Jan. 6 Cmte. airs testimony from fmr. AG Bill Barr: 'I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit.'
committee Chair Bennie Thompson will tell the country: “We can’t sweep what happened under the rug.
“The American people deserve answers,” Thompson will say, according to excepts of his statement released ahead of the hearing“So I come before you this evening not as a Democrat, but as an American who swore an oath to defend the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t protect just Democrats or just Republicans. It protects all of us: ‘We the People.’ And this scheme was an attempt to undermine the will of the people.
The question he asks is whether we still live in a country where people can put aside party in service of country, as Republicans did during Watergate.Meredith Bennett-Smithwho has spoken openly and often about his harrowing experiences during the Capitol riot, pushed back on those who might try to downplay the Jan. 6 violence.
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