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Rioters at the Capitol on January 6

Image from January 6 Report (photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

This week on CounterSpin: The House committee on the January 6, 2021, attack ([link removed]) on the US Capitol heard more than 1,000 witness interviews and held multiple public hearings, resulting in criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Donald Trump, lawyer John Eastman and others involved in violent efforts to override the results of Trump's electoral loss.

The committee released transcripts showing some two dozen witnesses invoking their right against self-incrimination. Eastman, key advisor to Trump on how to overturn the election, cited his Fifth Amendment right 155 times. At one point, Democratic House member Jamie Raskin asked GOP operative Roger Stone if he believed “coups are allowed in our constitutional system.” To which Stone said, "I most definitely decline to respond to your question.”

But the headwinds the Committee's recommendations face are not just from the MAGA hatters, but also the Very Smart People who will tell us that our desire for justice is really just partisan or, worse, blood lust—and what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing. Let wiser heads prevail. We're having none of that.

We spoke with Lisa Gilbert, executive vice president of Public Citizen ([link removed]) and co-founder of the forged-for-purpose Not Above the Law Coalition ([link removed]) , about what the hearings found and why it can't end there.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Elon Musk, inflation and deadly conservatism.

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