JUST IN: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will hold a hearing on Thursday, July 14, in prime time, according to a source familiar with the committee’s work.
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) July 7, 2022
The J6 committee has an on demand YouTube channel so you can watch it later. https://t.co/rmQo5cusLL
— Patrick Podenski (@podenski) July 7, 2022
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SiubhanDuinne
Any idea who the witness(es) will be?
Not that it matters. I expect to be watching regardless.
danielx
@SiubhanDuinne:
Cipollone is tomorrow, yes?
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s my first reaction too: Who cracked?
WaterGirl
@danielx: Tomorrow? I thought the next hearing was on Tuesday?
prostratedragon
Newest C&W hit: “[If You Think the FBI Might Call,] Always Wear Your Pants”
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-clark-underwear-boxers/
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
One of the hearings will focus on those “missing” 187 minutes on 1/6.
debbie
@danielx:
Next Friday?
Anne Laurie
@WaterGirl: IIRC, Cippollone testifies *in private* tomorrow (Friday), there’s a daytime public hearing scheduled for Tuesday, and now there’s another prime-time hearing this time next week (Thursday).
Jackie
@WaterGirl: It IS next Tue. Cipollone Is meeting with the J6 Committee behind closed doors tomorrow (Fri.)
I believe Tue is tying the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers directly to Trump. Oh, and maybe hearing from a former Trump communications aide?
danielx
@WaterGirl:
NPR and CBS say tomorrow in material published today.
NotMax
Prime time slot to make public the smoking
gunfilm?debbie
This Marine sent a letter to the judge defending his actions on 1/6. Excuse my disrespect, but what an asshole.
Thread:
https://twitter.com/macfarlanenews/status/1545103696341700610?s=21&t=1ZRY1_tHpFlGTn6w4PvQSg
NickM
@NotMax: That would be my guess.
danielx
Now about that “bad precedent” to indict an ex-president…the original “bad precedent” in this arena was Jerry Ford pardoning Nixon way back when. Since then there’s been an expectation that once you get past a certain level you are more or less immune to legal jeopardy, no matter how much one’s misdeeds deserve punishment. Henry Kissinger comes to mind, among others. If ever there was a villainous war criminal who deserved punishment…but he is 99 years old and has never done a day of time nor will he.
But if a seriously unpopular ex-president can escape all consequences for unprecedented criminal and/or moral crimes, we’re finished as a functioning democracy. If there are no consequences, what hinders another more competent would-be dictator?
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: wow, that’s great news about Cipp.
I have been away from BJ for the better part of a week because it was just dragging me down. So I have been out of the loop on news!
Edmund Dantes
https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1545237847321759745?s=21&t=a9KyljggHz6lurXrNgaojQ
Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe was shot in Nara Japan.
bbleh
@danielx: @Anne Laurie: @Jackie: Cipp is Friday 8th, in private but taped and transcribed, BUT not under oath, as I understand it.
So, tapes can be used in hearings, but formal evidentiary value will be less.
Scout211
@WaterGirl:
The reports are calling it a transcribed interview that sources say will be videotaped but maybe not under oath. From the Maddox blog:
Why it matters how Pat Cipollone testifies
ETA: bbleh got there first
Ken
I have no problem with people being outside the law; “outlawry” has a long tradition. But it has to work both ways — they also have to be outside all the protections of the law. A complete loss of all property rights would be a nice place to start.
Major Major Major Major
@Edmund Dantes: Just came here to mention that, crazy.
Leslie
@Ken: I’m reminded of someone’s definition of conservatism (no doubt multiple people here will know whose it is, but I don’t remember): that there must be an out-group whom the law constrains but does not protect, and an in-group whom the law protects but does not constrain.
Doug R
@danielx: The implicit threat is that vengeful republicans would impeach the next Democratic president. The eleventy billion BENGHAAAAAAAAAZI hearings were just a taste.
CaseyL
@Doug R: They’ve already said if they take the House majority, the first order of business will be impeaching Biden. For what alleged misdeed? Fuck it, they’ll make one up.
Felanius Kootea
What’s this I’m hearing about Shinzo Abe getting shot while campaigning for other politicians in Japan?
Elizabelle
@Leslie: Frank Wilhoit?
@Edmund Dantes: Your post was the first I heard of this sad news. You had it up here before any of the majors (except NHK).
Elizabelle
@Felanius Kootea: Very sketchy reports, but they sound devastating. Two shots fired, PM Abe collapsed; NHK says a Fire Department source says he shows no vital signs.
Man in custody, and they have the gun.
That is all I have seen, so far. WaPost had the story up earliest that I saw; NY Times was slower.
CaseyL
@Felanius Kootea: He was shot, collapsed, and was rushed to the hospital. More than that I don’t know – twitter is full of possibly erroneous information.
prostratedragon
Guardian also has a little info. Sounds very serious, dude came fairly close behind Abe.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports
Omnes Omnibus
@Ken:
As the Bard of Hibbing said, “To live outside the law, you must be honest.” Creates problems for this lot.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
No need to asked to be excused. Fuck him for what he did and the disgrace he brought to the Marines.
Captain C
@prostratedragon:
‘Coz when you’re doin’ yer perp-walk, you don’t wanna do no hootchie dance’
Barry
@debbie:
“This Marine sent a letter to the judge defending his actions on 1/6. Excuse my disrespect, but what an asshole. ”
Why is this man not in Leavenworth?
Geminid
@Scout211: That Maddow Blog story also linked to another Blog report relating to the potential prosecution of Matt Gaetz. The item described a recent motion filed by Gaetz “wingman” Joel Greenberg, asking a federal judge to schedule his sentencing hearing. A couple experts weigh in on the import of Greenberg’s filing; cooperating witnesses often are not sentenced until they have testified in other trials. The conclusion basically was: we don’t really know.
Still, the Blog item gives a good short summary of the Greenberg case. Right now, former Seminole County Tax Collector Greenberg is incarcerated in the Orange County, Florida jail.