Oct. 13, 2022: Where the Jan. 6 investigation heads next
Since the very first hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee, the panel has vowed to do three things: (1) correct the historical record of the aftermath of the 2020 election; (2) present the case that former President Donald Trump was at the center of a scheme to overturn the results of a free and fair election; and (3) outline an ongoing attack on American democracy.\xa0\nThis afternoon, they\u2019re set to tie all three together in what is expected to be the committee\u2019s final televised hearing.\xa0\nThe hearing itself will \u201cfeature evidence that Trump\u2019s allies were pushing him to declare victory on Election Day 2020 even before the votes were counted, and that Trump was warned of the unfolding violence at the Capitol before he tweeted an inflammatory attack on then-Vice President Mike Pence,\u201d as our Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney write in their preview this morning.\nBut of perhaps equal importance is the hearing\u2019s place in the broader arc of post-insurrection Washington.\xa0\nAnd FDA reporter Katherine Foley joins the show for this week's astrology readings.\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.