Season 1, Episode 12 Friday, June 10, 2022
*Scroll all the way down to see a full video of the June 9, 2022, public hearing.
This week we are doing something a little different for our free and paid subscribers.
Instead of publishing a separate issue about the hearings and then a podcast, we are combining the two with this introduction to the hearings and the audio file of the podcast.
Over the next couple of weeks, for both our free issues and our exclusive paid issues, we will be exploring the ramifications of the hearings, from a historical perspective (Pam) and from a journalism perspective (Keith).
Stay tuned!
My Key Takeaways from the 1st Hearing:
Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) reminded the audience that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats originally requested an independent commission, similar to the 9/11 Commission, to investigate the January 6 attack. The Republicans, of course, refused. Then when Speaker Pelosi formed a House Committee, she asked for Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s recommendations for members for the new committee, and he wanted people like Rep. Jim Jordon, etc.; people who were not only election deniers, but only people who would turn the hearings into a circus of lies and conspiracy theories. When Pelosi rejected those recommendations, McCarthy pulled all of his preferred Republicans from consideration. Then Pelosi chose Republicans Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to be on the Committee, assuring that it would be bipartisan. The Republicans continue to attempt to frame the committee and the hearings as illegitimate and a “radical leftist” attack on Donald Trump.
The live witnesses, Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, and professional documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, provided first-hand verbal and video corroboration of the evidence the Committee has presented so far. Mr. Quested stated that he was at the hearing in response to being presented with a subpoena.
Except for several biting monologues by Representative Cheney, squared aimed at her Republican colleagues, the Committee members mostly let the evidence and the live testimonies make their points.
The next televised hearing will be on Monday, June 13, 2022, at 10 am Eastern Time.
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*You can view the entire June 9 televised hearings at this link:
The 1st Prime Time TV Public Hearing for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol