Cnn s sara murray starts the coverage with a closer look at everything left for the committee to do before the final deadline. the clerk will call the roll. we are close to putting dobb the pen and going to print. reporter: the house select committee investigating the attack on the capitol convening privately today to discuss the final report. if we don t make a recommend d dags it doesn t mean necessarily we don t think they shouldn t investigate but we want to be on firm ground if we make any recommendations over the doj. reporter: the committee weighing what to do about criminal referrals. the panel discussing how to present evidence of possible on strurks, perjury and witness tampering and whether try to hold accountable the five
Learn more at viking.com. some more breaking news. this from a few moments ago. guilty verdict in the case of capitol rioter dustin thompson, the third to face a jury and found guilty. the jury did not buy the attorney s attempts to convince him that thompson was following presidential orders that people like thompson believed the lies and that trump authorized the attack. a trump supporter of ohio he said he wore a bullet-proof vest. also didn t deny the charges to face including on strurks and theft of government property, a plag pole and a bottle of bower son stolen from the capitol. prosecutors for doj pushed back on the arguments reminding the
The peaceful transis of power undermining american democracy and the constitution. if the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the court fears january 6 will repeat itself. politico puts this stunning ruling this way. quote, the remarkable ruling may be the first in history in which a federal judge determined a president while in office appeared to commit a crime. the judge s fear that january 6 will repeat itself is the animating force behind all the work of the january committee exploring every avenue in the trump coup attempt despite the on strurks from several president trump allies and insiders. the committee will vote to recommend contempt of congress charges against two aides that defied the subpoenas so far. dan scavino and peter navarro.
Caused the horrible consequences that we saw from the insurrection and the rioting. and that requires a criminal investigation. this is perhaps part and parcel of it or a separate investigation but it all dovetails together with what is clear effort, a clear intent to overthrow the government, to overturn the election. and what we learned in the senate judiciary committee today adds to that fire and we re basically learning something just about every week of how it was worse than what we knew before. and it just requires an investigation because we cannot allow a president or other senior government officials to try to overturn an election without at a min numb a criminal investigation into seditious conspiracy, subverting the election, whether it be on strurks of justice for what he did today, can all be part of