How Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney turned the Jan. 6 hearings into must-see TV 📝: EricCortellessa
How Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney Turned the Jan. 6 Hearings Into Must-See TVix weeks ago, as the Jan. 6 committee was preparing to hold its first public hearing on its investigation into the deadly Capitol attack, one question loomed large: Would anyone care? That question was soon answered with a resounding yes.increases the possibility
Together, they have turned what many had expected would be a historically valuable but politically inconsequential exercise into a riveting inflection point in American history. In the process, they have galvanized most of the country intothat the worst attack on the Capitol in over a century was not a spontaneous protest that spun out of control, but a premeditated attempted coup.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, left, Rep. Liz Cheney, center, and Rep Jamie Raskin exit following a hearing on July 12, 2022.Thompson dived into local politics after graduating from two historically Black universities in Mississippi: a bachelor’s in political science from Tougaloo College and a master’s in education from Jackson State University. He was a school teacher and an alderman in his hometown of Bolton before being elected mayor in 1973, a role he served for seven years.
Both Thompson and Cheney were in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands stormed the building to try to stop the congressional certification of the Electoral College. Many in the mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence” while searching for legislators throughout the halls of Congress, with the express intent of blocking Joe Biden’s election victory.
“I know Bennie. You’ll never be able to determine anything from his facial expressions,” Clyburn tells TIME. “He has the kind of temperament needed for this. Outraged, McCarthy quickly pulled all of his recommendations, forfeiting the minority leader’s opportunity to have any Trump supporters on the committee. In turn, Pelosi named the other Republican who supported the committee’s formation, Kinzinger, to join Cheney as the only two Republicans on the panel. That ended up being a fateful decision, Ornstein adds. There were now no Republicans in a position to sabotage the work of the committee.
The Democrats on the committee “don’t live in the world of conservative conversations and narrative,” Rep. Stephanie Murphy, Democrat of Florida, tells TIME, which was why the Republicans on the committee were so helpful. “Sometimes they played a role as translator while flagging for us what’s being said.”
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