jeff rozen told me this is very, very serious. the sheriff is likely to face a jury trial, he says, and if even one of the seven accusations by the grand jury are found by noir another jury to be true, he says she could be removed from office. >> for them to say the sheriff should be removed from office is rare, unprecedented. >> reporter: he usually lets his office's action speak in court, but jeff rozen told me today the growing scandal surrounding lori smith's administration and management prompts him to speak publicly now. >> when people say this is civil grand jury, it's not serious, what they're referring to are other kinds of investigations that the civil grand jury does of different agencies where they publish a report. this is completely different. this accusation says that the grand jury found the sheriff had malfee sans of duty and that the sheriff should be removed from office. >> reporter: rozen is pursuing a criminal investigation into the way ccws were carried out, often in exchange for sheriff smith's political cam

the 1619 project doesn't include any mention of something called the rozen school. booker t. washington partnered with the founder of sears roebuck. they had a vision for black excellence. even though black kids could not have access to a high-quality education, we are going to build schools. they built nearly 5000 schools throughout the south. there were incredible achievements of lack teachers and students. brown versus the board of education said led to the demise of the schools. that's an amazing story that kids of all races should understand. there is a story of black resilience. we do need to grapple with that. we need to tell an honest and complete story of how our country will move to this idea of a more perfect union. host: that's it for this christmas day edition of the washington journal. the conversation will continue tomorrow. as we take your phone calls and your comments on social media. our guest is jonathan alter, kicking off authors week. he will be talking about his biography on the 39th president, jimmy carter. that is tomorrow morning at seven clock a.m. e