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
found 200,000 businesses are forced to close between our 2020 and 2021. the hospitality and leisure industry the hardest hit. over 14% of hospitality establishments were shut down. but there is good news on the rise and for the labor department estimating the hospitality industry has going to add 1.9 million jobs over the next years. will that shape up? the next guest is commenting on his return restaurant tour will get era joins me now, on set, his new book is titled unreasonable hospitality, the remarkable power of giving people more than they expect. well, thank you so much for being here. allowing me to be the host. this is clearly a critical moment for the industry, and there is of course the funding issues of coming back online and employment issues on more of a macro issue level. what s going to require?
this. that report is going to be the way in which this investigators lays down the law about what is important to find out about the actions of donald trump to block the peaceful transfer of power. there is a rope that goes through all of the evidence that the committee has gathered thus far. not every single piece, they have had a lot of teams looking a lot of things. one rope that is consistently winding through this work is how trump used his power over lawyers in his own office. allies who wanted to help him stay in power. the department of justice appointees, his ability to pressure state officials and state legislatures. all in the service of trying to claim, falsely, that the election was rigged and that there were questions about whether or not he had won certain swing states. there was no question. all of those efforts are donald
connection with to overturn the election and viewing it as a former prosecutor, i think there is sufficient evidence to charge the president. a conviction now? i don t know the justice department has. i do know is in the public record. the evidence seems pretty plain to me. i would want to see the full body of evidence, if iran the prosecutors shoes, to make a decision. now this all comes as the committee will hold its final public hearing tomorrow afternoon. as one committee members will vote on issuing criminal referrals to the department of justice. then on wednesday, the panel is going to release its final each chapter report on the effort to nullify the will of the american people. joining me now from capitol hill, msnbc news correspondent ali vitale. what more have you learned about the criminal referrals against the former president? we have we are but over here the committee s meeting today on capitol hill, a source to pass off to where they were going to be speaking.
content statute wouldn t work with these members of congress. when the house basically votes on a criminal contempt measure like it to steve bannon and mark meadows, trump white house aides and trump advisers basically the house with a vote and then the house counsel in this case, would stand the referral over to the justice department and the problem with coming into a new congress and new majority is at the house council changes in kind of according to congressional experts that we have spoken to even if the committee were to make a referral now, january 3rd at the next congress, watkins would vote to abc and the referral that is the end of that contempt i think the committee thought long and hard about this and thought maybe the best option would be to do this internally and that this is the way congress operates. there s likes to have jurisdiction over its own members, so the house ethics committee was i think seeing their best bet to hold these members accountable. it stri