From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Friday, June 17th.

If you didn't listen to the January 6th committee hearing yesterday, we've got a few choice

clips from it, and we'll try to add

yesterday's pieces to the larger storyline that the evidence is creating. And I'll start here to

frame how that big picture looks to me, and that is that January 6th was even worse than you

probably thought. Why? Well, almost everyone close to then-President Trump told him his stolen election

claims and planned to block certification on January 6th were whack. Bill Bard, Jared and Ivanka,

his White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, his campaign manager, Bill Steppian, his vice president,

Mike Pence, as we heard a lot about yesterday, and on and on.

Trump's side also lost 60 cases in court, 60, between Election Day and January 6th, cases that were

designed to stop various states from submitting their electors. But Trump went lawyer shopping

until he could find a couple who had pushed this crazy stuff on his

behalf anyway. He found Rudy Giuliani and he found John Eastman whose actions were a main focus

yesterday. And how does this relate to the violent break in at the Capitol and the fact that

Mike Pence and members of Congress were in physical jeopardy as the rioters

tried to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation's history.

Well, Trump, of course, summoned his supporters to protest in Washington on January 6th,

tweeting, it will be wild.

We knew that.

And what we learned yesterday included at least two references

to attorney John Eastman on behalf of Trump, suggesting that violence was an acceptable tool in this

quest. Eastman also acknowledged at one point in writing to Mike Pence's chief counsel that overturning

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