I still haven't mastered typing without this part of my thumb. Welcome. It is Eric Erikson here.

The phone number, if you want to be on the show, 8779373-425. I was just tweeting this out because a buddy of mine just texted me and says, I got a letter from the IRS.

They want me to pay them back $2,400 on the child tax credit estimate that they sent.

Yeah, he's not alone.

This is happening all over the country.

Families are getting letters that the IRS overpaid them, the child tax credit, and is demanding the money back.

This is another issue the Democrats are going to have anchoring them down in November.

It's going to be a big one.

Yol, I've got to begin with a story.

It's an analysis by Philip Bump in the Washington Post. I'm not even going to read you the title. I just want you to hear this. The point of the House Select Committee's investigation into the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 is not explicitly to change minds. It is to understand what

happened and how with the aim of preventing similar events in the future, but preventing similar

events almost certainly demands changing minds about what occurred, about who was responsible

for the day's violence and why it was important.

This is why so much of the initial coverage of the committee's new round of public hearings

centered on possible impact. Members of the media were perhaps uniquely poorly suited to

judge that impact, given that we are more likely than most Americans

to already be familiar with some of the details presented, making them less surprising to hear.

But that 20 million Americans watched the first hearing last week seem significant.

That's substantially more people than watch the Oscars, for example.

None of those viewers were tuned to Fox News, however.

Fox's decision to shunt the hearing off to its lesser-watch subsidiaries had the expected

effect of lowering viewership.

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