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MAGA World appears to be quiet when it comes to the news coming out of the final meeting of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. Other than a few sneers from Donald Trump on his personal social media platform, the House and Senate Republicans haven't been defending the leader of their party.

"It's not all that often I find myself citing Donald Trump as a legal authority," confessed substitute host John Heilemann. "In this case, I will say that when the man said way back when that, you're guilty of something, you don't take the Fifth. A lot of people said, yeah, that's probably right. Taking the Fifth is a little hinky, and the reason I raise that is because of one of the things I discovered, I want to get a full screen up here. One of the things we discovered in the executive summary, the number of people that pleaded the Fifth, more than 30 witnesses before the select committee issued the Fifth Amendment privilege, and refused on that basis to provide testimony."

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress met for the final time on Monday to announce criminal referrals and vote to release the committee's final report before disbanding.

Among the things that they did was refer Donald Trump for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overturn the 2020 election had its final meeting on Monday walking through all of the evidence they had gathered.

When presenting her piece of information, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) detailed the financial information that was allegedly used to persuade witnesses as they were called to speak to the committee.

After a rant attacking Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former President Donald Trump told his supporters that they should ignore news about his taxes.

It's been mere weeks since Trump's companies were found guilty of 17 counts of fraud, and his longtime accountant is headed to prison. Congress has fought for years to get ahold of Trump's business information as part of the House Reform and Oversight's investigation into any possible emoluments violations. They've been given documents from the Trump Org. hotel in Washington, D.C., that revealed some of the profits the president scored from foreign governments on and around major points in policy moves by the White House.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election will hold its final meeting on Monday, where it will vote on whether to refer Donald Trump for criminal charges to the Justice Department. The final report is slated to be published online on Dec. 21.

At that point, the whole committee will be disbanded before the Republicans take over Congress in January. But as former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said after a conversation with Neal Katyal, Republicans could put a hitch in things for the Justice Department.

Republican Kari Lake continued making veiled threats in her speech before a right-wing conference on Sunday.

Speaking to the crowd she attacked Maricopa County, where Phoenix, Arizona is.

One of the many conspiracy theories around the 2020 election is that under the dark of night, "they" stole the election when no one was paying attention. After Kari Lake was defeated in 2022, she had to fumble with another excuse.

"This movement is so powerful, Ben," she told the Real America's Voice streaming network. "They couldn't do what they did in 2020. They stole it in the dark of night, right? In 2020, at 3 a.m. they started changing things up."

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election will announce their referrals to the Justice Department this coming week. It has been leaked that the committee is going to vote on whether to refer Trump for criminal prosecution along with others, Politico reported Friday.

The concern is that the DOJ will see the demand as a political one and ignore it or that it would look as if the Justice Department special counsel was taking direction from Congress, even if he isn't.

Jefferson Morley of "JFK Facts," is taking the government to court after the CIA refused to release 4,000 documents about the JFK assassination findings.

In 1992, Congress passed a mandate that all of the documents around the assassination be released by Oct. 2017, but when former President Donald Trump was in office and the time came to release all of them, he didn't. President Joe Biden has released a whopping 13,000 documents, but the CIA is still refusing to turn over the remaining 4,000 documents.