Jan. 6 Panel Prepares For Its First Prime-Time Hearing

After several months of work, more than 1,000 interviews and plenty of high-profile legal fights, the Jan. 6 Committee will on Thursday begin a series of public hearings painting a picture of its discoveries for the public.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1418837
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FRIST!!!111!!!11!!!

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Are you ready? Lets get ready to rumble…

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I’m kinda psyched for this.

Just remembering that, as the article says, tonight is exposition, stage-setting; thus, there probably won’t be too much for those of us who’ve been following things more closely. I suspect, though, they’ll show some footage of the attacks that we won’t have seen before–and that should make a whole lot of folks sit up straight.

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I think it will be a slammer. Gotta hook the attention and then not let go.

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Not gonna lie, just glancing at the comments has me reaching for the Xanax.

This is gonna be a hard month. The worst part is that I have expectations that I know probably won’t be met, and I’m really worried about what that means going forward.

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Oh it’s nice in here! The buffet looks wonderful. Is there an open bar?

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Choose your drinking word wisely.

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I’m thankful after a year of investigation we will get additional facts and testimony. It’s hard to have any expectations. Let’s see how it goes.

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Frist #1? Here?
I don’t know that this is the right site to be going there.

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Republicans have pushed the bar a lot lower since the Watergate hearings and my expectations for decent news coverage of this is low but I remain hopeful the hearings will capture the attention of enough swing voters to make a difference in states where that difference must be made.

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Is “crazy muthafuckas” taken?

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Also: I think everyone knows Trump did this. He’s proud of it. His minions are proud of it. They’ve spent the last 500 days normalizing it.

The hard part is reminding non-news junkies that this is life or death for democracy.

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Raskin told the Washington Post earlier this week that the committee aims to help the public “connect the dots” on the events surrounding Jan. 6.

"No dot! No dot! You’re the dot!"

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Oh, I sure hope so!

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Can y’all please delete that shit? We don’t need to see photos of that thing.

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I’m thinking “tour” might be safe (as in reps giving tours of the Capitol beforehand). But I may need more than one drink to get through this.

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I’m just playing it super-safe and going with “big lie”.

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