The Aftermath - Episode 1: Day Zero, Ground Zero

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

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Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Aftermath is not a podcast about the insurrection itself, or about how we got there. It’s a podcast about what happened next – how our democracy is attempting to right itself in the face of an existential threat. Who is being criminally prosecuted, and who isn’t. How is Congress taking action—and what is it ignoring. And how are our institutions telling the story—and who gets to tell it.

To set the scene for this project we are going to spend one episode—this one—on the events of the day itself. How what happened on January 6 revealed the difficult questions that people have spent the last year trying to answer.

This is Episode 1: Day Zero, Ground Zero.

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0:00.0	This podcast contains depictions of the events of January 6th, 2021.
0:05.0	It includes audio-containing violence, explicit language, and racial epithets.
0:10.0	Listeners may find this content unsettling.
0:13.0	Discretion is advised.
0:21.0	I voted to, you know, serve you to approve the College of the Electoral College County in Arizona.
0:28.0	And then I walked out those center doors, stepped over that broken glass, and then entered into the rest of the Capitol building for the first time since the riot had ended.
0:41.0	I remember just going off on my own and walking through the Capitol until I got to the Rotunda.
0:48.0	You know, when I saw there, just I can say no other way than just say I broke my heart.
0:55.0	It's the evening of January 6th, 2021. Congress has just reconvened to certify the 2020 election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.
1:06.0	My name is Andy Kim. I'm congressman of the New Jersey Third Congressional District. I am a lifelong public servant.
1:15.0	And now found myself serving my second term in the United States Congress.
1:21.0	The site that breaks Kim's heart is one he never expected to see when he ran for office.
1:27.0	One of the lawmakers who was inside the Capitol when it was stormed Democratic congressman Andy Kim of New Jersey late that night, Congressman Kim was photographed on his hands and knees, still in the same suit he wore to work helping clean up the damage left behind.
1:41.0	This room, which I believe it to be the most beautiful room in the most beautiful building in our country, it was disgraced and defiled.
1:53.0	There was trash everywhere, broken benches, you know, cigarette butts on the floor.
1:59.0	And I saw the, you know, the black mark on the white marble statues for where people put them out.
2:04.0	Just the center point of our democracy.
2:10.0	And I saw some police officers sitting on one of the benches. They were eating some pizza for their dinner.
2:17.0	And they were putting these pizza boxes into some trash bags.
2:23.0	And I walk over to them and one of them and I asked them, you know, do you have any more trash bags?
2:29.0	So I told him, I'm going to start cleaning up.
2:35.0	It was just, it was this desire that I had, honestly, I just couldn't leave the room in the condition that I founded in.
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