last tuesday. another difficult weekend for air travel and airlines canceled or delayed thousands of flights. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is pushing airlines to make sure they can operate their plan summer schedules and since his department could take action against airlines that failed to meet consumer protection standards. wall street journal global economics contributor is standing by with his reaction we have fox team coverage tonight jonathan serrie with airline delays and cancellations, first to lucas tomlinson live at the white house right now. president biden says a recession is not inevitable. the top economic advisor disagrees and calls us federal gas tax gimmick. i think the likelihood is that in order to do what s necessary to stop inflation, the fed is going to raise interest rates enough that the economy will slip into recession. we call the grave warning before passing a 1.9 trigon dollar covid stimulus bill saying it would cause skyrocketing in
reporter: chairman bennie thompson publicly claiming the january 6th house select committee will not refer former president trump or anyone else to the justice department for criminal prosecution. what i prefer that we complete our work and seal that work with the department of justice. and they will make that call after that. reporter: even without a referral, the justice department would prosecute. but some committee members feel those comments are premature. we have had a discussion about that. i thought we discovered that decision until we concluded our investigation, at least that s my understanding. reporter: vice chair liz cheney pushing back on thompson s statement. writing in a tweet, the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. despite the discord in the committee, attorney general merrick garland said he s monitoring its findings. i am watching. and i will be watching all the hearings. and i can as
have not met the moment. jake tapper: kinzinger and cheney were the only two republicans on the house select committee to investigate the attack on january 6. they ve become pariahs in a party where they were once seen as its future. adam kizinger: we cannot survive as a party existing on the personality of one man. jake tapper: the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack had a herculean task set before it. its members and staff conducted more than 1,000 interviews, filmed hundreds of taped depositions and collected more than 140,000 documents. and finally, the week of december 19th, the committee showed us its full hand. leading this hour, the january 6 committee referring donald trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. speaker: the first criminal statute we invoke for referral, therefore jake tapper: at its last hearing, the committee recommended donald trump be prosecuted for different crimes, including obstruction
disturbed by the letter, donoghue aba league responded to trump saying, quote, this would be a great step for the department to take and it would have constitutional, political, and social applications for the country. i do make clear to him that there was no world in which i am thoroughly the ag were going to sign a letter like that. rosen and donoghue met with clark later that evening. i do remember at the very end saying to him, what you re proposing is nothing less than having the united states justice department metal in the outcome of an american presidential election. again, jeffrey clark ignored the direction of justice department leadership. he continued to claim falsely that there was widespread election fraud. he pushed to send out the letter again. and on january 3rd, he told rosen, president trump had offered him the role of attorney general. and he had accepted it. that led to a series of discussions and meetings that
desperate to support president- elect biden and hold hearings. and basically had the state legislatures pick a new slate of electors. the letter claimed that u.s. department of justice s investigation had, quote, identified significant concerns that have impacted the output outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia. end quote. is that true? no. while the letter was sent solely by jeff clark, it was written with the help of a new justice department employee, named ken who according to the committee was also working with john eastman, the architect of the multistep plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored of eastman s unconstitutional theories. critic chaos in the state. it would ve been disastrous for our country and our constitution. wasn t at the point of it? the letter? to create that chaos? i think so.