Wednesday on Political Rewind: Congressional hearings in Washington, D.C., continue as a U.S. House panel investigates the Jan. 6 insurrection. 

Data show that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance on wearing masks to fight the spread of the highly contagious delta coronavirus variant should apply to people in all but a small handful of counties in Georgia. How will local and state officials respond to the guidelines?

Meanwhile, there are questions in the AAPI community today about the Cherokee County plea deal that sentences Robert Aaron long to spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting to death four people in a Woodstock massage parlor. Should he have faced a hate crimes charge? What about the death penalty? And what will happen when the case moves to Fulton County, where Long killed four more people? Our panel weighs in.

Panelists:

Donna Lowry — Journalist, Host of GPB’s Lawmakers

Greg Bluestein — Politics Reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution