Insurrection: The January 6th Final Report
Featuring Ari Melber with Andrew Weissmann
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 2023 AT 7:00 PM
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 170 CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK
You’ve been watching history in the making. Now join us for a very special evening at the iconic New York Historical Society to discuss the first draft of that history, from the violent and deadly January 6th Capitol insurrection to the wider efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. We welcome Emmy Award-winning MSNBC anchor Ari Melber and former prosecutor and General Counsel to then FBI-Director Mueller Andrew Weissmann.
Ari Melber expounds on the foreword he wrote for the Harper Collins edition of the January 6 Report, now a #1 New York Times bestseller, and spoke with former prosecutor and Mueller General Counsel Andrew Weissmann about the findings, the case for future indictments, and the pending special counsel probe into Donald Trump. Both speakers will also took audience questions during the evening.
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:
Andrew Weissmann served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office and as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice. He was appointed by the Bush administration as Deputy and later as Director of the task force investigating and prosecuting individuals responsible for the Enron Scandal from 2002-2005. Weissmann served as a federal prosecutor in New York’s Eastern District for 15 years as the chief of the criminal division and has extensive experience in private practice.
He has taught at Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School and is currently a Professor of Practice with the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law. Weissmann is the author of Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, a frequent commentator on MSNBC, and a contributing author for The Atlantic and other publications.
Ari Melber, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, writer and attorney, is the host of “The Beat with Ari Melber” airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC and founder of “Mavericks” on NBC. Melber also serves as MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent and an NBC News Legal Analyst, reporting on law and justice stories across all NBC platforms. Melber received a 2016 Emmy Award for his reporting on the Supreme Court.
Before joining MSNBC, Melber practiced First Amendment law and served as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate. He received a J.D. from Cornell Law School and is a member of the New York Bar. His writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic, and he is a former regular contributor to Politico, Reuters and The Nation. He has participated in a number of events for The Common Good.
