We believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout

our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former President Donald J. Trump, John

Eastman, and others for violations of this statute.

The whole purpose and obvious effect of Trump's scheme were to obstruct, influence, and

impede this official proceeding, the central moment for the lawful transfer of power in

the United States.

That was Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, laying out the first of four criminal referrals

made by the January 6th Committee to the Department of Justice, recommending that Donald Trump

and others be investigated for the events relating to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It was the culmination of an exhaustive probe by the Committee, resulting in a mammoth

845-page report detailing the extraordinary multifaceted pressure campaign by the former

President to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The report and accompanying material included some startling new disclosures, including

testimony from one former White House staffer, Cassidy Hutchinson, recounting how a Trump

affiliated lawyer urged her to tell the Committee as little as possible and to keep saying,

I don't recall, even when she did, a potential case of witness tampering.

How to assess the Committee's performance and where do the investigations into Trump

go from here?

We'll talk to Raskin about that in other issues, including sharp criticism from multiple

courtes that the Committee was so focused on Trump that it largely avoided other critical

issues such as the performance of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies,

and why more information about violent threat warnings weren't shared with Capitol police

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