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The Playbook Podcast

December 19, 2022: Inside the Jan. 6 panel’s final punch

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This looks like it will be the final week of the 117th Congress… and it’s going to be a busy one. The clock is ticking on the Democratic House majority, and they are looking to wrap up some unfinished business before Republicans move in and take control. Number one on that list is to close out the Jan. 6 select committee, the panel created last year to investigate the attack on the Capitol by angry Donald Trump supporters. Another unanswered question for House Democrats: what to do with Trump’s taxes? Tomorrow the Ways and Means Committee is set to meet and hash that out. The real must-do on the list however is to pass a bill funding the government. Congress has until Friday to do that, and it appears this morning they are on track to do so. But there is some unresolved intrigue surrounding what might get attached to the big year-end bill. Be sure to subscribe to the Playbook newsletter if you haven’t – www.politico.com/playbook.And follow the POLITICO Playbook team @playbookdc.

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0:00.0

Welcome to your Playbook Daily Briefing. I'm Playbook editor, Mike DeBonis. I've got Rachel Bade. Hey, Rachel.

0:09.5

Hey, good morning. She's one of our playbook authors on the line, and let's jump right in.

0:14.8

This looks like it's going to be the final week of the 117th Congress, and it's going to be a busy one.

0:22.9

The clock is ticking on the Democratic House majority, and they're looking to wrap up some unfinished business before Republicans

0:27.5

move in and take control. And number one on that list is to close out the January 6th Select Committee,

0:32.3

the panel that was created last year to investigate the attack on the Capitol by angry Donald

0:36.5

Trump supporters. And that process

0:38.3

starts today. Rachel, what is going to happen from here? Yeah, a bit of irony here. Two years ago

0:44.6

today, Donald Trump tweeted that his followers should come to Washington because it's going to be, quote,

0:52.2

wild. And they're going to be protesting the electoral college.

0:57.0

And this was sort of the biggest foreshadowing that we had of what was going to happen on January 6th when a lot of these people who sort of bought into the big lie, we're going to be coming to Washington at Trump's urging to eventually storm

1:13.8

the Capitol. Fast forward two years. We're going to be seeing the final report from the January

1:19.8

6th Select Committee, which has obviously been investigating both the lead up to January 6th,

1:25.3

what happened that day and the aftermath. And the big news out of this

1:29.2

is that we're going to see multiple criminal referrals for Donald Trump. The panel is going to be

1:35.7

referring him to the Justice Department for basically inciting an insurrection, obstruction

1:40.8

of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States

1:45.2

government. So that's going to be the big headline. And we should say this is based on reporting

1:49.9

from our colleagues of Politico, Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, who broke this news on Friday,

1:55.0

and they're going to be covering this going forward this week. But we also should make the point that, you know, a referral,

2:04.1

you know, it doesn't guarantee anything, right, Rachel, this, you know, it's going to be up to

2:08.1

the Justice Department to decide what to do about prosecuting Donald Trump. And, you know,

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