us. ac 360 begins now. good evening. after more than six months of investigations involving approximately one thousand witness interviews, including top official, the white house and the department of justice, and analysis of tens of thousands of documents, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol announced today that it will deliver what is essentially its closing statement next week. a full report as well as possible criminal referrals to the justice department. the announcement comes weeks before the new republican majority assumes control of the house. they re expected of course to dissolve the january 6th committee. but that does not end the inquiries into what happened. just today, the justice department special counsel jack smith issued more subpoenas for local election officials in key 2020 battleground states asking for any and all communications with the former president, his campaign aides and allies from more than a seven-month span
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well, courageous or infamous, john sudworthjoins us well, courageous or infamous, john sudworth joins us now from new york, where he is now based. great you have you with us, john, thanks forjoining us. they wonder how familiar are those sorts of comments, insults, whichever you prefer, from your time as a corresponded in china? well, i m very familiar, corresponded in china? well, i m very familiar, of- corresponded in china? well, i m very familiar, of course, i i m very familiar, of course, rebecca, it is now part and parcel of, you know, the landscape of notjust china reporting, but reporting any story where truths are contested, where there are alternative. i think the important thing with the story and the thing that, of course, makes it so powerful, is that there is evidence, tens of thousands of documents, and in the photos, in the spreadsheets, in the data relating to individuals that we can verify and show to contain real people with real addresses