CNN host Dana Bash pressed Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the House choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, on whether or not former President Donald Trump must be pointed out the Division of Justice for legal expenses.

All the way through State of the Union on Sunday, Bash asked Thompson whether the former president’s “lack of action on Jan. 6 may in truth warrant a felony referral.”

“The one factor I will be able to say is highly unusual for any in command of anything to watch what’s going on and do nothing,” responded Thompson.

“Is it legal,” asked Bash.

“We don’t be aware of,” said Thompson. “We in the process of looking to get all of the knowledge.

“But I will say if there’s the rest that we come up on as a committee that we expect would warrant a referral to the Department of Justice, we’ll do that. That’s our oath as participants of Congress. So it’s no longer just that. It’s any of the other things we’re looking at, if there’s any confidence on the part of our committee that one thing prison we consider has occurred, we’ll make the referral.”

Bash then asked whether or not the committee has “realized from witness testimony more about what [Trump] was or wasn’t doing?”

Thompson replied:

Sure, we’ve. We have now important testimony that leads us to consider that the White Home had been informed to do one thing.

We wish to examine all of it so that once we produce our report and when we now have the hearings, the general public may have a possibility to look for themselves.

However Dana, to be honest with you, what befell Jan. 6 performed out in full view of the American public and the arena and we need to make positive that that by no means ever occurs again, so we need get it right, get the entire data and circumstances and that’s what the committee’s body of work is about, doing it at this level.

“Did or has the former president obstructed an reputable continuing of Congress,” requested Bash.

Thompson replied:

Well, what he’s doing is the conventional Donald Trump modus operandi. He sues. He goes to court. He tries to lengthen. If he continues to achieve success at delaying, clearly it inhibits the committee’s work. We’re doing so much, but we’ve to have get entry to to the data.

President Biden has said executive privilege does not follow. So we expect that we will be able to have numerous get admission to to the data essential for us to have full get admission to to the work. If now we have get admission to to the information, then former President Trump’s needs on delaying will haven’t any bearing our work.

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