The season finale of the Jan. 6 committee hearings was a tour de force of emotion, violence, deception and bravery that detailed the fallout of President Donald Trump's actions — or lack thereof — during the deadly attack on the Capitol.
Thursday's live, prime-time broadcast tied up the first six weeks of hearings with a powerhouse presentation focused on the former president's dereliction of duty on Jan. 6, 2021.
In unflinching detail, the committee described the 187 minutes between Trump's inflammatory Ellipse speech and his begrudging appeal for peace from the Rose Garden, appealing to viewers' traumatic memories of that day and giving them a behind-the-scenes account of his inaction as lives were lost and threatened at the seat of American democracy.
