The Past and Future of the Jan. 6 Committee

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Jan. 6 select committee has wrapped up its first spree of hearings, and it has announced a second set of hearings when Congress returns in September. The month of lull gives us a good opportunity to assess where the committee has come so far and where it might be going.

Benjamin Wittes sat down in Twitter Spaces on Thursday with Lawfare’s executive editor and host of The Aftermath Natalie Orpett, Lawfare senior editors Quinta Jurecic and Molly Reynolds, and Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien, who read questions from the live audience. They discussed what the committee has accomplished institutionally, what it has accomplished from an adding-new-evidence point of view, what the purpose of this next round of hearings might be, and what relationship this investigation might have to the Justice Department's recent spree of activities.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:33.9	There are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened on the six itself, whether
0:38.9	that's what they will take up in September, I don't know.
0:44.5	The other thing I would be curious to know if they will return to in more detail are
0:49.0	some of these questions around sort of what the failures that made the instruction
0:54.5	as serious as it was in terms of things around the delay in having the national guard come
1:02.3	to the capital and that sort of thing.
1:04.8	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 12, 2022.
1:12.6	The January 6th select committee has wrapped up its first spree of hearings and it is announced
1:20.7	a second set of hearings when congress returns in September.
1:26.4	The month of law gives us a good opportunity to assess where the committee has come so
1:32.7	far and where it might be going.
1:36.4	Joining me in a live Twitter space on Thursday were LawFair's executive editor Natalie
1:44.7	Orpet, LawFair's senior editors, Quinta Juresick and Molly Reynolds, reading questions
1:52.2	from the audience was Tyler McBrion, LawFair's managing editor.
1:57.6	We covered a lot of ground.
1:59.4	What has the committee accomplished institutionally?
2:03.0	What has it accomplished from an adding new evidence point of view?
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