The January 6th committee has announced the creation of a new January 6th subcommittee
that consists of Jamie Raskin, Zoe Lofgren, um, uh, uh, uh, Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff.
And the job of this new subcommittee is to determine whether or not, and if, whether
then which criminal referrals to send to the Department of Justice.
Here's what's happening.
That January 6th committee, they see the writing on the wall.
They know that their time is up.
It's disappointing that their time is up because their job is not even close to being done.
There is still so many, uh, people there, there, there's so many things that we didn't
even get to hear about, they didn't get to hear about.
We did not even scratch the surface of the events of January 6th.
The events running up to it, the events after it, there's still so much we didn't know.
And unfortunately, I think those are things that forever we will not know.
But now we're at the point, right?
We're at the goal line.
And so Benny Thompson, the chair of the committee, said, all right, you four, it's your job.
Go and determine whether or not we're sending criminal charges.
We're kind of done here.
That is a huge leap forward for this committee.
Thompson also said that they are working on the final report, which will come out in December
because they know they would love to continue the job, right?
Let's be perfectly clear about that, and I would love for them to continue the job.
But Republicans starting on January 3rd, they got the majority in that house.
The first thing they're gonna do if that committee still existed is kill it metaphorically, hopefully,
but it wouldn't exist anymore.
So they've gotta get everything done in a month.
That's all the time we've got one month.
But I do think it's very telling that he picked those four members, Raskin, Cheney, Schiff,
and Lofgren.
Those have been some of the more outspoken folks.
Those are definitely the biggest anti-Trump folks.
So it almost seems like Benny Thompson wanted to send the people who hate Trump the most
to determine whether or not we're gonna charge Donald Trump.
So I won't be surprised if that four member subcommittee does recommend charging Donald
Trump.
Now, the problem with all of that, of course, is that the committee itself cannot charge.
All they can do is refer.
So they would then send the charges to the doj.
The DOJ would look at them and say yes or no.
If they say no, then it's done.
Nothing we can do about it.
If they say yes, then hold your horses folks, because we've got some pretty fun times up
ahead of us.
So that's what's happening.
But there are, according to reports, some members of the main January 6th committee
that don't even think any criminal referrals are necessary, which is kind of scary.
You know, you've, you've looked through all of this and you're like, ah, we're
Fine.
But the reason they don't think any is necessary is cuz they think the DOJ is gonna, you know,
they're gonna do it.
They're gonna get everybody, you know, we, we don't need to do this cuz they've got a
handle on it.
No, .
If there's one thing we've learned about Merrick Garland's, doj, it's that you kind of have
to tell them what to do.
And plus you wanna be on record as saying you recommended this.
You don't wanna end this committee with no criminal referrals whatsoever in just a binder
of information you put out as your final report.
Nobody's gonna care about the binder, they're gonna care about the criminal referrals.
So for the good of the committee, you have to come out with something to show the people
that you did something.
Doesn't matter if the DOJ is gonna do it on their own or not, you need to be the kick
in the pants to make sure the DOJ knows.
We looked into it too.
We found criminal activity.
So get on it.