Live Special Coverage and Analysis of the Jan. 6 Committee Hearing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2022

On today's show, we offer NPR's live coverage of today's hearing by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, plus:

Quinta Jurecic, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare, previews today's hearing with Brian and then joins him for analysis after its conclusion.
Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, creative writing and law fellow at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), joins Brian with analysis of today's hearing, plus today's Supreme Court opinions.

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