"The Subpoena Finale."
The final January 6th hearing suggests that Donald Trump isn’t a great guy, Democrats zero in on a closing midterm message, and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet joins to talk about his midterm race for re-election. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 54m
- Broadcast on
- 13 Oct 2022
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Plates Dave America, I'm John Fabro. - I'm Jan Pfeiffer. - On today's show, the final January 6th hearing suggests that Donald Trump isn't a great guy. Democrats zero in a closing midterm message and Colorado Senator Michael Bennett joins to talk about his midterm race for re-election. Before we start, in case you missed it, What A Day has a new host. MSNBC political analyst Winita Tolliver joined co-host Josie Duffy Rice, Priyanka Arabindi and Trevel Anderson to give you the latest politics and news every morning. Very exciting. Listen to new episodes of What A Day every Monday through Friday, wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Dan, let's get to the news. So we are recording this just after the series finale of insurrection. - Oh, you're kidding. - Do you think we've worn out that joke yet? - Yes, John, yes, we have. - I mean, it's the last time, it's the last time we're gonna be able to use it. So it's like, it's getting a little send off. - Wait till the reboot in the lame duck, my friend. - Oh, there we go, there we go. All right, so today's hearing was about summing up the entire case against Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends for their attempted coup in 2020, a coup that started with an attempt to overturn the election, even before the votes were counted and ended with a violent attack on Congress. The committee presented new evidence and new testimony. The proof's Trump knew about the violence at the Capitol and reacted by encouraging the mob, but then there was, as there always is in these hearings, Dan, there was a twist. We learned from some reporters during the hearing that at the end of the hearing, there would be a vote to subpoena Donald Trump himself and of course, the committee delivered, here's a clip. - It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump's testimony. He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on January 6th. So he wanted to hear from him.
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The final January 6th hearing suggests that Donald Trump isn’t a great guy, Democrats zero in on a closing midterm message, and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet joins to talk about his midterm race for re-election. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.