AnalysisFromWashington: In a series of prime-time televised hearings beginning Thursday, the House Select Committee will make the results of its investigation public, writes thekeenanwire
stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an insurrectionist riot, smashing windows, injuring police, and driving lawmakers out of their chambers, to try to keep the defeated president in office. It was an extension of an open, months-long effort by that president to deny and overturn the election results.
Starting Thursday evening, the congressional panel that’s been investigating the insurrection hopes to shake Americans into a more vivid awareness of how dangerous that day was, and the threat they think it still poses to U.S. democracy. In a series of prime-time televised hearings beginning Thursday at 8 p.m., the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol will make the results of its yearlong investigation public.