Jan. 6 hearings 'are going to blow the roof off the House,' Raskin says

[Zorro]

On a Thursday Zoom call with progressive activists, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that the upcoming hearings by the Jan. 6 select committee probing the riot at the U.S. Capitol staged by supporters of former President Donald Trump will “blow the roof off the House.”

“We are going to do everything we can to subpoena all the information we need and to enforce our subpoenas. But even if we don’t get every last person in there, we are going to have hearings that I believe will be compared to the Watergate hearings, because they are going to blow the roof off the House in terms of explaining to America what actually happened in the attack on our democracy,” Raskin, who sits on the select committee, told an audience of approximately 40,000 people who watched his remarks on Facebook.

While former Trump administration figures and supporters have defied subpoenas for information and testimony, Raskin said the committee had spoken with more than 400 witnesses to date who have already laid the groundwork for explosive hearings.

“I hope everybody will watch and I hope everybody will discuss it and then it will lead to a report that, I hope again, will be a game changer in terms of American history,” Raskin said.

https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-hearings-are-going-to-blow-the-roof-off-the-house-rep-raskin-says-221500327.html

[mopinko]

1. the plain truth could no nothing but.

[2naSalit]

2. ...

Fuck yeah! I expect nothing less!

I feel like we've been waiting for this for hundreds of years.

[OMGWTF]

4. Me too.

[OMGWTF]

3. Have I told you lately how much I heart Jamie Raskin?

[ShazzieB]

16. I understand perfectly!

I'm crazy about him myself. He is amazing, just a topnotch, all around high quality human. I'm so grateful we have him at this perilous time in our nation's history. (Him and all the inherent committee members, but especially Jamie Raskin and Adam Schiff.)

[smirkymonkey]

33. +1000

[BonnieJW]

42. Also, Liz Cheney

I know I'm risking being blown up by fellow DUers, but I ask myself if I would be as brave. She voted with tfg almost 100% of the time, so I care nothing for her political stances. But she might lose everything to stand up for democracy.

[dmr]

67. I agree. She's true to her Oath of Office.

I respect that.

[RicROC]

69. Liz might be standing up as a candidate for being the first woman President.

[KS Toronado]

71. I question that......

not in 2024, reQublicOn leadership and voters are pretty pissed at her right now.

[Cha]

50. As do I! 💕

💙

[DENVERPOPS]

5. We will have to wait and see

if the hearings are covered by major networks in their entirety as it happens.......

If there was ever an event that should be broadcast in it's entirety, as it happens, this would be it.

The media covered OJ, non stop. And on a scale of 1 to a million, the OJ was a one, and this is a million....

We watched them do TWO impeachment hearings, the second pretty much a slam dunk on Trump.....and then a not guilty decision in the Senate.........I do hope this has a different out come, given the massive and overwhelming evidence, but I don't think it will be any different. The majority of their voters watch Fox News exclusively and listen to RW radio exclusively and they will not be showing a lot of the hearings, or a fair unbalanced job of reporting what actually happened.....

[lame54]

11. I'll be watching Fox. Want to know what's going on...

With those pandas

[MyOwnPeace]

28. I see what you did there!

Interestingly enough, I was about to post my own 'interest' in what Faux Spews would be 'covering' while the hearings were taking place, especially if networks were doing live coverage.
But, yeah, I DO wonder about the pandas, as well as their report on "Border Walls Being Built By Immigrant Labor!"

[DENVERPOPS]

37. The other night

when Biden gave his speech, after he finished, I immediately went to Fox News.......

LOL...............Nothing about his speech. They treated it like it didn't happen. Instead they had continuous five minute trashing on anything and everything Biden was doing to destroy this country.......

It never changes. Murdoch and many others (if religious) will rot in hell..........

[Victor_c3]

34. In high school, they carted a tv into my classroom so we could see the OJ verdict live

At the time I thought it was ridiculous that school be interrupted for that crap.

[colorado_ufo]

51. Some of those students might one day go into a legal career,

and there was a lot to learn about the legal system - and the real world - by watching that trial.

[NJCher]

63. That's not true

The majority of their voters watch Fox News exclusively…



Your last sentence. Recent study shows the Fox News watchers also watch cnn and msnbc. I can’t recall the figure exactly but it is somewhere around 32-37% of the time.

The problem is that when they watch, they are watching with a preconceived bias. They are watching for evidence that backs up their “theories.”

If it wasn’t 4:30 a.m. and I wasn’t on my iPad in bed, I’d try to find that study.

[FakeNoose]

6. Bring it on, I'm ready!

Anyone who's old enough to remember the Watergate hearings will agree, it's not all fun and games. There are lots of slow days and not every witness gives "bombshell" testimony. This will test your ability to pay attention and keep a scorecard. But it WILL all be worth it when it's finally over.

[Joinfortmill]

18. I found the Watergate hearings riveting

Especially Senator Howard Baker of the " What did the President know and when did he know it" fame.

[FakeNoose]

23. Yes Howard Baker was memorable, also Lowell Weiker

A lot was very interesting, but there were slow days too.

[rambler_american]

54. I liked watching and listening to

Sam Ervin from North Carolina.

At the time I was teaching a class of physically handicapped high school aged kids. They were transfixed by the hearings. One kid, who had severe cerebral palsy, painstakingly typed a paper on the subject one painful letter at a time. It was inspiring and humbling to watch.

[ShazzieB]

31. I didn't actually see any of the Watergate hearings!

I know, shame on me! My excuse is that I hardly watched TV at all during that time. I was a full time college student with a part time job, and I didn't even own a TV. And, well, other than being opposed to the Vietnam War, I just wasn't very interested in politics back then.

Of course, I was very much aware of the excitement surrounding the whole thing, but I wasn't following the details at all. I eventually realized that I was missing something very important, but it was a lot harder to go back and fill in the gaps in one's knowledge back then, so I never really did that until years later (when there was an internet, and books that had been written about it).

This time, I'll be ready and waiting, OF COURSE!

[soldierant]

60. I didn't either ...

At the time I was active duty military so I really couldn't - I had a job to do. Plus IIRC that happened while I was at a duty sation where a rape, and later a manslaughter (unrelated, occurred in the office I worked in - both after nornla business hours - but- at least for the rape - I was the duty officer and had to notify my boss - all I could think of to sat was "Your marine raped my marine in our office."

You could say I was distracted. I was't ignoring Watergate, of course, but I wasn't watching hearings either.

[MyOwnPeace]

30. "Slow or Fast" - no matter what.......

they brought it out into the public and blew away those protecting/defending Nixon - and it was done by PROFESSIONAL Congressional members who served their constituents and country, not Grifters who served their donors..

[DENVERPOPS]

39. Oh wow

we used to have one of those" popcorn pumpers". It finally broke and I looked everywhere and couldn't find one.......

[SouthernDem4ever]

66. popcorn would come out too dry for me

i like it oily.

[Moebym]

7. If we can convince the American people

That the GOP causes chaos, disorder, and death when it's in power, perhaps we can save our majorities in Congress.

This hearing will go a long way towards showing that chaos like what we observed during the 1/6 insurrection is what we will be seeing pretty much daily if we give the right-wing even more power in the coming midterms and in 2024 if the GOP candidate receives fewer EVs.

[Kaleva]

12. +1

[flying_wahini]

8. Did I just miss the date announcement? When are they going to happen?

[ShazzieB]

20. Unless I missed something, the date hasn't been announced yet.

All I've heard is "early" in 2022. I have a feeling it won't be much longer, though, based on things like what was said in this phone call. I don't think Jamie Raskin would be dropping such tantalizing hints if it wasn't going to be SOON.

[Silver Gaia]

25. Yeah, i think theyre druming up excitement,

sorta like ads for an upcoming new TV show.

[Silver Gaia]

22. I don't think they've announced the date yet.

I've googled and the best i could find was "early 2022." So for now, just stay tuned!

[Deminpenn]

61. The 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl will dominate TV viewing

the first several weeks in Feb. The hearings probably wouldn't happen until after that or maybe not until March as Feb is a ratings "sweeps month" iirc. Of course then you run into "March Madness".

[murielm99]

65. PBS will carry the hearings.

During Watergate, I went to work in the daytime, and watched the hearings replayed on PBS until I could not stay awake any more. I got little sleep during that time. Many of my co-workers did the same. We wheeled a TV in to watch the Nixon resignation live.

I lived in a red area. Many of the republicans were more sickened by the behavior of Nixon and his henchmen than I was. We got Jimmy Carter as President. He is one of the best men who have ever lived.

[Deminpenn]

72. Was in college

It seemed like everyone on campus was watching when the hearings came on in the afternoon. I had a little black and white portable TV on which my roommate and I watched.

[Mr. Ected]

9. If this goes down anything like the two impeachments and the Mueller investigation

We'll be hearing one set of reporting and they'll be hearing another.

Two Americas. Left and right speaker.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. No, not this time. This time America will be enraptured by the display of evidence that

proves that Insurrection Day was an attempted coup…not going to be a legal borefest that Republicans turned then impeachments into by refusing to have witness..remembers.

This time around not going to be boring at all…attack on democracy! Get your popcorn America.

Speaking of impeachments can we have another vote after the hearings to rescind the and ridiculous acquittals and now convict, like a do over?

[MyOwnPeace]

32. I SO hope you are right......

and I don't care about a "re-run impeachment" - some of those who voted the last 2 times should be out of office, if not serving time!

[uponit7771]

53. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[Emile]

10. Blow the roof off the house, could that mean congress?

Buying up on popcorn kernels!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. In The Snip, House...

...capitalized. I think it's fair to assume THE HOUSE, as in "of representatives".
If that word wasn't capitalized I would have ignored it as a common aphorism.
I'm hoping I'm right.

[Emile]

14. I think you're right!

[Joinfortmill]

15. Yes!!! Doing my happy 💃

[highplainsdem]

17. Good!

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Is there a schedule yet?

[NullTuples]

21. Something to keep in mind: Are these criminal proceedings, or only hearings?

Ultimately, will they matter in a very real, practical sense?

Or will exposing all the evil, followed by a distinct lack of harsh prosecution of everyone involved instead fortify and encourage that 40% of America that supports what was done?

[Emile]

24. Wondering if Jim Jordan is involved?

[lastlib]

58. Only as a fugitive from justice.......

(I don't think he'll have the spine to show up. My money is on him fleeing to Paraguay and fighting extradition.)

[Thunderbeast]

27. Nixon was a crook...Trump a cult leader

The messaging won't matter. If the red hats have not seen through this con after six years, a house committee seen as partisan by the deluded cult followers are not likely to change their minds. They are committed. Bringing them new facts will not create a "EUREKA!..I HAVE BEEN AN IDIOT" moment.

They are too invested in the cult. They only talk to fellow travelers. Many of them are evangelicals who, more than anything, want a king (aka Jesus). Trump will do in a pinch. Critical thinking is just WAY too hard. So much easier to "follow your gut" to a construct where you have no responsibility to give back to the community, where TAKING as much as you can is ideology, and only people that look and speak like you have value.

Sad, but true.

[Elessar Zappa]

29. It's not about convincing Trumpers.

The goal is to get the mushy middle aware of the ongoing treason by the Republicans. Then, hopefully, they’ll vote for Democrats in November.

[Tommymac]

35. This.

It's all we have left after the 2 Demasshats and 50 rethugdestructors have blocked both BBB and Voting Rights.

The ONLY recourse we have is to SHAME them and LAUGH at them on National TV for days and weeks and months.

Prove them guilty and complicit, then let Saturday Night Live, The Late Night Talk Shows, Comedy Central make ratings history LAUGHING and poking fun at their stupidity.

[electric_blue68]

45. Yeah, the comedic angle will also get to some people

[MyOwnPeace]

38. You'll NEVER get the Red Hats on our side.....

BUT.....

7 million more wanted Joe over TFG. RepubliQan registration is under 40%.

What we must do is present another case as to why TFG & Co. is such bad news for our country (MORE positive up-dates regarding the progress that Joe has made would go a L O N G way towards helping that!) - AND, again, make sure we GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!

And 'getting out the vote' may be even harder this time - crooked RepubliQan laws and states working to restrict voting rights - NOT a good thing.

So. we RISE UP - and fight even harder!!!!

[electric_blue68]

44. Absolutely THIS!

[Deminpenn]

62. That's what the Watergate hearings did

Nixon still had a 24-25% approval rating even after he resigned, but the rest of America became aware of what actually happened.

[Poiuyt]

36. I can't wait!

I still don't believe any of the major players will be punished in any way, but this is still important to historians.

[Lunabell]

40. Get 'er done!

This country needs the truth!

[liberalla]

41. OMG, I haven't been this excited and looking forward to something this much,

since I don't know when! And it sounds like it's really going to happen!
I hope PBS replays the hearings at night... Or that the hearings are in the evening for prime time tv.


Cue Carly Simon... Anticipation ~

[milestogo]

43. These are violent people, don't give them any ideas.

[Raven123]

46. Setting expectations makes me cringe. I would prefer they just have them No advertising

[empedocles]

73. On the other side is the Dems, 'who want all the trump stuff in jail now!!!'

[This might get some off of Biden's back for a bit].

[Bayard]

47. Can't wait!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. If you were organizing the hearings how would you do it?

There's got to be a logic to it IMHO. Like make it very clear what the objective is for that day? Example:. The Rally.... And every witness relates to how that was organized? Who was in charge? What input did trump give. What did the insurrectionists do to prepare. Etc.etc. or maybe start with The Election and failed fraud cases?

Logical sequencing?

[Cha]

49. Kick for Jamie Raskin &

the Dems!

[uponit7771]

52. I'd rather see these fuckers in jail, I can't afford to do another roof right now

[Yandex]

55. Fitzmas again? n/t

[RandiFan1290]

56. Welcome Back to DU

[RandiFan1290]

76. buh bye

[orangecrush]

57. KICK...

[Blue Owl]

59. Hope is alive...

Barely, but still alive...

[Cetacea]

64. Hoping it's broadcast on the major networks ala Watergate

It's so much more important than Watergate was.

[NewJeffCT]

68. the Democrats need to get the media to pay attention

if the media actually broadcasts it fairly & doesn't have Trump supporting talking heads on 24/7 to whine, cry and shriek their lies & misinformation, it might actually succeed.

I'm just afraid that the media will be covering the next purchase made by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's choice of exercise equipment or the Trump border crisis before they'll cover these hearings.

[empedocles]

74. Very much so. "Public Sentiment' important.

[NewJeffCT]

75. Look at what happened over the weekend

Several state GOP organizations made slates of false electors as part of the plot to declare Trump the winner in 2020. Should have been a big story, but we get "Biden takes the train too much" this past weekend. And, at his big rally, Trump lies and says that white people can't get vaxxed in New York - the blatant racism was a non story.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[uponit7771]

77. +1, this isn't 1972 any longer. The roof stays on with the few true independent voters

[calimary]

70. It'll be "Must-See TV" for sure!

Can’t wait!