The Bombshell Moments at the Second Week of the January 6th Hearings
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
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This week, the House select committee held two more hearings to review its astonishing findings on the events of January 6, 2021, featuring testimony from onetime enablers of President Donald Trump: Bill Barr, the former Attorney General, and Bill Stepien, Trump’s former campaign manager. These hearings are revealing the extraordinary drama that was unfolding that day, not just on the Capitol lawn but also in the top ranks of the government, where Vice-President Mike Pence was being coerced to overturn the election. As Susan B. Glasser put it in her column for newyorker.com this week, “On Thursday, the House committee devoted its hearing to attempting to explain Trump’s scheme to pressure Pence—which unfolded in a series of inflammatory Presidential tweets, angry phone calls, and bizarre White House meetings that were a mix of constitutional-law seminars and live reënactments of ‘The Godfather.’ ” In the second installment of a special series for the Politics and More podcast, three members of The New Yorker’s Washington bureau—Glasser, Evan Osnos, and Jane Mayer—take us through the big developments at the hearings this week.
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| 0:48.7 | Welcome to a special episode of the political scene from the New Yorker. |
| 0:52.7 | Today we're looking at what happened at this week's |
| 0:54.8 | hearings on the January 6th attack on the Capitol. I'm Evan Osnose. I was reporting outside the Capitol |
| 1:00.4 | on January 6th. And now I'm struck by how these hearings are revealing to us the extraordinary |
| 1:05.7 | drama that was unfolding out of view in the top ranks of the government. And I'm here this week once again with my |
| 1:12.3 | Washington colleagues, Susan Glasser and Jane Mayer. And Jane, I'm curious, what have you been |
| 1:17.7 | focusing on of the various dimensions that we've seen? Well, I've been keeping especially sharp eye |
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| 1:29.0 | And Susan, what about you? Where does your focus go? |
| 1:33.5 | Well, Evan, you know, I've been closely covering the hearings each day, and I'm particularly |
| 1:38.6 | interested in, to what extent are we going to start to see the results of this extensive |
| 1:43.3 | investigation into what did Donald Trump know, when did he know it, and have they drawn a direct nexus and established testimony that links Trump to this multi-headed plot to overturn an American election? |
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