What the Jan. 6 Hearings Have Revealed So Far

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. The House committee that was tasked with scrutinizing the events surrounding the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 is holding a series of public hearings. Testimony from key figures has explored a campaign by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to subvert American democracy and cling to power by reversing an election. The panel has recounted how Mr. Trump’s actions brought the United States to the brink of a constitutional crisis. Guest: Luke Broadwater, a congressional reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.2	This is a Daily.
0:08.5	Today, the January 6th Committee has now held three of its five scheduled hearings, laying
0:18.1	out the case that Donald Trump was at the center of a plot to overturn the election.
0:25.8	I spoke with my colleague, Luke Broadwater, about what we're learning from the hearings
0:31.2	and whether they're breaking through.
0:41.0	It's Friday, June 17th.
0:44.4	Luke, we've been talking to you about the January 6th Committee since its creation, a
0:54.4	little less than a year ago.
0:56.1	We've always understood its mission to be figuring out what caused the events of that day and
1:01.8	who's responsible for it.
1:03.5	How do these televised hearings in particular fit into that mission?
1:09.3	In the nearly a year since the January 6th Committee began its work, it started doing
1:15.6	dozens and then hundreds and then finally more than a thousand closed door interviews.
1:21.9	These are secret interviews that no one ever had access to.
1:25.0	The press couldn't go into, the public couldn't go into.
1:28.8	They included top Trump White House officials.
1:32.0	They included people that were rioters that day.
1:35.0	They included state officials and Department of Justice officials and the National Guard
1:40.0	and everybody in between.
1:42.7	These hearings are the Committee's chance to begin revealing its findings from all these
1:47.7	interviews and from the more than 140,000 documents.
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