Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

in the Wall Street Journal and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

The Bullworks Will Salitan is sitting in for Damon Linger this week and our special guest is

David from Staff writer at The Atlantic.

Welcome one and all.

It has been a really moving emotionally gut-wrenching week of hearings on Capitol Hill

from the January 6th committee.

I think that the hearing that featured Rusty Bowers, Brad

Raffensberger, Gabriel Sterling, and the election workers, Shemaus and Ruby

Freeman was probably the most emotionally gripping testimony that we have seen.

David from I want to start with you because there are a lot of people saying that these hearings,

they're hoping they'll influence the midterms

or they think that they are an extended, if you will,

referral to Merrick Garland at the

Justice Department to pursue criminal charges. You don't see it that way, do you?

No, I see these hearings as part of a process of public education, and part of a process, especially

of Republican public education.

When people say nothing matters that these hearings aren't accomplishing anything. They're missing how the public

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