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Investigation, youre making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. youre making excuses as part of a cover-up. >> if the house does vote to find meadows in contempt, the justice department will soon consider indicting him, like it did with steve bannon last month. today the committees vice chair, liz cheney, shared more damning texts, flooding meadows phone coming from fellow republican lawmakers while the heart of our democracy was under attack. >...

Democrat attacked you in a medieval way? you know, all you have to do is sort of change the actor. and there is no other actor other than donald trump who insided an insurrection, so it is a perfect analogy. michael dunn, and -- these are the sort of fox regulars on whom the tables have been turned. what do you make of the hypocrisy, the rank lying, and the near certain case that nothing will change, like ben said. well, weve known this for a long time. there is nothing particularly revealer to ...

Case as the sentencing goes ahead. really appreciate you going on. >> thank you. all right. breaking news overnight. mark meadows held in contempt. now the ball is in the department of justices court. will federal prosecutors pursue criminal charges? plus, the unvaccinated should not receive emergency care. why a new op-ed is suggesting hospitals and doctors should give those patients lower priority. ben affleck spilling the tea and letting the world know what he thinks led him to drink.

Prosecute mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress. the house voted overnight to recommend that the doj pursue criminal charges against trumps former chief of staff. this after meadows stopped cooperating with the january 6th committee. meadows did hand over thousands of documents, including communications before suddenly defying the panels subpoena to testify. >> president biden was just asked about meadows in the last hour as he was leaving the white house on his way to kentucky to surve...

Are folks that voted for the bannon contempt. brian fitzpatrick, fred upton, john, anthony gonzalez of ohio but didnt vote for the meadows resolution. ryan nobles following the breaking news for us on capitol hill. well get back to ryan for more information. chris is here. i want to bring him in. hes the author of "the gate keepers how the white house chief of staff define every presidency." thank you, sir. just got that breaking news. good evening to you. mark meadows becoming the first white h...

A vote of 222-208 to hold mark meadows in contempt. nearly all democrats, and liz cheney and kinzinger. now the committee is continuing with its work in the meantime yesterday. keith kellogg, the former national security advisor to then vice president trump downplayed that and said nothing has been reported. tlood are several figures scheduled to testify. jennifer lawrence, not that one, an activist that helped put together the rally that lead to the capital attack. two others have had them post...

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Welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. secret documents revealed. the u.s. government releasing today previously classified files about the assassination of president john f. kennedy. plus new polls showing americans dont feel so great about the state of the economy. not good news for president biden. and leading this hour, this afternoon, the justice department received a criminal contempt of congress report for mark meadows after the u.s. house of house of representatives voted to refer mead...

Them, fox news hosts like laura ingraham and sean hannity, they responded last night by attacking the committee, not necessarily surprising given the way that we know the conservative media has dealt with the january 6th commission, but something struck me last night when it came to who actually voted for this contempt referral, and it shows you the ways in which the meadows contempt referral is different from the bannon referral. nine republicans joined with democrats to vote for the contempt o...

$2,000 in fines. the contempt law actually allows a fine of $100,000 for each count. that could mean having to sell a lot of those new books. in the doj indicts meadows, he would be the first white house chief of staff charged with a crime since hr halderman. other members of the january 6th committee are revealing even more text messages from meadows phone. for a report on that, we go to paula reid on capitol hill. paula, were waiting for the critical vote. it occurs to me that we saw nine repu...