Will a divided U.S. want to hear the Jan. 6 committee's findings?

A year and a half after the attack, the open question is whether the hearings will be interesting enough for the public to stay tuned. Several members of the committee acknowledged it is crucial to make the hearings interesting for a national audience.

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“Our job is to tell the truth, it’s not to create the next Marvel movie,” said one committee member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. “Our job is to organize this in a way that people understand, that we hold their attention if they’re watching and it’s our hope that people will understand that we want to fight for democracy. That this was an attempt to thwart a peaceful transfer of power. And that our job is to tell a story about that day.”…

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., acknowledged a risk in overselling the hearings, which he said during an April program at Georgetown University would “blow the roof off the House.”

“The proof will be in the pudding,” Raskin said. “I do believe that we are going to tell this story of perhaps the greatest political crime or attempted political crime in American history. We have voluminous detail that is helping us put the whole story together.”

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