Special Dispatch #51 - What I Saw At the Riot: A View from Inside Congress (A Zoom rebroadcast)
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Jan 12, 2021
Special Dispatch #51 - What I Saw At the Riot: A View from Inside Congress (A Zoom rebroadcast)
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We did a Zoom. Lots of you showed up. It's Castro-speech long.
But we had great special guests, including an appearance from Fifth favorite and Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake and new Fifth favorite and freshman congressman Peter Meijer, who gave us an inside-the-Capitol view of the MAGA riot. Meijer also talked Trump impeachment, a measure he's now "stron…