Jan. 6 committee prepares to go public as findings mount

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/capital-siege-steve-bannon-elections-donald-trump-congress-bab0144274d996171b7160e051b29a75

Jan. 6 committee prepares to go public as findings mount
By MARY CLARE JALONICK

WASHINGTON (AP) — They’ve interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump.

Now, after six months of intense work, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is preparing to go public.

In the coming months, members of the panel will start to reveal their findings against the backdrop of the former president and his allies’ persistent efforts to whitewash the riots and reject suggestions that he helped instigate them. The committee also faces the burden of trying to persuade the American public that their conclusions are fact-based and credible.

But the nine lawmakers — seven Democrats and two Republicans — are united in their commitment to tell the full story of Jan. 6, and they are planning televised hearings and reports that will bring their findings out into the open.

[Ocelot II]

1. I will be glued to my tv during those televised hearings

even more than during the Watergate hearings. This is a bigger deal than Watergate.

[PCIntern]

4. Much bigger...I watched Watergate and not once

during those hundreds of hours occur to me that Democracy’s existence here was on the edge of destruction. Not once. And believe me, we were a cynical bunch.

[spanone]

14. Precisely. Watergate was a petty crime compared to what went on Jan. 6th.

[erronis]

30. And this was just the culmination of four years of corruption and illegality.

I hope that all of those evil deeds get dealt with also, eventually.

[Hekate]

24. This is way grimmer

[abqtommy]

2. It's my opinion that "the American Public" will for the most part accept what the

January 6 Committee presents. There will be a small minority who feels there is no fault in
TFG or his Fascist followers and supporters but the rest of us will be encouraged to get
out and vote as if our lives depend on it. And they do.

[Chainfire]

5. Nothing would change the hard-core right's opinion of Trump.

If they can not ignore the facts of the case, they will invent excuses for the behavior. If Trump fully admitted to being a sleeper agent for the Russian government, his followers will still be waving the flag and cheering him on. They have too much emotional energy invested in the creep to go back.

[AlexSFCA]

16. they know the facts and they liked what they saw

they don’t want democracy, they want trump

[Chainfire]

23. And they believe that they are American Patriots, Minutemen standing by to rescue the nation

from the grips of us freedom hating liberals. I know them too well for comfort.

[wryter2000]

27. Very true

How many of them are there, though? I think the number of people who don't follow politics is much greater, and this will get their attention. And their votes, I hope.

[uponit7771]

36. +1, ".. too much emotional energy invested..."

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Looking forward to watching these.

[Leghorn21]

6. My favorite part of this new year, dalton!!

PUBLIC HEARINGS

[MineralMan]

7. I'm eagerly awaiting the committee's announcements and hearings.

Yes, I am. Perhaps we will begin to learn what the current administration, the DOJ, and the committee are planning to do. I sincerely hope the naysayers and doomspeakers will be watching and listening, too.

[Bayard]

8. This will be very welcome, and good for the country

But que the TFG lawsuits to delay.

[Progressive Jones]

12. Why is it "coming months" and not coming weeks? What takes so long?

Hundreds of witnesses and thousands of documents. What else is needed?

[Beastly Boy]

13. They probably expect tons of new evidence in the coming weeks

[Septua]

19. It will help if SCOTUS makes some decision...

..on the executive privilege argument soon, like this month, rather than later. That timeliness in itself, is going to reveal some insights into the direction our Democracy is headed.

[twodogsbarking]

10. Hurry up.

[pandr32]

11. Good. Midterms are coming.

[Jon King]

15. Will not matter one bit for midterms.

Sorry, it is what it is. Crime, borders, Covid, inflation is all that will matter to swing voters. The Repug messaging that worked so well in VA will work well in most swing areas.

No one but us cares about 1-6 even a little bit. Every major paper has stories about how crime is out of control, the borders are open, inflation is raging, Covid tests were messed up by Biden admin, and repeating Repug lies that woke lefties are teaching kids they are born without genders and being white is bad. It worked in VA suburbs and will work elsewhere too.

We are in big trouble if we think 1-6 will matter to swing voters.

[pandr32]

31. i wouldn't discount the public reports and coverage

Of course, Fox and other propaganda stations will likely not cover it at all. Their usual has little to do with actual news and is more about maintaining the steady drumbeats of hailing their viewers to the right-wing ideology. They are suffering from Covid, though, whether they believe it is a real virus or not.

Set them aside.

Swing voters have been discussed ad nauseam. Most I have met really don't follow politics or issues unless they are directly affected. People are increasingly directly affected. Covid, vaccines, disastrous weather events, and the contrasting child tax credits and better economy are real-life influencers. Whichever way their vote falls will pretty much equal out.

Democrats. That's where it's at. We will watch the coverage and it will motivate us. We know our democracy depends on us. We know the world/environment can't wait. We will rally and vote.

If we turn out to vote--we will win.

[uponit7771]

37. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one Looking Up !! Dem message mechanics

... are too poor to make 1/6 event an ... event.

Trump and his horde could be eating the ears off puppies during the supper bowl commercials and the M$M would wear the Up/Down buttons and it would be Biden's fault the puppies exist.

Dems need to drive the message by flooding message mediums and working the M$M ... it doesn't take but a month.

It wont be done, some are still operating in the days where information sources weren't fractured.

[Karadeniz]

17. I can't wait!!!!

[jalan48]

18. They will have until the election and if the Republicans take control of the House the

Committee will be shut down or neutered.

[Progressive Jones]

34. That's my concern. This committee must act quickly. The culprits need to be exposed.

Even if DOJ hasn't gone to work on them before November, the names and faces need to be out there.
We can't have traitors being re-elected. The GOP has to be exposed.

[Mr. Ected]

22. If Watergate outted the Republican Party as criminal

The upcoming hearings will out the Republican Party as seditionists.

They should not be allowed to represent American citizens as currently constituted. The seditionists must be removed from their seats and never allowed to return to power.

I encourage a healthy Democratic vs. Republican conversation. It's been a long time since we really had one.

[Progressive Jones]

35. The difference is that the GOP was all in on getting rid of Nixon. nt

[uponit7771]

38. Without good message mechanics no reveals will matter IMHO

[uponit7771]

44. Ds aren't doing the minimum of flooding message mediums and that's a known known ...

... in post mortems.

Dems did NOT go to Communities of Color radio and places they were going on the internet and Miami Dade and Southwest Texas in the 2020 election.

The vague messaging for down ballot candidates is what a MAJORITY of voters expressed in 2020 election.

The infrastructure bill is a generational but they had a lighting on the side of a building to push it's benefits, that's bad messaging.

That's not the M$M, the M$M is on the side of ratings and that's a known known also but we don't we can work the M$M by holding them accountable for reporting too.

We don't.

Dem messaging needs to get out of the 1990s and we need to control what we can control

[wryter2000]

25. So looking forward to this

I wish they'd put out a schedule or at least a notice of the first hearing.

I watched all the Watergate hearings. Fascinating. This should be epic.

[Hekate]

26. This will make my new year that much better. nt

[kentuck]

28. They will begin the process as soon as the Supreme Court makes a decision about executive privilege.

In my opinion.

Also, the DOJ will begin handing out subpoenas like M&M's...

[LaMouffette]

29. When the Watergate hearings were on TV, there were only four channels: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS.

You either watched the Watergate hearings or you did not watch anything on TV at all. The fact that all the channels were showing nothing but the Watergate hearings underscored the fact that the investigation into Nixon's involvement in the Watergate break-in was a very grave, important, historic, and unprecedented event.

Now there are hundreds of channels. All Americans should watch every minute of the January 6 hearings, but how many of them actually will? How many of them will even sense the magnitude of the hearings when they can change channels and watch Dr. Pimple Popper or 1,000 Pound Sisters?

I wish that for something as vitally important as saving our democracy, all channels, including cable channels, would be required to broadcast the January 6 hearings. But that's not going to happen.

At the very least, if they hold the hearings during the day, they should rebroadcast them on the non-cable channels during the evening for people who work during the day.

[uponit7771]

39. +1, I worked for a major search engine and this is so key; we have fractured message mediums ...

... now and they all need to be flooded effectively for the truth to get out.

Without doing so there's no "message" that gets to voting blocks it needs to get to

[LaMouffette]

41. Yup! And those on the right who only watch Fox News will be "protected" from the hearings altogether

since Fox will either not show the hearings at all or will only show selected parts that seem to excuse Trump's Jan. 6 behavior.

And I'm sure a very good drinking game could be made out of the number of times a Fox talking head says "Witch hunt!" on any given day of the hearings.

[ShazzieB]

33. I am SO ready for this

I can't wait for these hearings to start. Please pass the popcorn!

[msfiddlestix]

40. Seems like they have done much more work than the FBI/DOJ

Heavy lifting. it would appear. Kudos to them.

Thanks to some mighty courageous and diligent congress critters.

and Leader Pelosi for her leadership and skills in making sure this got done, properly and thoroughly as possible given their limitations.

[Septua]

45. Question is...

..will enough people watch it? I think we're going to need 75-80% of the pubic well 'woke' to what's been going on and prepared to 'cancel' a bunch of lawmakers, come 2022, to save the country. Republicans must vote for true Republicans or Democrats or just not vote...