It Does Not Appear the January 6 Select Committee Has Its Affairs in Order  Rebecca Downs Posted: Jun 14, 2022

The January 6 select committee was supposed to have yet another hearing on Wednesday, after already having them last Thursday and on Monday, though that's been postponed. Rebecca Beitsch covered the news for The Hill, noting that this Thursday's hearing will still take place.

Although Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who serves on the select committee, provided some information on Tuesday morning's episode of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the select committee does not appear to have yet tweeted about the delay or posted about it on its website.

"There’s no big deal, but I’ll tell you the putting together the video and exhibits is an exhausting exercise for our very small video staff. So we’re trying to — we were going to have 1-2-3 in one week and it’s just it’s too much to put it all together. So we’re trying to give them a little room to do their technical work, is mainly it," Rep. Lofgren said.

Beitsch also wrote on Tuesday morning how "Jan. 6 panel’s chair sparks pushback with criminal referral remarks."

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chairs the select committee, acknowledged to reporters on Monday night that they don't have the authority to recommend former President Donald Trump for criminal referral.

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Man Raju @mkraju
·Jun 13, 2022
A split between the top two members of the committee after Thompson tells reporters that they don’t plan to make criminal referrals

Rep. Liz Cheney @RepLizCheney
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.

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Manu Raju

Here’s how Thompson answered my question earlier today on whether he thinks DOJ should prosecute Trump.

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Bennie Thompson on whether he believes Trump should be prosecuted based on the evidence Jan. 6 committee has uncovered. "Well, I prefer that we complete our work and share that work with the Department of Justice, and they will make that call after that."

9:50 PM · Jun 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

CNN's Manu Raju shared footage of him asking Reps. Thompson and Lofgren what their personal opinion was about whether Trump committed a crime and if he would be investigated or indicted.

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