Eighteen months after a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters overran the Capitol in an effort to overturn the presidential election, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing outlining what members presented, unequivocally, as a coordinated conspiracy abetted by the president himself.
This being the committee’s big debut, it was a production worthy of prime time. The hearing was a slickly produced, made-for-television affair, weaving videos as well as in-person testimony from two key witnesses. James Goldston, a former ABC News president, consulted on the hearings, assisting the committee in presenting thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of interviews into digestible, TV-friendly bites. While subsequent public hearings will take place during the day, this hearing began at 8:00 p.m.—with almost every broadcast network giving it first billing. Chair Bennie Thompson began the hearing by thanking the American people for “sharing part of your evening” with the committee.
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