Hey, everyone. Quick heads up that there is some raw language in this episode. That includes

a racial slur. All right, here's the show.

Jeremy Stahl is one of the folks at Slate who watches a lot of hearings on Capitol Hill.

And as he watched this week's big hearing play out, watched police officers testify in front of Congress about what they saw

on January 6th, he was struck by the fact that he could still be surprised. After all, we've all

seen the footage from that day. Most of us watched it live.

But in hearing these police officers describe what it was that we were seeing,

just resonated and connected in a way that seeing interspersed cut clips of all these things having happened could not.

The moment in this hearing that Jeremy just can't shake came a couple of hours in.

D.C. police officer Michael Fanon was asked to narrate his own body cam footage.

Michael Fanon was a police officer that day who rushed to the capital entrance to

basically bolster the front line that was guarding the Capitol building.

I just remember getting violently assaulted from every direction.

And I knew I was in, I was up shit Creek without paddle.

He said as he stepped outside, he was like, oh, it's good to get some fresh air.

And then he was dragged away at that very moment.

They beat me.

I was struck with a taser device at the base of my skull numerous times.

He was electrocuted multiple times. he said. He suffered a heart attack.

We need to be able to rescue me and pull me back inside. But at that point, I was unconscious.

Mike, stay in there, buddy. Boy Mike, it's Jimmy. I'm here.

Just seeing these horrific clips over and over and over again and having that memory of

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