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The 2nd hearing from the Jan. 6 committee will focus on Trump¹'s election lies

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The House Jan. 6 committee is holding its second hearing after a brief delay this morning when a key witness pulled out of his appearance.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

The January 6 committee is underway this morning with their second hearing focused on President Trump's election lies. It's not going as expected. Trump's former campaign manager was set to testify until his wife went into labor³ this morning. That delayed the start of the hearing. Here to bring us up to date, we turn to NPR's Susan Davis. Susan, so what's the plan now if Bill Stepien, Trump's former campaign chief, is not going to be there?

SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE⁴: Well, the committee already spoke⁵ to Stepien back in February, so they had to switch gears pretty quickly. But they're going to play video from his depositions⁷. His lawyer is also expected to make a statement on his behalf before the committee. Today's hearing, as they've laid out, is really focused on the fact that the people around the president, including his own legal team, were telling him he had lost the election. And yet he kept going and kept going with his election lies despite those legal challenges. And the bottom line for the committee is how all of that led to people attacking the Capitol on January 6. This is committee vice⁸ chair Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming.

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LIZ CHENEY: Mr. Chairman, hundreds of our countrymen have faced criminal charges. Many are serving criminal sentences because they believed what Donald Trump said about the election, and they acted on it.

MART?NEZ: So what else are we hearing this morning?

DAVIS: Well, we're expected to see several video montages going back to months before the election showing how Trump sort of set the ground about the election, saying it would be fraudulent if he lost months before the election. The committee is sort of building this hour-by-hour, week-by-week case following election night to show how the president, as early as that evening of the election, started making false claims about how even late that morning he claimed victory, even though the votes were still being counted in a lot of states. The committee is going to hear from Chris Stirewalt. He is a former political director from Fox News. He was fired from the network after the election in part because Trump allies were angry at how the network had called Arizona for Joe Biden - rightfully called the state for Joe Biden.

We're also going to hear from a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who resigned after reporting coming under pressure to investigate false claims of voter fraud. And the committee is going to hear from Ben Ginsberg. He's a familiar name to a lot of people. He's a veteran Republican election lawyer. He was involved in the 2000 recount in Bush v. Gore⁹. He was on the Bush campaign team. And the committee is also going to hear from Al Schmitt, another Republican. He was a Philadelphia city commissioner¹⁰ who defended the vote there as the Trump team was claiming that there was a lot of vote fraud in Philadelphia, and there was not.

MART?NEZ: Now, this is the second hearing; expect two more this week. What's on deck?

DAVIS: Well, on Wednesday, there will be another hearing focused on Trump's efforts, this time to pressure the Justice Department and install an attorney general who would be basically willing to act on those lies. There was a memorable¹¹ clip played in the first primetime hearing featuring the attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, saying that Trump's claims were BS. Our own national correspondent Carrie Johnson confirmed that the acting¹² attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, who stepped in for Barr, is expected to testify before the committee. And Thursday's hearing is going to focus on the pressure campaign against former Vice President Mike Pence to try to obstruct¹³ the electoral vote count on January 6. We don't know who among the Pence orbit might be testifying, but some of his aides did testify behind closed doors under deposition⁶ earlier this year as well.

MART?NEZ: That's NPR's Susan Davis. Susan, thanks a lot.

DAVIS: You're welcome.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 deposition   

n.免职，罢官；作证；沉淀；沉淀物

参考例句：

• It was this issue which led to the deposition of the king.正是这件事导致了国王被废黜。
• This leads to calcium deposition in the blood-vessels.这导致钙在血管中沉积。

7 depositions   

沉积（物）( deposition的名词复数 )； （在法庭上的）宣誓作证； 处置； 罢免

参考例句：

• The safety problems are more severe for low-pressure depositions because the processes often use concentrated gases. 对于低压淀积来说安全性问题更为突出，因为这种工艺通常使用高浓度的气体。
• The chief method is to take depositions of parties and witnesses. 主要的方法是录取当事人和证人的宣誓证言。 来自口语例句

8 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

9 gore   

n.凝血，血污；v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破；缝以补裆；顶

参考例句：

• The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
• Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。

10 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

11 memorable   

adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的

参考例句：

• This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
• The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。

12 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

13 obstruct   

v.阻隔，阻塞(道路、通道等)；n.阻碍物，障碍物

参考例句：

• He became still more dissatisfied with it and secretly did everything in his power to obstruct it.他对此更不满意，尽在暗里使绊子。
• The fallen trees obstruct the road.倒下的树将路堵住了。