What We've Learned From A Month Of January 6th Committee Hearings
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🗓️ 29 June 2022
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NPR Senior Political Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro and NPR National Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson walk through the case the committee has built so far, its implications for a potential criminal prosecution of former president Donald Trump and the impact it might have on an extremely polarized American public.
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| 0:00.0 | We've heard the story of January 6th from many different narrators. |
| 0:04.6 | They include Capitol Police officers on the front lines like Caroline Edwards. |
| 0:08.7 | What I saw was just a war scene. |
| 0:12.4 | It was something like I'd seen out of the movies. |
| 0:16.6 | I couldn't believe my eyes. |
| 0:18.8 | There were officers on the ground. |
| 0:24.2 | You know, they were bleeding. |
| 0:26.8 | They were throwing up. |
| 0:28.5 | The narrators have included aides who witnessed the pressure campaign on former president Mike |
| 0:32.8 | Pence, like his chief counsel Greg Jacob. |
| 0:34.9 | Mr. Jacob did Donald Trump ever call the vice president to check on his safety? |
| 0:39.9 | He did not. |
| 0:41.4 | And Justice Department officials like Richard Donahue, who then President Trump urged to investigate |
| 0:46.3 | one voting fraud conspiracy theory after another. |
| 0:49.5 | It was clear to us that there were a lot of people who were springing in his ear feeding |
| 0:52.9 | him these conspiracy theories and allegations. |
| 0:55.7 | And I felt that being very blunt in that conversation might help make it clear to the president |
| 1:02.6 | that these allegations were simply not true. |
| 1:05.1 | This week we finally got a view from inside the president's inner circle on the day of |
| 1:09.4 | the insurrection. |
| 1:10.4 | I over heard the president say something to the effect of, you know, I don't think that |
| 1:14.8 | they have weapons. |
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