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Democrats prep a somber yet TV-ready first hearing in Jan. 6 probe (Ashli Babbitt not mentioned)
Politico via MSN ^ | 7/27/21 | Nicholas Wu, Heather Caygle, Olivia Beavers

Posted on 07/27/2021 2:11:28 AM PDT by Libloather

Democrats want Americans glued to their TVs Tuesday for the first hearing of the Jan. 6 select committee. They also don't want a circus.

More than six months since the deadly siege of the Capitol, the select panel's first meeting is designed as a somber yet camera-ready event to elicit fading memories of that day's horrifying events — not to mention counter a GOP wave of revisionist history that threatens to muddy the waters.

The select committee’s members, assembled for their first public appearance since Speaker Nancy Pelosi added Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) to the dais, are set to question officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police who personally fended off violent rioters on the hunt for members of Congress.

The four officers will be dressed in their uniforms to testify, despite appearing in a personal capacity. Questions to them will be limited and interwoven with video footage. And members are restricted to one round of back-and-forth, ensuring the hearing lasts only a few hours rather than becoming an all-day affair like other high-profile moments in Washington.

The hearing comes at a pivotal moment for Democrats and the two House Republicans who put their political futures on the line to join in the investigation. Democrats want to avoid the spectacle that engulfed the Benghazi select committee during former President Barack Obama's second term, despite the GOP's best efforts to frustrate the inquiry into the insurrection. And given their thin majority, they’re trying to avoid playing politics, even though the investigation will inevitably lead back to Donald Trump and other Republicans.

“We're a very serious committee that's extremely cohesive and bipartisan,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a select panel member, told a POLITICO reporter while passing through the metal detectors outside the House floor.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: babbitt; democrats; hearing; probe
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The circus is in town.
1 posted on 07/27/2021 2:11:28 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Oh I am sure the fake news is going to go full throttle on amplifying the lies.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 2:15:26 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Libloather

Local Miami media in Florida is sending “journalists” to cover this crap.


3 posted on 07/27/2021 2:16:11 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Libloather

Nothing like a witchhunt with predetermined conclusions.


4 posted on 07/27/2021 2:21:53 AM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: Libloather
members are restricted to one round of back-and-forth

Rest assured, my FRiends, that every committee member, Dem and RINO alike, has already been handed a list of the questions he/xe/she is to ask, and that each member has been told the consequences of deviating in any manner from their individual list.

5 posted on 07/27/2021 2:22:20 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Libloather

More like a Soviet show trial. The script has been written and the accused are already convicted.

Orwellian is the only word that comes to mind.


6 posted on 07/27/2021 2:31:14 AM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: Libloather

set up—Impeachment 3


7 posted on 07/27/2021 2:33:12 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Libloather

Wonder how they’d feel about a counter protest during the sham?

Or how they will compete with the results of the Arizona audit?


8 posted on 07/27/2021 2:40:58 AM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

The “Unarmed Capitol Holocaust” shows how big and useless our government has become; they are actually spending taxpayer dollars on this...


9 posted on 07/27/2021 2:48:23 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Jonty30

Its more like a Trump hunt.
The predetermined outcome is: Trump should be declared ineligible to run for public office.
In their minds this will solve their problem..which is.. how do we make America full totalitarian .


10 posted on 07/27/2021 3:04:38 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Libloather

“...Capitol Police who personally fended off violent rioters on the hunt for members of Congress.”

And they say the pubbies are the source of ‘revisionist history’??? SMDH...

This will be a circus for the lefturds, again.


11 posted on 07/27/2021 3:18:07 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Libloather

I predict this is going to backfire in the libtards face the same way the Dems “Covid Express” private jet escape from Texas backfired.


12 posted on 07/27/2021 4:35:22 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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...Capitol Police who personally fended off violent rioters on the hunt for members of Congress

Who wrote this crap, some ChiCom agent??

(Nicholas Wu)

13 posted on 07/27/2021 5:02:52 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Libloather

This will be the appendix to the second weak impeachment attempt. You do remember that, do you not?

Only this time there will be no legal team representing the president.


14 posted on 07/27/2021 5:09:29 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Libloather

Peach Fo Fi!


15 posted on 07/27/2021 5:29:25 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Libloather

7:15 AM CDT 7/27/21 Fox News let the cat out of the hat about the hearing starting today, but no where can you find a time & station to watch this witch hunt. Looks like it’s by design.


16 posted on 07/27/2021 5:36:18 AM PDT by Cajun Sunset (Kneeling)
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To: Libloather

““We’re a very serious committee that’s extremely cohesive and bipartisan,” Rep. Jamie Ratskin (D-Md.), a select panel member,...”

Wasn’t Ratskin one of the “impeachment” leaders?


17 posted on 07/27/2021 6:14:54 AM PDT by euram
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To: Libloather

Politico is written by Morlocks for apes.


18 posted on 07/27/2021 6:42:22 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: Libloather

First, not watching NBA finals.

Then not watching the Olympics.

Now not the ‘Bipartisan’ circus.

Hmmm does Bipartisan mean two partisans?

Cheney and Kinzinger


19 posted on 07/27/2021 6:45:49 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Libloather

“The circus is in town.”

And they brought all the CLOWNS WITH THEM.


20 posted on 07/27/2021 6:51:48 AM PDT by kagnew
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