Rep. Raskin on what the Jan. 6 committee accomplished in the first public hearing - PBS NewsHour

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For more takeaways from Thursday night's hearing, we turn to a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, who also served as the lead impeachment manager in President Trump's second impeachment trial. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Judy Woodruff to discuss some of the revelations from the first public hearing on the Capitol insurrection. Aired on 06/10/2022.

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1. K&R!

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2. It always gets back to the same thing: truth vs. lies

TDFG is peddling and has peddled lies for a long time.

Joe Biden had that great closing line in his campaign speeches:

"We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction and yes, we choose truth over lies"

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Well said!

Quite a departure from George Washington - whose picture Liz Cheney showed last night. And President Carter who promised to never lie in anything he said - which caused the press to dissect every statement he made. *sigh*'

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4. When she mentioned the great presidents, she only chose Republican ones!

Lincoln ... Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan. She missed Republicans Teddy Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover ... after all TR was an environmentalist, Harding was mired in scandal, Coolidge did little, and Hoover ... well you know about him. She's doing a great job, but she still has that fire-breathing Republican hindsight. I think she mentioned Washington and Jefferson too, but they were way before the Republican Party was conspired into existence.

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5. Great catch!

Washington stuck in my mind because she showed his picture - and he was known for "I cannot tell a lie." But you're right, and she is still a "classic" Republican. She does have a point in that Ford and Reagan did join former President Carter in supporting President Clinton getting the Assault Weapons Ban passed in 1994, but "the party of Lincoln" was a distant memory by the 20th century Republicans, especially Reagan - who began his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site where those 3 civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.