Jan. 6 committee plans to issue criminal referrals along with its final report - NBC News

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee plans to merchandise immoderate transgression referrals arsenic portion of its last report, committee members said Wednesday.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee chairman, told reporters Tuesday helium expects the sheet to marque transgression referrals, but that members are inactive weighing who would beryllium the targets of the referrals and however galore the sheet would make.

The committee plans to people its study the week of Dec. 19, with 2 sources telling NBC News that the sheet is eyeing a Dec. 21 merchandise date.

In summation to considering a referral involving erstwhile President Donald Trump, the committee could connection contempt of Congress referrals for chap members who person ignored its subpoenas, for witnesses it believes lied to its investigators and for individuals it believes attempted to intimidate witnesses successful the probe.

The committee is required by statute to contented its study by Dec. 31, truthful immoderate referrals to the Justice Department oregon different agencies would come earlier the extremity of the year.

“The committee continues to meet. [We person a] gathering upcoming, and determination points to beryllium made,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., a committee member. “We volition denote thing we person apt arsenic a portion of our last report.”

The study volition beryllium a monolithic compilation of the enactment the committee has done for the past twelvemonth and a half, outlining its findings and offering up recommendations and imaginable authorities to forestall thing similar the Jan. 6 attack from happening again. Thompson has said the papers could beryllium up to 8 chapters.

The House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the Capitol holds a proceeding successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 13.Jacquelyn Martin / AP file

Aguilar said the committee members are present gathering “almost daily” and they inactive person a batch of enactment to bash earlier they settee connected the signifier and manner of the pending referrals.

“We haven’t finalized immoderate decisions yet. Our options are connected the table. Referrals to extracurricular agencies are imaginable and arsenic soon arsenic the committee finishes our enactment moving guardant to sharing our results,” helium said.

The timing of the study is aboriginal than members had primitively hoped.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., connected Wednesday said, “I deliberation we’re precise adjacent to being finished, but we’re not rather there.”

The committee volition merchandise the study arsenic portion of a nationalist concern meeting, wherever members volition ballot to follow the findings and recommendations. Details surrounding the nationalist quality of that gathering are being discussed.

Plans are besides underway to merchandise each of the accusation committee investigators person compiled. That would travel astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the report's publication.

A committee spokesperson declined to remark connected the panel’s schedule.

In tribunal filings, committee lawyers person already argued that they judge Trump committed a crime. The committee made those arguments successful national tribunal arsenic it sought documents from lawyer John Eastman, who featured prominently successful the panel's nationalist hearings.

Referrals from the committee transportation nary ineligible value but service arsenic recommendations to agencies.