While we wait for the hearing to start…

There are some good questions and two good articles linked below the live feeds.

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Select Committee Hearing

Washington Post

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10 am Eastern Time Monday, June 13 https://t.co/1qn85lGMSF

— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) June 12, 2022

While we wait…

Jennifer Rubin has 7 questions she wants the Jan. 6 committee to answer at its upcoming hearings.

To say that the Jan. 6 committee’s Thursday hearing was the most compelling in congressional history would be to damn with faint praise. Certainly, the admonition from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to her Republican colleagues that “there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain” will compare favorably to Joseph Welch’s famous remark levied against Joseph McCarthy (“Have you no sense of decency?”)

But above all, the hearings are about facts. And I can’t wait to hear more of those on at least seven topics during the committee’s second session on Monday.

Who were those members of Congress pleading for pardons from Donald Trump, and what conduct did they think would lead to prosecution?

When aides repeatedly told President Donald Trump that there was no basis for overturning the election and no legal way for his vice president to keep him in power, what did Trump say?

What was Vice President Mike Pence doing? C

How did Trump’s statements and tweets to his supporters promote violence?

Why did no one go public or alert the FBI?

If virtually everyone else in the White House knew there was no fraud or basis for overturning the election, how did John Eastman’s scheme for a “nonviolent coup” get to Trump and spark this whole series of events?

Perhaps the most intriguing question: If White House chief of staff Mark Meadows knew claims of fraud were bogus (“no there there,” as he put it), what was he doing as the plot built momentum?

And here are six questions the committee expects to answer about Jan. 6.

How much responsibility for the violence falls on Trump?

How did Trump and his allies use the levers of government to try to keep him in power?

How did so many people come to believe — and act on — Trump’s lies about the election?

What is the connection between officials’ actions and ordinary people’s violence on Jan. 6?

How was the Capitol so vulnerable to attack?

What should be done to prevent similar attacks on democracy?

Both articles flesh out their questions.  Full articles at the link.