When the Fog Clears
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, On the Media looks ahead to the January 6th committee hearings that will air live in primetime this month. Find out which questions reporters hope the hearings will answer — like what really happened inside the White House that day. Plus, how a lie about a suitcase full of fake ballots took on a life of its own.
1. Ilya Marritz [@ilyamarritz] and Andrea Bernstein [@AndreaBNYC], creators of the award-winning series Trump, Inc., break down why the upcoming January 6th committee hearings could be the most consequential yet. Listen.
2. Ilya Marritz [@ilyamarritz] and Andrea Bernstein [@AndreaBNYC] return in an excerpt from their new show Will Be Wild, examining the forces behind the January 6th insurrection with stories from those who tried to stop the attack, and those who took part. Plus, some pineapple. Listen.
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:06.0 | They are going to blow the roof off the house in terms of explaining to America what actually happened in the attack on our democracy. |
| 0:14.0 | There's certainly been lots of enthusiasm about the congressional hearings on the January 6th assault on the Capitol coming next week to prime time. |
| 0:23.0 | Certainly committee members have been doing their homework. |
| 0:26.0 | They've now interviewed more than a thousand witnesses. They've looked at a hundred thousand documents. They've got a lot of information. |
| 0:35.0 | In the hearings, lawmakers will propel our system held up against an insurrection. I mean, we dodged a bullet, right? |
| 0:42.0 | No, we didn't, dodged a bullet. That was a practice run. Now we know how to refine the message going forward. |
| 0:49.0 | Great insurrections without consequences are just practice runs. |
| 0:52.0 | It's all coming up after this. |
| 1:01.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:06.0 | The former president is fond of the phrase, people are saying. |
| 1:10.0 | I can attest that people are saying that this is the case that will finally penetrate Trump's legal teflon. |
| 1:17.0 | Not the potential case related to what transpired on that infamous January 6th, but on a telephone call to Georgia. |
| 1:25.0 | I just want to find 11,780 votes. |
| 1:31.0 | The man on the receiving end, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger testified Thursday before a Fulton County special grand jury charged with investigating whether Trump pressured officials to declare him the victor of the 2020 election. |
| 1:46.0 | People are saying this case is rock solid, but the big hurdle is proving criminal intent. |
| 1:53.0 | And more than one indictment has foundered on the rocky shores of what was going on inside that head. |
| 2:00.0 | Meanwhile, the House Select Committee investigating the bloody assault on the U.S. Capitol said the public will be able to watch its proceedings at 8 p.m. on June 9th, that's Thursday. |
| 2:13.0 | People are saying, Rep. Jamie Raskin included, it'll be quite a show. |
| 2:19.0 | They are going to blow the roof off the House in terms of explaining to America what actually happened in the attack on our democracy. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm joined now by my beloved former NYC colleagues Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Maritz. |
| 2:34.0 | Hosts of Will Be Wild, a new eight-part series about the forces that led to the January 6th insurrection and what comes next. |
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