What Next - Bill Barr Calls B.S. on Trump
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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The hearings have started for the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The televised hearings have already circled in on a major, and possibly criminal theme: Donald Trump would not accept that he lost the election and was willing to listen to any theory or allegation—no matter how little evidence there was to support it—that would let him stay in office. Why are former Trump officials finally willing speak out against the former president?
Guest: Jeremy Stahl, Slate senior editor.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:36.0 | It's been a long time since a broadcast from Capitol Hill was required viewing for anyone. |
| 0:42.0 | But speaking for myself, the ongoing hearings by the House Select Committee on January 6th |
| 0:48.0 | have become must watch TV. I found myself glue to the livestream of the latest hearing |
| 0:54.0 | on Monday. |
| 0:59.0 | All these characters, these people who can lay out in very clear and precise and really compelling detail |
| 1:07.0 | basically the pot to try to overturn the last election by President Donald Trump. |
| 1:14.0 | Jeremy Stahl is a senior editor for Slate and he's been watching the January 6 hearings as well. |
| 1:20.0 | They've definitely made these hearings much more entertaining, interesting, compelling and tighter, shorter for mass consumption. |
| 1:30.0 | You know, there were two previous Trump impeachments and those hearings were completely different. |
| 1:35.0 | These hearings are designed to be a show. In addition to characters, we've got testimony that's being packaged |
| 1:42.0 | to accentuate quotable lines, gossip, cursing. People are cursing y'all on C-SPAN. Can you even handle it? |
| 1:49.0 | There's, you know, bombshells like that that are new, that are actual information that are helpful for people to understand what happened that day. |
| 1:58.0 | And then there's lots of just filling in the details of things that we already do. |
| 2:04.0 | But these hearings are not merely a show. And the members of the House Select Committee and their staff are trying to do more than |
| 2:13.0 | to remind you how serious January 6 was. They're showing who was involved and how. |
| 2:19.0 | They're showing Donald Trump was given this amount of information from this amount of lawyers telling him all of his fraud claims were wrong. |
| 2:30.0 | His own people, his own people in the Department of Justice, his own personal lawyers, his own White House people were telling him his fraud claims were wrong. |
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