January 6 committee expected to make criminal referral against Trump
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening everyone. This is CNN Tonight. I'm Allison Camarada. The January 6th |
| 0:05.4 | Committee wants Donald Trump to face criminal charges. A source sells CNN that |
| 0:09.9 | the committee is expected to ask the DOJ to pursue at least three criminal |
| 0:14.8 | charges against former President Trump. They are conspiracy-digit fraud, the federal |
| 0:19.4 | government, obstruction of an official proceeding, and insurrection. So we'll |
| 0:23.8 | talk about what all that means. Plus tonight, American tourists are stranded at |
| 0:28.6 | Machu Picchu because of violent protests breaking out across Peru. So we're |
| 0:33.2 | going to speak live to an American who is stuck there and has run out of her |
| 0:37.0 | critical medication. She'll tell us if there is a plan to get her out. And what |
| 0:42.6 | does the term free speech mean to you? It has now become a weapon in the |
| 0:47.3 | culture war, but what does it even mean? What does it mean online? What does |
| 0:51.2 | it mean on social media? Does Elon Musk get to decide? Or can we find some |
| 0:55.0 | universal definition of it? Our super smart panel has some thoughts on all of that. |
| 0:59.8 | But first, let's get to the new developments out of the January 6th Committee. We |
| 1:04.0 | have with us John Miller, CNN Chief Law Enforcement, and Intelligence |
| 1:09.0 | analyst. Give a long title there, John. A lot of people have trouble using the word |
| 1:12.2 | intelligence. John Miller in the same sense. That wasn't the problem. Also CNN, |
| 1:18.3 | Senior Political Analyst, John Avlon, and CNN Legal Analyst, Jennifer Rogers. |
| 1:22.9 | That's a much easier title. Okay, Jennifer, so let's look at the three charges |
| 1:28.2 | that they are considering. Abstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to |
| 1:32.2 | defraud, the federal government, insurrection, which one would be the hardest to |
| 1:35.8 | prove, do you think? Oh, that's a good question. I think probably the |
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