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Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promoted the January 6 hearing Thursday amid media concerns that few will actually watch the primetime airing.

Just one great reason to watch todays January 6 hearing? Hillary asked. MAGA Republicans Desperately Dont Want You to.

Clinton was not the only celebrity to promote the hearing. Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, also promoted the hearing.

I am SO ready for accountability for the violent insurrection against our government & the coup incited by Drumpf & his minions, he said. Will YOU be watching the@January6thCmte? he asked.

The promotion of the hearing comes as many media outletshighly touted the event, which conveys a concern that the hearing will be mostly ignored amid 40-year-high inflation, record-breaking gas prices, and supply chain woes.

Politicoquestioned how successful the hearing will be. Will the Democrats succeed? Will they go too far? the publication asked before telling itsreaders that the hearing deserve[s] our advance scrutiny for the new ground they appear to be breaking.

USA Today praised establishment television outlets for airing the estimated 90-minute hearing but slammed Fox News for ignoring the partisan powwow. Where can you watch the proceedings? the outlet asked.

Anywhere but on Fox News, it answered. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC will carry the initial hearing, which begins at 8 p.m. EDT.

On Thursday, Breitbart News reported aninternal Capitol Police report thatrevealed extensive security failures on House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-CA) watch on January 6.Dated June 4, the report shows sweeping mistakes from the department, which includedelayed mobilization ofspecialized civil disturbance units and the dismantling of anintelligence unit that tracked threats on social media.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

An August pollrevealedthat 58 percent of voters believe the January 6 Committee is biased toward Democrats. Only 45 percent of Americans find Trumpresponsiblefor the protest, a decline of 7 points since January 2021, according to an NBC News poll.

Follow Wendell Huseb onTwitterandGettr@WendellHuseb. He is the author ofPolitics of Slave Morality.

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