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Outrage, the outrage comes easy. i guess for people who are outraged, they are surprised that they are not seeing more outrage from conservative politicians. do you think there is going to be any shift today or is it going to be a protracted process?- today or is it going to be a protracted process? this is the bearinnin protracted process? this is the beginning of— protracted process? this is the beginning of a _ protracted process? this is the beginning of a process, - protracted process? th...

>> it does. it is the president of the united states, it is the morning of january 6 and how do you forget a ten-minute phone call with the president on that day of all days. you wont forget the phone call with the president under any circumstance. so his answers have been evasive as ryan said, inconsistent and the committee has a real problem. what do they do? if they subpoena him and he still said im not going to peer, then they have to be willing to follow up with that and they have to be wil...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> indeed it is major breaking news. unpre unprec unprecedented. the house voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for criminal contempt of congress for defying the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that is our breaking news as well as this. there is a spike in the coronavirus cases hitting cornell university especially hard. the school shutting down its campus after reporting more than 900 coronavirus cases among student body in just the p...

Recounts a conversation he had with former president trump after the former president urged people to march to the capitol and told people he would be with them in that march. mr. meadows recounts his conversation after that. of course details like that that hes recounting in a book but then refusing to answer questions before congress about, theres legitimate questions that hes obligated to appear to provide responses. failing to do so puts him in con contempt. >> i continue to scratch my head ...

What are you learning? >> a source tells me this wont just be a vote on contempt, that there are significant new details, that the committee is going to lay out in black and white the substance of these texts. were going to hear members read exactly what was being said to mark meadows and what he was saying back in realtime on january 6th during the riot. let me give you an example of two that were aware of from the 51-page document. this is a stekt from a former white house employee to mark mea...

So strap in. >> a vote on contempt is expected to the "full house" tomorrow. if the recommendation charge willing bannon is approved, merrick garland will have to decide whether to prosecute him. joining me now is maggie haberman. good morning, maggie. >> reporter: good morning. >> i want to start with what liz cheney said. the indicates he certainly had knowledge, she said, before january 6th and was likely involved in the planning. how significant is that? >> reporter: it is certainly a signif...

From the white house to bannons lawyer basically saying a similar thing to what they have said in the national archivist, theres no assertion here. it says at this point, we are not aware of any basis for your clients refusal, president bidens determination that an assertion of privilege is not justified with respect to these subjects applies to your clients deposition testimony and to any documents your client may possess concerning either subject. thats deputy counsel jonathan su writing to ba...

Seeking? >> well, i think these four individuals are going to be in a very different position than prior investigations of trump officials. because, first of all, there will not be a basis for executive privilege because this was political activity, misuse of the office by donald trump, and all of their activities are involved in the political realm. but more importantly, theres no -- the former president cannot claim executive privilege. so even though donald trump has said hes going to claim p...

Lawmakers and the american public figure out whether or not president trumps behavior meets the bar for removal from office. and we also have new reporting based on all of this, two sources connected to the judiciary committee tell the hill team that staffers right now are weighing three potentially or four articles of impeachment. you have one abuse of mower. you have another on contempt of or obstruction of congress, which you heard adam schiff talk about, and another connected to obstruction ...

Chairman nadler and his handling of these and other issues. i think its a pretty well-known open secret that shes not a fan of how hes been handling his business on capitol hill. >> theres been criticism online, on cable. last night we saw on brian williams show, on lawrence odonnells show, this was a disastrous showdown. corey lewandowski for five of the 5 1/2 hours just made a mockery of them and she apparently, according to "the washington post," said not only would i have held him in contemp...