0 very place we know for sure was right here, fascinating. a lot of people have told the life of jesus, it s a humbling and audacious task, this is different because we took you there. thanks for everybody watching. stay for special coverage of the january 6th select committee meeting right now. sandra: special coverage of the january 6th committee proceedings. in just moments the panel will announce criminal referrals to the justice department for prosecution during what is expected to be its final meeting in the investigation of last year s capitol riot. looks like it is just moments away now. welcome, everybody. sandra smith in new york. hello. john: good to begin another week with you. this meeting is set to begin at any moment, all nine members of the committee, seven democrats, two republicans will present portions of their findings after an investigation that lasted nearly 18 months. sandra: we have been getting some hints of what is to come, leading up to this moment. t
0 testimony from people we have not heard from before. it doesn t mean the justice department wasn t. but there was some evidence until they started remember, they started a year ago july that s right. long before justice was engaged january 6th. and we know they have spoken to more than a thousand witnesses. we don t know what the just department has said and done. they don t present it in the way congress does. it s very likely. and andrew made this point earlier, that the committee started sooner and may have moved more quickly. i have no doubt that the justice department, a, has much better tools, much more experience, and if they haven t caught up will not only catch up but exceed the work of the committee. all right. we should expect to see those double doors open any moment now with bennie thompson coming in, the committee behind him. again, we just have another couple weeks before this committee will be disbanded and a new congress is sworn in. frank, as we await this
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few years ago we might have considered a fringe theory and by the way one heespoused that is all about the legislature and they could overrule anybody when it comes to laws governing elections. what would the impact be on elections if the court were to grant or follow grant issue a decision that comes under this independent state legislature theory? well it could potentially have a very broad impact. this case is about partisan gerrymandering which is problematic enough and the notion that the legislature could do whatever it wants without being checked what the court systems is violating the state constitution is radical and unsupported, but would let state legislatures do whatever they want in that regard because the supreme court ruled recently that federal courts could not get involved in partisan gerrymandering. so there would be no check on that. but the theory goes potentially even more broad than that.
master, reaction pouring in, much of it negative. you spoke to one former department of homeland security on this. what did he tell you? also former top aide to ken starr investigated the clintons back in the 1990s. really saying that this is a really unprecedented decision. he actually ended up calling it if i can read the quote here, a corrupt decision. i think it s a special law just for donald trump by a trump appointee and unmoored from precedent and unsupported in law and will not be approved by anybody who isn t a trump fanatic. blasting that decision there, saying it is disconnected from the precedent in this arena and that this is something that mostly people we talk to widely agreed was not based in any law, more based upon trying to protect donald trump s interest