NEW: Liz Cheney suggests Jan. 6 panel could recommend criminal penalties for Trump
The Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the "kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump," Rep. Liz Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.Cheney, who serves as the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, referenced Trump's refusal to "tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol.
The Jan. 6 attack is "fundamentally different" from the circumstances surrounding the first impeachment trial, Cheney said. "We all watched that unfold in real-time. We all lived through that attack." "But I will say that the January 6th Committee is very much focused on lessons learned from that first impeachment and very much focused on making sure the American people have all of the facts and the truth about what happened.
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