DOJ Acting On A ‘Mostly Partisan Referral’ Is Not Helpful, Says Former U.S. Attorney



The January 6th committee unanimously voted to refer criminal charges against Donald Trump to the Department of Justice. NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, Punchbowl News Co-Founder and NBC News Political Contributor Jake Sherman, NBC News Justice & Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian, and NBC News Contributor Chuck Rosenberg break down the January 6th committee’s final public meeting.

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40 comments

  1. Criminality is NOT a partisan issue. If any dem did what trump and the insurrectionists did McConnell and Graham would be screaming for jail time.

  2. Being the crooks was Jordan and Gang wasn't a choice😰why say oh more Dems than CROOKS did the investigation

  3. Most witnesses were republicans in Trumps administration. No one ever said it was a trial, as there is no rules for evidence or cross-examination.

  4. I would have been Lynched a long time ago if I did what he got Away with . DEMOCRACY IS A FORM OF A LYNCH MOB AS MUCH AS A LYNCH MOB IS A FORM OF DEMOCRACY.
    Thank G#D We have a Constitutional Republic instead of Totalitarianism.

  5. Events and the actual intention of getting to the Truth are not Particularly partisanship, but Reality.

  6. Bipartisanship only good when it is to the good of republicans hyprocrites who obscess with acquiring power not the good of our country to haďes with them

  7. MAGA Republicans have chosen their pied piper over reality and the hearings are not for them. It is for the rest of Americans who want to know things we need to know in order to effectively combat the dangers we face.
    In response to to Mr. Rosenberg, does the fact that the cases pending in the Supreme Court today were brough by partisan actors invalidate the rulings? It never has and it never will. The issues at stake are political and beacuse only one party was involved in the coup, inevitably partisan. What is the alternative? A counter coup if Democrats lose the next presidential election? There has to be room somewhere for Democrats to participate in the affairs of this country without having to get the express permission of Republicans.

  8. Because the gop was so eager to participate against their own interests right?……. Way to have a misleading headline….. the country is so doomed

  9. Chumplicans are so amusing with their panties all up in a bunch over the 1/6 committee. It's just as toothless as the two impeachments of Chump, all just a big show. Chump and his groupies should be more worried about the actual justice system.

  10. "Supreme" Court Justice Thomas should take some lessons from Merrick Garland.

  11. Regardless, trump still committed many crimes

  12. I think it's a slam dunk….Trump would steal Jesus off the cross and go back after the nails.

  13. Yeah, this seems to be the excuse of the day for the MSM, and the GQP. Evidence is evidence…

  14. If the evidence is there make the DOJ do their job.

  15. I'm 'biased' too. The Jan. 6th coup was not a spontaneous event. It was planned and orchestrated by D Trump. The Capital Police who spent over 2 months in the hospital with broken ribs, crushed spinal disc and brain hemorrhaging know exactly who D Trump and his MAGA / Q Anon worshipers are. Let's ask them.

  16. Facts are mostly partisan?

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  18. The image of a "mostly partisan referral" was created by Republicans in order to protect a Republican and all his enablers. Very typical of Republicans: create the problem and then blame the Dems for being political when they try to solve the problem Republicans created.  

    Let's say Mr. Rosenberg intentionally hit a baseball through a neighbor's window. When the neighbor, not knowing it was intentional, asked Mr. Rosenberg to get the window fixed, Mr. Rosenberg refused and would only acquiesce if he got to pick his cousin Zelda to be the glazier. The neighbor would also have to take half of the responsibility because he chose to have a window in that spot in his house, and pay 50% of the cost, which was double the estimate of a glazier the neighbor found in the Yellow Pages. Would it be unreasonable for the neighbor to hire his own glazier and sue Mr. Rosenberg for damages? Would Mr. Rosenberg's lawyer insist that the neighbor had to take Mr. Rosenberg's deal?

    That's the kind of deal McCarthy offered to the Democrats on the Committee. He could have picked the names of six Republican members of the House at random out of a hat or the congressional phone book, and the list would almost certainly have been accepted by Pelosi. Instead, he wanted to use the equivalent of Trump's cousin Zelda, Trump's cousin Norm, Trump's cousin Aloysius, etc. and she refused, and went and found her own glaziers, I mean, Republicans, Kinzinger and Cheney.

  19. RED KNOWS NOTHING!!!! PENCE KNOWS NOTHING!!!!! LOCK ALL INVOLVED!!!

  20. All these talking heads…..
    So sick of this!! Lets see how things go with the DOJ!! Nixon was a choir boy Compared to all this
    BS that has gone on far to
    Long!! Jan 6 & all the conspirators need to be removed from office! Jail
    Time for the guilty!! ⚖️

  21. Everything is partisan nowadays. Party affiliation TRUMPS all. Every brave Republican who stood for truth were cut down by their constituents.

  22. fools like these lying reporters are exactly what's wrong with America deep state treaters!

  23. It only looks partisan because McCarthy and McConnell refused to pursue it in an honest bipartisan way.

    The primary judge of whether it really is partisan is whether it is based in fact and it has been based in fact and nearly all of the facts produced by Republicans who were involved in one way or another. This has not been a partisan process and everyone needs to stop using language that suggests that it has been. It has been a fact-based process, nearly all of the facts provided by Republicans involved in one way or another. Not partisan.

  24. Yes what about fbi & what about deleted txts from Jan 6

  25. A lot of republicans are guilty that’s why it’s so quite😂

  26. Doj has more than the committee to prosecute😂

  27. One side refusing to participate in an investigation of an insurrection that we all witnessed on live TV does not make it partisan. It just makes Republicans look more guilty.

  28. I have voted for both sides throughout my life but after what Republicans have done those days are over. I thank the committee for some of the videos they showed yesterday. . Republicans are the axis of evil.. I would vote for anybody but them.

  29. How in the heck is Trumps own employees testifying against him partisan?How in the heck is watching these videos of this vicious attack partisan?How in the heck is using TRUMPS own words and actions as evidence,Partisan?The Partisan folks are the Maga cult that dont think that an attack on our Capitol and their Maga King should be investigated at all.

  30. Mostly partisan? We saw the speech, we heard it, we saw the mod breech to capitol we saw the gallows and heard the cries of hang mike Pense . If there had never been a J6committee we still know that trump incited a insurrection to try to overturn the will of the voters. It was an insurrection that he instructed his rabid followers to enact. They complied. Why is that even debatable?we saw, we heard.

  31. Yes it is historic and here is the Smoking Gun 🔫 folks to finally bring trump down for Jan 6 Insurrection which is his Last speech made by him on that day which equals

    These are things that happen when a sacred landslide election is uncenemously and viciously stripped of away and patriots who have been badly & Uterly treated for long now go home with love and peace and Remember this Day Forever.

  32. JACK SMITH (aka RAY EPPS) TODAY HAS ISSUED A BLANKET PARDON FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ALL OF THE MAGA-PATRIOTS. JACK SMITH HAS INSTRUCTED GENERAL MILLEY TO ARREST AND DETAIN THE POSER BIDEN. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL BE RE-INSTATED INTO THE PRESIDENCY AND THE WHITE HOUSE ON DEC 25TH WHICH WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET AS SAINT TRUMPUS DAY….

  33. Trump is the only one who can make America great again. BIDEN has made America a 💩💩hole administration

  34. Communist always lie about their political opponents like the Democrats are doing with
    TRUMP

  35. DOJ MUST INDICT OR RESIGN

  36. Republicans didn’t wanna participate because they are guilty of committing crimes against the United States of America

  37. I am European. I am very surprised at the narrative that it might be partisan if you try to do something about a leader of a party who tried to have an election overturned that did not go his way, And this done in multiple ways, not only proven, but acknowledged by the person himself, multiple times…. He boasts about most of it… Facts are facts. Laws are laws. He broke them; off course he should be put away. That is what you do. The idea that a party keeps him on top of itself and cries about him "being attacked" is stupid. If you do not want to be attacked, do not put a criminal on top.

    It only looks partisan because you only have 2 parties and 1 does not hold him accountable. If you had more, it would not look partisan at all. If the rpubs cared anything about the laws, they would hold him accountable themselves, but they clearly do not, when it is a rich, powerfull person. That is classist justice, which is no justice at all. Justice was invented as a system to hold people accountable in a just manner. The people demanded eventually that everybody would face equal justice. If the repubs believed this, they would condemn their person themselves for breaking it. But they do not. There is no excuse for that. That anyone would vote for a party that has so little respect for itself is beyond me.

    And the "news" pretending that is is kind of normal or defenable to act like that…. How? Are you kidding me??

  38. The DOJ better do its job and indict Trump for the sake of America and Americans everywhere. The J6 committee is right on with these referrals.