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U.S. House of Horrors (with Jackie Calmes)

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Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jackie Calmes, national columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court, joins Axe and Murphy to discuss the powerful testimony delivered during the opening hearing on the insurrection, the latest bumps in the road for infrastructure negotiations, the impact of the Delta variant on Biden's agenda, and the "Shakespearean" tales playing out around the country.

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair.

0:10.4

It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

0:22.0

We must know what happened here at the Capitol.

0:25.5

We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House, every phone

0:31.2

call, every conversation, every meeting, leading up to, during, and after the attack.

0:38.8

Honourable men and women have an obligation to step forward.

0:43.4

If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly,

0:49.6

this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic.

0:54.2

Reminding the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democratic system.

0:59.0

That was representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who oddly in the current Republican conference,

1:06.1

remembers the oath she took to the Constitution at the January 6th Committee hearings that

1:10.3

opened today.

1:11.3

Ax, how are you doing a big day in American history as we look at the painful events of January

1:18.3

6th to this committee?

1:19.3

No, I'm doing well, brother, but I listened to some of that testimony this morning, and

1:24.0

it was searing.

1:26.3

It no more than to our yesterday Jackie Collins, who spent 13 years up there on Capitol Hill,

1:34.4

covering the Hill for the Wall Street Journal.

1:37.7

When the great scribes in that town, now a newly minted Washington columnist for the L.A.

1:45.2

Times, an author of a pretty relevant book, Descent The Radicalization of the Republican

1:50.6

Party, and its capture of the court.

1:53.4

It's about the Kavanaugh confirmation, but it's about a lot more than that.

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