Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari Melbra, and this is a podcast extra, as you can tell for my introduction.

I announced on the beat this week, but you may not have caught it, that I am writing a forward to the final January 6th committee report.

This is the HarperCollins edition. You can get it right now at melbournebook.com. That's melbournebook.com.

Or you could go on Amazon, type in January 6, Melbert, and find it.

It'll have my original piece on the coup conspiracy and the full final January 6 report when it comes out.

When I did say this on the beat, we announced it just this past week.

That book shot to number one on Amazon among all books.

So thank you guys who already went out and checked it out.

Please go on right now to Amazon or melburghbook.com. If you're interested, love for you to check it out there. But either way, I have something special for you now in the pod, which is a look at how reports can matter. You might say in this world of internet, TikTok, and everything else, who's going to read a 400-page report? Well, what you're about to hear is our breakdown of times when reports have mattered, including the 9-11 commission report, and sometimes when they don't, because millions of people have been watching these January 6th hearings, and the report that's coming could matter a lot. And as mentioned, I'm writing the forward to one of them, so that's a little part of this as well. So please enjoy this podcast extra as we dig into the reports, and I tell you about what I've been working on. As always, thanks for listening to The Beat with Ari Melbur podcast.

Congressional hearings can be quite dry.

Most don't even make the news, but the January 6 committee's eight hearings and their

new testimony presented to the nation has proved riveting. Now the committee is holding its

ninth hearing next week with new witnesses, new evidence, and more material from the secret

service that's emerged. We expect to be a part of this. The committee has really established itself as one of the most effective in modern congressional

history.

And there's actually a link here to America's pastime baseball and a probe into steroids.

The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. I think I was pretty clear that need to be an immediate and forceful response.

The use of performance-enhancing substance was pervasive for more than a decade,

and that everyone in baseball, the players union the owners and the commissioner

were responsible let me be clear I've never taken steroids or HGH

what are we doing here what's the link well some of those last clips grew out of

a house probe on cheating through steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

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