What Next: The January 6th Case Against Trump

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The congressional committee investigating January 6th has outlined potential criminal charges against former President Trump. Why did the Department of Justice let someone else beat them to it? Guest: Ankush Khardori is a DC-based lawyer and a former federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. He’s a contributing writer for Intelligencer and a contributing editor at Politico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last week, a dense legal filing from California went public.
0:09.0	And for a certain kind of Washington legal reporter, it made a splash.
0:12.9	So this is the breaking news I was telling you about at the top of the show, the January
0:15.6	6th select committee says that they believe that the former president Donald Trump and
0:19.9	a right-wing lawyer were part of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential
0:25.1	election.
0:27.1	This filing was not an indictment or a criminal charge.
0:31.0	It wasn't even really about Donald Trump, but you might not have caught that if you
0:35.6	were scanning cable news.
0:37.3	They signaled in this filing dawn that they may be willing to make a criminal referral
0:42.3	to the Justice Department against former president Trump and others, depending on what
0:46.5	they find in the rest of this investigation, one of the biggest headlines out of this
0:50.1	committee so far.
0:51.5	And the House is really laying it all out here.
0:53.7	They are saying that they believe that there was some sort of planning of a crime happening
0:58.3	between Trump.
0:59.5	What it is is a roadmap for DOJ if DOJ cares to take this up, which they ought to.
1:09.4	I asked Oncush Cardori a journalist who used to try cases over at the DOJ if he could translate
1:15.8	this filing for me.
1:17.4	So I actually do have a copy of this brief on my computer.
1:19.7	I'm just pulling up with highlighting.
1:22.1	I wanted him to hone in on the most damning portion of the document.
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