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The House of Representatives has voted to set up a select committee to investigate the

insurrection of January 6th.

Despite efforts to invite Republicans to participate in an investigation, GOP leaders

are still calling it a partisan effort and most voted against it.

My next guest has spent the last few months exploring why this and the issue of voting

rights have become so politicized.

Jud Legum is the author of the Daily Newsletter, Popular Information.

In the last few weeks, he's done some impressive investigative work digging into the companies

that donate to legislators who didn't vote to

certify President Biden's win back in January. Judd has years of experience observing politics. He was

a research director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and worked at the Center for American

Progress, where he founded the news site Think Progress. Welcome to Our Body Politics, Judd.

Thanks for having me.

So, Judd, we're coming up on six months' anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol.

How do you feel the media is doing in terms of framing what needs to be talked about?

I don't think we're doing that well, I would say.

None of the members of Congress or members of the Senate who voted to overturn the election that day have really expressed any remorse.

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