The house select committee looking into the January 6th attack on the US Capitol is wrapping up its inquiry this week. They're going to release a thousand page report that will surely be a top of most Americans holiday reading list, but just in case it isn't, they released a hundred page executive summary of the report today. What the heck is in it? Andrew Procop Vox: It's trying to make the point that this was very much a deliberate and planned effort on Donald Trump's part. No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again.
The January 6 committee sent the Justice Department four criminal referrals against the former president, who it alleges engaged in an elaborate criminal conspiracy to remain in office after his 2020 defeat. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains what happens next.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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