The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings, Day Five

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It was Day Five of the House select committee hearings on Jan. 6. This time, the committee was focused on the president's efforts to pressure, and one may even say decapitate, the Justice Department to get it to put pressure on states on voter fraud matters and overturn the results of the 2020 election. In front of the committee were senior Justice Department officials who threatened to resign if an obscure environmental lawyer was made acting attorney general.

It was another dramatic day of testimony, and to chew it all over, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Twitter Spaces with Lawfare senior editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff, and New York Times reporter Katie Benner, who broke the whole story of the coup attempt at the Justice Department shortly after it happened. They talked about whether they learned anything new. They talked about how the department officials came off: are they heroes or are they apparatchiks? And they talked about how all of it fits into the committee's larger story.

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1:32.6	I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast June 24th, 2022.
1:39.5	It was day five of the House Select Committee hearings on January 6th.
1:45.6	This time the committee was focused on the president's efforts to pressure and one may even
1:52.7	say decapitate the Justice Department to get it to put pressure on states on voter fraud
1:58.8	matters and overturn the results of the 2020 election.
2:04.2	In front of the committee were senior Justice Department officials who threatened to resign
2:09.9	if an obscure environmental lawyer was made acting attorney general.
2:15.4	It was another dramatic day of testimony and joining us in Twitter spaces to debrief
2:20.9	on it and chew it all over in front of a live audience were LawFair senior editors
2:26.1	Quinted Jurassic and Roger Parloff and the New York Times's Katie Banner who broke the
2:32.0	whole story of the co-attempt at the Justice Department shortly after it happened.
2:38.2	We talked about whether we learned anything new, we talked about how the Department officials
2:44.3	came off, are they heroes or are they Apparachics and we talked about how all of it fits into
2:51.6	the committee's larger story.
2:54.6	It's the LawFair podcast June 24th, the January 6th committee hearings day five.
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