Trump’s Hundred and Eighty-seven Minutes of Inaction on January 6th

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

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On Thursday evening, the committee charged with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol presented what it knows so far about President Trump’s behavior on that eventful day. As members of the President’s staff and family urged him to do something about the rioters, he watched television in the White House dining room. “He chose not to act,” as Representative Adam Kinzinger, a member of the committee, put it. The hearing featured testimony from military and security officials and the President’s legal counsel, and it included an outtake from an address on January 7th in which Trump admitted, “I don’t want to say the election’s over.” In the fourth installment of a special series for the Politics and More podcast, three members of The New Yorker’s Washington bureau—Evan Osnos, Susan B. Glasser, and Jane Mayer—take us through the revelations from this week’s hearing, the last of the summer.

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1:12.7	Welcome to a special episode of the political scene. I'm Evan Osnows from the New Yorker.
1:18.1	As the January 6th hearings have taken place over the past six weeks, I've been meeting with my Washington
1:23.3	colleagues, Jane Mayer and Susan Glasser, to talk about the revelations and what it all means.
1:29.9	Jane, Susan, we are here again. How are you both doing?
1:33.5	Great. Glad to be with you.
1:35.6	Ah, yeah, actually, big night last night. I'm looking forward to talking about it.
1:40.1	Yeah, we have quite a lot to cover here. Thursday's hearing.
1:43.6	It focused on this very specific
1:45.5	period of time on January 6th, 187 minutes, as we've been told, on the afternoon of the riot.
1:53.7	And that was a period of time in which Donald Trump refused to call off the attack.
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