🚨 Axios PM: New Jan. 6 revelations

Plus: Brace for deep freeze | Monday, December 19, 2022

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Amazon   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Dec 19, 2022 Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 492 words, a 2-minute read.     1 big thing: Jan. 6 committee makes history Screenshot: ABC News Mark your calendars: Today was the first time in U.S. history that Congress recommended criminal charges for a former president, Axios' Erin Doherty reports. In its penultimate act, the Jan. 6 Committee referred former President Trump to the Justice Department for four crimes: conspiracy to make a false statement, inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. The full report is expected Wednesday. Between the lines: The committee referred House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and three other Republicans to the House Ethics Committee for refusing subpoenas. Republicans on the Ethics Committee can block consideration of the referral because it's split along party lines. The bottom line: Today's public meeting is likely the last public session for the Jan. 6 Committee, as it will dissolve at the end of the current congressional session. The committee also released 154 pages of introductory material for its final report. It includes new details of Trump's private conversations, what Hope Hicks texted on Jan. 6, and documents inventorying the seized weapons from the Ellipse rally, Axios' Andrew Solender reports. Go deeper: Read the introductory material     🥶 2. Brace for the deep freeze Model projection showing air temperatures on Dec. 23, including single digits down into Texas. Image: PivitolWeather.com About 55 million people in the Lower 48 states are expected to see temperatures hit 0°F or below during the next week, Axios' Andrew Freedman reports. 🥶 -30° is in the forecast for parts of Montana and North Dakota.     A message from Amazon "I was able to go to college without stressing about the cost"     Julio always planned to go to college but couldn't afford a four-year degree. Amazon's Career Choice program helped him become the first college graduate in his family. Here's how: Amazon offers pre-paid tuition for nearly 1 million hourly employees and delivery partners. Read Julio's story.     3. Catch up quick Photo: Jazmin Bitanga via AP This photo combination, courtesy of passenger Jazmin Bitanga, shows the interior of a Hawaiian Airlines plane flying from Phoenix to Honolulu on Sunday after severe turbulence rocked the flight, requiring medical assistance for 36 people, AP reports. The FBI issued a public safety alert today about an "explosion" of financial "sextortion" schemes targeting children and teens. It has linked more than a dozen suicides to such schemes. Go deeper. Scoop: The Stacey Abrams campaign owes more than $1 million in debt to vendors, campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo confirmed to Axios Atlanta co-author Emma Hurt.     4. Yale's next big thing The Rev. William Barber. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn The Rev. William Barber will lead a new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, Axios' Russell Contreras reports. Between the lines: The new center includes a partnership with historically black colleges and universities to build pathways for HBCU students to meaningfully engage in the center's work. Zoom out: Barber is a major figure of the Christian left, and he wants to train a new generation of theologians and activists on the Social Gospel to fight systemic inequality amid the nation's shifting religious views. "I didn't want to leave this Earth and not participate in helping to train up a whole other generation of leaders and to be engaged with them," the 60-year-old Barber tells Axios. Barber said he will retire as pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He will continue as founding president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. Share this story.     A message from Amazon Free technical training helped Ama start a career in tech     Amazon offers 10 free career advancement programs to help employees, like Ama, learn new skills, build careers and earn more — all while getting paid. The impact: More than 90% of Amazon Technical Academy graduates become software development engineers and earn an average of 93% more. 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