First prime-time January 6 hearing is critical moment of account for Trump's assault on American democracy
CNN
The House select committee on the Capitol insurrection has a duty far beyond investigating one of the most traumatic days in US history. Its wider mission is to expose and catalog an assault on democracy that is still going on.
The panel, which holds its first prime-time televised hearing Thursday in a bid to imprint the implications of this national nightmare on the minds of citizens, has often been compared to the Senate Watergate committee of the 1970s.
In a climactic moment of those televised hearings that transfixed the nation, former White House counsel John Dean told of how he had informed disgraced President Richard Nixon that there was "a cancer" growing on the presidency. Fifty years later, as Washington still reels from the mendacity of another aberrant president, Donald Trump, that cancer is attached to, and is still growing on, democracy itself.
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