Why The January 6th Committee Hearings Were Just As Riveting In The Room As They Were On TV

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The January 6th Committee’s proceedings this week may have been its final chance to deliver a closing argument about Donald Trump’s culpability in the attack on the Capitol, and it did so by once again exceeding expectations.

Once again, the committee offered up new morsels of evidence and information, again with the heavy use of audio and visual clips and graphics, along with a newsmagazine-like way of delivering teasers for what’s next and culminating with one last bombshell.

In the most recent case, it was the committee’s final vote to subpoena Donald Trump. The atmosphere is quite a bit different in the Cannon Caucus Room, the stately yellow, chandelier-ed meeting space that, with the aid of lights, has been transformed into a TV studio.

Nowhere was this more apparent that in the oversized screen behind the committee members, a signal of the importance that they placed on showing rather than telling.