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The January 6 Committee of the US House of Representatives voted yesterday to send referrals to the Justice Department recommending that former President Donald Trump be criminally prosecuted. However, the committee’s criminal referral holds no official legal weight. As often happens with political news, what you thought before you read the story likely determines what you think after you read the story. Meanwhile, many of us are focused on arctic weather that will blast much of America this week. All news is ultimately local, but here’s the problem with such self-focused existentialism: what matters most to us is not always what stands before us.

Author: Jim Denison, PhD

Narrator: Chris Elkins

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