good morning. i m peter alexander. we ve live here on capitol hill, where tonight the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack here will hold its first hearing. it will take place in primetime. a chance for that committee to grab the attention of the american public to try to lay out its case. it has now been more than 500 days since the attack in this building. the images haunting. but the impact has been waning over time. the committee that hopes to show donald trump s election with his election loss and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. but as our meet the press first read team puts it, what if folks who watch tonight are part of nearly half americans who already believe donald trump was mainly responsible for what happened on january 6th? and what if the other half of americans do not tune in? the committee does have a lot of work that it has to get done tonight, try to make its case. there are going to be si
good morning. i m peter alexander. we ve live here on capitol hill, where tonight the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack here will hold its first hearing. it will take place in primetime. a chance for that committee to grab the attention of the american public to try to lay out its case. it has now been more than 500 days since the attack in this building. the images haunting. but the impact has been waning over time. the committee that hopes to show donald trump s election with his election loss and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. but as our meet the press first read team puts it, what if folks who watch tonight are part of nearly half americans who already believe donald trump was mainly responsible for what happened on january 6th? and what if the other half of americans do not tune in? the committee does have a lot of work that it has to get done tonight, try to make its case. there are going to be six hearings