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Today, Explained

What the January 6 committee has found (so far)

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A congressional committee set out to offer the definitive story of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Things got dramatic. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained I'm Noel King.

0:03.5

The January 6th Committee wants access to deleted text messages that members of the

0:09.7

U.S. Secret Service sent to each other on January 5th and 6th.

0:14.6

If you have them, we need them.

0:16.7

The Secret Service says those messages were lost during a pre-planned system migration.

0:23.5

What may be the last hearing of the Jan 6th Committee is scheduled for this week, no one

0:28.2

knows though if it will be the real finale.

0:31.2

There have been surprises before, like in late June.

0:34.2

Benny Thompson says, okay, we're done for June.

0:36.3

We'll see you after the 4th of July.

0:38.0

Many of us were sort of packing up our bags to go when we got word.

0:41.6

Oh, no, there is another hearing coming, a surprise hearing, and we don't know anything

0:45.6

about it.

0:46.6

We don't know who's testifying, we don't know why it's coming up, and then we learn

0:50.0

who is going to testify.

0:51.7

What happened at the surprise hearing and what's going to be done with all this information?

0:56.4

Go on up.

1:26.4

At wordawarcraft.com.

1:34.0

Today explained we're back Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the podcast, Will Be Wild about

1:39.4

the attack on the Capitol, an author of the book, American Allegars, The Kushners, The

1:44.0

Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.

1:47.6

Benny Thompson makes that announcement, and the surprise witness was 26-year-old Cassidy

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