From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is a Daily.

Today, the Congressional Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has

recommended that former President Donald Trump be charged with four crimes, including insurrection.

My colleague, Luke Broadwater, was in the room as it happened.

It's Tuesday, December 20.

So, Luke, this long, strange journey is now over. The January 6 committee has just finished

its 11th and final public meeting and really finished this historic project of investigating

what happened before and on that very dark day. I know that you have tucked yourself into

a little phone booth inside the Capitol, which I know can be very loud, so thank you for being

willing to talk to us from there. I'm curious, since you just walked out of the room where

this last meeting was held, what is your reaction to it?

Well, I think every step of the way the January 6 committee has been a history-making

congressional investigation. If you look at how deep and wide their investigation went, it's

pretty unprecedented in the annals of American democracy. They interviewed more than a thousand

witnesses. They obtained more than a million documents issued easily more than a hundred subpoenas.

And so, as I'm watching this, I'm seeing a congressional committee go where Congress has not

gone before. Most congressional investigations and with a report, maybe some legislative recommendations,

they don't end with lawmakers sitting up at a dais telling the Justice Department what crimes

of former President committed and how he should be investigated.

Okay, so tell us exactly how it is they go about doing that last piece of history-making. What

happens in this final meeting? Unlike the committee's previous hearings this summer, which were

quite lengthy and full of detailed evidence, this meeting on Monday was designed to be efficient.

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