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The January 6 Hearings Changed My Mind
The January 6 Hearings Changed My Mind
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The day was one of the most covered in American history. What more could we possibly learn? A lot.
By Batya Ungar-Sargon
06.29.22 — U.S. Politics
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The January 6 Hearings Changed My Mind

When I first learned that the January 6 Committee was planning to air its hearings on primetime, I was deeply skeptical. The gross spectacle of that day wasn’t some secret scandal that, like Watergate, required deep reporting to uncover the truth. We had all watched it. Anyone who wanted to relive it could stream the documentary on HBO.

Then there was th…

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Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon is a columnist for The Free Press and the author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. She is the co-host of Free Press Live and appears regularly on Fox News, NewsNation, Sky News, and other news outlets. She is currently at work on her forthcoming book Why the Left Left the Jews, which will be published by Broadside in 2025. She is a columnist for Compact Magazine and Spiked.
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