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1 big thing

The latest on the Jan. 6 investigations

1 big thing

Axios

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's been almost a year since supporters of former President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. Since then, federal prosecutors have charged more than 700 people in connection with the deadly insurrection. We catch you up quick on where things stand now with both the Congressional and federal investigations. Plus, wireless providers vs. the FAA over 5G. And, Florida’s record breaking covid case count. Guests: Axios' Andrew Solender, Selene San Felice and Margaret Harding McGill. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Sabeena Singhani and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, January 4th. I'm Nyla Budu. Here's

0:10.0

how we're making you smarter today. Wireless providers versus the FAA over 5G. Plus, Florida's

0:16.6

record-breaking COVID case count. But first, today's one big thing, the latest on the January

0:22.6

6th investigations. If you can believe it, it's been almost a year since supporters of

0:30.7

former President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to overturn the results of the presidential

0:35.5

election. Since then, federal prosecutors have charged more than 700 people in connection

0:41.8

with the deadly insurrection. We wanted to catch you up quick on where things stand

0:46.2

now with both the Congressional and federal investigations. Andrew Solender covers Capitol

0:51.3

Hill for Axios. Hey, Andrew. Hey, how's it going? Andrew, hundreds of people were charged

0:56.9

with various crimes. Can you tell us what those crimes ranged from? So the vast majority

1:02.7

of people who have been charged for their role in the Capitol attack have been charged

1:07.9

with trespassing on federal property. That is a charge that's been levied against roughly

1:14.8

650 of the 720 people have been charged so far. The second most common charge is

1:21.3

assaulting a police officer. That's a charge that has been made against around a third

1:27.3

of the Capitol rioters. Various other charges involve bringing a deadly weapon onto

1:32.5

federal property, assaulting a police officer with a federal weapon. And so far, the consequences

1:40.0

for those have ranged from probation to fines to five years in prison for one Florida

1:47.6

man who was charged with assaulting a police officer and various other crimes. So Andrew,

1:53.7

there's actually two federal investigations going on here. Can you explain that? Yes.

1:58.4

So the DOJ investigation is primarily focused on prosecuting the individual rioters and

2:04.2

that narrow scope led members of Congress and others to call for a more comprehensive investigation

2:11.4

that would cover issues like the events surrounding the attack, the allegations of election

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