The committee also referred several other people, mostly lawyers for Trump, who were deeply involved in this effort to overturn the election results. They were John Eastman, Kenneth Chesabrough, Rudy Giuliani, and Jeffrey Clark. There's also Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff for just being involved in this whole effort. But those referrals were generally in connection to them not testifying before the committee in response to its subpoenas. It didn't really try to issue a final assessment of the legality of the behavior of various members of Congress including likely next speaker Kevin McCarthy.
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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