Hello, and welcome to the Fire in New York Show, the No-Chit-Champ podcast.

We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is, well, obviously

it's the January 6th Committee hearing, but it's something a little more specific about

that, is the House Committee's grand unified theory of January 6th, which emerged in

its first hearing, its heavily hyped and publicized first hearing.

So, um, start off, you knew something was up when the leaks about the House Democratic

January 6th Committee began to change about a month ago.

Jamie Raskin, who's a Democratic Committee member, said the hearings would quote, blow the

roof off the house.

Wow, that sounds big.

The leaks that followed were filled with hype about the upcoming hearing, which would

be held in prime time, maximum TV exposure, and would be produced with showbiz expertise

by a former president of ABC News.

So, the House Democrats were really going all out on this, and there's just so much hype

about it.

And then, right as it was about to happen, comes the downplay.

It was an article in the Washington Post published just hours before the hearing began, and

it reported, I'm going to read from it, quote, committee aides sought to temper expectations

of any shocking revelations during Thursday's hearing, and instead, frame the session as an

opening argument.

Now, this article quoted an anonymous committee aide who said, a lot of this has been reported,

and bits and pieces of it have been shared.

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