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Congress. , again its either privileged or its not. if you have already conceded its not privileged by writing about it reboot and handing over 9000 documents, you cant, after the fact, then say those things are covered by privilege. but there is one point in the contempt report from mark meadows. one set of questions in the january 6th investigator said they need to ask meadows. questions i think deserve particular attention. thats about meadows interaction with sitting members of the house and...

Preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. 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 delay and ultimately overturn the election results. his attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim to say that he cant talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions wi...

>> absolutely. and its not like theyre not making it in print. but the contempt report that they put out on the weekend is full of news. but when they made those remarks tonight at the committee hearing, the televised hearing at 7 pm, it just blew me away. intense. i just want to get out of here so you could talk to benny thompson and liz cheney. >> that is what we are going to do. thank you rachel. well tonight, mark meadows became the second white house chief of staff in history to be accused ...

Includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with president trump. you cant sell a book based on your conversations with the es president and then claim you cannot talk about those ti conversations with the president when subpoenaed to do so by the united states congress.ti again, its either privileged or its not. if youve already conceded its not privileged by writing about it in your book and handing over 9,000 documents you cant after the fact then say those things are cover...

Tomorrow, is a contempt report that investigators prepared on mark meadows. in that report, they laid out all the ways in which mark meadows failed to comply with their subpoenas, all the reasons he has to comply with their subpoenas, but also all the reasons why it was so important the investigation needed to talk to him and get access to his documents. they say, quote, the select committee seeks information from mr. meadows central to its ththy investigative responsibilities.d the events of ja...

Documents. they say, quote, the select committee season formation from mr. meadows related to his investigative responsibilities. the events involve a under salt on the capitol and the personnel and protecting it and an attack on the peaceful transfer of power. the counting of electoral college votes by congress is a component of that transfer of power that occurs every january six, following a presidential election. this event is part of a complex process, mediated through the free and fair ele...

It wasnt as deadly as 9/11. whats the big deal? the big deal is this. according to the contempt report, meadows was in contact with some of the private individual who planned and organized the january 6th rally, one of whom reportedly may have expressed safety concerns to meadows about january 6th events. meadows used his personal cell phone to discuss the rally and that in the days leading up to january 6th. meadows exchanged texts with and provided guidance to an organizer of the january 6th r...

Officials, to does overturning certain states counting of electoral college results. and later, by the way, this also details that madows was the one who sent that john eastman memo to the vice presidents staff, telling him options, basically, all unconstitutional, as how the former vice president could object to election results on january 6th. i mean, theres a lot to get into here, but this of course was the last resort from the committee. they did not want to hold meadows in contempt of congr...

Over some 6,000 documents during that short period of time where he was cooperating with the committee. and that is one of the reasons that the committee is so insistent that he get in front of them and answer questions as part of a deposition. because they want to learn more about some of this communication. and when meadows resisted, that opportunity to sit down and talk, that is when they began these contempt proceedings. and what theyve been doing is just putting out little bits of details f...

Talk about the questions the committee wants to learn and what we can learn from them. >> reporter: what the committee made clear through their 51-page contempt report is they think meadows is instrumental in their investigation. they note that mark meadows is one of the few people who were with the president on january 6th and was with him, watched them -- unfolded on capitol hill, excuse me. the events on january 6th. and so they think that he is incredibly important to this investigation. the...