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Trump, as you heard adam schiff talk about, it could also include specific referrals from members of congress, who have defied congressional subpoenas, and who took part in some of these discussions and efforts to overturn the election in 2020. so we will get a lot of answers over the course of, you know, tomorrow, in this monday business meeting, alex. >> and charles, as we look at what the committee is doing, it is considering referral of donald trump for three criminal charges, inciting insur...

Recommending the prosecution of former president trump. the referrals are expected to include the charges of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the american government. almost a year and a half investigation into the former president trump, allies and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. >> as a former prosecutor i think theres sufficient evidence to charge the president. >> to get a conviction? >> i dont know what the justice department has. i kn...

Let the chips fall where they may. luke, i want to talk about those first two charges. that is obstruction of official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud. as you note in the new york times reporting that we read from, these are two federal crimes in the u.s. code that the committee lawyers have already argued in federal court, they believe that the president committed when they were trying to get john eastmans emails subject to the crime fraud exception. just explain what that public record a...

Applying a civil standard a more likely than not, standard it beyond the reasonable doubt standard. but it was a powerful ruling. so those crimes do carry tens of years in jail, in prison, if they were to be pursued. some of the actual rioters who broke into the capital have been charged with obstruction of official proceedings. so that it is a count that federal prosecutors have already used. what they havent done is they have not started to apply it up the chain to the political actors. what t...

Principally, the obstruction of an official proceeding statute and conspiracy to defraud united states. now, the select committee has been hearing from the subcommittee, especially established to consider the issue of referrals for several days now. they met on sunday, they met during this week around votes and even last night they were still discussing it. so i think this kind of reflects a bit of progress in what the committee is trying to do before the monday public business meeting next week...

Specifically, and perhaps about other actors, not just in the department of justice. but, potentially the congressional ethics committee, the state barrs oceans to what have you. its really going to be one of the biggest takeaways from the committee when they present the bulk of their findings on monday. and im glad that you focus on the carter opinion here, because the committee is what he was in some ways as a road map ever since it first came out to the way that they think. as you pointed out...

Call is not been made on criminal referrals. jurors are said to be considering three options for donald trump. nbcs allie raffa is on capitol hill for us with the details. ali. >> katie, good morning. all eyes this morning are on the january six committee as a twerk comes down to the buyer we know members are meeting this weekend, trying to finalize that lengthy report of their findings and recommendations before this final public meeting on monday, where that report will be presented and more w...

Mentioning going to the capitol during his speech? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: im joined by cnns political correspondent sara murray. what have we learned about these possible criminal referrals? >> look. you laid out the three potential charges we are learning about. that may not be all. there may be more than that they refer to the justice department when it comes to trump. what we are really looking for is a lot of the underlying evidence they put out to support the charges. some of those you la...

Other charges, obstruction of congress of course, conspiracy to defraud the united states government. the fact is, however, and i think clearly this was referred to, is the justice department does not say, okay. this is what were going to do. but this criminal referral is to say to the american public, this is what we believe after our voluminous hearings and investigations and we are handing this material over to the department of justice. let the department of justice decide whether or if to c...

Potential charges that we are hearing about that help or not try to, they are more pearls because the committee cannot charge anybody. jill, let me start with you. watergate was a slightly different situation. but here, we have this committee that i said that weve got thousands of pages, tens of thousands of pages of documentation, thousands of hours of testimony. we believe you should pursue these charges of insurrection, obstruction of official proceedings and conspiracy to defraud the united ...