Today’s Jan. 6 committee hearing is going to be one for the history
books, so tune in at 1 p.m.

On Wednesday night, we caught up with today’s star witness, Michael
Luttig. “America is at war with herself,” he will say. “One war is for
the cultural heart and soul of America. The other is a war over
America’s democracy.” He will say that “both of these wars must end in
peace if America is to go forward.”

Today, Luttig is appearing as a fact witness because of his role in the
leadup to Jan. 6, when Luttig told then-VP Mike Pence to ignore the
advice of John Eastman, a former Luttig clerk who hatched the scheme to
persuade Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 election by rejecting
electoral votes from states former President Donald Trump lost. 

Luttig first told the full story of his role on that day in our
“Playbook Deep Dive” podcast in February. But what he is planning to
talk about today goes beyond his views of the Electoral Count Act and
his gripping account of his role on Jan. 6.

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