What We’ve Learned and What’s Ahead in the Jan. 6 Hearings

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Thursday’s hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection highlighted the effort to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop the certification of the 2020 election. The committee presented evidence of the potential criminal liability of lawyer John Eastman, the architect of that plan, who asked Rudy Giuliani for a presidential pardon following the insurrection. We’ll analyze that and other takeaways from the hearing and talk to California Congressman Adam Schiff, who will lead Tuesday’s hearing. Guests: Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent on the Washington Desk, NPR News Ankush Khardori, former federal prosecutor based in Washington, D.C.; contributing writer, New York magazine's Intelligencer; contributing editor, Politico magazine Rep. Adam Schiff, Democratic Congressman representing California's 28th District in Los Angeles County; chair, House Intelligence Committee; member, Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	The third hearing of the House January 6th committee focused on the pressure former President Trump put on then Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
1:15.2	Here's Representative Liz Cheney.
1:17.1	What the president wanted the vice president to do was not just wrong.
1:21.1	It was illegal and unconstitutional.
1:23.4	We'll talk this hour about the architect of Trump's plan, California lawyer John Eastman, who asked for a presidential pardon following the insurrection.
1:32.3	And we'll be joined by Congressmember Adam Schiff, who is set to lead tomorrow's hearing of the committee investigating January 6th.
1:38.6	Join us.
1:51.2	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The fourth of several planned hearings of the House January 6th committee is set for tomorrow. The first three have focused on how former
1:56.3	President Trump created and pushed the big lie of a stolen election, despite repeatedly being told he'd lost,
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