also, will the administration talk nancy pelosi out of her trip to taiwan as she riles up china with her travel. huge economic data released almost every day this week, will it point to a recession. and as russian forces strike the main ukrainian port is the grain deal between the two countries already in jeopardy? let s going to sunlen serfaty live for us on capitol hill. the january 6th committee doesn t plan any more hearings until september that doesn t mean they are not going to be busy. reporter: that s absolutely right. almost all the work the committee will be doing over the next month will largely happen behind closed doors. the committee says that a number of significant leads have come in and so they will be using this next month to gather new evidence, to talk to new witnesses potentially even or visit some previous witnesses who have already testified. this committee entering a crucial fact-finding mission over the next month. the house select committee
today. it has just ended. 50% of all flights were canceled. about 80% of flights here were canceled. the most of any airport across the country. january 3rd was expected to be one of the biggest days for holiday air travel. everybody coming back home all at once. look behind me. pretty much a ghost town. what about passengers. are they getting any offers from the airlines when their flights get canceled for covid or weather? a lot of airlines will default to giving you a credit although d.o.t. regulations say if it s canceled by an airline for pretty much any reason you re entitled to a cash refund, not a credit like they d like to give you. stick up for yourself and ask for a cash refund if they re trying to give you a credit. pete muntean at reagan national. while his supporters stormed the capitol, donald trump was doing, well, apparently a whole lot of nothing. new insight into what the january 6th special select committee now knows. stay with us.
carrie cordero who previously worked with the u.s. justice department. what s your reaction when you hear about all this evidence the committee has gathered about what trump was doing while his supporters attacked the capitol? well, one thing i think that s important, jake, is that it sounds that people are actually cooperating. so up until now we ve heard a lot about those who are not cooperating with the committee but the example that jamie gave of keith kellogg shows there are individuals close to the former president who are voluntarily cooperating and providing the committee with information. that s a really important development. i think the question that the committee has to look at, if they re exploring potential criminal referral or criminal charges is the actual conduct. so i think it will be a harder case for the committee to look at the absence of activity on behalf of the former president versus what did he affirmatively do instead of what he didn t do? because then you
participated in the assault on the capitol that day is 18 usc 1512 which is an obstruction charge. charges for somebody who is obstructing the activity of what congress was trying to do that day. i think that say really difficult fact pattern to analyze with respect to the former president, if the alleged conduct is simply that he didn t do anything. the way that i would suggest the committee hopefully is conducting its analysis looks tat in two ways. what are the actual activities he was engaged in, and those close to him were engaged in leading up to january 6th and on january 6th. that were affirmative actions that may have incited or caused the assault on the capitol. and then the second area i think of potential criminal investigation, an investigation by congress, jake, would be actions that the former president may have taken after january 6th. in terms of obstructing the
facts to make a referral that the former president was obstructing their committee investigation or, again, in the pre-january 6th, 2021 activities, affirmative actions by the former president. i don t think absence of action, him simply sitting there and doing nothing would be enough for this justice department to go forward because if they were to pursue charges against the former president, obviously they would then open themselves up to accusations of acting politically which is the exact opposite that this current justice department wants to be perceived as doing. carrie cordero, thank you. happy new year. this thursday, join anderson cooper and me. we have an unprecedented conversation live at the capitol with capitol police, with lawmakers, january 6th, one year later. starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern on thursday. only only on cnn. keeping it all in the family. donald trump s adult children, ivanka and don junior, just got