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The House select committee on the Capitol insurrection is prepared for a two hour prime time telecast on the details of the January insurrection attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"We'll bring the American people back to the reality of that violence and remind them of just how horrific it was," one aide said. ...
Analysis: When hearings had the power to change history
On Thursday and in weeks of subsequent hearings the panel is under fierce pressure to establish the depth of Trump's apparent conspiracy. Its work so far suggests it plans to prove that the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was not simply a rally that got out of hand but was the culmination of weeks of chicanery to subvert a free election by a President who called a crowd to Washington and incited an uprising against the American experiment itself.
The committee is racing against the clock, since Republicans who are whitewashing Trump's role as they seek to win back the House in midterm elections are sure to end its investigation.
In the U.S. neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a monopoly on truth, goodness, and the American way. A half year before the mid-term elections the Democrats are scrambling to reprise the material they made public during Trump's second impeachment.
The Republicans may have an obvious interest in minimizing public attention on the January 6 mob at the Capitol. But if they succeeded, if their Republican party preference had been allowed to subvert the vote, what then would Republicans use in defense when the Democrats used the same methods against them?
"We'll bring the American people back to the reality of that violence and remind them of just how horrific it was," one aide said. ...
Analysis: When hearings had the power to change history
On Thursday and in weeks of subsequent hearings the panel is under fierce pressure to establish the depth of Trump's apparent conspiracy. Its work so far suggests it plans to prove that the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was not simply a rally that got out of hand but was the culmination of weeks of chicanery to subvert a free election by a President who called a crowd to Washington and incited an uprising against the American experiment itself.
The committee is racing against the clock, since Republicans who are whitewashing Trump's role as they seek to win back the House in midterm elections are sure to end its investigation.
Jan. 6 panel holds prime-time televised hearing in a bid to imprint the implications of this national nightmare | CNN Politics
The House select committee on the Capitol insurrection has a duty far beyond investigating one of the most traumatic days in US history. Its wider mission is to expose and catalog an assault on democracy that is still going on.
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In the U.S. neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a monopoly on truth, goodness, and the American way. A half year before the mid-term elections the Democrats are scrambling to reprise the material they made public during Trump's second impeachment.
The Republicans may have an obvious interest in minimizing public attention on the January 6 mob at the Capitol. But if they succeeded, if their Republican party preference had been allowed to subvert the vote, what then would Republicans use in defense when the Democrats used the same methods against them?
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