I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Wednesday, July 28th.

One of the scariest things about January 6th is that the people that were there, even to this day, think that they were right.

They think that they were right.

And that makes for a scary recipe for the future of this country.

And that was Officer Harry Dunn, testifying yesterday before the House Select Committee

investigating the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.

We'll play a few clips from that testimony that you may not have heard yet because they're not the ones most being repeated in news coverage.

But here's a clip not from yesterday's hearing, but from January 6th itself that's prompting yet another kind of

legal response. The Justice Department issued an opinion yesterday that Republican Congressman

Mo Brooks of Alabama can be sued for inciting the riot because of a speech he gave at the rally leading up to the attack

that seemed to call for the violence that followed. Here's one minute from that speech.

Again, this is Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks addressing the crowd on January 6th.

As such, today is important in another way. Today is the day American patrons start taking down names and kicking ass.

Now our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes

their lives to give us, their descendants, in America that is the greatest nation in world history.

So I have a question for you.

Are you willing to do the same?

My answer is yes.

Louder, are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?

Louder will you fight for America?

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama addressing the crowd on January 6th, and fight they did.

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