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What Past Hearings Can Tell Us About The Road Ahead For The Jan. 6 Committee

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4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's been 50 years since the Watergate break-in precipitated the greatest political scandal of its time.

Now, the nation awaits hearings for another major event: the Jan. 6 insurrection.

What can we learn from Watergate and other past hearings as those for Jan. 6 begin?

We speak with experts about what insight we can gain from the past.

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In 1972, a break in at the Watergate Hotel precipitated the greatest political scandal of

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its time.

0:47.4

Now five decades later, Congress is poised for hearings on another major event, the January

0:52.8

6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

0:55.4

The House Select Committee investigating January 6th will hear testimony from many people

1:00.0

over the next few weeks, including a Capitol police officer and a documentarian who was

1:04.8

embedded with the far right group the proud boys the day of the attack.

1:08.8

And many of you said you'll be watching or listening.

1:11.4

I'm planning to listen to every second of them and they're very important to me.

1:16.0

I would like to see from the January 6th hearing as accountability.

1:21.1

My fingers are crossed and my heart is full of hope that somebody will be found guilty.

1:26.5

I would like to see the people responsible for what occurred held accountable.

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And if that means it goes all the way up to the person who was our president, then that

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clearly is what that means.

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