The January 6 committee will reconvene today amid reports of discord between the committee and the Department of Justice — offering the prospect of a Democratic house divided just as the idea of a presidential prosecution comes into focus.

Increasingly, the drama of these hearings revolves not around the events of a year and a half ago but the possibility of criminal charges in the future. The gravity of such a development has precipitated tension between members of the committee itself, and between the committee and the Justice Department.