Good evening, everybody. I'm John Burman, and this is CNN tonight. So here's a question.

Is Donald Trump finished? I'm not saying he is or should be, but I am saying it feels

like that question is part of the national discussion in ways it has never been. Today,

the House January 6th Committee issued criminal referrals for the former president, four of

them to be exact. Anyone who incites others to engage in rebelling assists them in doing so,

where gives aid and comfort to those engaged in insurrection is guilty of a federal crime.

So we thought about booking historians tonight to place these criminal referrals in an historical

context, but what's the point? There is no context. This has never happened before. It is

sui generis, which is just a snobby annoying and Latin way of saying unique. Now, we will

discuss the actual legal teeth these referrals have, spoiler alert none, but they might represent

a marker for a moment when a lot of people figure Trump is just not worth the trouble anymore.

On the other hand, when asking that question, remember, we are talking about a guy who was impeached

not once, but twice. That was certainly sui generis. So was a candidate revealed to have bragged about

sexually assaulting women? Sui generis or equivocated on marching anti-Semitic white nationalist or

publicly picked Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence services or asked about injecting light

or disinfectant to fight a pandemic. And then I see the disinfectant with knocks it out

in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside

or almost a cleaning because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number of

lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. Sui generis times three and he survived those

maybe for Trump. It should be called sui. Here we go again. Also, if you're looking around the

world right now, irreversible political desensitances seem scarce. Israel just elected an indicted

scandal-plaked former prime minister. Brazil picked a former president who was in prison a couple

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