The Jan. 6 committee's unfinished work
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🗓️ 13 September 2022
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol still has some unfinished business. Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) joins us to discuss what’s left. Also, the significance of Sheryl Lee Ralph’s first Emmy.
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Over the summer, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol dominated the news cycle by unearthing revelatory evidence that illuminated the connection between allies of former president Donald Trump and the violence that took place.
Yet, at the same time primary voters across the country elected nearly 200 candidates who also touted Trump’s baseless claim that he won the 2020 election.
Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a committee member, joins us today to discuss what to expect from the committee in the fall and whether its work has had an impact on the strength of election denialism among the public.
Then, pop culture reporter Sonia Rao joins the show to discuss a moment that stunned the Emmy Awards audience: Sheryl Lee Ralph’s acceptance speech. Rao breaks down why Ralph’s first Emmy is a cultural milestone, and what it meant when she belted out “I am an endangered species” on stage.
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| 0:00.0 | I think he's going to face the legal repercussions of his actions. |
| 0:06.9 | There's no doubt about it. |
| 0:09.2 | That's Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin from Maryland. |
| 0:12.6 | He's a key member of the House Select Committee looking into the January 6 attack on the |
| 0:17.4 | U.S. Capitol. |
| 0:18.9 | The committee wasn't set up to prosecute former President Donald Trump, but in Raskin's |
| 0:24.5 | mind. |
| 0:25.5 | I think that we've been able to tell a very compelling fact-based story about what happened |
| 0:32.5 | and the public now understands all of the essential elements of the narrative. |
| 0:37.7 | Donald Trump just refused to take no for an answer from the American people when he lost |
| 0:43.2 | the election to Joe Biden by more than seven million votes. |
| 0:51.2 | The January 6 committee has already unearthed shocking details, details that expand our |
| 0:57.7 | understanding about what allowed the violence to unfold that day. |
| 1:02.1 | I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overly the painting says something's |
| 1:05.5 | the effect of, you know, I don't think I have weapons. |
| 1:09.3 | They're not here to hurt me. |
| 1:11.3 | Take the effing bags away. |
| 1:12.5 | Let my people in. |
| 1:13.5 | They can march the Capitol from here. |
| 1:16.1 | Now the committee promises to do even more. They're expected to schedule at least one more |
| 1:21.5 | hearing for this fall. |
| 1:23.4 | And they're planning to make their closing argument about why Trump should be held responsible |
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