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    'I've lost my sense of security': Takeaways from testimony at Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing

    by Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times Jun 21, 2022 7 minutes
    From left to right: Rusty Bowers, Arizona House Speaker; Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State; and Gabriel Sterling, Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer, are sworn in prior to testifying during the fourth hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022, in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — The fourth hearing of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 focused Tuesday on the pressure former President Donald Trump and his allies put on public officials to overturn results in key states.

    Led by Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Burbank, alongside committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R- Wyo., the hearing featured testimony from the Republican Arizona House speaker, two officials from the Georgia Secretary of State's office and a pair of former Fulton County, Ga., election workers.

    Here are some key takeaways from the hearing:

    The committee gets its star witness

    Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican first elected to the Legislature nearly 30 years ago, appeared in person before the committee, which GOP members of Congress have panned as a partisan panel given only two Republicans serve on the nine-member committee.

    Bowers' profile as a conservative Republican who put country over party provided the panel with a witness whose testimony delivered a message to partisans opposed to the hearings: The attack on the Capitol should be viewed as an attack against America rather than through a political lens.

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