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I asked one republican who voted for bannon and not meadows. fred upton of michigan why they didnt support the meadows contempt referral and he said it was just, felt too rough. they wanted to allow some more space to see if he would comply. he said he and other colleagues talked about that and thats ultimately the decision. they just wish the committee had not rushed to the criminal contempt so quickly. but there you have it. the criminal contempt is moving the department of justice, garrett. >...

Contrary position by the sitting president and more qualified when the assertion is made in comparison to the need for the information. and i think you can make a very strong argument that the need for the information here in the face of what we saw on january 6th, possibly an interruption, the blocking of the, you know, the constitutional counting of electoral votes. i think all of that places a heavy burden against the assertion of executive privilege. >> thats a lot of qualifications. this is...

Here. theyre only going to watch this and they will come out of this dramatic day when the former chief of staff to the president of the united states goes down the route and they wont even know about it. your thoughts? >> my understanding is that some of these hosts are going to address this show on fox -- or address these comments on fox tonight but i think you and elie are right about the contempt for the audience and unwillingness to break character and to me, part of the evidence for that i...

Im not quite sure whether it means that he would go in there and criticize donald trump. or he would go in there and defend mike pence. i mean, we -- we dont -- we just dont know. we just dont know because hes close to both men. >> ambassador eisen, i mean, if meadows suddenly wants to cooperate after likely being held in contempt, what would then happen? >> well, meadows could still cure his contempt by coming in and cooperating. he seems to be determined, anderson, on a course of noncooperatio...

A member of congress, white house chief of staff, discussing a plan to disenfranchise millions of voters. president biden weighed in on meadows and the contempt issue a short time ago. lets take a listen to what he said. >> i dont know enough -- just what ive seen, ive not spoken to gone. it seems hes worthy of being held in contempt. >> biden had previously weighs in on steve bannons contempt case suggesting he should be prosecuted. and there was some criticism of that for the president to weig...

Way in congress tonight to hold in contempt the white house chief of staff to former president trump. former republican congressman t mark meadows. now, last night at this time we were reporting on a bombshell hearing from the january 6th investigation in which they voted to recommend holding mr. meadows in contempt. at that hearing the january 6th investigators read into the public record all of this new material wed never heard of before, quotes from texts and ec emails and other documents mar...

Level of drama and anxiety in washington over the question of whether these guys might not get away with it any longer. if they participated in a criminal plot to falsify results in the states, to block the administration of the election at the capitol, to their by illegally overthrow the government, there is new urgency to the question of whether or not they personally are going to get away with it. this newly-urgent question. the investigation, yes, is having people prosecuted for contempt. bu...

Aisle. here, meadows has engaged with the committee and provided thousands of pages of records. the case really is different. it could make it more difficult for some republicans to support referring him to the justice department for criminal charges. but the house select committee over the past three days, michael, we have seen they have been making their case certainly in the court of public opinion about why meadows should be held in contempt. now, they argue that, look, you clearly handed ov...

Of documents from mark meadows and they have been giving little teasers of what is in those documents reading text messages that he received on that day on january 6th. but liz cheney, she also framed it in historical terms. listen to what she said. >> all of my colleagues, all of them knew that what happened on january 6th was an assault on our constitution. they knew it at the time. yet now they are defending the indefensible. whether we tell the truth, get to the truth and defend ourselves ag...

Forward with contempt and if the justice department follows through with charges, mark meadows would become the first former chief of staff to face prosecution since h.r. of the nixon administration. the problem for meadows in this contempt proceeding is he snitched on his team before he clammed up. he has turned over roughly 9,000 pages of documents that he himself claimed were not privileged but hes now refusing to answer questions about those very documents in defiance of a congressional subp...