News
June 9, 2022 – 7:30 pm (ET)
Host: Connor Oatman, US onAir – connor.oatman@onair.cc
Aircaster: Ben Murphy, US onAir – ben.murphy@onair.cc
Panelists: Paul Sullivan, Ani Prakash, and Joe Kubicki … students at George Mason University
US onAir will be streaming the June 2022 January 6th Committee hearing. In conjunction with this livestream, US onAir will have:
1- A 30 minute background aircast on the work of the committee
3- Student panelists who will discuss the hearing during and after the hearing with other students and the featured guests.
June 9, 2022 – 6:11 pm to 10:11 pm (ET)
PBS NewsHour – June 9, 2022 (00:57)
The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election declared at Thursday’s prime-time hearing that the attack was an “attempted coup” that put “two and half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said “the world is watching” the U.S. response to the panel’s yearlong investigation into the Capitol riot and the defeated president’s extraordinary effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. He called it a “brazen attempt” to overturn the election.
“Democracy remains in danger,” Thompson said. “We must confront the truth with candor, resolve and determination.”
The committee presented never-before-seen 12 minutes of video of the deadly violence that day and also of Trump administration officials in the chilling backstory as the defeated president, tried to overturn Biden’s election victory.
PBS NewsHour – June 9, 2022 (08:42)
With the first public hearing investigating the January 6 insurrection on Thursday, an important question has resurfaced: Just how close is the US to breaking down into conflict?
In some ways, the attack should’ve been a wake-up call, and an opportunity for Republican voters and their leaders to distance themselves from Donald Trump. After all, a sitting president had exhorted his acolytes to lay siege to the US Capitol and overturn the results of an election.
Yet more than a year after the breach, the potential for violent political struggle has hardly receded — and that’s at least in part because of the state of partisanship in the US.
Some Republican voters continue to falsely believe that Joe Biden stole the 2020 contest from Trump, and too many GOP lawmakers have used the Big Lie to support their efforts to pursue aggressive gerrymanders and pass restrictive voting laws — to shut their Democratic rivals out of power.
June 9, 2022 – 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (ET)
