I'm going to beat everyone.

I'm Ari Melver and we begin with what has become something really unusual in American

life.

And I say that because we've been living through this all together and we have this January

6th probe that is going to conclude and we know they met and we know they will meet again

on Monday and just to step back from what has become a normalizing of the decline of

expectations in American life.

They are meeting among other things about whether to refer the former president for a crime.

Now, here's what we know.

The committee chairman says all of the criminal referrals are basically done, meaning internally

they know what they want to do.

But a referral is not like an announcement, certainly not like a tweet.

Indeed, while these referrals are different than contempt proceedings and we can talk about

why you may recall that this committee made four contempt style referrals to DOJ and two

of them led to indictments.

One of them already a conviction.

The other Peter Navarro awaits trial on that.

So it's not just something you say.

Indeed, the DOJ doesn't process it if the members, even though they have power, say it.

They have to be formally referred, which is done through this committee hearing, which

we now know will happen.

January 6th, committee hearing, Monday, 1 p.m. Eastern.

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