he produced text messages, emails, even a powerpoint that talked about ways to stop the certification ofjoe biden as victory taking place onjanuary victory taking place on january six. victory taking place onjanuary six. and then victory taking place on january six. and then what happened was the committee went and tried to subpoena the call records from his personal cellphone for that which cooperation broke down and meadow stopped cooperating and meadow stopped cooperating and the result is him being recommended for prosecution. does he have a solid legal argument in saying that he doesn t want to co operate or testify before the committee? not particularly is the answer. he is relying on a chain of executive privilege. that is the from section for president during security matters. in this instance if president trump telling his former aides do not comply because he believes the conversations he had with his aides onjanuary six are privilege. but like i
from six at the white house to a trial for his political life. the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. this is newsday on the bbc, our headlines. new evidence from south africa appears to show the latest coronavirus variant causes less serious illness and death than previous waves of the pandemic. kentucky s governor says a hundred people are missing in his state alone after this weekends tornadoes. presdeint biden is to visit kentucky on wednesday. one of the most senior members of donald trump s inner circle could be charged with contempt in the next few
it goes to a full house of representatives. democrats control the house and so we expect that to also be approved at which point federal law dictates that a grand jury has to be impanelled and they will decide whether to hand out in indictment. to give you a sense of where this is going though you just have to look at steve bannon, trump s former strategist who was indicted on two counts of contempt of congress when he refused to comply with his subpoena. the only thing with meadows is it is produced documents. california is to re institute a statewide mandate to wear masks because of climbing rates of coronavirus infection due to the omicron variant. officials say rules on face coverings in all indoor public spaces will come into force on wednesday, and will last for at least a month. there are fresh calls for an overhaul of indonesia s disaster warning system,
hours by the us committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. mark meadows who was president trump s chief of staff is refusing to give evidence but he has given the committee thousands of emails and texts and they released some of these over the weekend. one emailfrom meadows said. that the national the committee says mr trump s former top white house aide is uniquely situated to provide key information . hugo lowell is a congressional reporter for the guardian s us newspaper and joined me a short while ago with the latest on the story. january with the latest on the story. six committee investir the january six committee investing the capital attack targeted market metals from the outset of their investigation. he is one of the first subpoenas they issued including document production and a deposition behind closed doors. and meadow started to co operate to some degree last month, he produced about 9,000 documents. he said
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. new evidence from south africa appears to show that the latest coronavirus variant causes less serious illness. it looks like at this stage, early data and stage, early data and one doesn t want to over interpret it but these signs are certainly looking good. the tornado tragedy now kentucky s governor says a hundred people are missing in his state alone. the capitol riot investigation a committee will vote on holding donald trump s chief of staff in criminal contempt.