joke about trump s false claims of a stolen election. the messages go to questions of criminal intent and whether trump and his inner circle knew biden won. it s also worth noting, those messages first showed up as part of the january 6th committee s final report. just as the federal statute cited in the target letter to donald trump, deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states, and witness tampering echo parts of the committee s criminal referral. we believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump. title 18 section 1512-c, which make it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct any official proceeding. crime to conspire to defraud the united states. knowingly and willfully make materially false statements to the federal government.
whatever reason, chose not to act on it. and this was burr ared dur burie hearings and cut from the committee s report. watch. january 6th committee s final report was more than 800 pages. but, some material did not make the cut. including much of its findings the of a failures of federal law enforcement leading up to the attack. had law enforcement agencies acted on the available intelligence, do you believe the attack on the capitol could have been successfully repelled? i think it would have been a lot different had law enforcement taken a more assertive, protective posture. the intel in advance was pretty specific. and it was enough in our view for law enforcement to have done a better job operablizing a secure perimeter. that was a lead investigator of the january 6th committee who said they had all of this critical intel and they never revealed it. why?
but here s what he said about the findings. had law enforcement acted on that intelligence, do you believe the attack on the capitol could have been successfully repelled? it would have been a lot different had law enforcement taken a more assertive, protective posture. the intel in advance was pretty specific and it was enough in our view for law enforcement to have done a better job operationalizing a secure perimeter. now that s the opposite of what the fbi has said. they ve told us frequently the intel was not credible so it s significant that the biggest investigation into january 6th found there was intel that could have been used. live for us on that. thank you. you can catch his full exclusive report tonight on nbc nightly news with lester holt at 6:30 eastern. i want to bring in adviser for the congressional integrity project and former spokesperson
continuing his road show ahead of the state of the union getting ready to meet with democratic party leaders in new york. but those classified documents becoming headlines again. nbc confirming an fbi search of his one-time washington office. what we know about the timeline and what was found. plus, an nbc news exclusive on the january 6th committee s final report. specifically what s not in it including why federal law enforcement agent sis didn t act on warnings ahead of the insurrection. with me is our news team on the ground in memphis. antonia and garrett haake is joining us as well. antonia, tyre nichols funeral is a day away. talk through the movement on the ground where you are. reporter: well, we re hearing from officials that we are likely to get news of additional personnel actions in the coming days. now, the personnel actions could mean a couple of different things.
hill. do you think there should have been more on the failures? i never want to experience what i did on january 6th. i was a staffer on that day. i think we need to do better while also making sure we talk about the bravery of the officers that were there. caroline edwards testified at our first hearing. she s now a friend of mine. these are heroes. we need to make sure we applaud their work while making sure it doesn t happen again. you talk about investigatory committees. we are seeing that on the republican side as it relate to what we re seeing this week. small o oversight. the oversight committee or judiciary committee or whatever, but republicans leading vest gagss as has been long anticipated here. i am sure and i know you think you see some real distinctions between the work of these different committees. yes, i do. there s room for legitimate oversight in congress. i was a part of that.