Justice Department's motion |
| 0:45.2 | would vacate those convictions. |
| 0:47.3 | For today's archive, I chose an episode |
| 0:49.3 | from January 6th, 2025, |
| 0:52.2 | in which Molly Reynolds sat down with Quinta |
| 0:54.0 | Jurassic and Ryan Riley to discuss two newly |
| 0:56.7 | released investigative reports on the January 6th riot in what the landscape of accountability |
| 1:01.2 | looked like on the precipice of Trump's return to office. |
| 1:17.1 | To the Lawfare podcast, I'm Molly Reynolds, senior fellow at Brookings and senior editor at Lawfare with Quinta Jurassic, a fellow at Brookings and a senior editor at lawfare, |
| 1:21.7 | and Ryan Riley, Justice Reporter at NBC News. |
| 1:25.4 | One of the things that makes this an intelligence failure on the FBI's part is that everyone |
| 1:30.1 | knew it was going to happen. |
| 1:31.6 | I mean, we didn't all know that writers were going to break into the Capitol, but we knew |
| 1:35.8 | that something was going to happen on January 6th because everyone was posting about it and |
| 1:40.7 | Trump had tweeted about it. |
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