chairman benny thompson says no. but you don t, just to be clear, you don t anticipate that the committee, itself, will offer up a formal referral? no, that s not our job. our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around journal 6. what caused it and make recommendations after that. but is ranking member liz cheney saying maybe. she tweeted the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. we will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time. all right. the committee laid out a case for the why when the president refused to accept the results beyond just a hurt ego. yesterday, we heard about alleged grit that the trump campaign spent months fundraising off supposed election fraud even as it knew there was no election fraud. campaign aides and lawyers admitted that they did know it under oath and said they told the president the truth as well. all while, all the while, millions of dollars were pouring in. a
him, the suspect, after that citizen tip, could that be an avenue for trying to figure out more details about who the gunman was going through that citizen potentially? i think so, alex. i think we ll see lots of reports probably coming in the next few hours of individuals that had seen this gentleman or he was known to them. early reports that i ve read, you know, suggest he did have some sort of relationship with firearms issues in the past. so if that s the case, i think you ll see a lot of reports coming in. just note that so many times over the last few years we have seen individuals, usually men, conduct attacks for reasons where we really can t get to the bottom of it. you can go all the way back to the las vegas shooting a few years ago, christmas day bombing, remember, in nashville, fast-forward to just a few weeks ago in los angeles, this is a disturbing pattern in our country where the motive, we just actually don t know sometimes in the end why this is occurring. yeah.
what exactly happened here? law enforcement found them in the back of a truck? yeah, they were reported by a citizen apparently who saw them loading into the back of a truck and got concerned and called the police. so you know it was a citizen tip. and that interrupted, it looked like a little army apparently, they were all dressed similarly. that set off red flags and they were interrupted on their way to the march. what do you make of this gathering of men, that they came from a number of different states? what do you make of where they were headed? what do you think? yeah. this was obviously highly coordinated, planned in advance. i think it s a lot of things people don t understand many white supremacist extremists is they have a broad range of targets. we re seeing a broadening, anyone who might interfere with their goal of increasing white