Jamie Raskin

You also might have heard some of the Democratic members of Congress there, including Becca Ballant from Vermont, sort of intervene and say shame to the man who was arguing and provoking Officer Fanone.

That man is an acolyte of Trump's former national security advisor, Mike Flynn.

He has helped push Trump's election conspiracies and lead up to January 6th.

When the hearing finally resumed, Republican Congressman Troy Nels decided he thought it would be a good idea to address directly and invoke the January 6th officers who were sitting in the room while he was defending the president who had sent the mob after them that day.

Once again, Officer Fanone was having none of it, and he let everybody in the room know using words that he sort of coughed and also some expressive hand gestures.

No matter how much Republicans try to rewrite the history of January 6th, they cannot ignore the fact that some of the police officers who risked their lives that day are right there in front of them, living, breathing people who will keep showing up to things like this, despite the fact that they apparently have no idea how to contend with that when it happens.

Our colleague Stephanie Ruhl has joined us.

Yeah.

And it's interesting.

You know, it's not just messaging.

It's not just discourse.

It's not just media.

It's not in those things.

It's people being willing to physically show up to embody the truth.

Yes.

More of our special recap to come.

Quick break.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to our primetime recap of Jack Smith's historic testimony on Capitol Hill today.

For anybody wondering why House Republicans wanted to do this, why they wanted to allow Jack Smith to explain the strength of his evidence, why they wanted to re-litigate live for the American people for hours, the very strong, very damning criminal indictments of the sitting Republican president,