mark meadows knows that. it's why he sent us the documents he did, and why he -- what made his book possible. that's why the law required him to show up for his deposition and specify in response to each question, what the answer was and whether or not that answer in fact was privileged from disclosure. his refusal to comply with the direction of congress stated plainly, on the face of the select committee's subpoena, is a display of his contempt for congress. which now forces us to sadly have to take this action. thank you mr. chairman. and i yield back. >> gentleman creeds back chair recognize the gentleman from california. >> thank you. i want to pick up where he left off. 9,000 pages of records, that is what mr. meadows turned over, records over which mr. meadows asserted no claim of privilege, non, including thousands of text messages spanning the months before election day between election day and the end of the former president's [inaudible] january 6th. the time period he is now saying he won't discus

you don't have mark meadows testimony about this. do you have any other investigative information about that email which you might have obtained from other sources? >> yes we do, lawrence. but at this point, as part of what the public will have to hear later. we have testimony about the delays that occurred. we have testimonies and information about other individuals who made suggestions as to what federal assets could be used to promote this lie. and so, part of the committee's work over the next few months will be to put this together. so when we roll it out, just like we did tonight. the public will clearly understand how close we came to losing this democracy of ours. because of our lies and misinformation. and obviously, illegal activity on certain officials. but when a person refuses to come forward, and offer his position, his testimony then this is what happens. steve bannon basically did a similar thing, and mark meadows is now basically deciding, in the middle of sharing information with us, that because his book is not sel

mark meadows was on that call. that call was all about pressuring and bullying georgia's secretary of state into overturning biden's win in georgia.ia and, you know, it's a crime to intimidate or attempt to influence election officials in conducting their official duties. trump's currently under criminal investigation by a state prosecutor in georgia for that call. and for his other attempts to interfere with the conduct of the election in georgia. his other attempts to interfere with and to intimidate elections officials around the carrying out of their official duties. that investigation, we believe, includes mark meadows' personal visit to georgia about ten days before that call pressuring the secretary of state. a visit to georgia during whichm mark meadows personally showed up at the site of an ongoing audit of the results. what is the white house chief of staff doing physically, personally, looming over an audit in a swing state? well, earlier this month we learned that one trump lawyer john eastman had perso

meadows did without mark meadows' testimony, and what donald trump did without donald trump's testimony. >> that is absolutely correct. both representative swalwell and i are former prosecutors, and first of all, we both agree that the january 6th committee is doing an excellent job, and they are essentially building that case without these witnesses. they have already had hundreds of interviews with witnesses who cooperated. they have received thousands and thousands of documents, including 6,000 from mark meadows himself that he gave voluntarily. and we need to ask and the american people need to ask why did mark meadows all of a sudden stop cooperating. what is he now trying to hide from the american people, and i think he suddenly realized that loot of these documents he produced are very incriminating. >> well, carson swalwell, i love it, i love it is what he says after -- when he's responding to the description of a criminal conspiracy to steal the election on january 6th what was being described to him was against the law. and was a crime and he said i love it. >> where have we h

mark meadows who defied their subpoena. they'll also be discussing the damming new evidence they gathered that sheds light on trump's attempted coup and meadow's personal involvement. you won't want to miss this. this comes after meadows abruptly halted his cooperation last week and twice refused to show up for scheduled depositions and suing the committee in an effort to shield trump and avoid accountability. as the committee detailed in the report they're voting on tonight, it's clear that there is a lot that he is still hiding. for one, the committee has learned that meadows intended for the national guard to deploy to the capitol on january 6th, not to protect meadow's former colleagues in congress or their staff from bodily harm or to assist capitol police in defending the seat of american democracy, oh, no. rather to protect trump's supporters. the very people who were in the process of storming the capitol. in short, he wanted the u.s. military to take the side of the insurrectionists. we are hoping to get more on th

the house set to vote any minute on mark meadows for defying the -- on voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for defying a subpoena. kim is a professor of law at the baltimore school of law and author of "how to read the constitution and why." good evening. so happy to have you on. liz cheney spoke on the house floor. i want to play some of what she said and then we'll talk. >> all of these texts are non-privileged, they are texts that mr. meadows has turned over and they are evidence of president trump's supreme dereliction of duty for 187 minutes and mr. meadows testimony will bear on another fundamental question before this committee and that is whether donald j. trump through action or inaction, corruptly sought to obstruct or impede congress' official proceeding to count electoral votes. >> what she's saying there corruptly sought to obstruct or impede an official proceeding, she's now repeated that a few times. she's referencing a criminal statute. >> 19 usc, section 1512, don, yes. this is a statute that the justice department has used or attempted to use with a number of t

it's not because it's mark meadows. it's because you can't under american law ignore a valid congressional committee. >> as david was saying, we are still learning the scope of the communications and the details of this plot. do you think we fully understand just to what extent this white house, whether it was through the department of justice and jeffrey clark as alleged there by liz cheney, whether it was the pressure phone calls on the georgia secretary of state. do we have a full understanding you think of how close we were for this administration to derail our democracy? >> we do not yet have a full understanding, but with every passing day, the facts and details are more and more alarming. we had a powerpoint that was basically a roadmap to a coup. we had people who wanted to do an insurrection then you have all these text messages from mark meadows see cell phone that shows that people understood what was happening. this was an attack on our capitol. on our democracy. it was an insurrection and no one was doing a

the upshot of the contempt report on mark meadows is that in those weeks preceding january 6th mark meadows was neck deep in those efforts, and that plot, to disrupt and to delay and ultimately overturn the election results. he's attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim, to say he can't talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions with doctor mr. trump are protected, those are much undermined by, for one, the 9000 documents he already handed over to the investigation. he says he handed over those documents because they weren't privileged, but now he says he can't answer any questions about them because they are privileged? you already admitted they weren't. you have to answer questions about them. also, his privilege claims are undermined by the publication of his recent book, last week, which includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with mr. trump. you can't sell a book based on your conversations with the president and then claim you can't talk about those conversations about the president when subpoenaed to do so by the unite

mark meadows won't testify. mark meadows was on the house foreign affairs committee when hillary clinton came to testify about benghazi and he won't testify about an attack on the united states capitol. where is the consistency? >> is that called hypocrisy? >> i have other words i could use but i don't want to get you fined. >> appreciate it. >>> more breaking news, new york city is about the get the first female police commissioner mayor-elect eric adams choosing a woman to lead the nation's largest police department. adams releasing a statement saying in part that keec keechant sewell will deliver the safety americans need and deserve. the formal announcement tomorrow morning. there you go, history in the making. >>> a huge outbreak at cornell university and sports leagues across the country struggling without breaks of their own and omicron variant may be to blame. . our sleigh is now ready, let's get on our way. a mountain of toys to fulfill many wishes. must be carried across all roads and all bridges. and

mark meadows replied, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. trump jr texted over and over and told meadows we need an oval office address. he has to lead now and it's gotten out of hand. the president's own son knew what was going on and couldn't talk to his own father. i don't care, my mama is going to pick up for me. my own parent is going to pick up the phone. he couldn't get in touch with his dad to tell him what a screwed up job he was doing. >> this is a story worthy of succession maybe. maybe he didn't think he would pick up the phone or get through to him. the larger story here is that mark meadows said i'm pushing. and he told that to don jr and yet, the president did nothing. did nothing. and what is this committee trying to show? the committee is trying to show that the president not only was involved in the insurrection but he supported the insurrection, did nothing about the insurrection. so this shows that if, in fact, meadows was telling the truth to don junior and went to the president and the president did nothing, you know, t

mark meadows won't even testify. mark meadows was on the house foreign affairs committee when hillary clinton came to testify to that committee about benghazi, and now he won't testify about an attack on the united states capitol. where is the consistency? >> is that called hypocrisy? >> i got other words i can ouse but i don't want to get you fined. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. >>> we've got more breaking news tonight. new york city is about to get its first female police commissioner. mayor keechant sewell chosen to lead the nation's largest police department. adams releasing a statement saying in part that keechant sewell is a proven crime fighter with the experience and the emotional intelligence to deliver both the safety new yorkers need and the justice they deserve. a formal announcement will be made tomorrow morning. so there you go. history in the making. >>> a huge covid outbreak at cornell university with more than 900 cases and sports leagues all across the country struggling with outbreaks of thei

mark meadows, of course, is. so that claim of executive privilege that mark meadows is claiming, will that ring on deaf ears on capitol hill? especially on republicans or put it aside given what's gotten out. he was a form 0er member of congress, ran, top republican on the house oversight committee and who, there was a ton of theatrics when administration officials would not appear before congress at his request, of course, the obama administration officials at the time. so i'm looking to see how many republicans are willing to vote for this. one thing that is clear, though, chuck, is that if there was any doubt, which there was a lot of skepticism, that another committee would be able to unveil new information about leading up to and what happened on january 6th, there has been so much great reporting on it, books written. other committees in the senate who detailed a lot, but the committee has made clear that there is a lot of information that we still don't know, and they unveiled some of that last night and t

mark meadows was on that call. that call was all about pressuring and bullying georgia's secretary of state into overturning biden's win in georgia. and, you know, it's a crime to intimidate or attempt to influence election officials in conducting their official duties. trump is currently under criminal investigation by a state prosecutor in georgia for that call. and for his other attempts to interfere with the conduct of the election in georgia. his other attempts to interfere with and to intimidate elections officials around the carrying out of their official duties. that investigation we believe includes mark meadows' personal visit to georgia about ten days before that call pressuring the secretary of state. a visit to georgia during which mark meadows personally showed up at the site of an ongoing audit of the results. what is the white house chief of staff doing physically, personally, looming over an audit in a swing state? well, earlier this month we learned that one trump lawyer john eastman had personall

mark meadows instead of his dad? >> donnie knew the message was delivering was a message his father did not want to hear. the question i have was how much was mark meadows pushing hard to get the truth to donald? and my guess is not very hard at all. >> yeah, the one thing that becomes very clear in these dramatic texts that were released just tonight by the committee, whether they be from sean hannity, the laura ingram, the fox team, republican members of the house of representatives, donald trump's own family, mark meadows' own reactions, they all believed that it was within donald trump's power to stop the attack on the capitol, just by getting out there and saying something to the country as donald jr. suggested from the oval office to the country and to the attackers of the capitol. just tell them to stop. they all believed he had that power. >> they didn't just believe it, they knew it because he did. what they also knew, though, is that even though this horrific situation had gotten out of hand, they were dire

this is not where mark meadows wanted to be. he started cooperating because he really did not want criminal contempt. he opened the door. he handed over these documents without privilege and i think it is fair to say donald trump was not happy. he did not want anyone in his inner circle testifying, certainly not his former chief of staff. i think meadows got scared. he withdrew, he stopped cooperating, and now he finds himself in the situation he did not want to be in and a historic one for a former member of congress and chief of staff. >> it's interesting, dana, because the committee in their public statements last night and today laying out a lot more details right now. what are you specifically looking for as you watch the remainder of this process unfold? >> one of the things that's going to be interesting to see is how the votes come out when we actually see the votes taking place. we expect most, if not all of the democrats to vote yes. we obviously expect adam kinzinger and liz cheney to vote yes. will you have some of t

mark meadows replied i'm pushing it hard. i agree. liz cheney pointed out donald trump junior texted over and over and told meadows we need an oval office address. he has to lead now and it's gotten out of hand. the president's own son knew what was going on and couldn't talk to his own father. i don't care, my mama is going to pick up for me. my own parent is going to pick up the phone. he couldn't get in touch with his dad to tell him what a screwed up job he was doing. >> this is a story worthy of succession maybe. maybe he didn't think he would pick up the phone or get through to him. the larger story here is that mark meadows said i'm pushing. and he told that to don junior and yet, the president did nothing. did nothing. and what is this committee trying to show? the committee is trying to show that the president not only was evolved in the insurrection but he supported the insurrection, did nothing about the insurrection. so this shows that if in fact meadows was telling the truth to don junior and went to the president and the

to donald trump's own son to mark meadows. every one of those people on january six, during the attack, they all are convinced of one thing. donald trump has no idea what to do. therefore, i must try to tell him what to do through mark meadows. in other words, every one of them knew that donald trump was unfit to serve as commander in chief while the capitol was being attacked. >> for sure that is true. you have to think about this like an iceberg. most of it is below the waterline, it's invisible. the part that you see is not the majority of the math so we are going to find out before this is over, who in fact was the first person that actually spoke to trump. what did they say to? trump what is it that trump thought was happening. did trump say to those people that he thought it should go on. that there should be more people who came to the capital? who knows what trump said to any of these people. we are going to find out what we know for sure is that early on in his email was that went out sometime after we saw the images

. >> one of the things that did come up about mark meadows is mark meadows was actively and aggressively spreading the conspiracy theories on italy-gate. >> from inside the white house. thank you all very much. that is tonight's "reid out." "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from d.c. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. on january 6th, donald trump just stood there in the oval office as lawmakers and members of the press and fox news hosts and his own family members begged and pleaded for him to stop the siege, to step in and tell the mob to leave the capitol. donald trump refused. he stood by and did nothing. we know this because all those people reached out to donald trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, and he then turned over those messages to the committee investigating the january 6th attack. tonight republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming, the vice chair of the committee, laid out all of that damning, damning evidence. >> for 187 minutes president trump refused to act. when action by our president was required, essential, and indeed compelled by his oat

this does not force mark meadows to testify. this is aimed at punishment and dete deterrence. >> which is an important point. never has to talk. he never does. >> right. >> he can take the fifth if he chooses to talk, but this doesn't compel him to talk. merrick garland, this is a different decision than steve bannon. >> it is. steve bannon was not a part of the executive branch. mark meadows was the white house chief of staff. that makes it easier to charge bannon. next. steve bannon has -- remember, steve bannon partially complied. sorry, steve bannon completely defied the committee. mark meadows partially complied. he partially defied them. bannon never waived the p privilege. meadows did with writing his book and providing these documents. for both of them, we're talking about the executive privilege by a former president. the d.c. court of appeals has said, that doesn't work here. i think they could both be charged. meadows is going to be a tougher case. doesn't mean he is in the clear though. >> the most important thing fo

meadows involving mark meadows before january 6th. saying that the national guard was ready. the national guard would be ready to protect the pro trump people and that there would be reinforcements for the national guard. so they were thinking in the white house about the national guard before january 6th but when the attack happened, no one was lifting a finger about the national guard or anything else. >> yeah. but are we surprised by the fact this they would be willing to use the military for the political purposes? i don't think so. i don't think they would have been successful. i think our military that i have a great faith and confidence in would not have allowedthat to happen. if you start with the assumption that donald trump and the key enablers and the people that were supporting him and helping put this effort together like mark meadows and others, if you start with the assumption they don't care about american democracy, they do not care about the right to vote, they care about nothing other than their own power and stayin

mark meadows was a member of the administration. his communication especially with another member of congress, another member of the federal government, that is something that is of the public record that should be stored in the national archives. we had a debate over hillary clinton's emails and the committee is concerned there are many communications mark meadows may have had that have gone to history because he deleted them or used encrypted acts and there is a lot of information they won't get from that. it's part of why they want to talk to him, don. they want to get him in a room and ask these questions to learn more about the role he played on not only on january 6th but in the days and weeks leading up to what happened here on that day. >> ryan, you'll be there until it happens right? we'll come back to you. you'll be covering it. >> that's right, don. here for you. not going anywhere. >> you're here for the viewers. here for me but here for the viewers. we'll check in if you get new information. let us know we'll get you ba

we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows interacted with a lot of people allegedly, including some of our own colleagues, on the day of the violent attack and we learned that many of those interactions took place on a personal cell phone device so we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows himself, has acknowledged that he has responsive and nonprivileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us, he filed others in court. it certainly appears that mr. meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the capitol and on our democracy, he has important information about those events and he must follow the law and cooperate with this committee's lawful requests or face the consequences and that's why, much as we might personally like mr. meadows, we have to take this action today because no one is above the law. thank you, mr. chairman. >> gentle lady yields back. the chairman recognizes the gentleman from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is a near unique mom

even he comes out and is telling, you know, mark meadows, not his own father but mark meadows, make it stop. saying he has to get out here and show leadership. he's got to show leadership. but let's show don junior on fox news with mark meadows and this is before the rally. here he was dancing around. let's show him. >> mark meadows an actual fighter, one of the few. a real fighter. thank you, mark. >> have the courage to do the right thing, fight. >> one of the president's sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. >> it's sad. sad, sad, sad. really quick, let me make a real quick turn and ask you a legal question. the "wall street journal" said he lost the bid for the tax return. your thoughts? another shield dropping. >> that was a trump loving judge by the way. a person before that just shows that the entire always begins with but let's remember trump got away with shielding his tax returns throughout the entire elec

been zero mentions on fox news of their host's texts to mark meadows. >> tonight new evidence around donald trump's attempt to overthrow the government and the right-wing media organ abetting him. >> there are some reports that antifa sympathizers may have been sprinkled throughout the crowd. >> plus new reporting on unnamed lawmakers working with the white house. why a judge tossed trump's lawsuit to keep his taxes away from congress. and a closer look at the ongoing human victims of the big lie. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. right now as we speak the house of representatives are preparing to vote on holding donald trump's former chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress, a body in which he once served, for refusing to comply with subpoena from the january 6th committee. the debate on this resolution started this afternoon around 4:15. there was a bit of a holdup by republicans over accusations that house majority leader steny hoyer disparnged republican congressman jim banks. once they sorted through all that they picked

listen, i've known mark meadows for the better portion of a decade. i worked with him in the house as a personal spokesperson, as the spokesperson for the house freedom caucus, continued to work with him when i was with the vice president and then came back to the white house when he was chief of staff. let me say this. the mark meadows that i knew was a man who cared about the constitution, he cared about the congressional role in oversight, and that all seemed to be thrown out the window in this current proceeding. that's what's kind of astonishing to me. he's a man who knew the co-equal branches of government and the fact that congress obviously has the right to issue these subpoenas and get to the bottom of the horrifying events on january 6. i'm stunned that he's not cooperating. it's never too late to do the right thing and i hope that he would consider doing it, but all signs point to he's not going to be cooperate, but luckily the committee has a ton of evidence to build this case. >> let's talk about some of that evidence. you stayed at the w

we have the targeting of our friend mark meadows. and the question of privilege continues to be litigated. the gentlelady from wyoming outlines. the text messages were turned over by mr. meadows and produced 1100 documents. mr. meadows offered to appear before the committee to -- 10 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 10 seconds. mr. roy: we are facing a vote to hold mr. meed offs in contempt. and this is to exercise unlimited power while moving the goal posts. this is an assault on our republic. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: i reserve and am prepared to close after the gentlelady from indiana -- the gentlelady from wyoming and the gentleman from indiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. ms. cheney: i reserve. banks banks i yield one minute to the gentleman from arizona, mr. biggs. mr. biggs: in spite of the protesttations from the that the bogus committee and said it was self-preservation, but every democrat has stood today

mark meadows was the white house chief of staff. there are certainly some communications between the president and his chief of staff that are probably covered by executive privilege. that is the heart of certain kinds of communication. however, one part of this that i don't think has gotten enough attention is that mark meadows has written a book and is publicizing a book about, among other things, what went on on january 6th. i don't know how his lawyer is going to go before a judge and say, oh, well, we're publishing a book on this subject and trying to make money off the disclosures in the book, but we're not going to tell the united states congress what went on. it is one thing if you are completely silent and honoring all privileges and not disclosing any documents and not writing a book, but once you start disclosing documents and writing a book and then say i can't talk about it, that to me seems like a very difficult legal position to defend. >> jeffrey, how disturbing is it to see the then white house chief of staff mark m

meadows did without mark meadows testimony. i want donald trump, without donald trump's testimony. >> that is absolutely correct. both representative eric swalwell, and i both agree that the january six committee is doing an excellent job. and they are, essentially, building that case without these witnesses. they already have hundreds of interviews and witnesses who are cooperating. they have received thousands and thousands of documents, including, 6000 from mark meadows himself that he gave voluntarily. the american people need to ask why does mark meadows all of a sudden stop cooperating. what is he now trying to hide from american people? i think he suddenly realized, that a lot of these documents he produced are very incriminating. >> congressman eric swalwell, i love it. i love it is what he said. he is responding to the description of a criminal conspiracy to steal the election on january six. what was being described to him was against the law and was a crime. and he said, i love it. >> where have we heard that before,

i want to know what happened to mark meadows. he went halfway across, gave over 6,000 incredibly damning documents and then said, hold on. now he's stuck in the middle. someday we're going to learn what happened, why he did that. it makes no sense. but he's already -- i don't know about may be incriminated, but given over incredibly damning information on himself and others. >> don junior and the fox propaganda hosts, could they be called to testify? >> if they were not members of the media, absolutely. but prosecutors and investigators do need to be sensitive to compelling members of the media to testify about their dealings. you know, first amendment reasons and reasons we can understand as part of the media as well. if they were not members of the media, you'd be walking a subpoena there right now. >> this is an insurrection and please stop him. good evening everyone. nothing happened at the capitol today. it's ridiculous. thank you both. i appreciate it. >>> it just gets worse and worse, every new revelation gives us a new te

i've known mark meadows a long time. he was a main character in a book i wrote three or four years ago, and it was -- i felt like it was my duty, it was my responsibility to try to communicate the status of the situation as much as i can to somebody who had the ability to possibly, although he did not, to possibly act on it. so all that being said, i sent him a message, and that message is now out. i told him what i was experiencing and hoping he can do something about it, which he did not do. i will say this, katy, i'm sure there were a lot of text messages to mark meadows. he was texting with members of the media, people on television. i was just looking to get a message to the white house which they were -- as we know, they did not send guard troops. they were slow to respond to the situation that we were in the middle of, and i was trying to communicate that it was a pretty dire situation, and i did what i knew how to do, which was to reach out to somebody who had the ability to do it. and to the idea that i should h

and mark meadows as the capitol siege was under way. donald trump jr. says he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. meadows respond, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. don jr. texted meadows again. we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it's gone too far and gotten out of hand. that language and the similar language we heard from fox hosts behind the scenes pleading for the same thing while going on tv and blaming it on antifa, very different. >> they knew how damaging it was that day and you'll remember the coverage for a couple of weeks after fox, they took it very seriously. they continued to cover the fallout and republicans speaking out. now they're just pretending that it didn't happen and shifted right back to, he's the de facto leader of the republican party so we just have to pretend this wasn't as significant as it was. one thing i want to know because the fox texts are getting a lot of attention. the most damning thing that came out was this email sent by the former chief of staff saying the national

he is talking to mark meadows. what about these anonymous texts which are believed to be commerce members and will congress members get implicated and it is, helping with the insurrection as their fellow congressmembers were being targeted and police were being physically attacked? >> this is a really tricky question because this doesn't just border on constitutional issues in the u.s. who is going to go after sitting congressmember, right? are they going to be able to police themselves? we have shown this throughout the past few months -- gambling believe two republicans, adam kinzinger and liz cheney, who have decided to go along with investigating what happened on january 6. what is going to happen when the closest people to mark meadows are revealed with the role they potentially played in those days? i don't know that fellow members will hold them accountable. that is an open question. what we do see now that is very interesting from the committee is in reading these texts without sainthood's that said them, b

of course, steve bannon and mark meadows could face that sentence?— meadows could face that sentence? , ., , sentence? yes, his famous words were "lock _ sentence? yes, his famous words were "lock her— sentence? yes, his famous words were "lock her up". _ sentence? yes, his famous words were "lock her up". you - sentence? yes, his famous words were "lock her up". you know, i were "lock her up". you know, there were not any criminal charges brought against hillary clinton at any point in her career, including in the whitewater investigation, which i participated in many years ago. mark meadows and steve bannon are not the first people within former president trump's close but which have been indicted or pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial or going to prison. he tends to collect people that below through legal limits under the state and federal criminal laws in the united states. this state and federal criminal laws in the united states.— in the united states. this has come about _ in the united states. this has come about because - in the

to mark meadows. >> one of the president's sons texted mr. m.d. meadows, quote. he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded. quote, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. >> so in this digital age, former prosecutor, what else did donald trump jr. text? what else did meadows text in reply to him happened then the testimony what, did the president said when meadows says i'm try, i'm pushing? what did he say? >> and also what communications did donald trump jr. have with his father because those communications wouldn't be protected by privilege, he's not the spouse, not the lawyer or senior white house staff. you notice what they did last night and in their report was focus on places where meadows would not have had a privilege claim, text messages he had with people outside of the white house and they were very, very careful here because if they went after him with a hatchet as opposed to a scalpel it never would have gotten by the department of justice because he does have privilege claims. >> dan

we have the targeting of our friend mark meadows. and the question of privilege continues to be litigated. the gentlelady from wyoming outlines. the text messages were turned over by mr. meadows and produced 1100 documents. mr. meadows offered to appear before the committee to -- 10 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 10 seconds. mr. roy: we are facing a vote to hold mr. meed offs in contempt. and this is to exercise unlimited power while moving the goal posts. this is an assault on our republic. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: i reserve and am prepared to close after the gentlelady from indiana -- the gentlelady from wyoming and the gentleman from indiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. ms. cheney: i reserve. banks banks i yield one minute to the gentleman from arizona, mr. biggs. mr. biggs: in spite of the protesttations from the that the bogus committee and said it was self-preservation, but every democrat has stood today

mark meadows. a vote is set to come 24 hours after that committee jumped a bombshell of a report detailing their case of contempt which includes details of descriptions of some of the potentially evidence meadows already turned over to the committee, things like they major revelations as detailed in text messages and emails provided to the committee, that's according to the january 6th panel. quote, mr. meadows sent an email to an individual about the events on january 6th and said, the national guard will be present to protect pro-trump people. and that many more would be available on stand by. and this, quote, mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send alternate slafts electors to congress. it is a plan which one member of congress acknowledged was highly controversial, to which meadows responded, life it. meadows responded to a similar message by saying, we are, and in another such message by saying, yes,

resolution to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress. he is accused of failing to provide documents of testimony in connection with the committee's investigation. the meeting is being held prior to an expected house built later in the week. e on c-span. >> the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital will be in order. they are meeting this evening to consider the report on the resolution recommending the house of representatives find mark randolph meadows in contempt of congress for refusal to comply with the subpoena duly issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack of the united states capital. the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess. on our recognize myself for an opening statement. my statement on behalf of the committee, offering condolences and prayers to the people in kentucky and surrounding states on the devastation that they received during the tornadoes. our hearts and prayers go out to all of those impacted. this week, i expect roughly a dozen k

we're talking about mark meadows. he has partially compiled but overall of this, he's the former president. we got a ruling last week from the court of appeals in d.c. the former president doesn't get to call for executive privilege contrary to the current president. i think doj should charge it but this is a gut check for merrick garland. >> i think i know the answer to this. does the fever break? i don't think. i don't know if this evening breaks the fever. sad it keeps going on and on and on. it just continues and am i crazy to think that? you think okay, here is the proof. everybody knows this is a farce. all these people are lying about it. fox news, you know, don junior, whatever. yet, the grift keeps going. d do you understand what i'm saying? >> i do. this is a rare moment of clarity, right? there is a concept in the law in evidence called an excited u utter. an exception to the hearsay rule. this is based on the idea when someone is in a state of shock or under stress, what they say is inherently trustworthy

we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows himself has acknowledged that he has responsive and non-privileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us and filed others in court. it certainly appears mr. meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the capital and on our democracy. he has important information about those events and he must follow the law and cooperate with his committee's lawful request or face the consequences. as much as we might personally like mr. meadows, we have to take this action today because no one is above the law. thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentlelady yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. can singer -- mr. king singer -- mr. kinsinger. >> this is a near unique moment in history as we vote to hold a former colleague in contempt of congress. the last time that happened was 1832. mark meadows has committed a crime. in this case, a premeditated one. he thought carefully about his actions and actively chose to ston

dana, another one for mark meadows' book. and he writes, october 2 of last year, that morning, the doctor pulled me aside and delivered some bad news. although the president's condition had improved, his oxygen levels had dipped down to about 86%, and could be trending lower. a dangerously low level for someone his age. compare that to what we heard from trump's physician. >> this morning, the president is doing very well. he is not on oxygen right now, that's right. >> hi ne never received any at ? >> i'm not going to get into all the testing, but he -- and all the staff routinely are tested. >> did his oxygen level ever dip below 90? >> we don't have any recordings here of that. >> at the white house or here, anything below 90? >> no, it was below 94%. it wasn't down to the low 80s or anything. >> okay, dana. good evening by the way. that was a dance. was it a cover-up? what was going on here? >> sure. it certainly seems as though it was a cover-up. it was a pretty messy one. i mean, it was a pretty inadequate one. because

text messages to mark meadows, former chief of staff, from donald trump jr., fox entertainers, even lawmakers, that all privately and, for a time, unsuccessfully beg to do something to stop the violence as the attack unfolded at the capitol. there's plenty of focus about people speaking out of pboth sides of their mouths on tv about this. while that is salacious, there are legal implications here. what could be a road map as to what the white house knew, what the white house did, what the white house didn't do, even what the white house may have coordinated before, during, and after the attack. it shows an acute, keen awareness the capitol was under siege. donald trump jr. writes meadows about his father. he's got to condemn this shit asap. laura ingraham writes, this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. sean hannity writes, ask people to leave the capitol. >> of course, the same people who were pleading with mark meadows that day have spent months downplaying the insurrection, saying publicly the opposite of what they were texting privately. here's how meadows responded last ni

a january 5th email in which mark meadows said this. the national guard would be present to protect pro-trump people and many more would be on stand by. what we know is the national guard did not arrive until hours after the fighting began. and there continue to be questions about who made the decisions, how they were made, and what was -- basic live responsible for the time lag between when the request was made and when the national guard ended up being activated and making their way to the capitol. there are others, mark meadows appointing an alternate slate of electors to nullify their votes which would overturn the election. here is a snippet. received text messages and emails regarding efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send alternate shraeuts of electors, a plan in which one member of congress acknowledged was highly controversial and to which mark meadows responded, i love it. again, continue to be more and more examples of what we already know, that mark meadows went to great lengths to try to overt

he is talking to mark meadows. what about these anonymous texts which are believed to be commerce members and will congress members get implicated and it is, helping with the insurrection as their fellow congressmembers were being targeted and police were being physically attacked? >> this is a really tricky question because this doesn't just border on constitutional issues in the u.s. who is going to go after sitting congressmember, right? are they going to be able to police themselves? we have shown this throughout the past few months -- gambling believe in two republicans, adam kinzinger and liz cheney, who have decided to go along with investigating what happened on january 6. what is going to happen when the closest people to mark meadows are revealed with the role they potentially played in those days? i don't know that fellow members will hold them accountable. that is an open question. what we do see now that is very interesting from the committee is in reading these texts without sainthood's that said them

prosecute mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress. the house voted overnight to recommend that the doj pursue criminal charges against trump's former chief of staff. this after meadows stopped cooperating with the january 6th committee. meadows did hand over thousands of documents, including communications before suddenly defying the panel's subpoena to testify. >> president biden was just asked about meadows in the last hour as he was leaving the white house on his way to kentucky to survey the storm damage there. take a listen. >> i don't know enough -- just what i've seen. i've not spoken to anyone. it seems to me he's worthy of being held in contempt. >> the documents handed over by meadows are shining a light on these text messages, right? a number of them sent by currently unidentified sitting lawmakers which reveal a plan to overturn the election, joe biden's win. that plan was already in the works as early as november 4th, the day after election day. joining us to discuss, cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid an

but this was a text from a lawmaker to mark meadows. yesterday was a terrible day, we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states, i'm sorry nothing worked. and as congressman schiff noted, this was an apology that nothing worked the day after there was a violent attack at the u.s. capitol. who wrote that text? >> as was mentioned yesterday, we are not going to at this point say the originator of each of these texts. but what that text says to me is, you know, you don't apologize for something the other person is not aware of. so that is really filling in the blanks for me is to say i'm apologizing, i tried everything, obviously looking at previous conversations, previous plans that could have been in place, but you don't apologize for something that the other person is not even aware of. >> is there more than one member who is corresponding with mark meadows? are there several members who are talking about this after the fact? >> you know, as i said, we released a few of the texts. there is thousands that were provided

and they will have to decide whether or not to truly prosecute mark meadows. and if doj moves forward with those charges, meadows could face time in prison. we have already seen that process play out with trump ally steve bannon, who was indicted last month on two counts of contempt of congress. he faces up to a year in prison and fined above 200 and thousand dollars for each count. a judge recently sent his date for next july. the recent committee also wanted to hold jeffrey clark in contempt he's the former department official, who tried to help donald trump steal the election, especially in georgia but this vote tonight on mark meadows is a particularly big deal. the white house chief of staff is an extremely important role last year he was one of the most powerful people in the country. people may know steve bannon's name more than mark meadows's, but on january the six bannon was just a podcast, and jeffrey clark was an unknown department of justice lawyer was. mark meadows was in the oval office, every day with donald trump and, we know that meadows was