Spotlight on Gun Bill and Insurrection Hearings

This week’s bipartisan hearings on the January 6 insurrection coincided with the preliminary announcement on a bipartisan gun bill in the Senate. We take a look at what led to this cross-party cooperation – in Congress and in public opinion – by inviting in a US political historian and a Trump official who blew the whistle on the former president’s support of domestic terrorism. Are we making progress or papering over our problems, and what does history tell us is about to happen?

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• Read Julian’s piece comparing the Jan. 6 hearings to the ones after the 1986 Iran-Contra affair: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/opinions/iran-contra-warning-january-6-hearings-zelizer/index.html
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