January 6 hearings make for gripping TV, but are voters paying attention?

The committee's tightly scripted production has impressed political junkies but Democrats worry many Americans are focused elsewhere

Did you see episode three? The president calls his deputy a pussy" and wimp" for refusing to support his coup. An angry mob then goes after said deputy wanting to hang him. A legal scholar who cooked up the plan asks the president for a pardon.

Thursday's congressional hearing into the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol veered into you-couldn't-make-it-up territory. But while political aficionados were agog, it remained less certain how many citizens were paying attention at lunchtime on a midweek workday.