January 6 committee mulling prime time, televised hearings as Sean Hannity and Mike Pence latest to

[applegrove]

January 6 committee mulling prime time, televised hearings as Sean Hannity and Mike Pence latest to be called

Aide says ‘select committee’s business meetings so far have been held in the evening, and that’s certainly an option ... for future hearings’

Gustaf Kilander, The Independant, Washington, DC

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/january-6-committee-capitol-riot-b1987205.html?utm_source=reddit.com

"SNIP.....

The House Select Committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol may hold primetime televised hearings to garner attention for what happened in Washington DC almost a year ago.

The panel views its eyewitnesses as antidotes to doubts and misinformation about that day’s events pushed by former President Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies.

“Members are still discussing potential formats and timing for the committee’s hearings,” a committee staffer told Axios. “The Select Committee views upcoming hearings as one of its most important opportunities to lay out facts and provide answers to the American people about the January 6th attack and its causes.”

The aide added that the committee wants to “tell a story” and reach “as many people as we can. The select committee’s business meetings so far have been held in the evening, and that’s certainly an option ... for future hearings”.

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[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. Yes!!! Prime time

Reach as many as you can, go for it!

[Poiuyt]

2. The Watergate hearings were televised on all three networks for a while

Then they rotated. There weren't a lot of viewing options back then, so a lot of people saw at least some of the hearings.

My guess is that Fox won't show any of the 1/6 hearings.

[OnDoutside]

3. What is this mull nonsense ? Do it

[former9thward]

8. The networks would have to agree.

The Committee can't order them to do it.

[sanatanadharma]

4. We may be seeing a superb One-Two-Three punch combination beginning round 2 in 2022

In addition to seeing a superb one-two punch presentation (today's AG speech about responsibility and cause and effect and legal ramifications for those who violate public space, and tomorrow's speech by the President), we may also be seeing televised 'ropa-dope' entertainment from the House Committee.

Biden can't prosecute but he can name names and remind America that Jan 6th was the direct result of Trump's rejection of the US tradition of 'peaceful transfer of power', something Garland mentioned in his speech.

For Garland it is not personal.
It is legalistic.
For Biden, it is not personal.
It is Presidential.

For the House of Representatives too, it is personal.
And they have a reasonably powerful bully pulpit in televised hearings.
McCarthy cowed others in hearings.
McCarthy may cower in other hearings.
The months beginning the 2022 campaigns might be enlightening, even world-shaking.

[EarlG]

5. I can't believe how badly Kevin McCarthy screwed this up

by not agreeing to a bipartisan investigation on the first go-around. He would have had the power to put his own members on the committee, who could have been throwing wrenches in the works all day long, and then pulling off their typical gish gallop BS during televised hearings, prompting semi-interested viewers — egged on by pundits — to roll their eyes at all the “bickering” and lack of “problem solving.”

Instead he turned down this opportunity — did he expect Pelosi to back down in the face of complaints about a partisan Select Committee? — and then feebly tried to get Jim Jordan on the committee after it was way too late.

So now we’re going to get the facts laid out during thoughtful, calm, respectful, bipartisan hearings without any bonkers filibustering from the typical Republican trolls.

It blows my mind that McCarthy did this to himself, lol.

[applegrove]

7. So true Earl. They could have ****ed it up.

[Hekate]

6. I should hope so.