get her out. saying, quote, it feels so good to be home. the last ten months have been a battle at every turn, i dug deep to keep my faith, and it was the love from so many of you that help me keep going. from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help. griner also posted two pictures, including on united states soil, and one of her hugging her wife griner. pledged to help free other americans from foreign imprisonment, including paul wheatland. she says that she fully intends to play basketball this season. coming up, as the january 6th committee weighs criminal referrals against trump and others, there is one charge that could keep them from ever holding federal office again. legal analyst charles coleman is here to explain. plus, elon musk caves and reinstates the twitter accounts of several journalists he had suspended. but, one of the journalists has a warning about how the whole incident could impact reporting
early you heard from ali on the potentially historic weekend for the january six committee. its members meet to make a final decision on criminal referrals for donald trump and others. while no final decision has been made yet, the stakes are incredibly high. if trump is convicted of the crime of insurrection, he would be barred from holding federal office for life. while the doj is not required to consider referrals from congress, it would add to the departments already existing criminal probe into trump s actions related to january 6th. the committee is also considering criminal referrals for some of trump s maga allies in working to overturn the 2020 election. for more on all this, i m joined this morning by the panel. legal analyst charles coleman.
as it investigates trump s actions surrounding the election. or maybe set a precedent for the majority party to issue referrals against its political enemies. so, are the risks worth it? here to help me answer that question and more is our saturday morning political panel, former republican and political strategist actually oats. she s also a think contributor and democratic strategist, former aide in the obama white house office of urban affairs. elaina, good morning to you as well as to actually. it s so nice to have both of you back to the show. elaine, i love to start with you. why should the possible political blow back from referrals against trump even be a part of the calculus here? a federal judge has already determined that trump and others conspired to defraud the united states. given all the effort that has gone into the january six committee, the members are trying to ensure that the presentation of the information they give has the greatest
they also say that they have what they call, a robust odor effort underway to manage the border in a safe, orderly, and humane way when title 42 lives. title 42 maybe lifting on wednesday, but it is not going to stop here is the busing of migrants from arizona and the state of texas. texas alone has bussed more than 14,000 migrants to democratic led cities across the country, chicago, philadelphia, new york, and washington d.c.. the texas governor s office told me this week, katie, that they continue this for the foreseeable future. katie. thank you to you, gary. now we are going to turn to ukraine where russian forces have rush a barrage of missiles and drone tax across the country. many targeting ukraine s energy systems. this is left millions of civilians without heat or electricity as temperatures drop below freezing. the biden administration is now expected to supply ukraine with a highly sophisticated patriot