The most important election of our lifetime. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im laura coates in Washington Dc. Its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of these states. State of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done on trump tried to deny democracy. I say were donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person, its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping
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it. it doesn t mean that the doj actually has to act in, and said, it just means that the doj is going to make some decisions anyway. from the perspective of the committee, putting us in the public record is very important. the other piece of it, to, i would add is that we now have a better sense of what they are going to do with the republican lawmakers who have ignored the subpoena requests. there were five of them who ignore those requests, but now we know and overheard jim jamie raskin saying that they are going to charge four of them and refer them to the ethics committee in the house. that is not a criminal referral, it is a way of trying to hold these members counterbalance sets an important precedent because now that she will be on the foot, to a fact, the subpoena power now turns to republicans as they have control of the chamber and that will be, important to, once we see what happens with these subpoenas now that they re issued by democrats and when they are issued by republ
you are not on twitter. this is american voices. we begin this hour with breaking news from the january six committee as it wraps up its year and a half investigation into the multi faceted plot to overturn president biden s 2020 election victory. part of the committees last stand involves recommending criminal charges against donald trump. nbc news has exclusive new details from the committee s meeting today, members finalized the plan to issue criminal referrals for the former president. we re going to dig into each referral momentarily. during today s meeting, nbc news overheard member jim raskin making the case that these referrals were, quote, warranted. here s what committee member and up schiff had to say about trump s criminal exposure this morning with cnn. i think that the evidence is there, that donald trump committed criminal offenses in