Hi, and welcome to a really special bonus episode of Maine Justice.

And I'm here alone. This is Andrew Weissman because it involves Mary McCord, who is busy

testifying, literally as I speak in a congressional hearing, I'll tell you more about that in a second, but it is

the fifth anniversary of January 6th, the insurrection. And as we noted in our podcast episode,

yesterday, Mary is testifying at a hearing before House Democrats, along with several other people,

the hearing was held in the words of House Democrats to, quote, set the record straight on the

violent insurrection carried out by supporters of Donald Trump, unquote.

So you'll hear Mary's testimony on this panel,

and it also includes a former United States Capitol police officer,

a former Department of Justice prosecutor,

and, as Mary noted in our episode,

a rioter, someone who participated in the interruption, who was given a pardon

by President Trump because everyone who participated got that pardon, but she refused it,

and she's going to talk about why. So please give it a listen, not just because of our own great

Mary McCord, but it is a great way to commemorate what happened five years ago on January 6th and to honor the police officers who were injured and the other victims of that horrific attack on the capital of the United States.

Some people want to rewrite the history of January 6th to ignore what we saw with our own eyes.

Some people want us to forget the lessons of that day, to pretend that we have overcome the threats facing our democracy and the rule of law.

We will not allow that to happen.

We gather to continue to uphold our oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, to defend against

the lawlessness of that day and the lawlessness we continue to see today. We gather because, in the

words of Martin Luther King, Jr., human progress is neither automatic or inevitable.

Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle.

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