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The decision comes despite concerns from the justice department that trump might still have classified material in his possession. kaitlan polantz has more on what this means for the investigation. >> reporter: there was a long hearing on friday under seal over donald trump and the subpoena that he and his team have been sitting with for months now as the justice department is trying to make sure there are no federal secrets two years after he left the presidency. this hearing on the table today...

If youre making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, youre making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. >> executive privilege serves the public interest. its for us. its for we, the people. >> the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. >> every democrat has said something today one purpose, and thats to attack donald trump.

Avoid cooperating with our investigation, you are making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. >> executive privilege served the public interest. it is for us. it is for we the people. >> the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. >> every democrat has said today was meant to attack one person. and that is donald trump. >> some of the floor deb...

Everything we can to secure mr. meadows testimony. he is improperly asserting executive and other privileges. but the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and he does not have privilege to refuse entirely to testify regarding these topics. there are just three examples i will give you this afternoon of issues which we need to talk to mr. meadows about and on which his tes...

Been just that, it wouldve been a big news story. but beyond that, the vice chair of the committee for that republican congresswoman liz cheney, made news in her remarks. as i said, mr. meadows did turn over thousands of pages of documents into the investigation already before he decided he was going to stop complying with their requests. the documents he handed over included lots of text messages. both sent by mr. meadows and received by mr. meadows. what congresswoman liz cheney did tonight wa...

Tonight was read out loud some of the text messages that mark meadows, trumps white house chief of staff, received. while the u.s. capitol was upped upped -- under attack on january 6th. these are texts she says are evidence the white house knew exactly what was going on in real time at the u.s. capitol on the 6th. listen to this. this is pretty stunning stuff. >> this vote on contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that h...

Ms. cheney of wyoming for any opening remark she care to make. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman. were here to address a very serious matter, contempt of congress by a former chief of staff to a former president of the united states. we do not do this lightly. and indeed, we had hoped not to take this step at all. for weeks as the chairman noted, we worked with mr. meadows counsel to reach an agreement on cooperation. but shortly before his scheduled deposition, mr. meadows walked away from h...

Do everything we can to secure mr. meadows testimony. he is improperly asserting executive and other privileges but the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and he does not have privilege to refuse entirely to testify regarding these topics. there are just three examples i will give you this afternoon of issues which we need to talk to mr. meadows about and on which his t...

Leader of the select committee mr. cheney of wyoming for any opening remarks she cares to make. >> thank you, very much, mr. chairman. we are here to address a very serious matter. contempt of congress by a former chief of staff to former president of the united states. we do not do this lightly. and indeed, we hoped not to take this step at all. for weeks, as the chairman noted, we worked with mr. meadows council to reach an agreement on cooperation. but shortly before his scheduled deposition,...

The u.s. capitol was under attack on january 6th. these are texts, she says, that are evidence the white house knew exactly what was going on in real time at the u.s. capitol on the 6th. listen to this. this is pretty stunning stuff. >> this vote on contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and does not have any privilege basis to refuse entirely to testify regarding thes...