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Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

The Aftermath- Episode 5: Who Tells Your Story?

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

Lawfare

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

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this fifth episode of The Aftermath, we explore another aspect of Congress’s response to Jan. 6: efforts to create an investigative body to find out what had happened. Proposals for a national commission began the day after the attack and continued to gain traction with support from both Democrats and Republicans. After a months-long negotiation, the House passed a bill establishing a bipartisan national commission on the model of the 9/11 Commission, which had conducted a widely-respected investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But by the time the bill came to the floor, the political winds had shifted, and Senate Republicans ensured its ultimate failure. This led, perhaps surprisingly, to the creation of the now-famous Jan. 6 Select Committee—which was no one’s first choice. But why did it come to this?

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0:00.0

Without objection, I include in the record a presentation of some of the key evidence our investigation has uncovered.

0:09.0

Officers on the ground, they were bleeding, they were throwing up.

0:15.0

They ripped off my badge, they began to beat me with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects.

0:21.0

So what are we going to do here folks? I only need 11,000 votes. I tell us, I need 11,000 votes. Himmium, right?

0:28.0

We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence.

0:31.0

The president said something to the effect of, I'm the airfim president, take me up to the Capitol now.

0:37.0

Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States to target you?

0:44.0

If I made it clear, I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I told the president was bullshit.

0:52.0

General Flynn, do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America?

0:58.0

Let's go.

1:00.0

The House Select Committee to investigate January 6 has been ugly for Republicans.

1:06.0

It has used Republican witnesses to reveal a lot of unpleasant truths about Donald Trump, but not just about Trump, about the Republican leadership in Congress, about a bunch of Republican luminaries, and about top White House officials.

1:21.0

You could be forgiven if you didn't remember that Republicans made this particular bed.

1:27.0

It was actually Republicans, including some of the same Republicans the committee ended up skewering, who first pushed the idea of a fact-finding commission, as an alternative to impeachment.

1:39.0

It was Republicans, including those same congressional leaders, who then scuttled their own ideas, and forced the creation of the January 6 select committee, as an alternative.

1:50.0

Indeed, it was the House Republican leadership that delivered the Kudagras by appointing two election deniers to the panel, thus provoking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refuse their nominations and seat Republicans Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinker instead.

2:09.0

The entire fabric of the January 6 committee's success was conditioned by the House Republican leadership's obstructive behavior over the month's leading to its creation.

2:19.0

January 6 and the last that led to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.

2:30.0

We must confront the truth with Kanda, resolve, and determination.

2:36.0

We need to show that we are worthy of the gifts that are the birthright of every American.

2:43.0

That begins here, and it begins now.

2:46.0

This is the aftermath, Episode 5. Who tells your story?

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