Post Reports: Four Hours of Insurrection

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We’re all still processing what happened on January 6th. Despite the hours and hours of video circulating online, we still didn’t feel like we had a visceral, on-the-ground sense of what happened that day. Until we heard the piece we’re featuring today. The Washington Post’s daily podcast Post Reports built a minute-by-minute replay of that day, from the rally, to the invasion, to the aftermath, told through the voices of people who were in the building that day -- reporters, photojournalists, Congresspeople, police officers and more. It’s some of the most visceral reporting we’ve heard anywhere on this historic moment. Listen to their full episode here.

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0:00.0	Okay, just a warning this episode contains strong language and sounds and descriptions
0:24.2	of violence.
0:25.2	This is Radio Lab.
0:26.2	I am Chad Ibuomrod.
0:27.5	Like Dispatch, if you can call it that, on this Saturday, like so many of us, we at
0:33.4	the show are cautiously watching the news this weekend.
0:37.7	While still trying to process what happened on January 6th, even nine days later, I find
0:43.6	myself looking at all of these video fragments and these pictures, clicking through them,
0:49.4	and just not able to put it all together.
0:52.7	Like what exactly happened?
0:56.8	Why weren't more people expecting this?
0:58.9	What was going on behind the scenes?
1:01.3	Why weren't there more police there?
1:02.8	All of these questions, I've been really wanting someone to just kind of lay it all out,
1:07.5	like beat by beat.
1:08.5	Hello.
1:09.5	That has happened.
1:10.5	I want to bring in Martin Powers from the Washington Post.
1:13.9	Martin, thank you for coming on.
1:16.3	Thank you for having me.
1:17.9	Maybe and her team at Post Reports have been one of my personal go-to's this past year.
1:23.8	And they just released an episode last night.
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