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with a new majority, and who will lead them and congressman kevin mccarthy cant secure enough votes to become speaker? adding to the chaos, there are growing calls for congressman elect george santos to step aside before hes even sworn in. the freshman from new york shows no signs of doing that. will there be consequences for the lies he calls resume embellishments? we are going to ask a fellow new yorker congressman pat ryan in just a moment. case closed, folks, tory lanez was found g...

>> well keep a close eye on that. judge, thanks good to see you, judge michael luttig. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight, nning, right now. good evening alex. >> thanks alex, great guest to have on at this juncture, at this critical moment for democracy. great show. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. his name is alexander butterfield. he was the deputy assistant to president richard nixon, and as the surprise witness during the wat...

The deputy whose testimony was so damaging to trump within the supposedly secret service agents. i think that would be one focus they tried to attack to her. >> what of the actual congressman. some of whom, you know, including kevin mccarthy and jim jordan were going to have leadership positions in the next congress and have gotten ethics referrals from the january six committee. an ethics referral is one thing, but do you think the dojs looking more closely their actions? can you imagine the st...

Because its the first time that were going to see a congress committee refer a former president on criminal referral charges. youre right, though, that these dont carry any legal weight. but what we also learn is that in regards to the republican congressman who defied the subpoenas issued to them by this january 6th committee, theyre going to be referring four of them to the house ethics committee. there were five republican lawmakers who were given subpoenas. so one appears to be left off thes...

Divided among democrats and republicans. they may not have the time or votes to do that. so it may go nowhere. but this committees larger ethos has been putting things in the publics record so even those these referrals dont have legal weight behind them, doj is going to make its own decision, and whether or not something happens with the ethics referrals, the whole point has been to put this in the publics record and give some accountability for what happened on january 6th. >> can you talk thr...

Certainly, we expect to see them talk through new details today as they come to the close of this roughly 18-month investigation. now, you mentioned what former president donald trumps response was to these referrals. his spokesperson and himself really ignoring the substance of our reporting and instead trying to focus this in partisan fashion and on dr. eastman, his team declined to tonight when we came to them yesterday. but theres another interesting piece. what theyre going to be doing in t...

Cnn by jake tapper. here is what he was saying. >> we will also be considering whats the appropriate remedy for members of congress who ignore a congressional subpoena, as well as the evidence that was so pertinent to our investigation and why we wanted to bring them in. is it a criminal referral to another branch of government or is it better that the congress police its own? >> censure? >> well, censure was something that we have considered, ethics referrals is something we have considered. >>...

While some of that will ultimately be addressed in the form of recommendations that doj consider criminal sorts of investigations and criminal actions, as you say, there are other ways of holding people accountable. federal election commission may get involved. state bars may get involved. and of course, the ethics referrals that weve all been discussing, which set up a very interesting situation. they come so late in this congress that its unlikely that there will be time for action but since t...

Closer, and closer to the truth of the matter so that the american public can see what happened in the midst of this. >> carol, picking up on what matthew just said, the committee chairman bennie thompson told reporters that the panel could also issue other categories of refers on mondays such as ethics referrals to the house ethics committee, barred discipline referrals, and campaign finance referrals. immediately, these arent as sexy and flashes criminal referrals but they can have a significa...

Committee has said, is they are looking at all of them. they have taken a look at all of that evidence, all of those individuals. chairman thompson was specifically asked about members of congress who took part in this effort to overturn the election. who were in oval office, corresponding to some of the folks who dreamed up this idea of trying to overturn the election on january six. he said there possibly could be ethics referrals, meaning the house ethics committee would be asked to take a lo...