What Next: Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Accomplish Anything?

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, four officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department testified in front of a bipartisan House select committee investigating the events of January 6. They each gave powerful and emotional statements, describing the harrowing moments the Capitol was attacked. But what can the committee actually do about it? Guest: Jeremy Stahl, senior editor at Slate. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:02.1	Quick heads up that there is some raw language in this episode.
0:05.7	That includes a racial slur.
0:08.2	Alright, here's the show.
0:15.4	Jeremy Stahl is one of the folks at Slate who watches a lot of hearings on Capitol Hill.
0:21.1	And as he watched this week's big hearing play out, watched police officers testify in
0:26.7	front of Congress about what they saw on January 6th.
0:30.3	He was struck by the fact that he could still be surprised.
0:34.1	After all, we've all seen the footage from that day.
0:37.4	Most of us watched it live.
0:39.8	But in hearing these police officers describe what it was that we were seeing, just resonated
0:47.6	and connected in a way that seeing interspersed cut clips of all these things having happened
0:55.7	could not.
0:57.3	The moment in this hearing that Jeremy just can't shake came a couple of hours in.
1:02.6	DC police officer Michael Phanone was asked to narrate his own body cam footage.
1:11.7	Michael Phanone was a police officer that day who rushed to the Capitol entrance to basically
1:18.6	bolster the front line that was guarding the Capitol building.
1:21.7	I just remember getting violently assaulted from every direction and I knew I was upshit
1:29.0	creek without a paddle.
1:31.1	He said as he stepped outside, he was like, oh, it's good to get some fresh air and then
1:34.6	he was dragged away at that very moment.
1:37.5	They beat me.
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