Revolting: The January 6th committee’s public hearings

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The committee investigating the Capitol attacks of January 6th 2021 held the first of several public hearings last night, having gathered evidence for the past year. The hearings may not break Donald Trump’s hold on the Republicans, but they are creating a vital record of an attempted coup. As wolf populations grow, humans are learning to live with them. And why the corporate world has taken an interest in psychedelic drugs.

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0:58.7	Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fastman.
1:05.5	Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
1:12.8	For millennia, humans have lived in fear of wolves and have tried to eradicate them.
1:18.4	But since wolves were placed on a endangered list in the 1960s, their population in Europe and America has grown,
1:25.0	as have efforts to learn to live with them.
1:29.4	And we all grab lunch or coffee with a colleague from time to time.
1:33.5	You may even have been to their houses or gone out drinking with them.
1:37.1	But would you want to spend an entire weekend dropping acid with them?
1:52.0	No. with them. First up, though. The select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol will be in order.
2:05.1	What happened on January 6th, 2021 is not a mystery.
2:09.8	The attack was broadcast and live-streamed onto the world's screens.
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