joining me now, larry sabatow, director for the center of politics at the university of virginia.ommittee members. the fact that these hearings are going to be televised soon, what type of historic spectacle, for good or bad, either, will that provide? >> first, happy new year, alex. i hope it's a good, healthy one for you and your family. look, this is a very important week. it's not just the release of the january 6th committee's report, which presumably will happen in the summer or fall. this is a critical week because, unfortunately, many, many americans, including some democrats, and democratic-leaning independents have forgotten what a signal event this was. what happened january 6th and the preceding events, the insurrection plus the coup, the attempted coup d'etat which was planned by trump and his cronies. that's the first attempted coup d'etat, arguably, since the end of the civil war when lincoln was assassinated and the conspirators there targeted other people. this is as critical as it gets. and americans understand this could be the prelude, not only to other violenc