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Quote, would protect pro-trump people. his lawyer has not responded to that particular claim. i want to bring in leigh ann caldwell. leigh ann, tell us about will happen in the next 24 hours when it comes to mark meadows request to congress, shall we say. >> reporter: they are going to send it to the full house of representatives. this is a step theyve taken two times before in the past couple months. we saw that with steve bannon and we also saw it with jeffrey clark, a trump administration jus...

Together. >> we take you to kentucky in a few minutes for an update there. and breaking news from capitol hill. the committee investigating the capitol attack just released its contempt report to hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress. joining me now for the latest, nbc news reporter julie circumstancen is in washington with more. julie, tell us, what is in this report? >> reporter: yeah, alicia, the committee -- the january 6th select committee just dropped this r...

Role in the three-hour delay between the capitol polices urgent request for guard support and their arrival at the capitol, which had been overrun by pro-trump rioters. it comes on the heels of a letter accusing senior army officials arguing against deploying the national guard troops on january 6th. as stated in the contempt report, this email of meadows is just one of many many lines of inquiry the select committee would have asked the former chief of staff about if he did appear for his depos...

The few weeks that meadows was cooperating with the committee, he turned over 9,000 pages of documents. so this 51-page report is just the committees side of things. it doesnt seem like were going to get mark meadows side as he is not cooperating, of course, the reason for this contempt referral. meadows attorney, however, released a letter and sent it to the committee saying in part, the contemplated referral would be contrary to law because a good faith invocation of executive privilege and te...

Life. people should read this report. if you want to understand how corrupted the federal government was at the highest level on january 6th, read what mark meadows was awash in. this is from that 51-page contempt report from the january 6th select committee. mr. med oesz reportedly spoke to kash patel who was then the chief of staff to former acting secretary of defense chris mill, he quote, non-stop throughout the day of january 6th. among other things, meadows apparently knows if and when tru...

Meadows, he defied the subpoenas and is suing investigators in an attempt to withhold critical information under the guise of executive privilege. bring us up-to-date on what we can expect from this report? >> we expect the contempt report to come out any minute now, and thats because they have to give mark meadows 24 hours before that vote to hold him in contempt, and i am checking my phone to make sure we do not miss it during this hit. it will include some of the back and forth they have had ...

Just be hourssh away from seein the contempt report for mark meadows. what we could look from the commercial committee owes vote tomorrow. good morning. it is sunday, december 12th. im lindsey reiser. in the central u.s. recovery efforts from the devastating tornadoes continue today. in kentucky alone, officials say more than 70 people are dead with the death poll expected to exceed 100. one tornado touched down and may have stayed down for 227 miles, the longest tornado path in u.s. history acc...

0 nbcs wendy joins us from there. its good to talk to you again. what are you hearing from folks in these ongoing efforts to rescue as many people as possible? >> yasmin, good afternoon to you. good to speak to you again. its incredible, the outpouring of help and support that you are hearing, and seeing people come out in the downtown area. wherever you look there seems to be destruction, and everywhere you turn there seems to be a story, and people sometimes think we are exaggerating that thin...

With people like rudy giuliani keep like johnny smith. and i think this is going to be an issue that the committee will have to work around, and theyre going to have to find ore witnesses that knew of the conversations, people that told me, maybe theyll tell the committee, as well. >> clark and eastman, two guys who are pleading the fifth or have done or so intend to, what is it that they -- the committee wants to hear, lets say from jeffrey clark. >> jeffrey clarks really interesting, and you a...

Would incriminate him. thats a new defense. >> so while the committee buys the defense of a medical condition he said he provided ample documentation, theyre not just going to wait around forever. they did take the vote unanimously in the committee, referring this contempt report to the full house for a vote, which is sort of on pause now as they wait to see what happens next. now, you also have john eastman that you mentioned at the top, the former trump campaign attorney who tried to pressure ...