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Beginning on Monday, January 3 and throughout this week, PBS NewsHour will cover the impacts and fallout of the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Monday, January 3 Anchor and Managing Editor Judy Woodruff will interview Sandra Garza, girlfriend of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
Tuesday, January 4 Judy Woodruff will interview Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI). Capitol Hill Correspondent Lisa Desjardins will interview Capitol Police Officers Aquilino Gonell and Harry Dunn. Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin will discuss extremism with Kathleen Belew, author of “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” and Michael Jensen of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Wednesday, January 5 Judy Woodruff will interview Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Chief Correspondent Amna Nawaz will discuss misinformation with Claire Wardle of First Draft News, a non-profit fighting misinformation, and Jennifer Kavanagh of the RAND Corporation and author of “Truth Decay”.
Thursday, January 6 Judy Woodruff will interview Vice President Kamala Harris. Judy Woodruff will interview Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Judy Woodruff will moderate a panel with Stuart Stevens, Gary Abernathy, George Packer, and Jelani Cobb on where we go from here and the future of elections. Judy Woodruff, Amna Nawaz, Lisa Desjardins, and White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor will discuss the events of the day and in the year since the attack.
Coverage will extend online to include interviews by PBS NewsHour digital anchor Nicole Ellis of Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA), and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) at their experiences on January 6th and how they’ve dealt with the traumatic aftermath over the last year.
Press Contact: Ella Richardson, erichardson (at) newshour (dot) org
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