What Next - What The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Really About
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The House hearings to examine the events of Jan. 6, 2021, begin this week and the party lines are drawn. Republicans are calling the hearings a distraction from issues that voters care about—inflation, rising prices of gas and food. Democrats are trying to remind voters which party tried to override American democracy. Will it be enough to stem the “red tide” projected for fall midterms?
Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics writer at Slate.
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| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
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| 1:12.0 | Jim Nuel covers Washington for sleight. |
| 1:15.0 | Like all of us, he's been waiting to hear with the House of Representatives |
| 1:18.0 | January 6th Select Committee has been up to. Like all of us, he is set to find that out tonight |
| 1:25.0 | when public hearings get started in prime time. |
| 1:28.0 | Congressman, are you confident that what you have found as a committee will somehow grab the American people |
| 1:34.0 | buy the little pebbles and say, wake up, you have to pay attention. |
| 1:38.0 | I am. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, committee members have not been subtle when setting expectations for this event. |
| 1:46.0 | Representative Liz Cheney told CBS she thought the attack on the Capitol was a result of a well-organized conspiracy |
| 1:54.0 | and that this committee was going to prove it. |
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