Timothy Heaphy — Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy - with Jonathan Karl

This dramatic, revealing book offers an insider account of the planning and aftermath of the racist riot in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, and the insurrection at the US. Capitol on January 6, 2021. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781586424015?ic_referral=H6P1Qa2zjJunL9oyeC7KGbiwkoS5tJAYSshnyIUkH4cwMz2nIYRA4-9a51v-pJP_M_Lqez1IiGbkLFzrKjXYhp7Vt959WUFiwm6AnaE1_FgFzrbiO2dfE5Y1IPw0VeLQsQZYew As the lead investigator into both tragic days, Tim Heaphy has an absolutely unique perspective. Readers will travel alongside Heaphy as he organized his team and structured the massive investigations they were about to take, as he interacts with politicians and members of law enforcement, interviews planners, perpetrators, and bystanders, gathers and sorts evidence, and compels and records testimony in order to create a record for today's voters as well as future generations. In his page-turning book, he shares what he saw and came to understand about what those events say about state of American democracy. He examines how and why they took place with the hope that understanding the contexts of these events will be a crucial and helpful step toward avoiding similar episodes of political violence in the years ahead.  Timothy J. Heaphy was Chief Investigative Counsel of the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. He also oversaw the independent investigation into the August 12, 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is currently partner at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP and previously served as the Obama-appointed US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his family.  Heaphy is in conversation with Jonathan Karl. Karl is ABC News chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The former president of the White House Correspondents' Association, Karl served as ABC's Chief White House Correspondent from 2012 to 2021. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers on the Trump White House -- Front Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. *recorded 1/9/2025