The Jan. 6 committee has a fan service problem

Thursday's public hearing could be the committee's last, which leaves its members with "the difficult task of sticking the landing." [View in browser]( [Image]( October 13, 2022 THE LATEST [Alternate text] [The Jan. 6 committee has a fan service problem]( by Hayes Brown The Jan. 6 committee has delivered a series of presentations to the American public that carried forward "the kind of coherent narrative arc that Hollywood producers would envy," [writes Hayes Brown](. But Thursday's public hearing could be the committee's last, Brown writes, which leaves its members with "the difficult task of sticking the landing." It's not fair, Brown [says](, that whatever is presented Thursday might be judged by the standards of a season finale and found lacking. But fear of such a let down "speaks to the high bar that the committee and its staffers have set for themselves." 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