suggesting that some of the january 6th defendants ar properly being charged with this sort of obstruction. the reason is, it would mean if the former president were to be charged, it would be possible to do so without directly linking had imto the violence. of course, there's been a lot of speculation about charges involving a seditious conspiracy which has an element of violence, but this 1215 obstruction charge is more focused and interfering with congress' function in certifying the election and certainly an additional charge doj could consider. the big wild card here is, we don't know exactly what's going on inside of the justice department. there is more than sufficient reason at this point for an investigation to be opened. i would never prejudge whether criminal charges are appropriate until the evidence is all in, but we don't know if doj is focused on this mission, if they intend to be, if they're perhaps waiting for the committee to refer its work over.