The truth about Jan.6: The inquiry begins (with Bill Kristol)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The first of what will most likely be many hearings to uncover the truth about the January 6th insurrection on the US Capitol has taken place. It was a sobering approach by the select committee. Something we haven't seen at a hearing in quite some time. The result, an emotional and electrifying set of testimonies from those who were on the front lines of the riot that day. From Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell's quote, "This is how I'm going to die," to Officer Michael Fanone of the Metropolitan Police Department stating, "the indifference shown to his colleagues by Republicans even after officers risked their lives to keep those same lawmakers safe that day, Disgraceful," then slamming the table. In addition, previously unseen body camera and CCTV footage revealed just how real and raw the attack was. Bill Kristol, neoconservative political analyst who has served in both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, joins to discuss the reaction of Republicans to the hearing and what's in store for the future of the party.
GUESTS:
- Bill Kristol, (@BillKristol), Director, http://defendingdemocracytogether.org. Editor at large, http://thebulwark.com. Host, http://conversationswithbillkristol.org. Fellow, @HarvardIOP
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Just Security document - "Questions the January 6 Select Committee Should ask Its Witnesses" - Here.
- Lawfare - "House Select Committee Investigating Jan. 6 Holds Its First Hearing" - Here.
- Testimonies highlights from Capitol and Metropolitan Police - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | What makes the struggle harder and more painful is to know so many of my fellow citizens, |
| 0:09.8 | including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend, are downplaying or |
| 0:15.7 | outright denying what happened. |
| 0:19.9 | I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them in the people in this room. |
| 0:26.0 | But too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist or that hell actually wasn't that |
| 0:31.4 | bad. |
| 0:33.4 | The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. |
| 0:41.0 | My law enforcement career prepared me to cope with some of the aspects of this experience. |
| 0:47.1 | Being an officer you know your life is at risk whenever you walk out the door. |
| 0:51.6 | If you don't expect otherwise long abiding citizens to take up arms against you. |
| 0:59.0 | But nothing truly nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government |
| 1:05.8 | who continue to deny the events of that day. |
| 1:09.2 | And in doing so betray their oath of office. |
| 1:16.8 | Those very members whose lives, offices, staff members I was fighting so desperately to |
| 1:22.6 | defend. |
| 1:25.2 | That was DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fennon, one of four police officers who |
| 1:29.3 | testified on Tuesday before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack |
| 1:34.4 | on the Capitol. |
| 1:35.9 | Seven months after a mob of marauding Trump supporters attempted to violently stop Congress's |
| 1:40.3 | certification of Joe Biden as president. |
| 1:42.9 | The officers vividly recounted harrowing stories of the armed insurrectionists physically |
| 1:47.5 | and verbally assaulting them. |
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