On the morning of January 6th, President Donald Trump's intention was to remain President of the United States, despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election, and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power.

Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part

plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power.

In our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckrake podcast.

I'm Jared Y. Sexton.

I am here, as always, with Nick Housman.

We have so much to cover today, but we have to begin, of course, with the now very popular television show, the January 6th committee hearings.

We wondered last week in our Patreon exclusive of the first hearing, and that's over at

patreon.com slash McCrigg podcast.

We wondered, will people watch?

Will people talk about it?

Will this hold the national attention?

Nick, we've got some answers on that. while we have a lot more questions that are growing

20 million people watched the prime time January 6th committee hearing Nick check my figures on that. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of people. I have a little context for you,

if you like. It's about the same amount of people that watch Kavanaugh's Gatos hearing.

Wow. So you would have thought it'd be more, but that tells you, here's the thing. A whole half of

the country wasn't never going to watch it anyway, right? So it's a pretty concentrated 20 million might even be more impressive because of that. Yeah, it's a it's a

really huge thing and what we've already seen and we're recording this as the second

hearing is going. This is already turning into a ready made, ready to package and consume political spectacle,

which is what we talked about last week that not only was it intended to be, but that it needed to be in order to move the needle a little bit.

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