the department of justice is largely symbolic in nature. the doj already has wide ranging criminal probes into january 6th. but if members stand up on monday and say that they believe that donald trump has committed a crime and they have evidence to support that crime, that comes out of more than 17 months of work, more than 1,000 interviews, that really is a powerful closing message, amara. and, an nay, obviously, the criminal referrals were draw the attention on monday. what else can we expect from the final hearing? this is the last public meeting of the committee. it s the committee s last word before it finance up its work. in addition to presenting its findings on criminal referrals, the committee is also going to be voting on its final report, which will then be released to
the public as of wednesday. so a couple of days later. but this will be the committee wrapping up everything that they have presented so far, and highlighting the new evidence and new materials that are going to be coming out in the final report and through the criminal referrals. so this will be the committee s 11th hearing to close out this investigation and we will have to tune in monday and see what happens. sure will. thank you for your reporting. and a reminder. we will have special live coverage of monday s january 6th committee hearing. that begins at noon eastern right here on cnn. the southern border is bracing for a surge in migrants next week after a federal appeals court has cleared the way for the biden administration to end what s known as title 42. title 42 is a controversial trump-era policy that twas put n place during the pandemic under the fwooiz of protecting
that it would send to the department of justice for it to pursue, and those now, whichever charges the committee decides to pursue, it will present its findings in its last public meeting which is scheduled for this monday at 1:00. and the department of justice will definitely take a look at whatever the committee sends over, particularly because not much information has been shared between the two sides up and to this point. but some of the obstruction of an official proceeding. some may be familiar to prosecutors, but taking a step back, the january 6th committee issuing criminal referrals to
asian languages at a commencement ceremony. the offensive remark and what he is now saying about it. caring for winston, tending to the house. playing with him. all of that comes first. and how women are stepping up to fill jobs in america s work force as more men opt to stay home. newsroom starts right now. buenos dias. good morning. welcome to our weekend. it is saturday, december 17th. i m boris sanchez. and i m amara walker. you are in the cnn newsroom. we are grateful to have you. we begin this morning with what would be an unparalleled condemnation of a former president of the united states. the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol is expected to refer criminal charges, multiple criminal charges, against donald trump. yeah, the select committee