What We Learned From This Week's Jan. 6 Hearing — And What Questions Still Remain

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

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In a tweet sent on December 19, 2021, former President Trump issued what Democrats now say was a "clarion call" to his supporters. "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th," he wrote. "Be there, will be wild!" This week, in a hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol, we learned more about what happened in the days and weeks after the President sent that tweet — and the tense moments in the White House just hours before.

Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating January 6th, tells NPR that next week's primetime hearing — the final scheduled hearing of the committee — will unravel minute-by-minute events at the Capitol and present an account of what President Trump was doing during that time.

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0:00.0	Democrats on the House Committee investigating January 6th say it was a
0:05.0	clarion call. Big protest in DC on January 6th be there will be wild. That was a
0:15.1	tweet read by Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland and sent by former
0:19.4	President Trump in the early morning hours of December 19th. This week we
0:23.9	learned more about what happened in the hours and days after. The time for games
0:29.4	is over. The time for action is now. Trump supporters including members of
0:34.3	right wing extremist groups were mobilized online. He wants the American people to
0:39.8	march on Washington DC. Red is going to be a red wedding going down January 6th.
0:46.2	If necessary storming right into the Capitol. Those were some of the recordings of
0:51.2	Trump supporters played in the House hearing on Tuesday. Congressman Jamie
0:55.0	Raskin said many of them shared plans and violent threats. Threats that
0:59.4	according to testimony from others before the House Committee members of the
1:03.9	President's inner circle later became aware of. The President continued to
1:08.0	boost the event tweeting about it more than a dozen times in the lead up to
1:13.3	January 6th. Consider this this week we didn't just learn more about what
1:20.0	happened after the President called for a wild rally on January 6th. We also
1:25.2	learned more about what happened in the days before and one question that still
1:30.0	remains is how some members of the mob seem to have marching orders in advance.
1:36.0	From NPR I'm Wana Summers it's Wednesday July 13th.
1:42.2	It's consider this from NPR. The January 6th House Committee hearings are not
1:52.9	criminal proceedings. It's a congressional committee not a court of law. Its goal
1:57.4	is to establish facts and narratives. Polon threads. Once that federal or state
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