What We Learned From This Week's Jan. 6 Hearing And What Questions Still Remain

Published: July 13, 2022, 9 p.m.

b'In a tweet sent on December 19, 2021, former President Trump issued what Democrats now say was a "clarion call" to his supporters. "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th," he wrote. "Be there, will be wild!" This week, in a hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol, we learned more about what happened in the days and weeks after the President sent that tweet \\u2014 and the tense moments in the White House just hours before.

Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating January 6th, tells NPR that next week\'s primetime hearing \\u2014 the final scheduled hearing of the committee \\u2014 will unravel minute-by-minute events at the Capitol and present an account of what President Trump was doing during that time.

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