![]() Speaker 1: The committee also made a criminal referral of John Eastman, a constitutional lawyer acting as Trump's attorney ahead of January 6th, for obstruction of an official proceeding. But we have gone where the facts and the law lead us, and inescapably they lead us here. Speaker 3: We understand the gravity of each and every referral we are making today, just as we understand the magnitude of the crime against democracy that we describe in our report. Here's Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin speaking just before the vote at the panel's tenth and final meeting of the year, concluding its 18-month investigation. The criminal referrals include obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to make false statements, and incitement of an insurrection. ![]() The House panel investigating the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol has voted by unanimous consent to refer four criminal charges against former president Donald Trump to the US Justice Department. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today. I'm Annemarie Fertoli for The Wall Street Journal. So what happens now? It's Monday, December 19th. Plus, Elon Musk's Twitter poll shows most users want him out. Speaker 1: And Epic Games reached a record settlement with the FTC. And then that creates sort of public pressure and questions on the Justice Department about what they're doing in this investigation. ![]() They do raise the public's awareness about certain issues that might rise to the level of criminal conduct. Speaker 2: They do sort of carry symbolic weight. Speaker 1: The January 6th committee refers former president Donald Trump to the Justice Department for potential criminal charges. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. ![]()
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