Hour 1 captures the explosive Capitol Hill showdown that left special counsel Jack Smith humiliated and congressional hearings in turmoil. Congressman Brandon Gill utterly dismantled Smith’s case, exposing how his office knowingly risked violating the Speech or Debate Clause in its aggressive subpoenas targeting Republican lawmakers. Caught stumbling over his own answers, Smith was reduced to “a babbling, stuttering fool,” as Casey put it—a long‑overdue dose of accountability for the prosecutor notorious for his “get Trump” crusade.

The hearing spiraled into chaos when disgraced former DC police officer Michael Fanone, infamous for his partisan theatrics on January 6th, picked a fight during a recess and had to be escorted out of the hearing room by security. Video later surfaced of Fanone shouting expletives at a female officer and flipping off GOP members. Casey breaks down eyewitness reactions and shares posts from his own X feed, where he points out Fanone’s long record of deceptive testimony and violent rhetoric against law enforcement.

Veteran reporter Lara Logan and multiple J6 witnesses piled on, noting that Fanone had previously lied about his injuries and that footage showed him unharmed shortly after his “attack.” Even J6ers themselves have now spoken up—one claiming that Trump supporters actually helped Fanone back to safety that day. 

Between Gill’s surgical questioning and Fanone’s unhinged meltdown, the hearing laid bare the collapsing credibility of the DOJ’s pursuit of conservatives. It was, as Casey summarized, “a turning point: the day the swamp finally blinked.”