Opinion | There’s a Reason the Watergate Hearings Were Explosive — and the Jan. 6 Hearings Won’t Be

Looming over Thursday’s Jan. 6 event, and the hearings to follow, is one key fact: In the broadest sense, we already know what happened. | AP

Opinion by Jeff Greenfield

06/10/2022 12:00 PM EDT

Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author.

It is fitting that a giant television screen loomed over the members of the January 6 committee Thursday night. The core premise of this hearing was that the images from that day, accompanied by the comments and testimony of key players in Donald Trump’s orbit, would galvanize a national audience.

It’s too easy —

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