Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erikson here. It just so happens to be my show and I'm delighted to have you with me.

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We got a couple of folks who have been waiting very patiently on the line and I figure might as well start this hour, take their calls, beginning with Greg.

Welcome to the show, Greg.

Hey, how are you today?

I'm good. What's going on?

Good. So one I just wanted to say, since listening to you, I think I've become more of a more

informed and well-rounded conservative, so I thank you for that.

Absolutely. Thank you.

So in regards to the January 6th committee, and I know I'm a week late with this question,

but I was under the impression it was just about getting to the bottom of,

was there some kind of incitement on behalf of the president?

But what are they doing calling Brad Rappensberger to come testify about stuff that happened

months in advance?

Or, yeah, prior to that.

That's a good question.

So my understanding is that they're trying to prove, and I don't think they can, that there was a,

it was an orchestrated effort for the Trump campaign to build a case of lies

to incite people to march on the Capitol on January 6th, that if, for example, the president

had just stood up there on January 6th and said, go down to the the Capitol that people wouldn't have done it.

But by orchestrating a series of events after the election to make a case for the stolen

election that he used all of those things together to convince his base the election

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